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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Bipolar I mixed episode/rapid cycle | somnolence - when I took it at night (50, then 200, then 100 mg)I was OUT COLD in twenty minutes. I needed about 12 hours of sleep. i couldnt drive before 11 am. it helped me A LOT; manics gone. i took it forever with no other side effects, but then 5 days ago I started having scary side effects. I was having black outs, waking up with bloody noses, bruises and finding i had burned myself or thrown up in the middle of the night and not remember it. i could handle the slurring in the morning, but it scared the crap out of me to wake up sick and not know how i got there. i am prone to sleep walking and night terrors anyway, but this was WAY extreme. side note: I am also taking Lamictal 100 mg. i feel like a chemical experiment...i am tired of trying to take the right thing. the Lamictal is my miracle drug but seroquel is a disappoinitment. i REALLY thought it was going to work but now im afraid of it. | This is a powerful drug that should be researched and discussed EXTENSIVELY with your psychiatrist before starting it. It is often a miracle drug, but it doesnt work well with everything. if it isn't for you, dont take it - it is dangerous for some. there are law suits against it, as well as people who swear by it. | F | 18 | 6 months | 9/27/2006 | 1 | Schizophrenia | I took Seroquel for 3 years to treat schizophrenia. But after I discontinued it I began to experince delayed ejaculation. How long will this last? Will it go away by itself or do I have to get on some other medication? Is there a solution to this? Please help. [email protected] | M | 32 | 3 years | 9/27/2006 | 3 | rest symptoms after psychosis | I take 100mg morning, 100mg night which is considered a very low dose here.(they only prescirbes it for psychosis and bipolar) Very rapid heart rate after each dose, must lay down. Dizziness, very weak and strange feeling in my arms and legs when i wake up. Weight gain! 52->65kg in one month. High blood sugar. jerks in arms and legs. very hard to explain depressive feelings in body. | This med has helped a bit with my very svere anixety and my over-sensitve senses. It also helped me come off years use of benzo(the worst drugs that exist!) and sleep pills (not without a very hard fight though). I thought they were ok for me, but now they have caused high blood sugar and the rapid heart problems seems to get worse every month. I have started to taper and prays it will turn out okey. I feel i cannot trust drug companies anymore. In my country they write that most of the side effects applys to 0.1%-10% when they apparently are lot mor common!! | M | 27 | 9 months | 9/24/2006 | 3 | Severe OCD, Insommnia | Heavy Drowsiness, Heart Palpitations at higher doses of 400mg. I now take 200 mg. Frequent bowel movements. Acne. Mental Angry mood changes, Swings. Morning Erections. Increased Sexual Mood. Weight gain. Dizziness. | This drug alone does not help with my OCD. I augment it with an SSRI Luvox & the Combo seemed to help me a great deal. My Sleep has been High Quality, although i have trouble waking up in the morning I can sleep an excess of 12-14 Hours a day. Still, it is better than insommnia. I have been Calmer & I abstain from doing most of my Rituals. I still do have Obessive thoughts, but I can manage them better. | M | 18 | 4 months | 9/18/2006 | 1 | Sleep | Took for a year makes you a zombie | It helps you sleep but it wears off after a year anyway. It makes you a stonned Zombie you will scare people with your stonned walk as you go though your days drugged. | M | 31 | 1 years | 9/17/2006 | 3 | sleeping disorder/anxiety | mild "hangover" feeling in the morning | I take 50mg before bed to help me calm down and get to sleep. It does work fairly quickly, but sometimes I had trouble staying asleep, and it did nothing to change my vivid dreams. It usually takes several hours after I wake up to shake off the hangover feeling. | F | 15 | 2 months | 9/14/2006 | 3 | insomnia, sleeplessness | i can't even tell you how happy i was to find this website and to discover that almost everyone on the site has experienced WEIGHT GAIN! i thought i was losing my mind! i have gained seventeen pounds in three and a half months! i was an avid runner before this medication averaging thirty five or more miles per week. i am now so fatigued i can't even run up my stairs. my doctor initially prescribed 100 mgs for sleeplessness. i