SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1512 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | manic-depression | Weight gain and impossible to lose (all around the middle), increased OCD symptoms greatly. 150 mg. Needed to increase dosage 5 times in 8 months because my mood dropped. | It was the best thing to ever happen to my mood. I gained 30lbs, which I hate but I was underweight to begin. At first the benefits to my mood outweighed the side effects. Then the OCD became unbearable and am utterly frustrated with the weight. With the addition of zoloft it may have been okay. I will definately go back to it if I have issues with lamictal | F | 27 | 8 months | 10/30/2008 | 3 | sleep | SEVERE weight gain, some body twitches, creepy crawlies in my legs | Gross. I was taking 200mg at night. It does make you very very sleepy. I sleep like the dead when I am on it, I barely move all night. I can sleep 12 hours solid on this stuff. It gives me the munchies something terrible. All I want to do is eat, and eat I did. I gained 40 lbs. Also, it gives me the grossest feelings in my legs, like cramps....all i wanna do is stretch them compulsivley when I take seroquel. | F | 31 | 1 years | 10/30/2008 | 2 | BI-POLAR/SCYTZO | MASSIVE WEIGHT GAIN!!! COULD NOT GET OUT OF BED IN A.M | I TAKE 300MG AT NIGHT AND I HAVE GAINED 40LBS IN 5 MO. IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR WIEGHT DON'TTAKE THIS. | F | 33 | 5 days | 10/30/2008 | 4 | depression,insomnia, panic &anxiety | Constipation, dry mouth, twitching of legs at times. | This drug just about saved my life. I was in such a bad place and within 2 weeks I seemed to be much more positive and had my life back again. The positives vastly outweighed the negatives for me personally. | F | 56 | 2 months | 10/29/2008 | 3 | mood stabilizer/bipolar depression | MIDNIGHT MUNCHIES, hard to get out of bed in the morning, need at least 9 hours of sleep only on 150mg. Wake up feeling drunk. | I gave this med a 3 because of the midnight munchies and the weight gain I've experienced due to the urge to eat after taking the med. I think it has potential to help as I was on it before with 600mg lithium and low low dose lamictal. I've read others on here and it really is important to take this med and go right to bed. I timed it and it starts to work for me in like 20 minutes so I have to be in bed or I'll start eating non-stop. Interestly I have very little appetite during the day. (maybe all the food I ate the day before!) See what happens this time as I'm on 900mg lithium now and starting lamictal currently at 25mg. On 150mg Seroquel currenly. Good luck everyone. | F | 35 | 2 weeks | 10/29/2008 | 1 | Trouble Sleeping can't stop thinkin | Terrible weight gain. 20 lbs in two to three months. Twitching of eye, and major hair loss. Serious desperation. | Stop taking it before I turn into a bald fat lady who wants to kill herself. | F | 41 | 4 months | 10/29/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | I started with 25 mg with 5 mg time release Melatonin before bed and it worked well, with only a little weight gain. I stopped the Melatonin and kicked up the Seroquel to 50 mg. That's when the weight gain really became an issue. I have gained 30 lbs and several pant sizes since this change about a year ago. I do not eat after taking this med, and it works well for a good sleep. I usually eat very healthy, low fat foods. I recently turned the 5 mg time release Melatonin back on with the 50 mg Seroquel. Good sleep, but groggy in the morning for about 15 minutes. I intend to cut the Seroquel back to 25 mg and see how that works. I would like to lose the weight and still get a good night's sleep. | This has been a good med for me regarding insomnia. The side effects that are problematic are weight gain and grogginess upon waking. | M | 56 | 4 years | 10/26/2008 | 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 |