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 | 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 | 2 | | 9/2/2008 | 5 | Bipolar 2 / Insomnia | Extreme drowsiness the first few days. Increase in hunger. Dizziness from overheating. | Seroquel has been a life saver for me. I was never able to get sufficient sleep on any other drug. I used to have major anxiety, but since taking seroquel, have not had to take anxiety medication. I no longer live on a roller coaster of ups and downs. Just because some people have bad experiences with a certain drug, does not mean that you will have those side effects as well. EVERY drug has side effects that affect people in varying degrees. | F | 27 | 7 months | 9/1/2008 | 3 | Bipolar | Extreme somnolence, restless feet at night, lack of interest and pleasure, blunted emotions, panic attacks, steady weight gain regardless of food choices, temporary worsening of concurrent neuromuscular disease symptoms, gradually worsening memory problems. | This drug is very effective in leveling mood (depending on the dose) and preventing psychotic symptoms. The steady weight gain has been horrible, and I've been placed on Actos to try to head off what my primary doctor terms "inevitable diabetes." The really big problem is I am no longer able to sleep at all without Seroquel. Nothing else works. | F | 35 | 5 years | 8/30/2008 | 5 | OCD | Sleepiness,bland mood,'jet-lag' | A superb drug for my OCD. I take 1 x 20mg in the morning and 10mg at night. it really hels with racing anxious thoughs and whilst there are some side effects the good point way exceed the negative. | F | 45 | 18 months | 8/27/2008 | 2 | I just started Seroquel at 25 mg, then slowly up to 300mgs. The first night i look 300mg, i started having crazy muscle spazms, and jittery eye vision. I also saw things like shadows. i felt like i was going insaine... I guess it works for some, but definitely not for me. | F | 16 | 6 days | 8/24/2008 | 2 | bipolar II, OCD, insomnia | This drug is a tranquilizer. My friend later told me it is known as a zombie drug--I definitely felt "drugged." Yes, it was great to exchange racing thoughts that kept me from falling asleep for blacking out into a stupor, but not for 20 hours straight! I would sleep that long, and I have kids to take care of and work to do. | The doctor said the side effects get better at larger doses! So when I took 25 mg I increased to 50 mg but things only got worse. This is the most sedating drug I have ever encountered. I know one is supposed to commit to it for a longer period to let the body acclimate, but the sacrifice in functioning was just too great. I felt terrible. | F | 35 | 1 weeks | 8/23/2008 | 3 | | 8/21/2008 | 2 | Bipolar insomnia | Anxiety, muscle twitches, incapacitated next day because drug still acting | I am having ECT. A side effect of the ECT, for me, was muscle soreness. I'd been taking trazadone to sleep, but the soreness kept me awake. My dr. gave me Seroquel for insomnia. I felt strangely all morning after taking it once--I had a hard time talking, I was dizzy, tremors, disoriented. Went to breakfast w/friend, and tried to sleep upon return. Had FRIGHTENING anxiety, felt like I was going back into mixed state that I had earlier in the summer. (Depression hasn't lifted, hence the ECT.) Got up and called the drs. office, and hoping to hear back from him. It may be a sleepless night, but if it staves off the anxiety, it's a fair tradeoff. Back to trazadone, and maybe ECT will regulate my sleep! | F | 46 | 1 days | 8/21/2008 | 1 | insomnia | suicidal thoughts, depression, fast heart beat, extreme grogginess, felt like a zombie | Seroquel is a terrible drug. | F | 26 | 5 days | 8/20/2008 | 3 | PTSS | Memory issues. I struggle to function and now friends and family have commented on my "forgetfulness". Seriously, I'll go to a movie with a friend, and the next day ask if they want to go to the same movie! | It really is an insidious drug. Helped me get to sleep. However, it has gotten to the point where I have hardly any short-term memory. I am weening myself off and am down to 25MG a night. I just hope I can multi-task again. | M | 49 | 18 months | 8/14/2008 | 4 | Anxiety/Insomnia | None so far. | Seems to work well on controlling my anxiety without the emotional compression I get from SSRIs. In addition, w/ 50-100mg at night it is the first drug I have ever taken for sleep that didn't stop working after two weeks. I feel like I have much more control in my life. My only complaint is that it doesn't work completely consistently, but I gather that that is because I am more stressed some nights than others. In that case I just take 50mg more and fall asleep. | M | 20 | 1 months | 8/13/2008 | 4 | Unspecified Mood Disorder/Insomnia | Heaviness in legs, sleepiness & a bit of weight gain | I have taken this for coming close to a year now, 200mg once a day, it has helped SO much. I can finally sleep! I've managed to gain 8lbs while on this. The carbohydrate cravings are pretty bad. But it has helped me so much I would never give it up. However the one time I went off of it was HORRIBLE! I was vividly hallucinating. I had experienced hallucinations before but I could always tell that they were just that, these withdrawal hallucinations were too real...and frightening too. I've also noticed that if I don't get enough sleep I get extreme heaviness in my leg the following day. I never had this until I went on Seroquel. | F | 18 | 1 years | 8/12/2008 | 5 | Anxiety, Mood Stabilizer | Minor weight gain. I already have dry mouth and constipation from other medications I take (Welbutrin, Lamictal) and have not noticed any change. | I am currently taking 100 mg but will continue to increase the dose until I get the benefits that come when I drink grapefruit juice in combination with this medication. After 32 oz of grapefruit juice taken over 48 hours, I am so happy and full of energy. I will risk the side effects in order to be the person I've always known was underneath the dark cloud I have lived under all my life. I hope I don't have to increase the dose too much before I get the same effect that I do with the grapefruit juice (which is listed as potentially dangerous to drink while on this medication.) | F | 54 | 2 months | 8/8/2008 |