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 |
| 1 | Bipolar Disorder | after 4 days of taking this med, I am getting off. I was experiencing severe drowsiness and a disconnected feeling. This was on 50 mg. When I moved up to 100, the panic attacks set in. I began sweating and became extremely nervous and paranoid. I had to drive to my mother's house to get comfort--imagine that! Whatever this med is worth, I don't think it's enough for this feeling! | F | 24 | 4 days | 5/22/2007 | 5 | GOOD WORK SCHIZO MAN | All of the antipsychotics are OUTDATED if they are not in extended realease form. The only drugs your docotor is suppose to prescribe is Invega or Seroquel XR. The other drugs like Abilify, Zyprexa, Geodon and Risperdal are in there old forms and should not be prescribed. They are not effective. | One more step for freedom | M | 30 | 10 years | 5/21/2007 | 3 | mood disorder/OCD | I've been on seroquel for about a month. I've already gained 7 pounds, which is not a good thing. I was up to 150 mg at night, which helped me sleep all night, but made me feel like a zombie all day. I crave junk food constantly and eat all the time. I have little energy. I'm also on 20 mg. of Lexapro and 200 mg. of Lamictal and 200 mg of Wellbutrin. I'm lowering my dose gradually of seroquel so I can be done with this weight gain. I think I'll go back to Trazadone to help me sleep and hopefully that'll work. My main issue is that during times of stress (most of the time) I have a lot of "noise" in my head. Music mostly. Loud and annoying and I grind and tap my teeth along with it. I'm doing this all while maintaining a "normal" life as a stay-home soccer Mom. I can't make it stop and sometimes I beg myself to make it stop. Weird, I know. What else might work for that besides Seroquel? I feel like a science experiment right now. Any thoughts suggested. | F | 40 | 5 weeks | 5/21/2007 | 1 | schizophrenia | FDA Approves AstraZeneca's Once-Daily SEROQUEL XR™ Extended-Release Tablets For The Treatment Of Schizophrenia | oh great a marketing scam cash cow big pharma | M | 29 | 10 years | 5/21/2007 | 3 | Insomnia | Eating entire boxes of cereal before bed. Entire bags of peanut clusters, popcorn, hershey's kisses, cinnamon rolls, fudge, bacon, cookies, but I slept GREAT on 25mg. Dr. assured me that 25mg would not be enough to cause weight gain. WRONG | Taking 150mg of Seroquel for Depression, and 3mg of Lunesta for sleep, and .5mg of Xanax for anxiety. Still do not sleep, except when I'm taking Seroquel. Due to weight gain, stopping Seroquel. | F | 38 | 3 years | 5/20/2007 | 1 | psychotic episodes | I developed epilepsy. At 45 years of age, with no history of seizures in me or my extended family, after just a couple of weeks on this drug I began having grand mal seizures. I had a total of eight grand mal seizures before I made the connection between seroquel and my newly developed epilepsy. I woke up in the hospital with a catheter up my penis and realized that if I had gone into a seizure while waiting for the subway I could have fallen on the tracks and be quite dead. I was very lucky that didn't happen. I stopped taking seroquel and started epival (an anti-seizure medication) and have not had another seizure in a year and a half. | If you value your life DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. IT CAN KILL YOU! | M | 46 | 5 months | 5/17/2007 | 5 | bipolar/anxiety/insomnia | Look, the only one really is a slight fog the next day. I take 900mg at night. | 900mg is a big dose, so how I combat the sedation is by remaining fit. I swear by it! It's important for me to exercise, don't smoke, take omega 3, eat well etc. By doing this stuff, it minimises the unwanted side effects of this drug i.e. too much drowsiness, weight gain etc. At the same time i get the good effects like; lessen anxiety, slower thought processes, definite balanced mood etc. No drug is perfect, but I believe if you throw enough at something, the greater chance of overcoming it. | M | 29 | 12 months | 5/16/2007 | 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 |