SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1512 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | bipolar II - Depression | very sleepy, absolutely no concentration.... | I've only taken this drug for two days and I will not take it again. I'm also on Limictal and am having a bad reaction. I was on effexor, wellbutrin and lexapro. All the same....I'm done with titrating up and down with medicine. Enough already.... | F | 50 | 2 days | 3/6/2008 | 5 | Explosive anger outbursts | None so far, it does help sleep. | I am only taking 25mg at night and on weekends 25mg in the am. It has helped me remain calm when I might normally have an angry temper tantrum. It does not knock me out all night like some people say but it does help me sleep and I usually fall back to sleep if I wake up. I am not tired in the morning - maybe only a day or 2 when I first started it. So far, I love it! I hope it continues to work at the low dose because I am afraid of the weight gain aspect. | F | 43 | 3 weeks | 3/4/2008 | 4 | Insomnia, Depression, Anxiety | A little drowsy in the morning | I LOVE THIS MED!! I never realized what quality sleep felt like until I tried Seroquel. I take 12.5mg before bed and I have never felt better. It also helps with my anxiety, depression and alcohol cravings. And, as an added bonus, I am actually loosing weight!! I have so much more energy so I started running daily with my dogs. They are happier now too:) | F | 27 | 1 months | 3/3/2008 | 4 | Bipolar 2 | crave carbs, pancakes,cookies cakes,but on 20lbs trying to eat the wright foods now after 9 months | still trying to find the wright dose around 200-300 mgs a day | M | 49 | 9 months | 3/1/2008 | 5 | anti-psychotic | In the beginning I felt tired. But now after many years, and many different dosages (up to 550 mg a day.) I find it helpful. | F | 38 | 5 years | 2/26/2008 | 4 | lamictal drug induced psychosis | rapid heart beat, sedation | lamictal gave me a psychosis, that means drug induced psychosis, what helped so far is abilify and seroquel. i am currently taking 100 mg twice a day for this condition, i will talk with my doc to increase to 200 mg, it has helped me but it has side effects | M | 14 days | 2/23/2008 | 2 | insomnia/bipolar II | 10 lbs weight gain within six weeks on a dosage of 50mg. Had nightmares which I physically and verbally acted out (on my husband). Increased heart rate up to 120 resting. One night I started to have signs of ketoacidosis. My blood sugar was 228 and I was spilling sugar in the urine (I was not diabetic before). I became very thirsty and felt like I had to breathe very deeply. I immediately discontinued the medication and my blood sugar went down. | I slept well the first couple weeks on Seroquel although I was "high" the first day. Eventually my sleep became very disturbed and I felt more fatigued than before. When I had the high blood sugar incident I was told that Seroquel could not have caused it by several health professionals and I must have eaten too much that night. That is an outright irresponsible thing to say when their web site admits freely to this side effect. Since then a nurse admitted to me that she has seen several cases of pancreatitis on this med. There is no benefit to taking a drug that doesn't help my bipolar, my sleep, and causes diabetes. Always educate yourself about side effects because you can't be guaranteed that your doctor has. | F | 35 | 42 days | 2/23/2008 | 1 | Bipolar | Depression | I felt like I was on a horse tranquilzer. The first day I took it, I was totally out. I stopped it after that day. | F | 22 | 1 days | 2/23/2008 | 5 | Bipolar | Wild, vivid dreams, nightmares. Weight gain. | After trying just about every other medication for my depression and experiencing either limited relief or horrible side effects, I tried Seroquel and have been very pleased with the results. I cannot comment on the side effects that some mention regarding groginess, etc. as I take pain killers that would mask that symptom/side effect. | M | 55 | 2 days | 2/19/2008 | 1 | BIPOLAR MANIA | EXTREME WEIGHT GAIN of more than 100 pounds. | Unless you have an extreme medical reason that no OTHER DRUG cannot help, do not take SEROQUEL. With this much weight gain you could literally be killing yourself slowly. | M | 38 | 3 years | 2/19/2008 | 2 | Anxity,seeing things,hearing things | Constipation,crushing chest pains,vivid dreams,zombie like could not function,slow alertness,nothing really matter. | I slowly was introduced to 300 mg but the night I took it I thought i was stroking out chest crushing pain my heart felt like it was about to burst right out of my chest. Next night i broke it in half and still was like a zombie.This is an awful medication to be on. I was prescribed this because I had real high anxiety and thoughts of crazy things and seeing things that were not there my doctor said that was because of the prozac. The only thing I did like was the crazy dreams very vivid almost real like. | F | 43 | 8 days | 2/18/2008 | 1 | Panic