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 |
| 3 | Physchotic episode | Unable to move muscles when laying down, dizziness, fast heart beat, drowisness. | F | 23 | 3 days | 7/9/2007 | 1 | Mood Stablization | Laziness, Fatique, Sleepiness, Non-active, Increased Appetite, Loss of Awareness. | First of all, Seroquel DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. Second of all, it's giving me the side effects I mentioned. This medication has turned me into a vegetable. I wasn't as happy as I used to be. I usually refused to participate in many things. | M | 15 | 2 weeks | 7/9/2007 | 5 | Mixed Bi-polar | Dry mouth, dizziness, drowsiness, stuffy nose, achy muscles, and muscle contractions | I don't like how this drug makes me what to sleep all the time. However, it has helped control my bi-polar to where I can actually feel like a normal person. I would stay on this medication if it wasn't so expensive. That's why I'm going to change over to lithium soon. Everyone adjusts to medicine differently. It is a good and helpful drug. | F | 19 | 1 years | 7/8/2007 | 2 | bipolar mania , major insomnia | lack of motivation, extreme depression, headaches, hypotension, increased pulse, dizziness, weight gain, dry mouth, constipation, personality change, puffy gums, no interest in activities other than sleeping. | I would love to know how people sleep after having huge insomnia before seroquel as it is the most potent sleep inducer known to mankind. | F | 40 | 9 months | 7/7/2007 | 4 | Mood d/o nos, anexiety, sleep | the biggest one is weight gain, i have to take at least 600mg at bed time for it to work. | I am currently trying to come off it, but my anexiety has been through the roof, and even 2mg of extended release xanax isnt working | M | 17 | 1.5 years | 7/4/2007 | 1 | Bipolar I | Weight gain +90lbs in combination with Risperdal and Zyprexan. Can't wake up in the morning. I was a med school student going to be a doctor. This medicine ruined my life. | M | 20 | 2 years | 7/2/2007 | 3 | Psychosis | Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. | Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. | F | 27 | 11 days | 6/30/2007 | 3 | Psychosis | Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. | Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. | F | 27 | 11 days | 6/30/2007 | 3 | Psychosis | Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. | Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. | F | 27 | 11 days | 6/30/2007 | 3 | Psychosis | Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. | Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. | F | 27 | 11 days | 6/30/2007 | 5 | Bipolar | i speed excessively and want to eat all the time. | Seroquel isn't so bad, i sleep like a baby, and i don't think violent thoughts toward people i don't know. If you can master being hungry all the time, then this drug is amazing. Within the first two months of talking seroquel and zyprexa i put on 30 pounds. After struggling to get into my pants, i decided i'd just have to deal with being a little hungry all day long, its a small sacrifice for its benefits. | M | 21 | 3 months | 6/26/2007 | 1 | bipolar - mania | The first year on Seroquel I was a total zombie. When I visited family for a holiday dinner I was terrified. How can I possibly stay awake for 4 or 5 hours during the dinner? My energy level went to zero and I felt exhausted after less than an hour out of bed. I went from a muscular (benching 275) 195 pounds to a flabby 245 the first year and let my gym membership lapse. After 5 years the side effects started getting much worse. No erections and crappy orgasms led to a complete loss of interest in sex. I just couldn't stop eating, and would wake up starving in the middle of the night and devoured an entire box of cereal. Of course I was too doped up to go to a restaurant or store, and the cereal for the next morning was the only carb fix around. If chips, cookies or Ice cream were around I cant't imagine how much I would have eaten. 2 weeks after quitting seroquel my glucose was 98, and along with the other symptoms, it appears that I was getting diabetic. Blurred vision imm | This drug made my bipolar mania much worse. By engaging in demanding activities in an attempt to feel better and control weight, I was driven into mania but the Seroquel hid the mania. I ended up being hospitalized with a mixed episode after 4 months of mania in 2004. The Seroquel dosage was increased , and I gained 10 pounds in 2 weeks in the hospital. 2 months later, unable to lose the 10 pounds, I became extremely depressed and spent a month planning suicide. The same pattern repeated in 2005 (the cognitive decline side effects of Seroquel prevented me from seeing what happened in 2004) and culminated in a mixed episode where I had a tremendous urge to kill people. Another increase in Seroquel really zonked me out for a few months. The side effects began to worsen rapidly in late 2006 and by early 2007 a horrible event made the decision clear - one of three changes was to discontinue Seroquel immediately - I forget the other 2. Within a week I felt much better and was no lon | M | 47 | 5 years | 6/26/2007 | 5 | Anxiety | Weight gain (20 pounds) | This medicine works! I am no longer a slave to anxiety and panic. Peripheral benefits: seroquel cured my