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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Bipolar/insomnia | 50 weight gain | I had been on it since May 2002. Decided to wean off because I started having alot of side effects. I was having problems with my sight, now my sight is back to normal. Developed galstones, had my galbladder removed. Because of the weight gain, I now need two knee replacements. Since I was on Seroquel for over 6 years, it took over 4 months to wean off, and 5 visits to the ER because of withdrawls. I started out at 25mg...and somehow ended up taking 600mg, because 25mg wasn't enough anymore, so then it was 50mg, then 100mg....etc. It is a very addictive drug, though they didn't say anything back in 2002....shame on these drug companies. | F | 53 | 6.5 years | 10/8/2009 | 4 | Bi-polar | constantly lethargic, sleeping upto 12 hours a day | Has helped my mania tremendously. Just not sure how to stop sleeping so much. | F | 27 | 2 months | 10/5/2009 | 3 | depression/OCD/insomnia/anxiety | extreme tiredness, depersonalization, feeling really not like myself, extreme hunger, feelings of being detached from some of my previous worries, not caring or being as empathetic | helped me sleep, but way too much. kind of just dulls my perceptions and ability to think so much that i can just sleep and sit somewhere and not really care about anything at all. which is sometimes a nice thing if you are a really anxious worried person...helps for sleep, and maybe helped with the depression a a little bit for some weird reason, which i didn't expect | M | 18 | 3 days | 10/5/2009 | 1 | recurrent depression | took 50 mg before going to sleep, slept for about 30 hours, no kidding, just went out of bed for going to the toilet, but was so tired, I just had to go to bed and sleep... | F | 33 | 2 days | 9/30/2009 | 4 | Anxiety/depr./borderline dissociati | Unfortunately, after about a year and a half of nearly miraculous help, I will need to stop this med because of uncontrollable weight gain, and concerns about diabetes, unless I can find a way to counteract the side effect. I understand that it changes the way the body metabolizes glucose. Diet change and exercise have not helped. | After several years of uncontrollable anxiety and borderline dissociative episodes ( I felt like I was being possessed by a child-like part of myself, completely debilitating anxiety), and trying several different meds, having to detox off of addiction to benzos, which didnt completely cure me. then I was offered Seroquel, and I have felt better than I ever have in entire life. Have suffered low grade and sometimes more severe depression since a teen. This problem is genetic, at least 4 generations now. Unfortunately, it appears that the side effects are seriously dangerous to my health, with the possiblity of diabetes. I hope that I can find some alternative that works as well. I still recommend this medicine to anyone suffering severe uncontrollable anxiety and depression. It works different than other anti-depressants. Since I know how it works in the brain (what neurochemicals it affects) I can now go about finding a similar non-pharamceutical solution. | F | 48 | 1.5 years | 9/26/2009 | 3 | bipolar | Dry mouth, tired a.k.a zombie-like,higher sex drive although I am almost unable to ejaculate which is very frustrating, gain in appetite... | M | 22 | 3 months | 9/26/2009 | 4 | Severe depression/Anxiety/insomnia | Drowsiness. Increased my appetite ten fold - always "starving". | Best help for the insomnia I have ever had. Helps slightly with the anxiety - probably because of the drowsiness making me less aware - did not help the depression - must constantly fight an overwhelming urge to eat - all the time - or will blow up like a balloon. | M | 49 | 7 months | 9/24/2009 | 3 | heroin withdrawal | blessed sleep, unconsciousness during withdrawals. | I've cold turkey detoxed off heroin and oxycodone many times. This time I had a large heroin IV habit. I was prescribed soroquel 25 mg. twice a day for relief from withdrawal effects. It allowed me to sleep for most of the first three days (the worst of the withdrawals). The only problem is, luckily I had family attending me 24/7 because I was so out of it, I vomited while lying on my back and unconscious. I would have choked to death without their help. Not to mention falling while trying to make it to bathroom. | M | 55 | 15 days | 9/23/2009 | 1 | manic depression PTSD | cannot remember dreams too drowsy to fuction in everyday life | I promise to make this as short as possible and this will be the first time telling this story