SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1512 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| 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 | 5 | bi-polar/anxiety/trouble sleeping | The only side effects I have exerienced so far is being tired in the morning, and a little out of it. I have also experienced some trouble concentrating, but I know that is just from my body getting used to this new medicine. | I have been taking Wellbutrin and Trazadone for years (although I came off of trazadone while I was pregnant). After the birth of my daughter, 3 months ago, I started experiencing deep depression. I was crying all the time, for no reason. My doctor put me on seroquel recently. I have been tired in the mornings (taking 100mg tablet at night), but my mind is so much calmer. I do not feel anxious at all, the manic phase of my bi-polar has calmed down (I have rapid bi-polar cycles). Also, as many others on this site, I am sleeping much better (and NOT having nightmares). I have tried over 20 different medications over the years, and this one seems to be working very well, even though it's only been a short time. My advice to anyone nervous about starting this medicine - HAVE A GOOD MIND SET! It is extremely important to go into something new like this with a mind set that you are going to be fine, and that this medicine will work for you. Try not to concentrate on the bad things | F | 34 | 3 days | 3/6/2006 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder, Depression, PTSD | Leg tremors after taking it at bed time, constant groggy feeling during the day that makes it impossible to function or want to do anything other than sleep. Weight gain, LOTS of irritability and crankiness, almost worse than without the medication. | It does help stabilize my mood swings, although it takes away all good feelings and leaves me feeling void of emotions and energy. It definitely decreased the pitfalls of Bipolar Disorder, but it made it almost impossible to feel up or happy or excited about anything, and most certainly made me very cranky. | F | 26 | 3 weeks | 2/28/2006 | 1 | Rapid Cycling Bipolar, PTSD, BPD | EXTREME grogginess upon waking up, stiff jaw, agitation, headaches, makes me sleep for anywhere from 10 to 15 hours at a time, short-term memory loss, insatiable appetite, paranoia, cotton-mouth, lack of interest in any and all sexual activities. But it definantly solved my insomnia, unless I miss a dose. Then it's like the worst manic attack that you can imagine. The energy, oh the energy. | This medicine makes me so groggy in the morning that I litteraly cannot hold my head up or my eyes open or my mouth closed, let alone function! I only take 1/2 of a 25mg tablet! I had lost alot of the depression in the beginning, but now the agitation is worse and I am severly depressed. When the mania hits, it hits so much worse now. Everything seems to be intensified by 10 fold, including my appetite and chronic physical pain. I am definantly going to ask my doctor to take me off of this medicine! | F | 21 | 2 months | 2/28/2006 | 2 | insomnia related to daily migraines | I gained 10 pounds in the first two weeks, which sucked, but it was all water weight. Also, I was ALWAYS hungry. Especially for sweets. But I sure did sleep well, and everything comes at a price, right? The problem that took me off of the drug really quickly was that after we raised my dose to 50 mg I started to have suicidal thoughts whenever my migraines would get bad, which was often. This was not normal, but I kept my worries to myself for quite a while. Finally, I had a bad enough migraine that I knew I had a problem. The thoughts were overwhelming. Luckily, I was clearheaded enough to take myself off of the Seroquel and tell my boyfriend what was going on. After that, I began to hallucinate - I was seeing things, hearing things, "feeling presences" in the room. This went on for an entire weekend, on top of the migraine. When my doctor came into the office the following monday, I told him what was going on, and I was admitted to the hospital. I truly thought I was g | At first, I thought this medication was a godsend - it helped me sleep better than anything else ever has. To this day, I'd give anything to sleep like I did during my time on Seroquel - 20 minutes after taking it, I would be out cold, and I'd sleep for 8-10 hours straight. This is unheard for for me, as every other sleeping pill I've tried has acted as a placebo by comparison. I consider myself lucky if I get 6 hours of sleep a night with high doses of Halcion in my system currently. It's the only other pill I've found that even comes close to working. It's a shame that it all worked out the way it did, and it really depresses me :-( | F | 24 | 2 months | 2/26/2006 | 1 | severe depression, DID, and insomni | extreme weight gain, zombie state, lack of interest in any activity...no amount of exercise or diet helped me lose the weight. I have lately been experienced frequency of urination, night