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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Bipolar disorder | extreme drowsiness, increased appetite (shortly after taking medication), slurred speech, muscle spasms | I'm 21, diagnosed with bipolar disorder/insomnia (most bipolar people expereince insomnia) two years ago, and I have been taking 300 mg of Seroquel at night and 20 mg of Lexapro in the morning for 8 months now. It has helped tremendously, stopping the episodes that i had been frequently experiencing at about four times a week. It has also helped me sleep through the entire night. However, I noticed that about 20 minutes after I take it at night, I get extremely hungry, and usually eat more than I normally would. This always happens right before bedtime, and while I'm eating, I also noticed that my entire body slows down, making it really hard to finish chewing or swallowing my food, so I think to anyone out there taking this, I would warn you that this could be a choking hazard, and if you eat, you should do so with someone nearby. Also, during the day time, I have greatly decreased concentration and speech coordination, so I'm not as verbally quick as I am accustomed to. I don't know | F | 20 | 8 months | 5/16/2007 | 3 | panic disorder and anxiety | none so far | I dont expect to take that drug for long since it is only something I take to calm my anxiety until I start getting an effect from the antidepressant. I have to say I was prescribed 25 mg 2 times a day. 12,5 mg is enough to put me to sleep for 10 hours and if I try taking 12.5 mg during the day I can not stay awake without many coffees so I just dont understand how somebody could take 100mg of this stuff and not be in a coma! I am 125 pounds so I am not that small... Well, since the list of side effects from this drug is pretty scary I will only use it until I am stabilised on my AD and in my life which should take less than a month. | F | 28 | 3 days | 5/16/2007 | 1 | anxiety | weight gain, muscles pain, sedation | i was put on this drug for anxiety and sleep disorder( couldnt sleep. The drug is a weigh gainer! the only GOOd thing it does is I get a full nights sleep, but the next day i have muscle cramps , rapid heart beat, feeling of cloudyness... i cant figure out whats more important a good nights sleep or feeling horrid the next day | F | 32 | 3 days | 5/15/2007 | 3 | schizoaffective, ptsd, bpd | Sleep which is okay cause I take most of it at night. I used to love this drug at 150mg, cause it calmed me right down and gave me that sleep, but since an increase in dosage to 450mg, I notice an effect on my sex. Not that I lost interest, but I just couldn't cum. That made me angry and sad. Cure or cause... | I have just read that it can increase my risk of having an epileptic seizure, which I also suffer (taking tegretol). I like taking it at night, after any passion has been fulfilled, but now have to take more in the morning to stop me going off. This is a real grief for good daytime loving, and like I'm saying, can easily offset any benefit. I can still get excited, no problems there, just can't lose the load. I get so close and then, nothing. Why don't these quacks want us to have sex? Don't they understand that is enough to make you depressed and angry? Sheesh. At least I've stopped taking risperdal and all those other misery drugs | M | 42 | 1 years | 5/11/2007 | 5 | Insomnia | I haven't noticed any side effects. | I take it for insomnia and it works great. | M | 42 | 2 years | 5/10/2007 | 4 | bipolar | extreme sleepiness, hunger, forgetfulness, | I take 125mg at night, would not be able to sleep otherwise. I have a 25mg prn but cannot take it because I will eat uncontrolably. It makes me forget and feel dumb if taken during the day, at night can only handle 100 or 125 mg without being forgetful the next day. | F | 26 | 4 years | 5/10/2007 | 3 | bipolar w/ psychosis, insomnia | weight gain (30lbs), daytime sleepiness during first few weeks, muscle spasms, difficulty breathing deeply | I've been taking 300mg at bedtime along w/ a MS, AA, & AD. It helped end a psychotic episode, but caused a strange "disconnected" feeling. (I was going through the motions but not really concentrating on anything.) It did not help with my insomnia. Will be tapering off now that I am on another AP. | F | 24 | 4 months | 5/9/2007 | 3 | bipolar 2 and insomnia | the only things i noticed were how it made me virutally unable to breathe through my nose and extreme dry mouth related to having to breathe through my mouth. | helped tremendously with my insomnia and depression. i didn't have any mood swings or mania while taking this med. | F | 35 | 4 weeks | 5/8/2007 | 3 | Anxiety | Horrible-Evil-Death-Kill-Nightmares-*EVERYNIGHT* and *EVERY NAP*. Just started taking Seroquel, and I am morbidly obese to begin with. After reading how much weight peeps gained, I'm puttin the Seroquel DOWN!!! | F | 26 | 2 weeks | 5/7/2007 | 5 | bipolar | sleepy | i like this drug it helps me function like a human | F | 36 | 2 years | 5/6/2007 | 2 | anxiety, depression, insomnia | extreme tiredness and lethargy, disorientation, inability to focus, inability to synthesize thoughts, 20# weight gain, low resting pulse | I am also on Celexa at the moment. I think the doctors originally put me on Seroquel to knock me out; when I was awake in the hospital, I made everybody's life miserable. They were struggling to diagnose me, and for a while thought I was Bipolar II. In the hospital, they had me on 400mg. Once out, they dropped it down to 100. I take it at bedtime, but I still do not want to get up in the morning, no matter how much sleep I get. I am sleeping about 12-14 hours a day. I cannot focus on my reading for school--it is almost like I am trying to read underwater. I also can't seem to synthesize my thoughts in order to write research papers. I am having to take incompletes in both of my classes this semester because of it. This was never a problem for me when I was in undergrad. I wish I was off of it already, but when I tried to cut my dose in half a couple of weeks ago, I got horrible anxiety and the shakes. I know when I ran out and missed a dose, I was unable to sleep the whole | F | 29 | 17 months | 5/6/2007 | 1 | SCHIZO/BIPOLAR | THIS MEDICINE WILL MAKE YOU FAT AND VERY TIRED DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINCE DOCTORS WILL NEVER WARN THIS TO YOU | TERRIBLE MEDICINCE FEELING VERY TIRED I THINK I GAINED AROUND 35 POUNDS | M | 7 | 5 years | 5/4/2007 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | Horribly Lathargic, sleepy, numb, loss of motor skills and speech | I read this forum before trying seroquel. But my sleep was horrible and my mania was still wacky, because my wonderful lithium had not kicked in yet (doing much better now, a few months later). Anyhow, I just want to warn others that I hated seroquel. I lost myself for a few days from it. I felt sick and could not function at all. So PLEASE, if you want to give it a try, make sure you have some time off to do so. I was on the smallest dose too! | F | 32 | 3 days | 5/1/2007 | 5 | Bipolar/insomnia | Sleepiness is the only one really. Small weight gain, not much. | 12 months ago, my behaviour was erratic, I had high levels of anxiety and it was very hard to follow my conversations. Since taking Seroquel I have gradually improved to the stage where I am almost symptom free. My dose gradually increased from 25 - 600mg over 12 months. I have had a long history with substance abuse which I believe added to my mental illness. Seroquel has worked absolute wonders in restoring me to a level footing. | M | 28 | 12 months | 4/30/2007 | 4 | Mild Bipolar | I have a problem with dry mouth and frequent trips to the restroom. I have also gained lots of weight, I am heavy already. Sometimes I don't feel like I am full and feel like I could continue eating. | Having said all that, it has really helped me. This is the only medicine that I take for my Bipolar. I have had to get a watch with 3 alarms so I can remember to take the doses. I take 250 mg per day. I break them in half and take it 5x a day. This has made a difference in my life. I used to be a morning person and when I was taking a pill at night, I needed help to get up in the morning. Now I can wake up on my own and feel much better. I hope this information can help someone else out there. | F | 32 | 1.5 years | 4/30/2007 | 4 | depression, panic disorder | 30 lb weight gain, fatigue, extreme thirst, frequent urination, I sweat a lot, sometimes it's hard to wake up in the morning. Despite having many of the diabetic symptoms sometimes reported with this drug my fasting blood sugar is normal. So I am not sure what is going on, but I am pretty sure it's this drug. | I like it because it keeps me very calm, and happy, along with the Zoloft and Remeron I also take. I feel emotionally "normal." I take 100mg at bedtime and I think that's too much now that I am stable again so I am going to titrate to 50mg. I require a lot of coffee to keep me going during the day and despite doing 1hr of cardio a day and eating a low fat low sugar diet my weight remains high. So I ask myself: fat and happy or thin and crazy? Hmmmmmm... I have gained 30lbs since 12/06 and I know that cannot ALL be my fault! It's kinda bad when you have to choose between your mental and physical health. It is a tough choice to make. | F | 27 | 5 months | 4/29/2007 | 2 | Misdiagnosed Bipolar, sleeplessness | Dry mouth, problems with balance(unsteadiness), disorder of words when speaking, slow to follow conversations, disruptive thoughts, continues desire to sleep more, weight gain +++,nightmares,diarrhoea | One tablet put me out of action for a night and half a day. If not taken sleeplessness intensified - most probably to dependancy. I had terrible nightmares. Short term memory was effected. I forgot what I wanted to say or what I wanted to do. I suffered from severe diarrhoea, upper abdominal pain & general disorientation. I experienced the feeling of being out of control on several levels of my life. It was not the right medicine for me! | F | 48 | 8 months | 4/28/2007 | 4 | Bipolar I | I was prescribed 14 months ago Seroquel for suspected Bipolar I. I had always been pretty nuts before, paranoid, repetative thoughts, anxiety, suicidal one minute -- king of the world the next etc. I gained a significant amount of weight on this drug, but I had always been very thin before and like having the extra weight. I think it suits me. Though eventually had to throw away all of my clothes and buy bigger ones! The drug makes me feel very sleepy and after about an hour after taking it, I have to crawl (sometimes literaly) into bed. Other side effects are stuffy nose, having to remember to breathe which is very alarming and perhaps the worst thing are the palpatations, heart kicking around all over the place (I have been to casualty three times as I thought I was havig a heart attack). I have been under the cardiologist for just under a year and he didn't know what was wrong. Having read this message board it seems it could be Seroquel. I don't want to stop taking this drug, becau | M | 36 | 14 months | 4/27/2007 | 4 | Bipolar I | I was prescribed 14 months ago Seroquel for suspected Bipolar I. I had always been pretty nuts before, paranoid, repetative thoughts, anxiety, suicidal one minute -- king of the world the next etc. I gained a significant amount of weight on this drug, but I had always been very thin before and like having the extra weight. I think it suits me. Though eventually had to throw away all of my clothes and buy bigger ones! The drug makes me feel very sleepy and after about an hour after taking it, I have to crawl (sometimes literaly) into bed. Other side effects are stuffy nose, having to remember to breathe which is very alarming and perhaps the worst thing are the palpatations, heart kicking around all over the place (I have been to casualty three times as I thought I was havig a heart attack). My last thought before I usually fall asleep is; will I wake up in the morning? | M | 36 | 14 months | 4/27/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | I am unable to function the next day, on a dose of 25mg in the evening. I have tried taking the pill earlier to offset the sleepiness the next day but it didn't work. I become sleepy earlier and continue to be really tried and "dragged out" the next day. I have also gained over 10lbs. in 10 weeks which I do not like at all. | I don't think that I will be on this drug much longer. I seem to have all the side effects and none of the benefits. | F | 56 | 4 months | 4/27/2007 |