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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Insomnia | None | I have been taking Seroquel to treat my insomnia for 3 years already nothing else worked. Im 26 years old and I have had insomnia since I was 8 years old. Since I started taking Seroquel my Sleepless nights are over. | F | 26 | 3 years | 1/1/2010 | 4 | Sleep, Depression | Zombie, Very compliant attitude, increased sex drive but no initiative to execute on this benefit. Some disorientation. Zone out at times. Some minor memory problems. About one hour after taking can have difficulty finding words or thinking complex thoughts. | 50mg dose but have taken up to 300mg as needed. Only medicine I have ever taken that can give me some peace help me relax. | M | 58 | 2 years | 12/20/2009 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder I | weight gain, fatigue or dizziness if I increase the dose too fast, revved up right after I take it, constipation | I get every side effect from drugs and seroquel has been (relatively) side effect free for me. I feel more normal than I have in YEARS when taking this drug. It has been a godsend- I have been through so many drugs that gave me incredible problems so severe I was disabled from the side effects. Seroquel has helped my anxiety, my insomnia, my mania and mixed state episodes and also my depression. I was on Risperdal and became so anxious I had constant long lasting panic attacks I was rehospitalized. It also made me very very fidgety. They gave me Seroquel to counteract it and it worked like a dream and I have been on it ever since. I know the risks of weight gain and diabetes. But my weight gain hasn't been as bad as most people's on it, my blood sugar has been normal so far but I keep an eye on it and even though some of the side effects are annoying, it is much better than the hell I went through before I found this drug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 32 | 3 years | 12/19/2009 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder, Insomnia | weight gain (25 lbs over 12 months), drowsiness, lackadaisical, very grumpy in the mornings, significant increased appetite and always for sweets or salts! | My Doctor restricted me from using another sleeping aid until recently, as he liked that seroquel first an anti-psychotic and second a sleep aid. I will admit that I DEFINITELY slept while taking Seroquel. I originally started this drug at 25 mg, and have taken as much as 300 mg. For the last six months I have taken 100 mg (less than this is not effective for me for sleep) combined with a cocktail of other drugs for bipolar disorder. Taking this drug, but after a year the hangover and oversleeping had to stop. I gained a significant amount of weight (I exercise about 4 to 5 times a week in hopes to off-set the weight gain from increase from the icreased appetitie- not successful). I just recently switched to Lunesta (and take 600 mg lithium for bipolar). So far so good! And it's so nice not to crave sweets right before bed. | M | 25 | 13 months | 12/14/2009 | 4 | insomnia, anxiety, depression | a 'hungover' feeling the next day if i take it after 9.15pm the night before | on 25mg and can fall asleep very easily with it so really great cure for insomnia | F | 23 | 2 months | 12/9/2009 | 5 | Depression, anxiety, sleeplessness | Slight dry mouth, increased appetite, wonderful REM sleep. Was a little spaced the first week but that quickly subsided. Horny. | I take 150mg at bedtime along with 200mg Trazadone. I absolutely love it. I has done wonders for my mood, outlook on life and general anxiety in public. I feel better than I have in years. Please don't let all the negatives you might read frighten you away from trying it. Start out on low dose (maybe a sample pack from your doc) and give it a week or so. If it doesn't work for you after a few weeks trial, just quit. No harm no foul. | M | 51 | 3 months | 12/8/2009 | 3 | bipolar disorder | nightmares, hangover in the morning which eases in 5 minutes with a cup of coffee. cognitive obtunding, i have no interest in the acedemic writing and reading i'd usually be enthusiastic about, no libido, completely uninterested in romance. i did have slight restless leg, weird uncomfortable feeling in hip joint but splitting the dose -300mg taken as 150mg .b.d. stopped that. | i was regularly getting incarcerated in a horrible public psych ward with cruel staff against my will and was under threat of eviction due to manic behaviour, seroquel totally controls my symptoms which gives me security, i don't have to live in fear of the psych staff ringing the doorbell. previous regimens included several drugs, valproate + lamotrogine +rispiridone, horrible discomfort and side effects, life wasn't worth living. seroquel works for me on its own, i'm not on any other drug and since it doesn't physically hurt me like rispiridone did i'm willing to pay the price of the side effects i have in order to keep psych detention and