sweats, and weakness. I have been tested for diabetes...the results are not back yet. | I was told by my Psychiatrist that the only side effects were sleepiness and POSSIBLE weight gain. I was not warned of the diabetes risk or other side effects | F | 55 | 1 years | 2/23/2006 | 3 | bipolar 2 and insomnia | weight gain, dry mouth, possible bad taste | F | 49 | 7 months | 2/22/2006 | 5 | Schizophrenia | Sleepiness, Dry mouth. | This drug works better for me than Risperdal or Largactil and with less side effects. I take 450mg a day. I have problems with speech, memory and thinking, There's been a lot of improvement. It's helped with anxiety but the attacks haven't stopped altogether. It also helps with insomnia. | M | 17 | 6 months | 2/21/2006 | 5 | Bipolar, Anxiety, Insomnia | Dry Mouth, Rebound effect if I do not take at least a small dose the next day. | I took Zyprexa for many years, and I cannot say it helped all that much, but if I missed my bedtime dose for any reason , I could not sleep. I stopped the Zyrexa over two years ago and still had really bad insomnia. Seroquel has taken care of that, and I actually have dreams at night again - good dreams, not the nightmares I get from the benzos or Lunesta ! | M | 49 | 3 months | 2/17/2006 | 4 | Bipolar | Extreme weight gain! I went from 126 to 142 in a month and a half. Is this normal?? At first I expirienced feelings of not being able to move my arms and legs once i was in bed. I was on too high of a dose, 300 mg. Now I am on 100 mg at night. | I started taking seroquel in December My doc says that it doesn't cause weight gain, but after reading all the comments I am going to give him a call. I love the med though. I have never slept so well in my life. Plus, the constant crying has stopped almost all together. But, this weight gain is making me very depressed and I don't know if it is worth it. I have changed my diet and have started running every other day and there has been no change. I have actually gained two more pounds since then. Any advise? | F | 32 | 2 months | 2/15/2006 | 3 | Bipolar II,anxiety,insomnia | Increased appetite, strong sugar cravings, eating in the middle of the night, quick weight gain. | I rated my satisfaction a 3 because it does help with what my primary complaint was, insomnia. I'm not sure if its helping my Bipolar, or mood stability, but I do sleep better, excluding the times when I get up in the middle of the night with such a strong craving. | F | 32 | 7 days | 2/13/2006 | 2 | BI-POLAR SCHIZOAFFECTIVE | Loss of coordination. Losing center of gravity and falling down on occassion. Extreme blurred vision. Slurred speech on some mornings as I only take it at bed time. I am on 300Mg currently | M | 32 | 3 months | 2/13/2006 | 1 | bi-polar disorder | Seroquel works at first, but over time it first loses effectiveness, then ends up working against you. | The problem with all of these drugs, seroquel included, is that you're introducing something artificial into a living organism. That living organism, us patients, responds until it can figure out a way around this instrusion. So the problem is that all of these types of medications work at first, but have no long-term value as prescribed. As I get older, my anger and frustration with psychiatrists and drug manufacturers is growing. It's like taking your car to a mechanic, with steam and smoke billowing out from underneath the hood. But the mechanic, for some reason, is some jerk standing there with a blindfold and ear-plugs, and he staggers over, gropes your nuts, pulls on your thumb, grabs your ass, pokes you in the eye, and then says, "Okay, I've made my determination! Take this pill!" It's the language itself that's the problem. When I say "anxiety", for example, I'm not talking about any kind of anxiety that's within their experience. I'm not talking a &q | M | 49 | 1 years | 2/11/2006 | 1 | bi-polar disorder | Seroquel works at first, but over time it first loses effectiveness, then ends up working against you. | The problem with all of these drugs, seroquel included, is that you're introducing something artificial into a living organism. That living organism, us patients, responds until it can figure out a way around this instrusion. So the problem is that all of these types of medications work at first, but have no long-term value as prescribed. As I get older, my anger and frustration with psychiatrists and drug manufacturers is growing. It's like taking your car to a mechanic, with steam and smoke billowing out from underneath the hood. But the mechanic, for some reason, is some jerk standing there with a blindfold and ear-plugs, and he staggers over, gropes your nuts, pulls on your thumb, grabs your ass, pokes you in the eye, and then says, "Okay, I've made my determination! Take this pill!" It's the language itself that's the problem. When I say "anxiety", for example, I'm not talking about any kind of anxiety that's within their experience. I'm not talking a &q | M | 49 | 1 years | 2/11/2006 |