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 |
| 1 | sleep disorder/misdiagnosed bi bola | akathisia (look it up...very unpleasant) had to take vistaril to stop it....still having effects after 300mg finally off of the stuff....it was horrible | F | 38 | 60 days | 8/18/2007 | 1 | Mood swings | 50+ pound weight gain in 6 months Edema Mania High blood pressure(190/140) | This is one hell of a dangerous drug. The sleep is wonderful, but all in all this drug almost killed me. I went from 97 pounds to 153 in 6 months. I went into mania for some reason for the duration of taking this drug. I had such bad water retention, I couldn't walk anymore. I could consume massive amounts of food, and alcohol at a sitting, like I had never had before. A VERY SCARY drug Has many class action lawsuits against it now. | F | 41 | 6 months | 8/13/2007 | 5 | OCD | Sleepy, but I take it at bed time. Weight gain - I put on 30lb the first year, but have since taken off 25lb without any real dieting. | Along with Paxil, it has taken away all of symptoms of obsessive thinking and OCD. Can sit and concentrate with out intrusive thoughts. Sleep great every night. I was up to 300ml but am only on 50 now. I will not stop taking either med unless I have to. I finally have a normal life. It's been a great three years mentally. I'm getting divorced and not been depressed at all. | M | 39 | 3 years | 8/9/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | Mild numbness of limbs, heavyness, addiction. | Overall, I think it is a good med. BUT I usually take about 30 - 40 milagrams. Anything more than this knocks me out for 12 hours or more. It's a powerfull med. | F | 32 | 2 months | 8/9/2007 | 5 | anxiety | The only side effects are a little dry mouth, very little weight gain (only if I eat during the cravings this medication gives), but I've also lost some weight on it. There was a problem of sleepiness when I first started, but the deep coma feeling has dissipated as my dose increased. They say smaller doses make you feel way more sleepy than larger ones. Positive side effect: I feel NORMAL again! I can be in places with people I don't know and not feel terrified! | I LOVE this medicine. My doctor recommended not reading about other people's reaction to this medicine, as not all psycotropic medicines react to individuals in the same way. Though I am grateful to know some people do not care for this drug, I also know it works for me and that's the true test right? :) | F | 25 | 6 months | 8/7/2007 | 1 | Nervous breakdown/paranoia | I have experienced weightgain, tiredness, and muscle problems. Also I have noticed the memory loss, lack of thinking and inspiration/motivation. | I dont know why the f the doctor has prescribed this, I can't sleep without it now, If I go to sleep without taking it my mind races now, and I can't sleep. This drug should be prescribed less, as it forces individuals to continue to take it. The doctors are just feeding the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry with money. I agree that people that suffer from insomnia and inability to sleep due to their respected afflictions or disabilities. But I recommend against it unless u can't sleep due to your mind racing or insomnia. This drug has f* over my life I can't have any fun… | M | 23 | 1 years | 8/2/2007 | 1 | Neurologist wanted to cure stutter | I have a severe stutter. The Neurologist kept on increasing the dosage until I entered a drooling vegetative state and could no longer speak at all. Typing became impossible as letter sequences became corrupted. Became suicidal. Slept 18 hours a day. | If you can help it, do not have a quack try this on you. Keep it for your Altzheimer days. | M | 47 | 90 days | 8/2/2007 | 2 | postpartum insomnia | dry mouth, total fog | My doctor suggested 12.5 mg for sleep as an 'experiment' as an alternative to the trazodone/ativan combo that I wasn't having much luck with .. although it definitely made me feel 'sleepy' I certainly did not sleep but instead laid in bed feeling as though a truck had run over me .. I don't use recreational drugs but can only describe the effect of this medication as having had a 'BAD TRIP' .. too bad, I was really hoping for some sleep .. I'm jealous that it seems to have worked so well for others! | F | 39 | 1 days | 7/30/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | fatigue, made by Irritable Bowel worse, no energy, did not help my Poly Cystic Overy