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 |
| 1 | Depression | Worked great at first but made me into a total bitch after a few weeks of taking it. Gives me back and leg pains as well as headaches. Menstral cycle is off. Severe mood swings. I didn't want to do ANYTHING except sit around and daydream. | It may work for some, but I'm not one of the lucky ones. | F | 24 | 3 weeks | 4/15/2006 | 4 | somnolence. hard to move around. unmotivated. | M | 47 | 3 months | 4/11/2006 | 3 | Bipolar | Massive weight gain- 40lbs in 5 months. Feel like a zombie within an hour of taking each dose. Makes me jittery once I'm done being sleepy. | It helped my mania but now I'm more depressed than ever before because I've gotten so fat. Very counterproductive. | F | 36 | 6 months | 4/8/2006 | 5 | Couldn't sleep at night/mood swings | weight gain | it works for me i now can sleep at night | F | 16 | 1 days | 4/6/2006 | 5 | oops down | oops down | 16 | 1 years | 4/6/2006 | 3 | depersonalization, major depression | Fatigue (major), feeling terrible emotionally and physically soon after taking dose, stuffy nose, drowsiness, sleeping long nights easily (14hrs+), major difficulty in getting up after 7-8hrs sleep (need WAY more), changes in sleep | Seroquel has helped reduce depersonalization (feeling of loss of identity for me) very much in my case. Currently I'm on 400mg a day but have taken 500mg earlier. I simply MUST take the whole dose in the evening because it makes me so tired AND I really feel like crap emotionally after taking it. Sometimes Ive missed a dose or taken only half because I was supposed to get up early. This is not a good idea as my symptoms have worsened. Now I think of taking my meds as top priority, it's more important to take them than making it to school on time. Ive never had insomnia in my life but now it seems that I need Seroquel to sleep. I believe Seroquel also makes my sleep much deeper. When I go to bed I often dont feel like Im falling asleep as much as falling UNCONSCIOUS. Many times in the past (while delirious from exhaustion) Ive been worried that I might not wake up in the morning, because it feels Im going somewhere very deep. Having said all this I must conclude: Seroquel has helped and | F | 23 | 3 years | 4/6/2006 | 1 | Bipolar Depression | nightmares when dose was too high, grogginess | I got so addicted to this medication that I couldn't sleep without it. The only reason I was taking it was so I could sleep, but it made me so sleepy that I couldn't get to school on time, and ended up dropping my two morning classes. I was then tired all day and would fall asleep in class or in the car. When the dose was too high, it caused horrible nightmares. After I stopped taking it, I was able to get to sleep on my own in about 2 weeks and sleep a lot better. | F | 18 | 4 years | 4/1/2006 | 5 | Bipolar 2, racing, primary insomnia | At 25mg (past 9 months) causes high quality sleep which is a desired side-effect; at 50mg (past one week) frequent urination | With the insomnia cured at 25mg this has been nothing short of a God-send. Moving to 50mg elevated previously flat mood upon waking. Also take Lamictal 100mg. | M | 30 | 9 months | 3/31/2006 | 5 | bi-polar disorder, chronic insomnia | i sleep walk and sleep eat, i get temporary amnesia and my memory is effected but the positives of being guaranteed a good nights sleep well over comes the side effects and i am careful to keep food in the house that is healthy, andi exercise, so a happy medium has been found and restored a great deal of sanity to my life. | i've been watching the shows about ambien and if there was a friviilous lawsuit of the year, those people are class examples. they do NOT now how a chronic insomniac lives and the side effects are MILD compared to what we have faced and will face each night in that insomniac prison.......... | F | 45 | 4 years | 3/26/2006 | 1 | Bipolar depression-manic episode | After taking 25mg., I went to walk my dog and had to stop moving from fatigue, muscle pain and what seemed to be blurred vision. As I increased the dosage to 150MG everything went worse: appettite increase, problems standing up, slurred speech & and phrases that meant nothing, zombie-like feelings, numbness, increase in urination, severe memory and concentration problems, lethargic. | After a pretty bad manic episode I was prescribed Seroquel as an addition to the medications mix I have been taken for my disorder during the past 3 years. Seroquel should not be taken unless you suffer drom severe insomnia and/or anxiety disorders. Forget it. | M | 42 | 9 days | 3/26/2006 | 5 | Bipolar 1 w/Psychosis | Weight gain (120lb. In 2.5 years), tremors | This medication was a lifesaver!!! I was lithium for 3 years before seroquel as well as other anti psychotic and anti depression drugs that made me extremely ill, this other drugs also made me feel useless and it bothered my ability to study, this was a major problem due to my college class schedule. | M | 26 | 2.5 years | 3/25/2006 | 1 | severe manic depression, insomnia | state of being paralyzed, muscle spasms, involuntary movements, lost in my own little world | I would so NOT recomment this to anyone. It felt like I was paralyzed and had no control over any motor skills. I couldn't think straight. Still even now my arm will jerk, or my leg, or my shoulder. Everything and anything. People have to ask me what is wrong with me. Seroqual. For the manufacturer..... thank you. I lost my husband, he was 33 years old and he died in my arms 5 months ago. So I say thank you for adding to my problems and severe grief. | F | 34 | 1 months | 3/25/2006 | 4 | Anorexia/Insomnia/Depression/SI | drowsiness when taken in the morning, escalating tolerance that requires increased dosaged periodically, slight tremors in the hands | Seroquel really helps me sleep. It also helps control my obsessions and compulsion with my anorexia. It also helps curb by urges to self-harm. The down side is that I have