completely!!! In the year of 1999 I felt my world was falling apart there were things going on in my life that just shouldnt have been happening. (needless to say it wasnt drugs...not on my part any way.) I had two wonderful children both girls and was doing my best to support them and all the while behind my back my husband (now ex) was doing crack and the money situation was tight. I was told things were getting paid when they werent. So forth and so on... Basically I ended up having what was medically known as a nervous breakdown when I cut my arms with a razor blade from my wrist to my wrist to my elbows... I do not know where the razor came from... I do not know why I did it... I dont remember doing it at all... I only remember having a feeling of "waking up" and wondering where my children were and wondering where all the blood came from and why everyone was cut up??? I had no clue that I had done it myself!!! Do you have any idea how scary that was for me. And just to make this clear it has never happened again... Anyway I was taken to the hospital but I was not locked up. (BY THE GRACE OF GOD) I cant think of no other reason why I wasnt. The E.R. DR. Prescibed me Zoloft and told me it was mandatory to see and Psychologist or Psychiatrist within 10 days. So I started seeing a local clinic in my hometown... I went to the appointment and tried t | F | 35 | 3 years | 9/15/2009 | 3 | Schizophrenia | Drowsiness, Sexual side effects, Weight gain, Dystonia, Memory problems, Chronic Constipation | This medicine helped a lot for the paranoia and the delusions and completely stopped any hallucinations I once had but the side effects got to a point where I had to switch medications. This medicine works great for some people; I'm not one of those people. | M | 18 | 7 months | 9/13/2009 | 1 | Depression, anxiety | Sleeplessness and EXTREME anxiety | I was put on Seroquel after a death in my family. I had been on Paxil for years and I absolutely loved that drug, but it started to give me anxiety attacks and I weened off. I tried a whole mess of medications afterwards, but Seroquel is the one that caused me the most dissatisfaction. I was up all night for days.. my heart was racing and my anxiety was 10x what it usually is. It is amazing for me to read that so many people got sleepy with this medication because it has the opposite effect on me. I guess it is true that brain chemistry and the drugs it responds varies drastically. | F | 14 days | 9/12/2009 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder (Manic) | This medication made me feel like I was black out binge drinking every night and I'd just pass out an hour after taking it. I'd wake up completely confused. Can't remember anything. Thank you seroquel for turning me elderly well before my age. Fucked up my speech, have no memory,no thought process, and really slow at responding in conversations. Hair loss and slight weight gain. Addictive. DO NOT TAKE UNLESS YOU WANT AN IQ OF 3!!! | F | 20 | 3 years | 9/12/2009 | 4 | Anxiety/Bipolar/Insomnia | weight LOSS, vivid nightmares, extreme grogginess in the morning for the first 2 weeks where i had to stay in bed most of the day, now it's just grogginess in the AM that goes away after coffee and time, the worst side effect has definately been the nightmares. | I see so many bad comments about seroquel, which I understand..it is a very strong drug and you should not be on it unless you have a serious problem. I feel like many of these comments are made by people who probably didn't need the drug. It has changed my life. I'm surviving and prior to Seroquel i was near the end. | F | 22 | 6 months | 9/11/2009 | 4 | Bipolar II, Acute Anxiety, Insomnia | Deep sleep (Yay!), Moods (depression/hypomania) stabilized dramatically, INCREASED Libido, Increased Intensity of Orgasm(s). A little of my Hx: I'm a 26 y/o female, 5'2", 105 lbs. I've been seen/treated by many Psychiatrists and counselors since the age of 16 for Major Depressive Disorder, Acute Anxiety Disorder, and Chronic Insomnia. Over the years, I've taken every Antidepressant available (and combos of them), minus MAOI's - SSRI's all made the anxiety/insomnia worse and reduced my libido to 'nonexistent'; SNRI's worked for a while, then stopped being effective; Tricyclics made me sleep, but WAY too much - 18+ hrs q day; Atypical antidepressants just did NOT work for me. | I finally got tired of "ping-ponging" from depression w/ suicidal ideation to 3-4 day episodes where I'd clean incessantly, not sleep, etc for those 72-96 hrs, and then crash back into the depression. I'm an RN, and several MD's I work with all highly recommended the