Syndrom either. I am incontient aswell thats to that med. | I am only a small frame and the Psychiatrist insist on taking me from 50mg to 300mg and eventually 800mg the max, I will probaly get heart failure or go into comma failing that I will colapse due to blackouts which are side effects of the med. | F | 34 | 1 years | 7/30/2007 | 5 | Bipolar Depression | Severe dry mouth--but it does go away once you have a cough drop or the like. Drowsiness, which is both a good and a bad thing. You sleep well, but feel groggy and out of sorts in the morning. Arm and leg tremors. Headaches at first that go away eventually. | I've only been on it for about a month, but it has helped me so much. I sleep a full 8 hours of sleep a night (sometimes even more). My mood swings have pretty much gone away. I think I am still going through some withdrawal of Zoloft, as I did a gradual taper. I'm taking 200mg at night, and I am good to go. I would suggest not stopping treatment with just the pills--good psychiatry is a must. Find a good doctor that will talk to you about your medication and about your illness. Medicine can't solve everything, but it's a start. I'm actually happy for the first time in a while. Hope to post again when I'm on it for a little longer. | F | 22 | 1 months | 7/28/2007 | 2 | depression/insomnia | Increased fasting blood sugar levels/prediabetes. Weight gain (25 pounds) Anyone else experience increased blood sugar levels? | M | 32 | 1 days | 7/26/2007 | 5 | bi polar/anxiety/insomnia | hangover (not as bad as an alcohol one) muscle spasms in shoulder strong pulse sweating these aren't as bad as they sound and they come and go- the sleep I get is well worth it. The hangover starts to get less and less each day. I dont feel like a zombie because I've already felt like one from the booze and weed so this is replacing that and is much less zombiefying than walking around drunk + stoned was. | Say goodbye to severe insomnia and also to your morning job. This sht is a freakin heavy duty tranq but you won't hear me complaining about that. Its like a xanax but less of a high, though more sedating, therefore you dont really crave it to party with like you can crave benzos. The hangover is heavier than a benzo but is shorter lasting only 1-3 hours rather than 5-10. Therefore your not trying to hair the dog the bit you with it. I really like how I can maintain self control and only take the required dose for sleep rather than binging a whole months 'script in 3 days like I would with benzos. I ended a 15 year pot habit and 4 year vodka habit with this med therefore i rated it at 5 but would have rated it 10 if i could. | M | 32 | 14 days | 7/23/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | I becam a cookie monster, gain 30 pounds, still struggling to loose the weight after switching to lamictal a year and change ago. I was a real zombie after the pill kicked in, Horrible!!!!!!!! | M | 42 | 2 years | 7/22/2007 | 3 | Difficulty Calming Down Thoughts | Frequent Urination; Drowsiness Following Day After Dose | Prescribed this medicine because I was having problems making my mind shut down to sleep. It worked in the fact that it did shut my mind down, and I could rest, but I was tired the next day, and I was constantly in the bathroom to urinate. If not for that one side effect, I would still be taking the med. | F | 30 | 12 days | 7/18/2007 | 2 | insomnia, major depression | Feel sleepy for at least 18 hours after taking 100 mg at bedtime. That is, if I go to bed at midnight, I have to drag myself up at 10 am, then sleep on the couch until 4 pm, then finally start feeling awake at about 8 pm. That means that I'm only reasonaly awake and feeling normal for about 4 hours a day! | It's great for sleep. Nothing else seemed to have worked: Not ambien or lunesta. But, it adds to my severe depression. I've only been taking it for 5 days, but am seriously considering to either substitute trazodone or crush the 100 mg seroquel pill, and take just half of it tonight. I'm more concerned about my 5 month bout with depression. I'm taking an SSRI, Lexapro, and wonder if the seroquel is offsetting the effects of the Lexapro. | M | 65 | 5 days | 7/16/2007 | 5 | Bi-Polar Disorder | I am currently taking seroquel 1000mg, trazodone 50mg, zoloft 400mg, and xanax or ativan(?) when I need it for panic attacks. I followed my doc's advice and split the dosage between morning and bedtime. I COULD NOT take this