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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | bi-polar, anxiety, depression | Weight gain, higher sugar | Been the best thing for me. Yes, I experienced weight gain, but I take into account that it's made my bi-polar managable, so willing to put up with the side effects. I sleep at night now, and my moods have stabalized. It was the best thing I could have done, it's working well for me. | M | 51 | 2 years 300 1X day | 3/4/2011 | 1 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | Seroquel caused me acute psychosis, visions and voices. It caused what it was supposed to heal. Affected the dopamine-center so that it caused the effects of early tardive dyskinesia in an age of 24. Trouble urinating. Blunt/drugged down feeling through out the day. | Not a recommended medicine. Stay away if you can. WARNING: Causes severe blunt/drugged down feeling, tardive dyskinesia and Parkinsonism. | M | 24 | 1 months 350 1X day | 2/28/2011 | 1 | depression | Bad, likely permanent damage to abdomen/colon/digestion. Can no longer eat a large variety of foods. Weight loss, extremely low mood, suicidal ideation | Began at 25mg as an addition to Cymbalta. No effect on mood; upped to 50mg. Great for mood, but immediate, severe bloating/hardening of abdomen esp ascending colon. Dropped to 25mg with immediate cessation of abdominal symptoms. A few weeks later, asked my doctor if I could return to 50mg, as I really appreciated the cognitive boost of 50mg. I knew the bloating would return but felt I might be able to control it perhaps by managing diet; otherwise go off the drug completely. Bloating came back immediately at 50mg, was unable to control it, so tapered down to 0mg as per doctor's instructions. However, this time the bloating, rock-hard feeling in my colon did not go away and has been with me for 8 months. Symptoms vary in severity depending on what I eat. There is huge swath of foods I can no longer consume. This, plus the shoulder-shrugging, "there's no one who will help you with this" has led to bad depression and serious consideration of comitting suicide. I will be seeing a gastroenterologist soon, but I'd essentially been ignored until I got very angry with my doctor. | M | 47 | 50mg 1X day | 2/19/2011 | 5 | Bipolar | None | Ive been taking it on and off but I like that it makes me high and sedated. | F | 18 | 4 years 400 1X day | 2/13/2011 | 1 | insomnia | Nothing. I'm now dying to withdrawal. Seroquel is garbage drug used to treat "mental health" problems. Constantly monitor your blood glucose and cortisol levels. Seroquel can elevate these (adrenergic blockade). | YOU CAN DIE TO WITHDRAWAL! INFO: Do not just stop if. AFAIK You should withdraw to long-acting alpha1 blocker (alpha2?) and carefully monitor you blood glucose and cortisol levels as they can kill you (=> diabetes). YOU CANNOT SAFELY WITHDRAW FROM HIGH > 400MG/NIGHT DOSES (DOPAMINE BLOCKADE) DO NOT CHANGE DOSAGE WITHOUT HELP. YOU CAN DIE. GO TO EXPENSIVE AND REAL PRIVATE DRUG REHAB CLINIC (COSTS LOTS OF $$$) BUT THATS THE ONLY WAY I THINK. BE VERY CAREFUL THOUGHT BECAUSE "HELPFUL" DOCTORS CAN JUST KILL YOU. YOU NEED *REAL* PROFESSIONAL HELP. DO NOT USE SSRIs. | M | 30 | 3 years 400MG 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 1 | bipolar disorder + extreme insomnia | Complete psychological and physical deterioration: ataxia, tremors, seizures, depression + suicidal thoughts, severe memory loss, deficits in logical thinking, aphasia, myoclonus, and hallucinations after taking my dose if I did not fall asleep within a half hour.Due to my already terrible insomnia getting aggravated by other bipolar medications, my doctor "had no problems" with me taking as much as 1200 mgs of this medication nightly (he supplemented my maximum allowed pharmacy dosage with free samples), and made no indication to me that such a dose could be dangerous. | . I cannot remember the length of time I was on Seroquel, but during this period I suffered immensely. I shook so terribly that I could not sign my name on receipts or eat with eating utensils, had such difficulty thinking that I failed out of school, and somewhere around the time I realized I was having total black out periods, I began falling a lot while walking, and was hospitalized for a week for suicidality. Despite the fact that I had begun to show severe neurological decline in the entrance physical (could not subtract 7 from 100 or stand on one leg w/o falling) and my overseeing hospital physician acknowledged that I was probably being overmedicated already, dosages of some of my other meds were increased and a new one was even added. Shortly after leaving said hospital, I was hospitalized for seizure activity. Here, it was noted in my chart (I don't remember anything other than getting to the hospital) that I completely lost the ability to speak and could only grunt for a period of time. After the seizures were under control, I then also had fits of myoclonic jerks and could barely speak. It took me almost a full year to taper off of this medication (while the others took only a few months at most) and regain control of my life. Although I was also on various other medications, this was the