eviction at bay. | F | 50 | 2 years | 11/30/2009 | 3 | Depression | Restless legs | M | 32 | 6 months | 11/28/2009 | 5 | bipolar I | Sugar cravings, require 10 hrs sleep, mild restless leg syndrome, slight weight gain, involuntary finger/toe movements. Grogginess for about 30 minutes in the morning which goes away. | As bad as the side effects sound, bipolar I is scary and debilitating, and this drug has turned my life around. I take a fairly low dose, 100 mg, unless becoming manic, when I increase it to 200 for a few days. With consistent exercise and careful eating I can keep my weight under control, and blood sugar is good. I refrain from eating at night after I take the drug - just go straight to bed. Also I take lamictal and lexapro. Have been stable five years. Seroquel helps with anxiety, too. I feel very good. | F | 47 | 5 years | 11/23/2009 | 4 | Bipolar Depression / insomnia | difficult to lose weight even while dieting, vivid dreams, and increased joint and muscle pain, even in my feet! | I like Seroquel, because I can now sleep through the night at 50 mg Seroquel XR. Yes, I have vivid wierd dreams, but generally dont remember having them until I am trying to wake up the next a.m. For 6 years, I used to use a Tylenol PM for my insomnia. Tylenol PM can permanently hurt your liver, I think. I think using Seroquel is healthier than Tylenol PM. | F | 51 | 8 months | 11/23/2009 | 1 | bi-polar/ aniexty.insomnia | Hard to wake up in morning, gained about 45lbs, spaced out ETC | My doc put me on this took 600mg nightly before bedtime, took for about 3 1/2 years um stopped on my own he said no not good thing to stop by yourself....he said I would have bad side effects blah blah blah I stopped myself took ocntrol yes I did have side effects / withdrawls from not takeing it HOWEVER I am now back down to a normal wieght lost all the weight I gained and sleep just fine also. I am not saying for everyone it will be this easy but PLEASE DONT GET ME WRONG IT TOOK A GOOD MONTH FOR ME TO BE BACK TO "NORMAL , MYSELF " It took awhile for it to get out of my system and WOW what a diff/I feel great and look great I control my mood swings ...HECK MAYBE HE THOUGHT I WAS SOMETHING I WASNT ... I JUST KNOW NOW THAT I STOPPED TAKING IT I AM BETTER INSIDE AND OUT | F | 32 | 3 years | 11/13/2009 | 4 | Insomnia/Racing Thoughts/OCD | I take this because my mind cannot stop the chatter at night. I have taken 100 mg one hour before bed and it has worked well for four years without having to increase the dose. I do take Restoril 30 mg when needed, which is rare and usually due to occasional back pain. The sedation wears off by the time I wake up. | F | 45 | 4 years | 11/11/2009 | 4 | BPD (bi polar) | Crazy dreams, I wake up groggy, however the feeling passes with a few cups of coffee. Besides that all side effects are good ones so far. I feel happy able to play with my kids, laugh and work with a clear mind. Used to want to drink alchol every day most often apon first waking up in the morning, now I couldn't be bothered to. | Will update as I continue taking this medication,so far it has been a wonder.. | F | 25 | 2 months | 11/8/2009 | 2 | schizoaffective disorder | surprised to learn on this site and from experience that it is addictive - like i didn't take my usual 100 mg last night and i couldn't sleep at all, although the body and mind was needing to - but the more i take it, the less sedative effect it has - meaning, it takes longer for it to knock me out, and i don't sleep for the 12-14 hours anymore that it got me doing when i first started taking it - the psychiatrist told me that it was not at all addictive, no dependency - but it hasn't panned out that way, and it looks from this site like that's the general experience - in any case, sleeping wasn't a focus of my issues before at all, it's only become so with taking this drug | have been taking 100 mg of seroquel at night with 80 mg of lovan/fluoxetine in the morning, for almost 2 years. apparently this cocktail is a neat fix for schizoaffective stuff, but i haven't seen anyone else on this site stating that they've been prescribed this mix. anyway, i have to agree with others that, at first, it seemed like the way to go. i'd had lovan before; it was an invitation to apathy, while it did clear the mind and let some work get going; the seroquel seemed to add some eagerness and some loss of worry to the mix; actually found myself going to the local markets. but that spirit's long gone. dread, angst, is only stronger day by day. like others have noted here, i've also started drinking heavily - not a drop for at least a year before going on this cocktail; now going for the vino-destructo like it was fruit juice - to blank out the ambient dread, the obsessive angst; to feel something more than desperation. there is no gift-of-life with these "happy-beans" - they just make us care some less that we've hit dead-end and that the fact is that this is it - or sleep or munch our way through it - somehow have