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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Sleep/mania | If I take more than 200 mg, I will fall a sleep fast, but will wake up an hour later with a racing heart. Sometimes, I have to get dressed and run around the block a couple of times. In six years my weight has gone from 145lbs to 206lbs. Currently, I weigh 188. I work in a laboratory. I have noticed that my fasting blood sugars have been creeping up a little higher than I like. For the last several months, I have been very manic, and filled with anxiety. I am taking myself off this drug. | In the beginning, Seroquel mad me sleep like a baby.The first night I took it, I fell a sleep on my dinner plate. I have been thinking of quitting seroquel for the last couple of years. I have not been sleeping for the last two years, so the medication is no longer working for the reason it was prescribed. Tonight, I'm going to cut my dose from 200mg to 150mg. I will do this for a week. Then, I will cut my dose to 100mg for a week, and so on until I am off the med in four weeks. | M | 44 | 6 years 200 mg 1X day | 8/8/2010 | 5 | Severe mental disturbances | I am a little more hungry, but I can control that sort of thing so I know it will not be an issue. | This saved my life. After my brother was brutally murdered in a home robbery I basically went nuts. I lost it completely, could not hang on, yelled and cried, cut myself, grinder my fists into concrete, bad shit. Seroquel stopped it. It stopped the visions of my dead brother, it stopped the auditory hallucinations of the phone call from my mom telling me that my brother had been shot dead. I am so grateful for this medicine, without it I would be institutionalized or dead. | F | 23 | 4 days 200 1X day | 8/5/2010 | 3 | Bipolar NOS | I was first prescribed 100 mg seroquel to lift the depressive part of the bipolar. It had the opposite effect, my depression became far worse, I was drousy all the time and in a fog. Later when the dose was changed to 300 mg XR I noticed the mood lifted. However this was shortlived and the depression returned within 2 months. Now since I'm taking so many drugs I don't know which one is doing what, except I think the seroquel is perhaps responsible for treating the insomnia. I'm on 400 mg of Lamictal, 20 mg of abilify, 30 mg Buspar, and 300 mg of Seroquel XR. You can read my blog where I update my experience with drugs and manic depression.. | M | 35 | 15 months 300 mg XR 1X day | 7/29/2010 | 5 | Schizoaffective/Schizophrenia | Increased Appetite, fixed by adding Topamax, so now I have no side effects. | This medicine helps me so much. I am also on Risperdal Consta Injections and taking this medicine helps keep me from noticing when the Injections wear off. I feel great all the time. The increased appetite was helped by the doctor adding Topamax to my medications (also helps with my mood). Seroquel helps me sleep at night and doesn't make me tired the next day. I haven't felt this good since I was 5 years old. | F | 22 | 2 months 700 MG 1X day | 7/26/2010 | 3 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Drowsiness, midnight sweet cravings | M | 46 | 4 years 100 1X day | 7/22/2010 | 4 | Bipolar I | on seroquel immediate release : weight gain --My body never let me know I was full and so I'd eat massive amounts of food. dry mouth, after taking it I would be so sedated that I would "wake up" and turn my alarm off, even after I put it on the other side of the room and didn't know I was doing it until after my bf say me. Seroquel ex: on 50mg I get manic on 100mg I cycle low. It takes a good 4-5 hours for it to kick in. If I take it too late i'm screwed the next day cause I will be drowsy until like mid day | I love the immediate release. I slept great, felt fantastic, and didn't really cycle. The only problem was the weight gain. The ex seroquel isn't great. I have to time it perfectly to get a good nights sleep and its still not the deep sleep that I enjoyed before. I've had to play with my dosage because it's had quite a different effect on how I cycle. If I take 100mg then I get depressed, if I take 50mg then I get hardcore manic. I've been taking 50 one day and 100 the next to see if that helps. The only reason why I take this is because I have had any weight gain, I pretty much lost all of my weight, I'm nt hungry like I was before. That makes it worth it | F | 26 | 18 months 50-100 mg 1X day | 7/19/2010 | 1 | anxiety, stress, some insomnia | No many side-effects during use. After withdrawal I CANNOT sleep and this causes major mental health problems. Seroquel had either changed my sleep architecture or permanently damaged my serotonin receptors/systems. | Using doses (<200mg/day) seem to cause brain damage/insomnia as well as using only a high single dose per day (instant release). Taking BCAA supplements before bedtime (after discontinuation) seem to help with insomnia symptoms (BCAA reduces dopamine and serotonin). | M | 29 | 3 years 400 1X day | 7/19/2010 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder for Mania | Weight