insomnia and, surprisingly, menstrual cramping, which I suffered from for years! | F | 38 | 2 years | 6/25/2007 | 4 | bipolar disorder | Sedation and confusion 30 - 60 minutes after ingestion, difficulty waking up, extreme confusion after waking up, forgetfulness | At first I thought this was a wonder drug - after suffering from a nervous breakdown it made life bearable, 'took the edge off', helped me sleep, helped me get through the day, gave me a lot of mental clarity that I had been missing. I started on 100mg, taking 25 throughout the day as needed, ended up at 600mg (slept faaar too much), came back down to 400mg about 8 weeks ago and have slowly had to come down to 75 - 150mg as needed since then as I was having major problems with sedation, completely oversleeping (missing work etc.), being unable to be woken by others, etc. I have difficulty sleeping without it, and if for some reason I don't take a dose I get hypomanic the next day. I find it helps me heaps, and I haven't had the issues with weight gain that others seem to have had (in fact my weight has dropped drastically), but it's become obvious to me that over time it has completely screwed my memory - I forget words, names of people I have known for years, my own phone number, w | F | 25 | 10 months | 6/24/2007 | 4 | Depression/Anxiety/Bipolar/PTSD | When I first sought psychiatric care in 2002 I was a wreck. I will tell you that a Psychiatrist has to be advised of all goings on while taking the meds prescribed. I had my doses adjusted and the type of meds changed all based upon the results I experienced. Understand that sometimes I felt terrible only to have the meds stabilize after taking them for a while. Sometimes they stopped providing the desired results my Psychiatrist wanted. I am more stable now and remain so after all the adjustments. I take 100mg of Seroquel for sleep and to help organize my thoughts. It works for me. I agree that Seroquel gives me cravings but this is after about 30 min to an hour so I go to bed within that time frame to keep from eating. I also take 2mg of Gabitril 4 times a day for anxiety, mood swings and headaches. Twice a day I take 30mg of Cymbalta for depression and 200mg of Provigil twice a day for wakefulness. A .5mg Klonopin wafer 4 times a day helps to suppress my anxiety. I praise my Psychia | At the direction of my Psychiatrist I went off of the Seroquel and tried lower levels than 100mg. With no Seroquel I could not fall asleep and I would lay in bed with all kind of thoughts racing through my head. With less than 100mg those symptoms went away but I would wake up and go back to sleep through out the night. It seems that 100mg is the magic number for me. | M | 58 | 5 years | 6/24/2007 | 2 | BIPOLAR/PTSD | SWEATING, STANDING IN FRONT OF FRIDGE AT 5AM FORCING CARBS INTO MY MOUTH UNCONTROLLABLY, ALMOST BLACKED OUT TWICE AND FAINTED AFTER A SWEATING SPELL, LETHARGY, ADDICTION, HORRIBLE WITHDRAWLS, HEAD ACHES, BODY TREMORS, MESSED UP JUMBLED SPEECH | THIS MEDICATION IS WORSE THEN HEROIN. NOT ONLY DO DOCTORS TRY TO FORCE IT ON PATIENTS KNOWING HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS BUT THEY ALSO DO NOT TELL YOU IF YOU TAKE IT FOR OVER 2 YEARS YOU MAY HAVE TO TAKE IT FOREVER!!! THEY ALSO DO NOT TELL YOU IT CAUSES SLURRED SPEECH EVENTUALLY...I HAD TO FIND OUT ON MY OWN. AFTER MY WORDS WERE DIFFERENT THEN MY THOUGHTS. IT ALSO HAS A HORRIBLE WITHDRAWL THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE SWEATING ONE WOULD EXPIERENCE WHEN THEY COME OFF OF HEROIN. THIS IS TERRIBLE. I WOULD NOT RECCOMEND TAKING THIS EVER!!!! IT WILL ALSO MAKE YOU GAIN WEIGHT LIKE NO OTHER DRUG AROUND. I WOULD RECCOMEND THIS FOR ANOREXIC PATIENTS. BUT ANYONE WHO IS THINKING ABOUT TAKING THIS MIGHT AS WELL SMOKE A JOINT FOR YOUR DEPRESSION/MANIA, IT WORKS BETTER. | F | 26 | 3 years | 6/21/2007 | 1 | depression | A.R.D.S. doctor told my husband I had a 60% chance of living seroquel caused a lung infection then blood clots form.....next went into surgery , heart stopped 3 times they broke a rib doing cpr.,,,,,,,then i had a stroke AGH! | F | 48 | 60 days | 6/21/2007 | 4 | insomnia | I black out entirely. I don't remember anything that happens when I take it, though my roommate says I am quite conversational and friendly. I do remember feeling very happy and content while I am "tripping." I sleep incredibly well after I have taken Seroquel. | I only take Seroquel about once a week when I can afford to really black out. I would never take it if I were alone. It makes me giggly and happy, but also very sensitive to loud noises, criticism, and worry. | F | 24 | 3 times | 6/19/2007 | 3 | The range of effectiveness of this drug is VERY wide and depends on the individual. Some can sleep with 25 mg. I started out at 600 and am now weaning off it because of weight gain. Have gained at least 25 pounds over the last year. | Experienced the stuffy nose at (300-600 mg. No longer experience it at 25-50 mg. Physical energy has been low and I have had little motivation to exercise. DEFinite increase in appetite. Otherwise, the drug has been effective in terms of lowering anxiety levels and tempering mood swings and I can understand choosing to take it. | F | 42 | 1 years | 6/18/2007 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder II | F | 25 | 8 months | 6/18/2007 |