to find another way of being self-effective (but then again, as if one hasn't tried all the scripts) - after much juggling, i reject the implicit idea, on this site, that "this or that drug is this or that bad" - we're all just going along in our little row-boat | M | 43 | 2 years | 11/1/2009 | 5 | Bipolar Manic Insomnia | Had to take naps in the afternoon. Eliminated day time sleepiness by reducing dosage from 300 mg. to 200 mg. per night. | Highly recommend this for bipolar usage. Never felt more alive and productive, like I am 25 not 55 years old. I get between eight and ten hours of sleep every night and wake up feeling great and jump out of bed and hit the ground running. | F | 55 | 1 years | 10/30/2009 | 5 | bipolar disorder - rapid cycling | nasal congestion every night at bedtime, hair loss, weight gain | I can not believe how many people are taking this for insomnia! It has been the one medication that has been effective for the longest time (have been on more meds over the past 16 years than I can remember - most work for a short while then become ineffective). However, it is extremely powerful and I only take it as a last resort before lithium. To see people taking this for sleeplessness seems like using a sledge hammer to swat a fly - no wonder they are unhappy with the side effects. | F | 39 | 6 years | 10/24/2009 | 4 | Bi-polar disorder | Slight weight gain, taken in conjunction with lithium. Intense grogginess and some unknown feelings of dread upon awakening. This passes as I arise and move about. I usually sleep at least 12 hours a night. Have been trying to awaken earlier, between 9&10AM by taking the drug at 7PM. Have some excessive muscle movements, and difficulty swallowing at night, which my doctor tells me could be a pre-cursor to Tardive Dyskenesia. I fear that, but am not ready to experiment with any of the newer classes of drugs for this disorder. I have Hyper-lipidemia have decided to take Niaspan (RX Niacin)in liew of statins. Not presently diagnosed with Diabetes, thankfully. | I am a 62 year old female who has suffered with the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder for 40 years. I have a very strong family history of this disorder. The initial manifestation was about 4 months after the birth of my first child. It was in 1970 and was treated as Post Partum Depression. After moving about the country for the first 8 years of the onset of this disorder, I was formally diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder. I was originally treated with major tranqualizors and was started on lithium in combo with antipsychotics and deseryl. In 2005 I moved to another state and my new doctor and I experimented with most of the usual antipsychotic drugs, all with disheartening side effects. About two years ago I was put on Seroquel and have taken as much as 600 mg in combo with smaller doses of lithium. I have recently decreased the dose of Seroquel to 450 mg and 300 mg of lithium. This combination seems to be working well for me and I am grateful for living in a time when these meds are so helpful. Hopefully, one day there will be a cure. | F | 62 | 2 years | 10/23/2009 | 5 | cyclthymia, ptsd, borderling | Dry mouth, calming, no weight gain | PLEASE WHEN YOU POST FOR THIS DRUG OR ANY OTHER DRUG INCLUDE THE DOSAGE, HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN USING THIS DOSAGE, ANY OTHER DRUGS WHICH MIGHT INTERACT AND GIVE IT ONE MONTH BEFORE CALLING IT OR ANY OTHER DRUG "THE DRUG FROM HELL, SATAN, ETC". Also it might help to list other drugs you have tried. There are people like me who have found Seroquel to be an answer to a prayer and after many years of suffering, battling demons and thoughts of suicide Seroquel has helped us. I started at 12.5 for 2 weeks, 50 mg. for two weeks, and now have found the perfect dose of 100mg. at bedtime and I sleep like a baby. Thank you. | F | 55 | 2 months | 10/19/2009 | 5 | Sleep Disorder Mood Swings | Mild Weight gain, drowse during the day. | This medication has been a life saver, I used it to detox from Klonopin and Xanax after 20 years of use. Seroquel also has worked great for my sleep disorder allowing me quality sleep for the first time in years. | M | 43 | 3 years | 10/19/2009 | 5 | bipolar II | No side effects that were bothersome except maybe a little lethargic the next day. This could be handled with one cup of coffee in the morning. This medication has been a blessing from the good Lord. Almost all symptoms gone at 300mg. At first I refused to take this medication because of many posts that I read on here and other places on the web. Then my symptoms got so bad and I knew I had to do something. None of the things that people wrote about on here happened to me. None of them! I am just going to put my trust in the Lord and I hope that other people who are in the same boat that I am in, people who are in need of help, but live in fear of the side effects of the medications, will go ahead and get help. | F | 42 | 2 years | 10/16/2009 |