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 | anxiety | It did relax me, but my reactions were severly delayed. My speech was slurred. I also got leg cramps while on the medication. | F | 16 | 2 weeks | 4/18/2007 | 4 | PTSD, Sleep Disorder | The side effects I’m currently experiencing are: feeling tired during the day and difficulties concentratin. | Due to PTSD, I sleep very little and awake often resulting in 2-years of sleepless nights. Without question, the Seroquel has helped significantly with sleep to include remaining asleep throughout the night. My wife states, I move very little and have been snoring which is a relief to her knowing that I’m finally getting some rest. I don’t awake during the night to screams and images in my mind which we both are grateful for. I’m concerned about long-time usage and the difficulties I’ve experienced in concentrating. The benefits currently outweigh the side effects and I’ll closely monitor changes with my doctor to determine ongoing treatment. | M | 39 | 8 days | 4/17/2007 | 1 | Anxiety, Depression | Extreme tiredness, blurred vision, blocking of the thought process, racing heartbeat, legs feel numb and lifeless. My entire body was weak and I felt as though I was a walking zombie 24/7. The other people on this site that said the same thing I totally agree with you, this medication is horrible and should not be used for people who just have every day anxiety and depression. | I was prescribed 50mg to start at bedtime then increase to 100mg. I never got to the 100mg. I totally regret taking this medication, the only thing it was good for was to help me fall asleep at night. Other than that I felt lifeless and I felt as though I had no motivation, no strength. I could barely go to work every day. I'm already stopping to take this medication after only being on it 5 days. | M | 23 | 5 days | 4/16/2007 | 2 | misdiagnosed bi polar | I am free of this crap and feel fine. | It has been over two weeks since I stopped taking Seroquel, my constant companion for six years, and I am free. The liver detox itching stopped , and I am now sleeping 7~8 hours on my own; waking up around 8am and functioning normally. I don't have that seroquel drag hangover that stays with you all day either any more. I feel clean and not toxic. This was my personal experience with it and if you like it then keep taking it. I did for over 6 years. | F | 46 | 6 years | 4/13/2007 | 5 | Insomnia(anxeity) | Other then being knocked out cold within 30 minutes of taking it the first week, I've had few (unwarranted) side effects. | Used to have intermitant bouts of insomnia, where I wouldn't sleep or only sleep for 3-4 hours a night for up to a week at a time. Works wonders for insomnia caused by anxeity, have always fallen asleep within a hour after taking 50-150mg. No more racing thoughts, upset stomach, etc.. At a lower dose I will ocasionally wakeup in the middle of the night. Never have had such regular good sleep. Even better is not having withdrawls if I don't feel the need to take it. Now if only I can get off the f***ing klonopin the doc previously started me on. | M | 17 | 1 months | 4/12/2007 | 1 | anxiety and sleeping disorder | I haven't had side effects because I have pill phobia but I know I need to take my meds but after reading this site it just scared me even more. | I know I need help can anybody suggest to me what to do I suffer from paranoia and am afraid to tell the psychiatrist that I have an issue taking pills while on meds years back I attempted to kill myself three times what Can I do? | F | 37 | | 4/11/2007 | 1 | Bipolar Type I | Drowsiness, Lethargic. Would probably be wrapped around a pole if I continue on it. | I talked with my psychiatrist and explained my situation. I stated that the medicine conflicts with my schedule seeing as how I work full-time (starting at 5 am) and I attend school at night. I told her that I fall asleep at the wheel and I can't complete my tasks at work, and forget about studying for school. She said I need to take the dose perscribed and if I don't like that I should get another Dr.....is that even ethnical? | F | 30 | 2 months | 4/11/2007 | 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 |