approach because I was a walking zombie; and actually this regimen made me even more irritable, agitated, frustrated because all I wanted to do was sleep. The drugs began to severely limit my activities. I have always been an extremely physically active person. I then took it upon myself to try and take everything at once at bedtime, thinking things could not get any worse. I cannot begin to tell you how it changed my life. After a few days of doing this, my thought process COMPLETELY changed. I went directly to sleep,(no dreaming). I was GLAD to be alive, and I found myself not taking myself and others so seriously. I am experiencing a slight difficulty in waking up in the morning; however, I drink one Red Bull when I get up and then it only takes about 3 | I am 42 years old, and I have been diagnosed with BP since 1991, at age 27, I have been on life support twice in my adult life after attempting suicide. This disease cost me 3 marriages, countless relationships, financially broken twice, going from job to job, embarassing myself because I could not control my emotions, and more importantly how my negative words and actions affected other people's lives, an out of control sex life, allowing my personal hygiene to lapse for days, obsessing about revenge, and the list goes on and on. I am not completely cured, nor will I ever be. My new problem was that I thought all I had to do was take a few pills and I would be "normal". Since taking my meds on the schedule above, I can honestly say that I am responsible in controlling my situation: Thinking about saying things versus voicing whatever comes to my mind; putting others first before me, having my mind not racing so much that I can make intelligent decisions in my life, rather | M | 42 | 3 years | 7/14/2007 | 5 | bi polar, insomniac | heavy hangover effect every morning that subsided after about a week. deep needed sleep. racing pulse during day- subsided. sweating- subsided. gained 5lbs in 1 week (6'3" 162lbs to 167lbs, but this was a plus because I've tried for years to gain weight) better appetite, emotionally i was able to think but my feelings were suppressed, which in my case was a bonus given my temper previous to seroquel use. | This med allowed me to sleep for 8-12 hours, comapared to the usual 3 or none a night. Also allowed me to stop smoking pot (which no longer does much to me) and drinking vodka in excess. So I did not experience a dumb effect (I was already dumb daily from self medication of high grade pot/vodka)I felt clarity after waking up in the morning (which could talke a couple hours from the seroquel sleep) probably which came from not smoking pot or drinking but it was worth it until my insurance wouldnt pay for it then I had to come off it which was depressing so now they put me on zyprexa which is no good for my insomnia but feels like a party drug tome me unlike seroquel where i only craved it at bedtime. | M | 32 | 2 days | 7/12/2007 | 1 | Severe Bipolar I disorder | Extreme drowsiness, nausea, vision problems, memory loss, weight gain, flat affect, felt like I was living in a depressing fog. | I wouldn't recommend this medication to anyone. I took it for over a year and didn't feel like a human being until I went off it. I also lost about 70lbs as soon as I quit taking this, because thats how much weight I gained within months of taking it. I lost a lot of friends who said I just 'wasn't myself.' This drug ruined a year of my life. | F | 21 | 1 years | 7/12/2007 | 5 | Bipolar | Nose stuffiness at first. No longer a problem. Need 9 to 10 hours of sleep and can be grogy in morning if do not get it. No problems with insomnia. Have lost over 50 pounds. | Diagnosed over 13 years ago and have tried many drug combinations to control my bipolar. At 300 mg of Seroquel at bed time, I feel more normal and in control than I have in years! | F | 40 | 7 months | 7/11/2007 | 4 | sleep deprived | Weight gain of 30lbs at range from 200-400mg. | The drug worked for me, but I also had weight gain. 30 lbs. I tapered down on my own to 25mg. I've lost 35lbs and have the energy to exercise again! I'm trying to get pregnant and my doctor would like to eliminate as many drugs as possible. I also take 400mg Lamictal for a seizure disorder. I have experienced SEVERE body and headaches withdrawing from Seroquel. I do not recommend tapering down on your own. I have found that Ambien CR is a great drug. | F | 35 | 3 years | 7/10/2007 |