only one I took at a high dose. For three years I was prescribed more and more of these "relatively safe" drugs, and I was almost completely nonfunctional for two of th | F | 22 | 900-1200mg 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Bad side effects | M | 60 | 200 1X day | 1/30/2011 Patient History | 1 | Dry eyes, memory loss (words mostly) short attention span, trouble falling asleep, wake continuously throughout the night. Strange thoughts Wake to eat compulsively (never did it before) | My Doc gave me Seroquel in order to sleep. I used to sleep when my head hit the pillow started to take Seroquel and started to have a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep. Have to urinate frequently during night time also can eat lots at those strange times at night. I decided to taper off and see if things I am experiencing are related to this drug, my doctor recommends Melatonin so I have started using it as well. | F | 53 | 1 years 25 mg 1X day | 1/25/2011 | 1 | insomnia | Extreme unnatural rapidweight gain. Muscle tremors/twitches. Thirst. Itchiness. | This medication has played havoc with my physical health. I regret taking every day. If I knew the serious side effects of weight gain and physical addiction I would never have taken it for insomnia. I do not think that doctors take the side effect of seroquel seriously enough. | F | 31 | 10 months 300 1X day | 1/24/2011 | 1 | Bipolar ii rapid cycling | constant "drugged" feeling; pressurised headache; nasal congestion; mental dullness; blurred vision; vertigo; sweet cravings; dry mouth; muscle weakness; apathy. | Out of all of the medications that I have been prescribed I can honestly say that no others have been quite so debilitating in their side effects. I'd even take the akathesia of typical antipsychotics over the sheer weight of sedation I have with Seroquel. I'm sure it works wonderfully for some people. Unfortunately for me I've had to put off returning to work because of it. | M | 29 | 10 weeks 300mg 1X day | 1/17/2011 | 3 | Bipolar II , Depression | Nasal congestion,blurry vision sometimes,slurred speach after taking dose. Stiff muscles. Anxious. Severe cravings for sweets. muscle spasms.zombie like. sucking of tongue....don't know why. Feels like I am zoned out, not myself in my body (K Hole) like taking Ketamine. | What I have noticed with Seroquel, if you are tired, as in worked hard, it will knock you off your ass. You will pass out within 20min of taking your dose. My moodswings were stable in the beginning, then they started acting out, so I upped my dose to 50MG. Some days I feel great, other days it feels like I want to cry my eyes out. Extremely horny, but no intension of doing anything about it, except when I drink. I know you are not suppose to,but I can't help myself.Drinking worsens the side effect quite severe though. Lately I wake up at night in cold sweats.Angry all the time. Still have moodswings. difficult to function, concentration is retarded. No consideration for other whatsoever. Some days my feelings are extremely high, like I am a god, other days I feel like I am being dragged into hell. The moodswings can happen withing minutes of each other too. Going back to the Psych in 2 weeks with my fiance. Don't think this works for me, too shit scared to try Lithium. I still get depressed, especially when there is a big change in my life, eg. was on holiday, back at work I will act out again. I used to take whatever drug I could get, cocaine, CAT,X, GHB to get rid of these feelings. | M | 29 | 1 years 25MG 1X day | 1/16/2011 | 3 | psychosis (manic depression) | morning hangover, akithisia, chewing-on-tin-foil feeling for early part of the day, concentration probs, sometimes an increase to my appetite, physical heaviness and drag | F | 40 | 18 months 350mg 1X day | 1/13/2011 | 4 | Psychosis, poss. schizoaffective | realized this should be under Seroquel XR... sorry, will post a re-write. | realized this should be under Seroquel XR... sorry, will post a re-write. | F | 29 | 9 months 150 retard 1X day | 1/12/2011 Patient History | 3 | Bipolar/Hypomania/rapid cycling | Extreme fatigue; increased food cravings especially sweets,tremors, stuttering, loss of concentration during conversations, lack of creativity and motivation, "jumpy" especially at night while asleep; confusion; dry mouth; when I ate bread or something..it felt like I was swallowing boulders. | Im not working so I received help to get it filled for free at a church center. I got the bottle, which didnt have any paperwork and just followed the directions. Once a day. I took one right after I got it and let me tell you. That was a no no. I was so drunk like..but it calmed me down..all the way down into deep sleep. I have anxiety and racing thoughts at night so I had already been on Xanax so Im use to being calmed to sleep so maybe thats why I didnt experience nightmares..but I slept HARD. All I could do the next day was stay in bed. I usually listen to music everyday, sing, clean, surf the web, facebook (hello), play with my dog..go outside..hec no. I didnt even want to open the curtain. I could stare at a wall for an hour without even blinking. My speech..didn't get better, it got worse. I couldn't even think