SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1505 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Anxiety | After I took it I began to feel extremely tired and lifeless. That feeling kicked in around 20-30 minutes of taking my pill. I know that I wouldn't be able to stay awake if someone paid me serious money. I don't suggest driving after taking it. You will be sleep behind the wheel in no time. | I had issues with my mind racing all of the time, and had a hard time going to sleep. I had already been prescribed Xanax, but for some reason it didn't stop the severe twilight zone feelings that I was having. I remember thinking that I was losing it at times. My doctor prscribed me 50mg of Seroquel, which helped out tremendously. I was able to sleep, and found myself not being worked up about small things. I also lost the being in the twilight zone feeling that I was experiencing. I think that Seroquel was a life saver. I am no longer taking it because I am pregnant, but for some reason I am doing alright. I think it is because I am happy and very focused on my baby. | F | 32 | 1 months | 4/6/2007 | 4 | schizoaffective, bipolar type | EXTREME sedation. I've been an insomniac since I was 12, so the fact that this helps me sleep VERY well would normally be a good thing. But it makes me sleep ALL DAY, which has often made me decide not to take it for several days at a time (bad idea, of course). | Because this is, apparently, the only AP I can physically tolerate, I have little choice but to stay on it. I've found that dividing the doses throughout the day really helps. (I'm on 100, so I take 25 in the morning and afternoon, and the other 50 before bed.) That way, I get enough sedation to help me sleep through the night (about 7-9 hours, depending on how much I need), but I'm not bombarding my system with so much at one time that I sleep all day. Aside from the sleeping problem, this has worked surprisingly well in controlling my symptoms. (After very bad experiences with other APs, I was very skeptical that it would work.) When I manage to take it as prescribed, it's like I never even HAD them. | F | 28 | 1.5 years | 4/5/2007 | 2 | misdiagnosed bi polar | extreme sedation, dry mouth, nodding out, insomnia if missed a dose, addiction, paralyzing feeling of body part but still could think, dizziness and weird high feeling, blacking out into a black hole each night | I have taken this drug for six years. At first it seemed great. I took it at night and it just knocked me out cold each night ( even thou I had no sleep problems at the time) and it gave a weird high sensation about 45 minutes after taking it. In the morning thou I would have a very hard time getting up, often staying in bed for hours ( sleeping 12 -15 hours a day) and if one want s to participate in the world by school or working this makes it extremely difficult. I also gained 40 lbs over the 6 years which is not good. I have liver problems and was given this anyway. M y blood sugar and pressure were not affected, but my heart rate was high ( 80 per minute before seroquel under 75) I eat a vegan diet so that probably helped, but my heart is working harder from the weight gain. I did not find that it helped with any of my low esteem problems, ( that is for counsling) but just sedated me and put me to sleep thus avoiding life and becoming zombiefied. three months agi I deci | F | 46 | 6 years | 4/5/2007 | 2 | see below | three months agi I decided i had had enough and began to lower my dose from 200 to down thru 25 mgs each night, and it worked. At 15 mgs i still was knocked out each night due to the slow tapering off. I f i had not done that i do not think it would of worked. I no longer have the INTENSE all over itching that lasted for three days ( a liver detox?) and last night I FINALLY SLEPT FOR 10 HOURS! on my own with out the seroquel. The first 5 days were rough thou. | F | 46 | 6 years | 4/5/2007 | 3 | Cyclothymia (Bi-Polar II) | Taking seroquel in hopes of solving mid-level cyclothymia. | At this point I can't say if Seroquel is helping or not. I haven't had anymore drastic cycling however, I have stopped taking the SSRI I was on that was probably making the cylcing worse. I started with 50mg and I'm up to about 175mg a night. I don't really sleep too well on this drug, I wake up several times a night. A little grogginess in the morning, but it wears off. This drug has a very short half life, so I don't understand the chronic day time drowsiness people commonly complain about. I'll give the drug another week, if things don't better I'll dump it and attempt to let my brain work this out on it's own. This drug is not nearly as evil as people make it out to be | M | 33 | 8 days | 4/4/2007 | 1 | Bi Polar, Anxiety, Depression | Brain Splitting in two halfs. Slept for 22 hours out of the day. Passed Out on regular basis when awake. Paralyzed legs and body. Thinking thoughts but could not make my body move. | F | 29 | 2 months | 4/4/2007 | 1 | bio polar | Extreme drowsiness. day time sedation | I started taking this in 2001 and at first it knocked me out so bad i could not even move after taking it. I have gained weight. It is bad for my liver. I have decided to stop taking it, so I began to taper off fromm 200 mg to 100 then 75 then 50 then 25. This is my 6th day of cold turky and I have not slept very good at all. I am used to being knocke out each night when I take it thou i never had insomnia before taking it seroquel has caused isomnia. I have not been able to get to sleep now until the early morning hours and have been getting 4 to maybe 6 hours of light sleep. I am detirmined to get this out of my system. I have some flu~like symptms such as sneezing, coughing, aches, and alot of itchiness all over. | F | 46 | 6 years | 4/4/2007 | 5 | anxiety, insomnia, depression | Initial daytime drowsiness that resolved after a week or so. Have had to titrate up a couple of times, but am still at only 250mg. | no weight gain!!! | M | 40 | 3 years | 4/2/2007 | 1 | Doctor thought I was Bi Polar, | I'm not. I have Aspergers Syndrome (AS). I took this "devil in a bottle" in 2005 for 2 weeks only. I was a ZOMBIE. I am a student and I couldn't THINK critically. I couldn't drive. I couldn't DO anything. I was good for nothing! I was a vegtable. I gained about 10 pounds in 2 weeks. DON'T TAKE THIS!!!! | I hate this drug. My doctor tryed to put me back on this thing too when I went to talk to him about Aspergers Syndrome in Feb of 2007. (I did my research on AS for 2 months and tryed to tell him that I had it). He didn't listen to me. He prescribed 25mg of Seroquel to me last Feb. Last time, he prescribed 100mg to me in 2005. I told my doctor that it raised trigliceride levels and HE is the one that wants to me lower those trigliceride levels to 150. (Mine was 188 in 2005). My doctor just doesn't get it. He thinks Seroquel is the answer to everyone's problem. It's not. I am not psychotic or how ever you spell that word. Aspergers Syndrome can appear to be Bi Polar. But what my doctor didn't know is that I get upset when things ARE NOT FAIR or when my routine is disturbed!!! I don't need any anti-phychotic drug. Klonopin words well for me and I DON'T take Klonopin everyday. I only take it about 2 times a week and ONLY when I feel that I need it. (When I drive I need it). I do get a li | F | 31 | 2 weeks | 4/2/2007 | 1 | Doctor thought I was Bi Polar, | Conintued--I do get a little sleepy with Klonopin but at least I can drive! Seroquel is THE DEVIL. I couldn't drive or think when I was on it. I told a coworker about me and Seroquel, and she understood why I couldn't get up at 4:30 to be at work by 5:45am. email me about anything in this post. | I have been on Zoloft 100mg since 2003 and I think Zoloft is great for depression. No side effects. You don't need an anti-phychotic medication. Just take Zolfot + Klonopin. Oh and Seroquel will make you sleep for about 10 hours a night. When you work for a living, most get 6-8 hours a sleep a night. Due to my work schedule in '05, I couldn't take any Seroquel-not even a lick since I had to be at work at 5:45am. If you do have a job-you won't be going in anytime soon! Believe me-you will either be very late (due to over sleeping) or you wont go in at all! | F | 31 | 2 weeks | 4/2/2007 | 1 | INSOMNIA | Horrible...i went to bed and woke up the next morning sick and trowing up i had to call in to work, 50 mg i would not recommend this to anyone | this is not a med for insomnia it is for schizophrenia and bipolar 1 disorder! | F | 20 | 1 days | 4/1/2007 | 1 | Bipolar mania | Brain death--could not think my way out of a paper bag. Zombie-like constant sleepiness. Hideous nightmares. Rage/anger and depression. Enormous appetite, weight gain. Acne. Withdrawal problems. | This med is toxic waste! It was supposed to even out my mania, but what it did was steamroll my brain. I couldn't understand anything I read or any verbal instructions people gave me, constantly made mistakes at work, couldn't remember anything. I also had horrid bad dreams that repeated over and over again all night, something I never had before this med. It got to the point I didn't even want to go to bed because I knew it would just be an all-night horror show. I walked around all day in a stupor--I'm not sure I was ever in fact awake the whole time I was on the medication. The only way I can say it helped my mania is because I was too tripped out to care that I was manic. Then the rage set in. I would lose control and go berserk