same psychiatrist who's new to the area. I went into the first appt with a healthy skepticism - no one had ever helped me before, so why would this doctor be any different? WRONG! He was very thorough, thoughtful, and attentive. He Dx'ed me with Bipolar II (NOT Major Depressive Disorder) and agreed with the Acute Anxiety Disorder Dx. He rx'ed Seroquel 25mg HS (at bedtime), increased to 50mg HS week two IF NEEDED and Depakote ER 1000mg (and to continue Klonopin 1mg TID that I've been on since 1999). I've noticed a HUGE difference! I can sleep at night, my moods are stable, I feel better than I can ever remember feeling in my whole life! It's restored my sanity, my life, my marriage, my career, helps me enjoy my family, my 2-yr old daughter... I could go on and on! No weight gain or increased appetite, no hyperglycemia/diabetes, no increased cholesterol/triglycerides, etc. As I've researched Seroquel in the capacity of patient/RN, I've noticed that the VAST majority of patients who've had severe negative side effects from Seroquel are/were put on a grossly HIGH dosage, most not even titrated to that dose to see if a lower dose was adequate. I'm proof that, when given to the correct patient, wit | F | 26 | 3 months | 9/9/2009 | 1 | bi-polar..anxiety.sleeping, manic | Gained ALOT of wieght I was 114 now 148lbs.made it very hard to WAKE UP in MORNING..FEELING OUT OF IT TILL I HAVE HAD AT LEAST2 CUPS OF COFFEE.At night made me eat in my sleep | I am now going to try to stop taking Seroquel...cold turkey ! Hope nothing happens ..please tell me if anyone has had any side effects from when they stopped taking it !!!!! I have been on it for 3 years at 300mgs nightly. | F | 31 | 3 years | 9/8/2009 | 2 | Bipolar 2 manic depression suicidal | I hate it.. but it calms me down quickly. I will either fall asleep quickly and for a long period of time. Or I will stay awake in an insomnia state. lost and not knopwing what to do or go. The worst thing aboput Seroquel and me. I have an anger problem that I have had all my life. If I fall asleep in an angry mood, I will not deep sleep but will be in a blacked out state and either walk, drive, however possible, get to what the reason i am mad and commence to do what I went there for. And when I would awaken, I was in the hospital cuffed to the bed. And I can say that I have woken up that way many times in the past 5 years.. | I think it is one of thje worst things that could be prescribed to me | M | 45 | 5 years | 9/7/2009 | 4 | Bipolar Mania, Anxiety, Insomnia | * Twitching of hands involuntarily (not too often); forgetfulness of basic things; mild weight gain; heart palpitations at night - occurred 1 hour consistently after taking medication | Overall, this medicine has worked wonders to help my anxiety/mania - I used to panic at the slightest thing, now it takes a very strong trigger to do it. It helps tremendously in the 'staying asleep' aspect, however, going to sleep is a bit of a nighmare because my heart feels like an electric shock 1 hour after taking medication. Only last about 5 - 10 minutes. | F | 30 | 2.5 years | 9/5/2009 | 3 | severe depression | weight gain (alot) vivid nightmares that caused severe distress sleepy during the day | I hate it. The dreams are enough to drive me crazy and the weight gain hasn't helped at all with getting over my depression and it is seriously hard to study and pass exams if you constantly want to sleep! | F | 16 | 3 months | 9/1/2009 | 1 | Depression, bipolar | Tremors, loss of voluntary muscle control, night sweats, anxiety, extreme terror, inability to control thoughts. | I strongly suggest avoiding this medication! I am still having frightening flashbacks to times when I was on the drug (which was more than a year ago). | M | 26 | 3 months | 9/1/2009 | 5 | post traumatic stress & anxiety | Craving for sugar resulting in 14lb weight gain and after a year of taking it, my cholesterol has been found to be high. | Seroquel was my saviour during a very difficult time. It gave me a break from my constant anxiety aswell as a break from my overactive mind. It helped me to keep calm like no other medication has. I would recommend it for temporary use but not long term. I did feel like a zombie but would rather that than suicidal. I came off gradually because of the weight gain and high cholesterol. Had a rash initially and itching all over aswell as a few sleepless nights but 2 months down the line, I'm not doing too bad although I haven't lost a pound in weight even though I have halved my calories. Can't help but wonder if Seroquel has changed my metabolism permanently. | F | 41 | 365 days | 8/31/2009 |