gain, sleeping too much, bad dreams | I have been prescribed Seroquel for about two years. The plus of this medication is that it is the only anti-psychotic I have taken that doesn't give me a serious physical reaction. Another good thing about this medication is that it made it possible for me to quit taking anti-anxiety medication. It is a sleepy enough medication to take care of any anxiety as well. It can actually take care of mania too. But, I want to quit because the dreams I have on this medication are pretty bad. They are extremely vivid. At first, I got kind of a kick out of how real the dreams were but now they become bad nightmares at times. My psychiatrist has suggested that maybe it is becoming a little to concentrated in my system, so I break the pill into a smaller piece and that seems to help. My problem is that if I try to stop taking it, even after staggering it into smaller doses for awhile, I can't quit it. I can't sleep if I try to make it through the night without it. I hate it now, because sometimes I can't wake up on time, and my other doctors keep warning me that it could cause diabetes and I have a bad family history of diabetes. But, I can't quit, it keeps me from Mania and my doctor is against me quitting. Think twice if you can stay away from this medication. | F | 41 | 2 years 150 mg. 1X day | 7/14/2010 | 2 | depression/anxiety and sleep | While taking I was like a zombie. Hard to get anything done. Loss of appetite. I was pretty much out of it for the entire day. Withdrawal horrific muscle fatigue mainly mid back and arms were tired and limp, stomach cramps memory loss can not remember a thing as of 3 days off of it. | For me I did not like this medication did not help me with what it was prescribed for. I fear long term damage of my muscles and my eyes. | M | 39 | 4 weeks 150-50xr 1X day | 7/8/2010 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder | Massive weight gain, possibly addictive? Far too sedating too quickly. | I am currently being weaned off Seroquel. My dose over five years has ranged from 50mg twice daily to 500mg a day. It hasn't really worked for my mania or anxiety, but I do now get a decent night's sleep for the first time in my life. However, as my Psych Doc pointed out, sleeping tablets would do the same thing so I'm being taken off it. I gained five stone (70 lbs) on this stuff, but have gotten that off now and am being placed on Lamictal. What pains me is that I knew it wasn't working for me for five years and told the doctors this and they argued with me until last year, when suddenly the reports about Seroquel started to filter through and they realised that we, the patients, were right. I accept that for some people it's wonderful and like all meds, it's a lottery as to which works for each of us, but the doctors need to listen when we say something isn't doing the job. We inhabit our skulls, and we know when something is amiss. | F | 36 | 5 years 250mg 1X day | 7/4/2010 | 5 | Bipolar Depression/Sleep | It causes my nose and sinuses to close up tighter than a drum, sometimes creating an alarming sensation of choking or suffocating. I think it also causes swelling of the prostate, making it difficult to pee when you want to. | I generally have been pleased with SEROQUEL. Starting in my middle-age, I have been plagued with insomnia... racing thoughts very much a part of that. I had tried "baby" sleep aids like RESTORIL and AMBIEN, but they were just pi$$-in-the-ocean: Basically I am like an elephant in the wild who needs to be brought down with a dart of elephant tranquilizer! So I needed a more "heavy duty" sleep aid like SEROQUEL. A relative of mine takes about 700mg daily for schizo-affective disorder... There is no way in hell I could take a dosage like that, because 100mg alone is enough to knock me out cold for hours, swell up my nasal passages completely and dry up my mouth. SEROQUEL does indeed allow me to sleep like a baby for about 8--12 hours, and get plenty of refreshing REM sleep, too. In fact, it is the first good sleep I have had in all my adult years. I am just naturally "wired" by nature, and SEROQUEL eases that. Interestingly, once you awaken, you are not groggy at all... 10 minutes, say, for the fog to lift... and you're good. I have in fact, gained much weight since I've been on psych meds (ten years now) and have developed Type 2 Diabetes as well... but I attribute these developments more to DEPAKOTE... which I'll "diss" on a different page... As a diabetic, I probably should not be taking a drug which metabolizes in the liver (as SEROQUEL does)... It would be prefe | M | 47 | 5 years 100mg 1X day | 6/29/2010 | 5 | bi polar | it is wonderful to experience deep sleep. | F | 46 | 300 1X day | 6/29/2010 | 4 | Bipolar, OCD, BDD, Insomnia | Drowsiness, Increased Appetite | I think that this drug has helped me greatly in overcoming my BDD, and it totally levels out my moods, but I never really feel any intense emotions... It's not helping with the OCD part, if anything it's made it worse. But I no longer freak out in situations I can't control. I'm