SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1505 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 4 | Borderline Personality Disorder | Helps me greatly with mood stability as well as the insomnia. Negatives.. drug hang over the next day, odd and very vivid dreams. Otherwise, I have had a good experience with this medication. I should mention that I was at higher dose of 400mg at one point. Dose didn't seem to matter when the vivid dreams occurred but I'll take the weird vivid dreams over lack of sleep any day. | F | 36 | 7 years 100 1X day | 1/3/2011 | 1 | wierd dreamlike states and insomnia | For 2 years mostly nothing. After discontinuation from 400mg/night gradually to 0 mg/night and back up to 400mg/night and then difficulty following exact dosages: tinnitus, memory and thinking problems. NOT A SLEEP MEDICATION USE VERY LOW DOSE OF DOXEPIN FOR SLEEP (<5mg). | I was given Seroquel after I took oxamin+alcohol (accident/panic) and had wierd dreamlike state and voices when trying to get sleep and MILD insomnia (Nothing during to day). I took it like a fool. Because I could sleep (it was just a difficult) I should have went to a neurologist specialized in sleep or just wait for GABA receptors to slowly heal. (Maybe using antihistamine for a month or something to get better sleep). | M | 30 | 2 years 400 1X day | 1/3/2011 | 1 | depression | This is a dangerous medication. It is very addictive. I stopped taking it with my doctors consent and developed severe side effects of headaches and nausea. My appetite was beyond anything reasonable. I gained substantial weight, however as soon as one day upon quitting, my appetite was gone. However, I find that I am ADDICTED to it and don't know what to do, because upon quitting it, the side effects from quitting it were far worse then the excessive weight gain. Moreover, as soon as I started back up, my muscle cramps commenced and my arthritis problems, which seemed to disappear when I stopped it, returned almost immediately. I'm damned if I take it and damned in trying to quit it. My doctor tried another medication when he took me off it, but it's addiction properties kicked in and I couldn't get out of bed, having severe headaches and nausea. It should never have been prescribed, but I'm boxed into a corner now and don't know what to do? | I know that this medication may indeed work for others, but I would try anything else, before taking it. | M | 64 | 365 days 300mg 1X day | 1/1/2011 | 3 | Mood Instability/Insomnia | Extreme sleepiness, some weight gain, intense desire to eat after taking the medicine. | I've been taking Seroquel for about 4 years now and while it helps me sleep (knocks me out for a good 12 hours) and provides mood stability, DO NOT TAKE THIS UNLESS IT'S A LAST RESORT! You WILL become completely dependent on it. For example I ran out for 1 day and was crying, shaking, nauseous, and a complete wreck. I do not think I could quit taking it ever. This medicine does what it's supposed to do but unless you are willing to take it for the rest of your life, don't start it. Also it will give you the "Seroquel munchies"....I have fallen asleep eating food! | F | 20 | 4 years 300 MG 1X day | 12/29/2010 | 3 | bipolar 2 (for anxiety side), sleep | grogginess waking up, some short-term memory loss ( I think) | After years of not being able to sleep due to anxiety, my doctor started me on a very low dose of seroquel - 25mg. She increased my dose slowly and tried to get to 200mg, but it made me like a zombie. I came back down to 50 mg and have been there since. (I'm very sensitive to medications.) 75% of the time, I'm asleep within 10 minutes of taking it, and I sleep through the night. But if I don't get a full 8 hours of sleep, I can be very groggy the next day and that fuels my anxiety. It's very important to be able to get a full night's sleep when on this medication. I'm taking this in combination with Lamictal 200mg. | M | 40 | 4 years 50 1X day | 12/11/2010 | 5 | Bi Polar | It's odd but my side effects are opposite of most other peoples posts.In fact the side effects are almost none existent. Dry mouth, a bit groggy getting up. | This med is working perfectly for me and its almost like a miracle drug for me. It allows me to sleep, but not too much and keeps me at a fairly normal state of being all day. I havn't gained weight or felt like I was out of phase which is what Zyprexa did. I have tried several meds before the most effective being Zyprexa(Olanzapine) The side effects on that were brutal. Seroquel is 10 times more effective for me. I just checked my blood pressure and it has dropped quite a bit since the last time i checked before taking Seroquel. Another side effect which is beneficial for me is it reduces the craving for alchohol. I'm in sales and it has diminished my motivation somewhat. Sex drive is down a bit but frankly I was over sexed before.All in all the benefits far out way the negatives. | M | 46 | 2 months 50 1X day | 12/3/2010 | 1 | M | 39 | 1X day | 11/27/2010 |