Disorder/Anxiety/Bipolar | Excessive sweating, suicidal ideations, crying spells, stoned feeling, anxiety | I stopped taking this drug two nights ago and I still cannot stop sweating. It's awful. I sweat when I am sitting, doing nothing, wearing nearly nothing. I can't stop. This drug, along with pretty all the rest of the prescribed medications for these disorders, are nothing but terrifying. Seroquel in itself has 1665 side effects recognized by the FDA. It is also addictive, which is something I was never informed of. This drug did nothing but horrify me, so it absolutely did not help with my panic. It made me suicidal, so it absolutely did not help with depression. I suggest finding another option if you have any kind of nervous disorder. We are patients, not lab rats. | F | 24 | 2 weeks | 2/12/2008 | 1 | bi polar/ insomnia problems | The very first night I took this it immediately knocked me out. The next morning I literally could not lift my head off of my pillow and I was drooling. I could not get out of the bed to go to the bathroom until noon and then everything was slow. I spent 2 days in the bed behind one of these dangerous little pills. | I think this medicine could be very dangerous and when I told mey doctor how this medicine had me " paralyzed" she said she had never heard of anyone having this experience before. | F | 28 | 1 days | 2/11/2008 | 1 | insomnia | I took it before bedtime and had extreme restlessness and couldn't lay still, was extremely hungry and had to get up to eat, and it took longer to get to sleep than usual. I eventually did get to sleep and woke up groggy. I reduced the dose and had less extreme side effects but it still made my insomnia worse | M | 40 | 12 days | 2/10/2008 | 4 | Anxiety; Depression; Mood Swings | Drowsiness; dizziness | Love the drug; it has made me feel like a normal person again. I take Prozac as well as Seroquel in order to subside some of the violent mood swings one may experience as a side-effect of fluoxetine. Great medication; recomend it highly. | M | 25 | 2 months | 2/9/2008 | 5 | INSOMNIA | ALITTLE FOGGY IN THE AM BUT NOT TO BAD WORE OFF WITH BREAKFAST AND A CUP OF COFFEE. | I ONLY TOOK 12.5 MG AND THIS STUFF REALLY WORKS!!! I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO SLEEP FROM AMBIEN, LUNESTA, XANAX, LIBRIUM AND NOTHING EVER KEPT ME ASLEEP!!! THIS DRUG MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE BUT IT WAS THE RIGHT MEDICATION FOR ME!!! MEDICATION WORKS DIFFERENTLY FOR EVERYBODY ...IT MAY BE WHATS RIGHT FOR YOU!!! | F | 33 | 3 months | 2/8/2008 | 4 | to correct a tic I developed | worst side effect is difficulty in waking up in the morning. Also, I perspire in my feet and groin. | Big upside is worth low downside, for me. | M | 55 | 4 months | 2/5/2008 | 1 | Bi-polar II | DON'T TAKE!!! Anger, agitation, 2-3 hour crying spells like I've never had before. You will turn into someone else. Not cool. | Seroquel made me psychotic (ironically), and that's on the lowest dose! Please hear me out as I have a MA in Psych. and I am like you, off the bell-curve with supposed "Bipolar II". I've given this drug 3 chances the last 6 mo., & have not been able to take it. After drowsiness wears off, agitated in bed, angry, have 2-3 hour crying spells, and this last time at 3:30 a.m., had to get out of bed and hit my pillow against the wall because of anger and agitation. This is not like me!! My Bi-polar symptoms are quite different than this. I have never done this before and it happens when I take seroquel. People, please be careful! Be yourselves without taking drugs. Just because we don't conform to the norm in society doesn't mean we are not healthy or that we need fixed. There are no medical tests to prove "mental disorder". Be your creative unique selves w/out thinking you need to be a 9-5 M-F person. I'm done with pcyhiatric meds. Interesting how anti-depressant | F | 33 | 1 weeks | 2/5/2008 | 4 | bi-polar/ phychosis | weight gain due to cravings already described, really vivid nightmares,does knock me out pretty quickly. | I was first diagnosed as bi-polare 16 yrs ago and have been on about every med you can think of. I'm currently taking depakot,sero,klonopin,and,invega. My symptoms have been pretty severe through the years ie, several hospitalizations a number of mania induced legal problems that sort of thing. I think that this med is very powerful effective for me but you should way this against the severity of your own symptoms.I can't see this as being the answer to insomnia, depresion,anxiety It just seems like overkill. | M | 32 | 3 months | 2/4/2008 | 1 | Anxiety | Very lethargic, cannot function at all, indigestion, uncontrolable movements, if I would close my eyes, I would start 'soaring', blurred vision, fast heartbeat, stomach upsets | On the second day of taking it, I had an indigestion in the morning and stomach upsets. I was very lethargic and I would not recommend to begin a treatment with seroquel if you have work the next day. | M | 22 | 4 days | 2/1/2008 |