about everything--when my purse fell over the seat of my car, I threw it across the car 12 times and broke a bunch of CD's before I even realized how insane I'd become. Then I started to get depressed on top of that. It made me eat constantly, and I put on | F | 44 | 3 months | 4/1/2007 | 5 | Mayjor depression bipolar schiz Ins | First time i took em i liked it. Made me feel dizy like i was high. sex drive is down. i as well noticed that it dont have much energy. But i tend to get up and take a jog. Thats why people are getting fat off it.. Because they sleep to much on it. Im 174 and i tend to keep it low. My depression and mood swings are finnaly going away. At times i feel there not working so i think imma get a higher dose. | There good... i really like them. Just a reminder, if you dont want to gain weight just get up and go for a walk/jog. dont be such a bum. I love to help people, as well helps me with my problems. ok im a bit drugged now | M | 18 | 20 days | 3/28/2007 | 5 | BP | Tired, a little weight gain and dry mouth. | WORKS GREAT for anxiety and my mood swings. At first was taking too low of dose just tired but still felt a little edgy and now got to recommended dose of 300mg 1x at night and I have backed it up an hour if felt groggy in the AM the day before. Great trade off too get my life back. | M | 40 | 60 days | 3/27/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Weight gain! | A new psychiatrist prescribed this for me 1 year ago to replace Ambien; I had admitted that on Ambien I was half-conciously eating and almost falling down several times in my kitchen. Positives: Seroquel made me very sleepy in a nice, cozy way. It also left me calmer by day and enhanced the effect of my antidepressant (Effexor) adding another "layer of protection" against depression and anxiety. I was on the lowest dosage (25 mg) but even so, 2 or 3 months in I begain to gain weight. I had lost 31 lbs over the past year (on purpose) and was very pleased about that. And then WHAM! A delayed but very pronounced gain of about 5 lbs per month until I had regained ALL of that weight and more. Had I known wt.gain was such a big risk I NEVER would have touched the stuff. This is NOT an innocent med to be casually prescribed off label. Certainly not as a sleep aid! And especially if you have ever struggled with weight issues before. | F | 42 | 4 months | 3/26/2007 | 1 | insomnia | I was prescribed this medication for insomnia, after taking ambien cr for 30 days. I took 100mg, had terrible restless leg syndrome (am taking requip for that), was up all night walking up and down the hall, fell asleep about 5 am and woke up at 8 am with a terrible "hangover" feeling and unable to think or function very well. Would not recommend this medication for insomnia. It was the night from hell. Going to give ambien another try. | F | 34 | 1 days | 3/23/2007 | 4 | Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder | Weight gain, restless legs, hyperhydrosis/ heat intolorance, slurred speech | I have used this drug for 5 years with great results and bad side effects. It does wonders for anxiety and mood stabalization. I have taken as littlt as 300mg a day to 1600mg a day. Side effects definately worsen with higher doses. | F | 26 | 5 years | 3/22/2007 | 3 | OCD | Seroquel does work. Its important to let you know that it brought my OCD to a total halt along with Luvox but it killed my sex drive. My wife is hot and for a month that I was on it I didn't have any thoughts or desire to have sex. After seeing my shrink today I am going off it for that reason. | M | 31 | 30 days | 3/22/2007 | 2 | Bipolar II, alcoholism | I was perscribed 50mg at night to curb a hypomanic episode and have been taking it for 5 weeks. Now I'm going to start tapering off of it because even at this low dose I've gained around 7 pounds despite cutting back on calories, absolutely need 9-11 hours of sleep to function and am groggy and lethargic all day. Also problems with nightmares, sugar cravings, constipation, restless legs, etc. Abnormal blood and liver tests as well. | Do not drink when on this medication! I've never been sicker. | F | 28 | 5 weeks | 3/22/2007 | 3 | Bipolar/Manic-Depressive(Mixed Stat | OK on the goodside i feel calm and relaxed (a feeling I am not used to) but on the bad side I have gained 70lbs. It does not help my sleeplessness (I still get up 3-5 times a night) and I sleep eat. I have uncontrollable movements of my legs/arms and sometimes very alarming time swallowing(scary, i mean scary) | My Dosage is 600mg at bedtime. I also take 900mg of lithium, 40mg of Inderal, 100mg of ultram, 400mg Ibuprophen, and 81mg of Aspirin all at bedtime (I still take some of these others + Nexium in the morning) | M | 8 months | 3/21/2007 |