just more organized if anything. It helps with my lack of sleep, it's easy for me to get 8+ hours a night when before I started taking Seroquel I slept maybe three hours a night if that. It does take me awhile to actually get up and function in the morning when usually I'd be up and fully alert within a minute. No weight gain as I'm good at managing my weight, but I do feel hungry ALL THE TIME. But self control helps, lol. | F | 16 | 6 weeks 100mg 1X day | 6/29/2010 | 2 | Bipolar type II | Nightmares, anxiety, short term memory loss, decrease in appetite, stuttering, passive-aggressive behavior, uncontrollable eye movements, trouble concentrating, | From taking this drug I got nothing but waking up in the middle of the night sweating from nightmares. I also lost my ability to communicate and express how I felt which made things worse with the friendships I had with people, which eventually destroyed those relationships and made me more depressed. I now know how people feel when they say these drugs turn you into zombies. I have vowed to never again take this drug ever again to let big pharma get a hold of my life. I have never been more lonely than I have been after taking this drug, I started to develop mild schizophrenia during and after it; not to mention severe withdrawal and "brain zaps". Do yourself a favor and stay away from this drug, oh by the way I use to like smoking bud from time to time but I can't even do that now because it worsens my anxiety and panic attacks. I think the worst part was not being able to just be myself, I felt as if I was desperate most of the time when at social functions and the uncontrollable eye movement only made things worse with the opposite sex. F* Seroquel. | M | 23 | 1 months 25mg 2X day | 6/23/2010 | 4 | bipolar - episode of mania | Drowsiness, difficulty focusing, no motivation, can't stop eating | It does seem to work it brought me back to earth. That having been said I'm going to stop taking it the side effects are too much especially the lack of motivation and drowsiness. It's a real effort to accomplish anything significant which is a bit of a problem. | M | 32 | 45 days 100 1X day | 6/17/2010 | 5 | Bi-Polar II w/Pyschotic Tendencies | A little twitchy- But only noticeable to myself. No weight gain, no increased appetite, no high cholesterol, no TD, no headaches, no insomnia, no bad side-effects at all. | Seroquel has greatly improved my existence. I no longer have hallucinations, delusions, depression, insomnia, nightmares, or suicidal thoughts. Since Seroquel came into my life I have been free and easy to live life to it's fullest. I believe Seroquel, combined with my morning dose of Paxil 20mg has saved my life. As someone said before, Seroquel puts my demons to sleep. <3 | F | 20 | 2 years 25 MG 1X day | 6/16/2010 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder, Insomnia | Overeating, fatigue, no sex drive, feeling foggy, depression | After stopping this medication, I have been UNABLE to sleep! I have taken several medications (including Ambien) and I still cannot sleep through the night. Seroquel gave me terrible withdrawls and killed my ability to SLEEP!! | F | 24 | 5 years 400 1X O | 6/11/2010 | 5 | bipolar disorder/insomnia/anxiety | slightly more sleep, and heartburn | this drug has been my savior for me atleast( i know different people handle drugs differently) gets me to sleep good i'll take and extra hour or so of sleep a day over no more than 1~3 hours per day ^.^ and as for the heartburn well it didnt start till i started taking it would probably go away if i stopped drinking mt. dew so much, has completely eliminated my insomnia, my moods are much more stable now and my life has become very carefree and happy since i started seroquel. also taken along with 150mg a day of effexor xr that i take for depression. | M | 28 | 5 months 200mg 2X day | 6/10/2010 | 4 | Insomnia | wt gain 60 lbs, hi cholesterol | F | 59 | 3 years 400 mg 1X day | 6/10/2010 | 3 | Bipolar, OCD | Loss of Libido, Munchies, Weight Gain, Agitation, Anxiety, Depression, Learning Disorder. | I was put on this when I was 14, I constantly had to rearrange my class schedules in high school because this medication made me feel sedated the entire day, I was eventually put in home school because I had absolutely no credits by the end of my first year. Seroquel for me did have a huge therapeutic tendency when I took it at the right time but the day after was a completely different story. I would constantly be agitated and fatigued and had a lot of difficulties functioning in the real world. But once I got used to juggling my social life with the side effects things somehow worked out especially when I was taking an anti-convulsant with the seroquel. About a year ago I was taken off of this drug because I had gone from 120 pounds to 160 and was severely anxious and depressed, I then got a balance disorder shortly afterwards and was put back on it and eventually taken off of it again when I noticed that It was making me really moody and depressed. | M | 21 | 7 years 25 MG 1X day | 6/9/2010 |