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 |
| 4 | insomnia | Sleepiness | No weightgain, i take 100mg before bed and i fall asleep fast and stay asleep, feel great in the morning! i like this drug. be carful not to take other downer drugs with this med. it lowers your heart rate alot. | F | 29 | 2 years | 10/25/2008 | 3 | Anxiety, insomnia | Horrible nightmares, daytime sleepiness | In Feb. 2008 I started taking 50mg a day, but two weeks later I was noticing vivid, disturbing dreams nearly every night. My doc decreased the dose to 25mg as needed in conjunction with Ambien. I now sleep very soundly with normal dreams. | F | 34 | 8 months | 10/23/2008 | 5 | DID and psychosis | very sleepy at first. now i take it to sleep and it works great | i believe it keeps me relaxed enough to fall asleep, but not yet strong enough to keep me sleeping all night. it also really helps with the matrixing and "corner of my eye" shadows. i take 300 at night to relax and make the anxiety a chance to chill out for 8 hours. i also can take 1-100mg for back up if my other panic medication doesnt do the trick. keeps me calm | F | 31 | 2 years | 10/19/2008 | 3 | Sleep, Anger problems, BiPolar II | Foggy mind the next day, increased appitite, Poor concentration, Sweating alot at night, school is alot harder that is the worst. | It helped me have tons more patience and the fog goes away by about noon. I sleep very well and have not gained that much weight- about 5 pounds. | F | 24 | 3 years | 10/19/2008 | 5 | schizophrenia | Side effects can be poor quality of sleep, grogginess and irritability througout the day. There is also occasionally a sense of being "Frozen"..not sure how to descibe that.. it's like the energies build up in the head like a mental constipation, to become a palpible pressure. the only real solution is emotional reckoning which has to be found some time or another, or you become a very pitiable thing after a while. | I have grown to like this drug after i decided to start working again. It serves its purpose, helps me to be functional and be acceptably social in the work environment without ever freaking out. that latter is an important part of keeping your job and not offending others. i don't overweat so weight gain has never been a problem with this drug. | M | 38 | 3 years | 10/17/2008 | 4 | for antipsychotic preventive effect | sleep | Main positive effect as sleep medication. Found time release very slow for this. Found low dose of tablet chewed very effective sleep aid. Low dose of 50 mg or higher. Wonder if general or family practice physician can prescibe this for sleep or other reasons? | M | 1 years | 10/10/2008 | 2 | depression/anxiety/insomnia | extreme weight gain, somnolence (which was the goal, actually) | At first I thought this stuff was great--it really helped relieve anxiety symptoms during the day and knocked me out at night. Little by little, though, I needed more and more, and soon realized I had gained about fifty pounds over two years. Now it is very difficult to get off--I'm down to 75 mg from 300, but getting lower is proving to be pretty tough, because I'm pretty sleep dependent on it. Probably very good for many, but be careful before your doctor suggests you take it for a relatively minor condition (as many apparently are)--it is an antipsychotic. | F | 36 | 4 years | 10/6/2008 | 4 | Depression, anxiety | Its only been a week but RLS and memory loss are apparent. | Im on 100mg as of right now. I like it minus the RLS which counteracts the sedative properties that seroquel is supposed to give me. Perhaps it will go away in due time. | M | 7 days | 10/3/2008 | 3 | Add-on for Bipolar NOS | Hard to get by on less than 9 hours of sleep, sometimes very sludgy the next day, sometimes Seroquel and Focalin seemed to be duking it out. | I was very VERY glad that I didn't gain any weight at all on this drug. It did bring me down from horrible mixed mania so that my problems were more within a tolerable level, did NOT make them go away, though. My pdoc actually wants me to get off of it and just stay on Lamictal and Focalin. The main problem, I think, is that Seroquel and Focalin sometimes play nice, and sometimes FIGHT with each other. They really do opposite things, one being a dopamine agonist and one an antagonist. Apparently Seroquel isn't *always* a dopamine antagonist, so I think the difficult times are when it's doing that more for whatever reason. Overall, not bad, but I've been on it long enough and I'm getting off with my pdoc's blessing. | F | 39 | 7 months | 9/30/2008 | 2 | Depression, Bi-Polar | Added aggression, poor temperament, added agitation, inability to relax or feel happy. Worsened my Bi-Polar and I wound up cutting myself and needed 31 stitches. I had to stay in a mental facility for 3 days and get put back on my previous med (Zoloft). | I had an adverse reaction to the Seroquel and had a mental brake down. I was taking it for 5 weeks when this happened. I will never take it again, but, this was my personal reaction and yours should not be the same. Look for added signs of aggression and agitation, also look for signs of no relief, not being able to relax... | F | 25 | 5 weeks | 9/30/2008 | 5 | GAD, ocd | none | Very happy with Seroquel. Spent 7 months trying different SSRI's with no luck and severe side effects. Currently taking elavil for anxiety and recently added seroquel 100mg for sleep. What a great benefit...no anxiety and increase mood and energy. Feel great and in the best mood since 7-9 months. Dr wants to increase to 200mg for better sleep.?.? Not sure yet. | M | 30 | 4 days | 9/26/2008 | 1 | insomnia/anxiety | Put me in the hospital: heart rate went down to 30, blood pressure dangerously low, and was severely dehydrated to the point where my veins collapsed. | Put me in the hospital so I would never take it again. Obviously doesn't do this to everyone. But if you are looking for a sleeping med, I'd recommend trying something else first. | M | 31 | 1 days | 9/24/2008 | 4 | depression/mood swings | day time drowsiness when I first started at 25mg twicwe a day. have