was so tired and groggy that she reduced it to 50, then 25. Most recently, i was biting a 25mg pill into quarters and taking only a quarter (which, by the way, still knocks you OUT), but i actually quit taking it friday of last week. i have to be done with this drug. it's killing my sex life, i'm as fat as a cow, my belly is gigantic and, trust me, i am not a fat person. on average i am a four to a six, eight being my "fat" clothes. i am now in a size twelve and my boobs have doubled in size, and i mean doubled. i experienced vivid, extremely | F | 35 | 5 months | 9/13/2006 | 1 | PTSD induced nightmares/insomnia | Took Seroquel to induce sleep and stop nightmares. I had a hard time falling alsleep when taking Seroquel as well as increasingly vivid nightmares. I felt as though my brain was overactive, but my body couldn't wake up even though I was aware I was having a nightmare. Very odd sensation. Also, during the day I experienced dry mouth, nausea, dizziness, feelings of being disconnected, off-balance physically and mentally. | After 2 nights at 25 mg, I am have decided that this is not the medication for me. | F | 34 | 2 days | 9/10/2006 | 4 | schizoaffective disorder/ bipolar | I was first diagnosed with a problem and given Seroguel while I was in a drug rehab. I was a zombie for the first few days. Within a week it didn't make me tired anymore. Within my first month I felt amazingly happy/ content for the first time in my life. I have noticed the sugar cravings, and the weight gain!!!! My god I've gained 30 lbs. I've also noticed I get a heat sensation in the small of my back. For no apparent reason my back will feel like im leaning on a heating pad. It's nothing serious enough for me to discontinue use of Seroquel but it is odd. | I do think Seroquel is a miracle pill. It is rather expensive when you start taking high doses, for example I take 500 mg per day. However you cannot put a price on your health and happiness. So it is worth it. | F | 21 | 4 months | 9/9/2006 | 1 | Serious Depression | Mood swings resulting in increased depression | This drug is the worst thing I have ever seen. Please, do not allow you or a loved one to take this drug. My mother took it as perscribed and without warning had a depressive mood swing resulting in suicide | F | 53 | 3 months | 9/8/2006 | 5 | ocd/ bdd/ bpd | Weight gain (no problem for me as I was very underweight; I actually like the fact I've put on 1 1/2 stone). I take it at night because of extreme tiredness (like being stoned). I crave sweet things after having taken it. Muscle twitches before sleep. Vivid, strange dreams. | I love seroquel. I take 100mg as well as 40 mg prozac and they've KILLED my ocd and bdd. I don't remember feeling so happy: I enjoy my life now and before wanted to kill myself. These drugs worked will for me. | M | 28 | 4 weeks | 9/7/2006 | 5 | BP1, Depression, insomnia | I take 400 at night to start off. i've only been on it a week or so. just drowsiness in the morning a bit, but easy to deal with if i get 7-8 hrs sleep. | i would like to know about dieting and seroquel. i take Wellbutrin XL450, lamictal 300 and now seroquel 400. i read another post from someone who said a diet pill program was working, and i'm just wondering if any one else has input? please email me. | F | 25 | 1 weeks | 9/6/2006 | 2 | Sleep & Mood | Seroquel is very addictive. You’ll need lots of sleeping pills when coming off this med because what it does for dependency for sleep (replacing brain chemicals). If you know the history of drugs used for epilepsy (BP patients have a chance of having an epileptic episode while people with epilepsy may have BP symptoms with sudden discontinuation) never go on and of this kind of drug suddenly. Concentration is another issue when on this drug. | If you need a drug because you’re just too antsy it will definitely chill you out (maybe too chilled because you’ll feel tired all day). This drug will affect how you feel in the morning (drowsy) and how long you sleep. I would not recommend this drug. Avoid it if you’re just taking it for sleep since it will give you side effects that you have never dealt with before, particularly during discontinuation. | M | 28 | 5 years | 9/4/2006 | 3 | Depression, DID, Bipolar | 200mg per night and 50mg 3 times a day: It took forever for me to get up in the morning, and an hour after taking the night time dosage, I'd start hallucinating such as monsters growing from the walls. Hard time with eating disorder problems while