to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night, which is hard for a college student; I also have to have my dosage increased periodically in order for it took keep its effectiveness on my insomnia. | F | 20 | 3 years | 3/23/2006 | 2 | bipolar rapid cycling/mixed episode | I didn't ascribe the weight gain (10 lbs) to seroquel until I read this board. Dizziness, physical imbalance, crankiness, sleep too much or wake up groggy and can't go back to sleep. Searching/struggling for words on a consistent basis (I have a very high IQ and teach as well as work in customer service) and this makes me feel like a DOPE. Pdoc says, "oh, that happens to EVERYONE when they get older." OK, I am FORTY two, not NINETY two... Brain moves slowly. Motor movement is affected, I am sometimes klutzy. I have had two car accidents (not my fault) and several close calls, ALL on the RIGHT side. Coincidence?? My vision is sometimes blurred. I used to be 20/10, now 20/20. Some days I'm fine, probably about 60% of the time I feel functional and able to perform my job and interact with others at optimal level. Currently taking 3 20 mg tabs of seroquel at night (used to sleep with 2, but now even 3 doesn't do it). Now I can't fall asleep at night, wake up during night, | I was prescribed seroquel for insomnia by a doctor who would nod, say "mm hm", and write the same prescriptions without regard for my comments. I wanted a happy sleepy pill, he gives me an anti-psychotic. Went a new office, GREAT therapist, new pdoc. More attentive than the "mm hm" guy, makes you think he is listening, then prescribes how he wants to anyway. I asked to be taken off seroquel, explain side effects. So pdoc decides seroquel will be the BASE of my treatment! Sick of being treated like a child, bringing my fiance next time. Pdoc says it hasn't been proven that seroquel causes diabetes. Then says, "if you take good care of yourself, you will have to take some pills (FOR DIABETES)in your 60s. If you don't,you will be taking pills in your 40s & 50s" So he says it doesn't cause diabetes, then tells me it WILL, no matter WHAT I do? Also, on last seroquel scrip pdoc wrote 2 a day, have been on 3 for almost a year. Had to call pharmacy, have him w | F | 42 | 2 years | 3/20/2006 | 5 | severe PMS, anxiety | No unpleasant side effects. Knocks me out at night. | Works wonders for me. Really helps with obsessive thoughs and I think it helped my depression too. | F | 27 | 3 years | 3/18/2006 | 1 | for night time sleep aid | I experienced the crazyest side effects, I can not explain how crazy it made me feel, but I will do my best. I was perscribed 100mg of seroquel at bed time when I was a patient at a rehab center. When I first started to take it I experienced very vived dreams thats I could remember very clearly. I could only sleep for 5 hrs at a time and once awake would toss and turn like crazy for the remainder of the night. I did not reailze that it was side affects of the medication because I was coming off of drugs and thought it was a withdrawl symptom. When I was done with the program I was prescribed a perscription of 30 100mg seroquel. I took them aS directed and still felt the same symptoms as before but more intense. It wasent untill I was half way done with the bottle to realize that the crazy feelings I was having was seroqel side effects. The more intense affects where the feeling of being menteley insane. I felt like I was actually going crazy. I would curl up in a ball fetal possition a | crazy drug made me actually go insane | M | 20 | 30 days | 3/16/2006 | 3 | insomnia | I find that I feel very hung over in the mornings. I have had problems with body tremors and very vivid dreams, sometimes disturbing. My doctor assures me that these side effects will diminish, but after five months I still have these issues. I am sleeping better but I wonder if the pros are worth the cons. | M | 45 | 5 months | 3/15/2006 | 4 | PTSD/Depression | Same as everyone...weird dreams, groggy for about an hour in the morning and some weight gain. No loss of hair--I'll have to watch that one. One weird one that I would be interested in hearing is not just blurry vision, but sever double vision for about two or three hours in the morning. Also get some nice cases of "Jimmy Legs" at night for a few hours sometimes where they both twitch and kind of freaked out. Lastly the urination thing is a pain...at first I thought it was enlarged prostate but in reading here its likely the seroquel. It hits me at weird times, but in the middle of the night is the worst as I have to literally feel my way in the dark to the bathroom holding onto the walls. | I am very sensitive to medication, so I guess I have every symptom that you can have with this. I take 200mg a night and am lowering it to 100mg. I take Lamictal with it too so the interaction may be what is doing all of this | M | 41 | 60 days | 3/13/2006 | 5 | Insomnia & anxiety with depression | A little tired in the morning, but that went away after the first week or so. | I've been clinically depressed for years. I'm taking 50 mg of Prozac, and developed insomnia after several years---no trouble falling asleep, then wake up at 2 am and never get back to sleep. Was exhausted all the time. New doctor added 25 mg of Seroquel at bedtime, and it has worked beautifully--I get a full night's sleep. Sometimes I'm a little groggy in the am, but once I'm up and about it's gone. My mind is clearer, my bad moods are gone. I think it's a great supplement to Prozac for depression and insomnia. | F | 50 | 43 days | 3/12/2006 | 2 | Depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia | Drowsiness, strange dreams, obtrusive thoughts, incapacitation during the night. | Have been taking 25mg nightly for about a month, and was previously on Dothiepin/Prothiadin. Seroquel has helped with the anxiety, but hasn't treated the depression and lack of sex drive. As far as side effects go (both short and long term), I think the tricyclic antidepressants are better. | M | 25 | 30 days | 3/10/2006 |