learned to take just 25mg 1-2 hours before bed. get mild restless legs some nights but will pass within 10-15 minutes, so when the feeling starts I get up for 5-10 minutes. slows my mind so I can sleep. wake up groggy but that passes within 15-20 minutes as i get on with my routine. enrgy levels increased because I sleep through the night. | so far so good. moods have stabilized....worried about mind racing again if ever doc says I should reduce to nil. | M | 49 | 10 months | 9/22/2008 | 4 | Mood Disorder and Insomnia | Insatiable Hunger | I didn't put weight gain down as a side effect because everyone says I look healthy, the other drugs I'm on probably left me looking too skinny. Anyway, this medicine works great, I take 50mg at night. I've put on some weight, but I was never overweight. The hunger is easy to control, just correct some behaviours. If you take it at night, when you start to get hungry go to sleep, if you can't control that eat something HEALTHY like a salad or soup. No cravings for food during the day at all and no cravings for sugar. My doctor told me up front about the weight gain. | M | 28 | 1 years | 9/20/2008 | 3 | Bipolar 2 | Severe muscle aches from my knee's down. Mostly at night. Cannot sleep. Feel like im in a fog. | Still quick to anger. Not sure if I have given this med enough time its not been a week. I do have very pleasant dreams at night when I do get to sleep but am awaken from 1am til I get up every hour on the hour with muscle aches from my knee's down to my feet. Unsure why this is a side-effect. I too am drinking approx. 80-110 oz's of water daily and my keeping my caloric intake at approx. 1,200 calories. I am loosing weight, but just could be water retention being depleted. I feel like im "High" and also feel like im floating on a cloud but want to sleep. Will try this medicine for another week to see if side effects subside. Sex drive the same. Not effected. I am also taking Klonipin .5mgs in the am and at night. Doesnt seem to effect the seroquel. | F | 38 | 5 days | 9/20/2008 | 2 | Anxietty/Imsomnia | Makes me pass out immediatley, very groggy. | This medication frightens me. I don't think I'll continue taking it. I am on 100 mg; and within 15-20 minutes of taking this drug, I literally pass out. I'm not just saying it makes me groggy/sleepy. I mean, pass out and loose the ability to do anything, and I am not able to be woken from this coma like sleep for hours. That scares me. Also, this medication leaves me extremely 'spaced out' the following day. So while it does provide me sleep... its the kind of sleep that wouldn't alow me to be woken, even if my house is on fire. | F | 27 | 4 days | 9/17/2008 | 5 | Bipolar | I feel groggy in the morning...nothing a couple of strong cups of coffee can't fix. Light headed when getting up from a kneeling/squatting position (affects blood pressure). Main concern is the knocked out feeling at night...I'm afraid I'll sleep through a tornado! No weight gain...possible weight loss? I'm not sure since I also quit drinking large amounts of alcohol. Dry mouth right after I take it and restless legs occasionally. | Seroquel has definitely helped with racing thoughts, irritability and anger. I'm on Cipralex for depression, but I believe the Seroquel is giving a boost in this area as well. If I miss a dose, I can feel the negative emotions quite quickly. I am able to organize my thoughts and doings much better than before the meds. I must add that I was on 25 mg and slowly progressed to 400 mg. I still didn't feel that it wasn't quite right yet, so now I'm up to 500 mg. Along with 200 mg of Cipralex, I'm coping much better. | F | 42 | 10 months | 9/15/2008 | 5 | panic attacks, anxiety, depression | weight gain, sore muscles (comes and goes..especially in upper back and neck), memory loss, word finding difficulty, weird vision problems, difficulty with attention, body movement is getting difficult (feel older than I am), hair is VERY straw-like, constant cravings and overeating, feeling HOT, EXCESSIVE SWEATING(embarassing) | This medication worked very well. Helped me sleep and wake up rested and calm. No panic attacks at all!!! But, due to side effects and possibly worse ones coming on, I do not wish to take this regularly any more. I am weaning off and may take it on an as needed basis. I agree with others who have said that our healthcare professionals aren't telling us all the information before WE decide what meds to take. | F | 39 | 40 days | 9/9/2008 | 5 | Cyclothymia/ Anxiety | Mild weight gain / hard to wake up at higher dose | Works great for me. The only problems are....take it when you are ready to go to sleep.....if not you will find it hard to function. Had to back off from higher dose 600mg having problems waking up in the morning. Went back down to 300mg...everything fine with the side effects....and have started to once again increase dose. I have tried 10 to 15 different meds....including lithium......and nothing has worked this well for me, with minimal side effects. It's been a great med for me. | M | 43 | 1 years | 9/9/2008 | 2 | Depression & Anxiety. | laziness, lack in motivation and ambition, No sex drive, very sleepy, tired all day, rage, intense anxiety, passive, experienced bipolar type symptoms. | About one hour after taking it (at night) I got very sleepy, but within 2 hours later the sleepiness wore off. Helped me sleep through the night, but if I didn't get a full 8-10 hours of sleep I could not function during the day. Even when I did sleep my 10 hours at night, I was groggy and out of it during the day, then get hyper at night. Had no motivation to do anything, When I woke up in the morning I was starving for Junk Food, but that wore off and I lost my desire for food. Lost a couple pounds not even trying, (& I'm already pretty small). Sometimes made me so passive, I would hardly react to anything. The WORST part was the intense amount of RAGE this medicine gave me, I got angry and aggressive, and pissed off very easily, it was very scary to experience. No sex drive what so ever! | F | 24 | 10 days | 9/6/2008 |