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 |
| 4 | bipolar disorder | gained 75 pounds in two years. At first I was unaware as to why I was gaining weight. It was complex. Two weeks after starting this med I had two massive pulmonary emboli. I do not know if there is any causal connection to the pulmonary emboli other than I became more sedintary than ever. I have tried to not think about that. The weight gain became more obvious when I started trying to reduce my caloric intake along with continuing my physical therepy. Its been almost impossible to lose the weight that I have gained while still taking the medication. | This medication should never be given to someone who is already suffering from any obesity/weight issues. | F | 34 | 2 years | 1/21/2007 | 4 | Depression | Weight gain major. I went from 118 to 175. It was easy. I ate the refridgerator. | Worked well. Sleep well at first and then not as well after a while although still sleeping better than before. I am now trying to taper off, and it is the pits. The Dr. cut me back by only 50 mg and I am easy to anger, easy to cry, and getting depressed. | F | 55 | 2 days | 1/21/2007 | 3 | Major Depression | Eating all the food in the house. Weight gain. Missing work because I can't get up in the morning. High blood pressure - I have never had high blood pressure. Combative mood at work. General feeling of anger. | Started taking around 75mg. Went to 200mg - about got fired from work - didn't even know that I was looking for a fight, until someone stated that I was angry all the time. I'm not like this. As I have stated - I have gained weight and have cut the dose back to 50mg. Seems to help alittle but really want to get off this stuff - only thing is - it does help me sleep. | F | 53 | 10 months | 1/21/2007 | 2 | psychosis, depersonalization | extreme drowsiness, listlessness, apathy, poor memory functioning, feelings of lifelessness and vacancy | Not too keen on this med. Started on it two and a half weeks ago, after stopping Risperdal. First "day" on it, slept for 36 hours straight (a small break for breakfast aside). Initially, helped me get rest. I had been waking up five to six times a night with anxiety and feelings of desperation. Now, feels like prison bars on my mind. Trapped, no escape. Listless, listless, listless. I pace a lot. I get bored with pacing. I lay down. I get bored with laying down. I pace some more. I get tired of pacing. I lay down again. Get bored with laying down again. Try to sleep, but am bored with sleeping. No, actually afraid to sleep, for no particular reason. Perhaps afraid of never waking up. Trapped feelings. More pacing. Get bored with pacing. Basically, bored with being bored. Bored with feeling like a lifeless husk. This is mostly the med. When I don't take it (skip dose), life starts returning, mind and focus and personality and alertness start return | M | 32 | 3 weeks | 1/21/2007 | 2 | psychosis, depersonalization | extreme drowsiness, listlessness, apathy, poor memory functioning, feelings of lifelessness and vacancy | Not too keen on this med. Started on it two and a half weeks ago, after stopping Risperdal. First "day" on it, slept for 36 hours straight (a small break for breakfast aside). Initially, helped me get rest. I had been waking up five to six times a night with anxiety and feelings of desperation. Now, feels like prison bars on my mind. Trapped, no escape. Listless, listless, listless. I pace a lot. I get bored with pacing. I lay down. I get bored with laying down. I pace some more. I get tired of pacing. I lay down again. Get bored with laying down again. Try to sleep, but am bored with sleeping. No, actually afraid to sleep, for no particular reason. Perhaps afraid of never waking up. Trapped feelings. More pacing. Get bored with pacing. Basically, bored with being bored. Bored with feeling like a lifeless husk. This is mostly the med. When I don't take it (skip dose), life starts returning, mind and focus and personality and alertness start return | M | 32 | 3 weeks | 1/21/2007 | 3 | depression/bipolar | knocked me out, not sure if it really did anything but that. | i started taking this and had to stop because it caused fainting the second day. three times in a row! that may have just been because it was my first few times taking it, but my doctor said i better stop. the being able to sleep was great while it lasted though. | F | 19 | 3 days | 1/20/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Tingling in hands and arms. Not enough to really bother me. Weight gain. | My doctor gave it to me for insomnia. I have taken 225gms with Ambien and still can't go to sleep. It may knock everyone else out, but it does nothing for me. | M | 55 | 1.5 months | 1/19/2007 | 5 | Bipolar -Mixed | I was suddenly staying in bed 10 hours and when I woke up I ate everything in sight. But I have a calm inner space . Anxiety is gone and feel being gentle with the world | The seroqul's effect was quick | F | 40 | 3 months | 1/17/2007 | 2 | Panic disorder | Weight Gain, hallucinations | This med does not seem to be helping my panic at all, we're tapering it off. Can't wait to start losing that weight. I an worried that the panic will return, even so. | F | 45 | 5 months | 1/17/2007 | 1 | for night time sleep aid | I HOPE YOU GOT OFF THOSE ILLEGAL DRUGS | AND I HOPE YOUR