straight. I'd stutter..get confused, memory problems..of which still occur. Don't take EVERYDAY, take as NEEDED. I still have a sweet tooth and the dayafter lagging effect but my ADHD med helps with that as well as over eating..which my Cymbalta controls too. | M | 28 | 2 months 25 MG 1X day | 1/11/2011 | 1 | mild insomnia+wierd dreams (voices) | Used it for MILD insomnia (I could sleep without anything). Used it like a fool for 2 years. The initial reason was MILD GABAergic damage and proper therapy would have been: 1) use antihistamine to help with sleep (seldomly) 2) wait for one year for brain to heal 3) use neurologist and use something that could help GABA heal I was able to work all the time and worked as scientist before seroquel (and bad doc and didn't know anthing about meds) ruined my life. | Seroquel is neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drug. Neuroleptic drugs slowly kill you and it is harder and harder to withdraw (sleep): 1) never start antipsychotics or antidepressants 2) people typically die in 10 years or so 3) brain damage and its harder and harder to sleep without quetiapine 4) if you have used seroquel for longer periods DO NOT ABRUPTLY STOP If you have recently started and you are using it for mild symptoms (insomnia?) => go to neurologist specialized for sleep ASAP Use benzos for sleep or maybe certain antidepressants but use a GOOD doctor you can trust because there are pitfalls in many medications used for sleep. (in general you cannot use anything for longer periods for sleep without serious side-effects.) Use natural methods for sleep: aerobic exercise, glycine 3-5g, tryptophan, magnesium, l-arginine, beetroot, colostrum, good bed and sleeping place etc. | M | 30 | 999 years 400 MG 1X day | 1/10/2011 | 4 | schizophrenia | it makes me sleep, it can make mornings "drawn out" in terms of grogginess, irritability and non-motivation. sex drive is stifled which i don't mind. appetite appears normal with my dosage. | Without this drug I would quickly drift back into a paranoic, thought riddled chaos that makes movement outside impossible. The main drawback I think is the dampened mental and creative sharpness that I'm not completely aware of, but it is regularly suggested to me by the pitying treatment I recieve from normal people. Thankfully I'm too numb to care THAT much about it. | M | 40 | 4 years 100mg 1X day | 1/9/2011 | 3 | Mood stabalizer | It made me very very very sleepy. That was about it I just couldn't really function properly because I just wanted to sleep, also I remember after I took it if I pushed through the sleepiness and stayed up it was like I was high or dreaming. I didn't feel like I was in reality at all | I got off of it as an everyday drug. Now I take it on an as needed basis when I have anxiety or if I can't sleep. | F | 18 | 1 months 1X day | 1/9/2011 | 5 | major depression and OCD tendency | A little groggy in the mornings--I have to make sure I can get enough sleep | I started on antidepressants 27 years ago. I have taken every anti-depressant on the market with limited success. Seroquel was the first drug I EVER took where I noticed a significant improvement. I take Zoloft with it and for the last year or so Wellbutrin as well. But nothing ever helped me like Seroquel did. | F | 45 | 9 years 200 1X day | 1/7/2011 | 1 | anxiety, depression, pos. hypomania | While on it- sleepiness. Withdrawl symptoms-too many to mention- severe nausea, hands shaking, pain in legs and arms, very weak legs- makes it hard to walk, weak arms, rapid heartbeat, incontinence, trouble swallowing, surges in energy in muscles all over, zero motivation for anything, pain in muscles all over my body. I've been off this medicine for 3 days and I'm still nowhere near feeling normal. | I think this medicine is dangerous and should be banned. After taking this I feel like a bomb has gone off inside my body and I'm trying to recover and get back to feeling normal again. It seems to have affected my muscles all over my body in negative ways. I wouldn't recommend this medicine to anyone and I feel like it should be banned. | F | 27 | 4 days 25mg 1X day | 1/4/2011 | 5 | Bi-Polar 2; Sleep Disorders; Depres | Side effects are dry mouth an hour after taking it (alleviated by eating a caramel) and rapid heart rate if I drink too much coffee. Some mild free-floating irritation. Some impact on creativity. Small weight gain. | I started taking Seroquel because I was depressed, suicidal, and couldn't sleep without awful nightmares. I would get wildly manic, and then drink alcohol to bring myself down, which started a cycle of heavy drinking and withdrawal. Since I started taking it, my mood is generally sunny, I'm happy for the first time in my life, and I'm more focused if externally structured, although my focus on my days off is still nowhere. My sex drive has increased, my creativity is coming back, and I gained about ten pounds right away, but that's leveled off now. I sleep a solid 6 hours a night, where before it was a maximum of 2 hours. I remember my dreams now, and none of them are nightmares. I have no desire for alcohol, even when it's offered. This has been a miracle drug for me. | F | 58 | 11 months 75 MG 1X day | 1/3/2011 |