on medication. | Went from having thoughts of self-injury on a scale of 1-10 at a 10 to having a 1 or 2. Personalities from the DID don't take over anymore, but still pose somewhat of a problem. | F | 18 | 4 months | 8/26/2006 | 5 | toxic psychosis | i experience alot of side effects when i first started taking it right away i noticed a difference talking alot which was good butt weight gain its horrible i couldnt control it i had stopped taking seroquel when i started again it was the intake f food i couldnt control but it was my moods i was screaming at everyone wanted to fight with everyone and then i would start crying and then i`d be happy basically i also tried risperdal but seroquel for me worked | even though the side effects might be strong it all becomes worth it in the end i now stopped this drug but this drug works well and after you stop this drug the weight gain goes away but you might have trouble sleeping but now i dont feel paranoid anymore and i have more self esteem and is less withdrawn | F | 17 | 8 months | 8/20/2006 | 5 | toxic psychosis | also on thing i forgot to say about this i had no concentration so i failed my school year i couldnt stay focused | again it works great! but your always tired and dont seem to wana move and eat as if ur always high off marijuana | F | 17 | 8 months | 8/20/2006 | 3 | Bipolar/Anxiety/Paranoia | Extreme lethargy if I take during the day so I made it only for night time, makes me sleep right quick. Took my full dose once (300mg), but it caused racing heartbeat (200 BPM+) which fluctuated. Inability to ejaculate a few hours after taking and drymouth. Abnormal vivid dreams, agitation/irritation towards others. Trouble with memory and some incoherence. Slight hallucination (Bug flying around where the was none) and at times increased Paranoia, slight arthritis. Increased appetite after I take, but haven't seen weight gain as of yet. | So far Seroquel has been helping my mood but at some expense. My fuse is alot shorter now, and I tend to be snippy and easily annoyed by almost everything around me, alot of the time in the daytime. When I first took it while using Marijuana, It skyrocketed my paranoia to a level where I could no longer function in society. I was scared for my life from some unseen threat for 3 months until I calmed down, and I had only taken the Seroquel for a week before I crashed. I still haven't recovered from that 6 months after taking, but It's almost there. Taking it again to help my mood. And it does, but nothing can help my cognitive process. | M | 21 | 2 weeks | 8/18/2006 | 5 | bipolar 1 | primarily fatigue. I take a large dose (700 mg) at night and I go nite-nite very soon afterward! Then I take a smaller dose (150mg) in the morning. About 30 minutes after taking it I feel fatigued but that passes with the hour. The weight gain with Seroquel is generally less severe then with other anti-psychotics. I have experienced some weight gain but nothing that I havent been able to control with nutrition and exercise. i weigh a bit more but my mood is a whole lot more stable and life is much better than it was years ago!! | I take seroquel along with Lamictal (lamotrigine) to aid in stabilizing my mood. Seroquel has been able to keep me from becoming fully manic and aids me in sleeping when I become hypomanic. It has been a life-saver for me! | F | 39 | 2 years | 8/14/2006 | 5 | augmenting an SSRI (OCD) | Experienced a whole-body slight burning/buzzing sensation upon taking first dose. Felt unpleasantly forced into sleep, and woke up at 4am in an oddly subdued panic-- as though my brain had split and one side was freaking while the other was too groggy to care. Currently: slight involuntary muscle movements before sleep. | I take 20mg Celexa in the morning and 12.5 mg Seroquel before bed. Seroquel helps enormously with Celexa-induced insomnia, and allows me to keep normal hours. I no longer wake up fearing consciousness: instead I'm clear-headed, calm and functional. Five stars! | F | 25 | 2 months | 8/12/2006 | 4 | Anxiety & OCD | Dry mouth, twitching, muscle spasms, gained 30 lbs, excessive sweating. Coming off of it I have experienced muscle aches, headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness and flu like symptoms... it's been 1 week since I have been off... and for the most part I am not experiencing the dizziness etc. I haven't lost weight yet. | I have never gained so much weight in my life except through pregnancies! | F | 28 | 2.5 years | 8/9/2006 |