STILL OFF THEM, THERE NO GOOD... BEEN THERE DONE THAT GOT THE VIDEO | F | | 1/17/2007 | 5 | Abnormal Space cadet | none | this drug put me back on planet earth from space and beyound | F | 32 | 3 days | 1/13/2007 | 3 | BI POLAR | WEIGHT GAIN INCREASED HUNGER EATING EVERYTHING INCREASED AGITATION | ITS A GOOD DRUG IF U WANT SLEEP BESIDES THAT NO GOOD | M | 26 | 2 months | 1/13/2007 | 1 | MDD, OCD, anxiety | Went to my psychiatrist today and he confirmed side affects (weight gain, fatigue, lethargy) I described below WERE related to Seroquel. Off the medication for one day now after dosing-down for almost 2 weeks (100mg to 50 to 25). | I posted the comment just before this. Although getting off this medicine has been hard, I'm glad I'm doing it. My doctor said I should have it out of my system by next week. Right now, we're sticking with the Cymbalta at same dose until we see how being off Seroquel for awhile does. I've managed the withdrawal side affects with xanax to help curb panic and anxiety and taken Benadryl to help with the itchiness. Still, stopping this medication is NOT PLEASANT! During the first couple of days of dosing down, I thought I needed to be in the psych ward again! | F | 43 | 2 years | 1/9/2007 | 5 | Anxiety/insomnia | none | Great med for panic attacks and insomnia. | F | 45 | 1 years | 1/8/2007 | 5 | Anxiety/insomnia | none | Great med for panic attacks and insomnia. | F | 45 | 1 years | 1/8/2007 | 5 | anxiety and insomnia | Right before I would fall asleep, I would have the munchies similar to my experience in the past with marijuana. One night, I ate a whole toblerone candy bar in bed before I went to sleep. One morning I woke up and had been sleeping all night in a box of chocalte chip cookies. I felt like it was really affecting my blood sugar and seemed to blur my vision. | I really love this drug. I was able to sleep through the night for the first time in years and years and I think it helped with my depression. I recently went off of it and I'm having a difficult time sleeping, I'll fall asleep okay and sleep well and then be stuck wide awake around 1:30 in the morning and cant sleep for 3 hours. My doctor wants me to use Ambien, but AMbien doesnt work for me at all. | F | 38 | 6 weeks | 1/8/2007 | 1 | Depression, OCD, anxiety | Weight gain! Lethargic all day even though took only at night (100mg). Dry mouth. Chronic constipation with severe cramping. Trouble concentrating and focusing. When missing a dose, terrible itching all over. Stopping this medication is also a nightmare! Even with tapering off, I've had heart-jumping-out-of-your-chest panic, extreme anxiety and agitation, fainting, reslessness, bad headache, flu-like symptoms. | Although this SEEMED to help me when I first started it, it is hell now! Yes, it helps with sleep but as a higher dose was needed as my toleration to it increased, it has caused nothing but problems. I have a small child and run a small business and the zombie feeling is intolerable. I found I want to sleep all the time. When I want to do something, I don't have the energy to finish it or am so exhausted that I just want to crash. Constipation major problem too. Have had IBS for many years but diahhrea was always main symptom and I became problem-free for a long time. With this, constipation became such a problem, IBS is back and now I'm on even more medication to manage that and afraid to eat anything. I'm tapering off of this now (from 100mg to 50 to 25 now and then no more!). The side affects from tapering are so bad I have had to increase my use of xanax just to manage the panic and anxiety until I'm finally off this crap. I've been on a littany of meds for the many years | F | 43 | 2 years | 1/7/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | First I was given 50mg for sleep. No sleep. Then I was given 100mg plus 25mg elavil for sleep plus 1mg of Xanax, and still no sleep. I am sitting here at 3am ready to go out of my mind. I have been taking this for a month and have gained 10 lbs. | I keep reading comments about how this knocks people out. I don't understand why I am so different. I could go sit in the hot tub and drink three or four glasses of wine and sleep, but the doctor says no tot drink the wine. I think the wine would be healthier than all of these chemicals. | M | 55 | 1 days | 1/6/2007 | 5 | Bi-Polar | Not sure that I have had any other then having a hard time waking up. | I had a real hard time sleeping at night. Went to sleep fine but always woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep. Ended up waking the wife up and she got all crabby with me. Started taking the Seroquel and now I can sleep all night and my wife is happy because I'm now not talking all night to her. I'm taking too many medications so I told the wife that I was thinking about going off of Seroquel. Her first question was can I increase my life insurance. Then she called back and said 'honey, I've been thinking about getting a hand-gun permit. YOUR NOT GOING OF THE SEROQUEL. So much for me being the man of the house. | M | 55 | 150 days | 1/4/2007 | 4 | anxiety | Seroquel makes me very sleepy. I've been on it for about two months, and need about 10 hours of sleep every night. It can take me up to an hour to get out of bed after I wake up. Other than this, no side effects. | F | 29 | 2 months | 1/4/2007 |