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 |
| 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 | 3 | Bipolar | took 200 morning 200 night. Couldn't stay awake during the day. even 25 knocks me out. Don't complain at night... Love to be able to sleep. Otherwise other conditions anxiety keeps me awake. Stuffy nose after taking it??? anyone else??? Feel sky high for about 30 min then out like a light. Good for people that don't want to live much.. I refuse to take it in the morning time.. Would just be a vampire the rest of my life... | M | 28 | 4 years | 1/4/2007 | 2 | Insomnia, bpd | Lethargy, weight gain, muscle weakness, twitching | It worked for my mind but my body paid the price. I cannot deal with the weakness and lethargy due to the fact i am an athlete. I also will not tolerate the weight gain. | F | 23 | 5 days | 1/4/2007 | 1 | bipolar I | Very aggitated. Very groggy, unstable. Suicidal and angry, restless with no energy. I was really scared about how I felt while trying this medication. | I read many positive things about this drug on this website, so I thought it would be a good replacement for Zyprexa as Seroquel has less weight gain risk, but I would rather be fat and happy, than skinnier and a complete basket case. | M | 47 | 5 days | 1/2/2007 | 5 | bipolar disorder | none..which is why i love it. NO...correction...it makes me very, very tired. That did get better with time, but I'm on a med that helps with that in the a.m.....so I don't even notice it now... | first bipolar med I've taken that doesn't make me stupid | F | 39 | 20 months | 1/1/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | Massive weight gain, eventual loss of self, cold desperation,zombified. I would warn people to be careful with this drug because it will become your master and you it's slave. | 8 years i've been on this and while it semmed helpful at first, I've become a fat lazy toad lying on the couch watching the world go by in a zombie state | M | 31 | 8 years | 12/30/2006 | 4 | insomnia due to mania | rapid weight gain--I've taken LOTS of drugs where weight gain was a major problem for other people but not a problem for me. Then came Seroquel and I "grew" out of my clothes almost too fast to find bigger ones | Very much helped the racing thoughts and let me sleep but I stopped taking it because of the weight gain | F | 46 | 4 weeks | 12/29/2006 | 2 | Insomnia | None that I know of | A psychiatrist specializing in sleep studies prescribed 50mg of Seroquel before bed. It doesn't even come close to making me sleepy. I lay awake all night, and if it wasn't for a hot tub and several glasses of wine I would never sleep. Maybe I need a stronger dose. I am 6'4" and weigh about 230 lbs. | M | 55 | 3 weeks | 12/28/2006 | 1 | Panic Attack - High Anxiety | ABSOLUTELY THE WORST MEDICATIION THAT I HAVE EVER TAKEN. DO NOT TAKE. Restless Legs; Tremendous Hallucinations; Had to crawl on hands & knees to go to bathroom; Over Relaxed my muscles to a point where my old-dislocated shoulders were pulling themselves out of there sockets while laying down; increased panic attacks for short time; and Over-slept (uncomfortably) off and on for 2 days. Very groggy for 48 hours. Later, I felt my kidneys having a hard time processing medication. | Would not recommend. Zombie. Laziness and increased eating. | M | 40 | 5 days | 12/28/2006 | 4 | bipolar | extreme sleepiness (or just feeling high as ever.), dry mouth, difficulty swallowing, panic/anxiety, stuffy nose, difficulty breathing, difficulty walking, zombie-like. | seroquel has worked marvelously for treating bipolar disorder, however i'm not so sure if the side-effects are worth it. i'm actually terrified to take it some times, because of how strongly it affects me-- when i can't breathe well and i'm trying to sleep, i panic. when i can't swallow food, i panic. then, some days it has absolutely no affect on me at all and i will be awake until 2 in the morning; it's ridiculous. i hate the dependency on it to sleep, and i do not like that i feel as though i have zero control over my own body. | F | 18 | 3 months | 12/27/2006 | 1 | Sleep | Over eating like a hog urinating my bed every night not reccomended!!! | Was on 900 mg a night got all the way up to 456 pounds back to 350 in 9 months dont take it | M | 28 | 6 months | 12/27/2006 | 2 | Insomnia, over-sensitivity, stress | A drunk feeling and bad quality sleep. Difficulty to wake up. Groggy feeling all day. Greasy skin. And maybe other things, who knows?! | A word of warning! I was taking Seroquel at night 25 mg and then 25 mg on waking up after five hours. I wasn't sure it was reducing my anxious feelings but I did get a sleepy feeling from it. I was, HOWEVER, also taking other medicines to help me sleep (zopiclone, a cousin of benzoes, at first and then tematsepam, a benzo, and Somadril, a muscle relaxant, for a while because the zopiclone didn't seem to work effectively anymore). After 7 months I had to taper off on the strong sedatives as I had grown tolerant to them. That's when I noticed that Seroquel actually produced really bad quality sleep! No matter how many hours I slept I kept feeling underslept. The situation was only stabilized when I cut down on Seroquel and started on zopiclone again. Now I use about 25 mg per night only. I wouldn't recommend more than that. | F | 40 | 8 months | 12/26/2006 | 2 | On going off all my other medecines EXCEPT Seroquel I realized the quality of sleep was rapidly decreasing and I was going crazy from not ever feeling rested! Eyes hurting and tension from lack of decent, deep sleep. Even with sleepingpills the quality is better. | I forgot to mention in my earlier statement that I used to be on Zopiclone as wELL as amitripyline on the same time that I was taking Seroquel in the night time to help me slepp. So when I tapered off all the others expect Seroquel the bad quality of sleep showed up. I went off amitriptyline because a doc wanted I try cymbalta, but it was poison to me so I went back on amitriptyline and doubled the dose. It's supposed to better the quality of sleep and reduce pain a bit, so I suggest you take that rather than seroquel! I know the docs say a lot of bullshit about the safety of seroquel but I'm sure it's more slyer than any of the straightforward and maybe old and proven sedatives! | F | 40 | 8 months | 12/26/2006 | 5 | gifted | I heard that president Bush's airforce one pilot takes seroquel. It really help's him fly the world's most important man safely, across the globe. He keeps it in his side pocket, and as soon as he's stat's seeing things he pops a few hundred mg's. Definitely a wicked drug, I'd reccomend it for the entire human race. If everyone took it, there'd be no wars because everyone would be sleeping or eatting all the time. I think scientists should try to geneticaly engineer this molecule into the human body permanently. It makes average people feel like their alive for once in their life. Take it before dinner, take it while with friends, and give some to the kids. You know serouqel will only make them better, and never worse. Props to astrazeneca and teh monkies which got the first chance to test it out. | M | 19 | | 12/25/2006 |