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 |
| 1 | Insomnia | severe weight gain; blurred vision; Tardive dyskinesia; urinary frequency; lowered blood pressure; lucid dreaming | Horrible drug. I gained 25 pounds on it. And while on it supposedly for sleep, I had severe urinary frequency which meant I was up various times in the night - so much for an undisturbed sleep. The blurred vision was really scary and what made me ultimately demand to go off Seroquel. A horror of a drug. | F | 42 | 6 months 75 1X day | 2/29/2016 | 2 | Depression anxiety disorders | Trouble breathing rhinitis sinusitis possible onset of asthma weight gain somnolence anxiety Breathing is my issue with this, add in all the side effects that people typically say too. I'm not glossing over on purpose or making light on purpose. It's just the breathing after 3 years never improved especially on its own. | Inability to breathe after taking it the first forty five minutes are hell it feels like airway collapse but they kept insisting "your alive to make Otto your PSYC appointment, so let's work through the side effect" "if you stopped breathing in the middle of the night, you would not be here for this appointment " I'm not sure what to say to that! | F | 31 | 3 years 250 | 2/26/2016 | 4 | Sleep | It's helped me sleep. Sometimes I wake up and take a Benadryl to kick it back in. I think I am somewhat overall calmer with it 24/7. I don't need as many Xanax etc. | Hope it remains helpful. | F | 56 | 3 weeks 100 mg. | 2/19/2016 | 3 | Insomnia | First few days I slept extremely well. But I went through a long weekend (3 days) unaware of time or place and avoiding social contact unconsciously. The effect was very strong, a zombie like effect. Forgot to exercise, ate a lot of ice cream, both bad for me. Especially bad since I have high TG anyway and should stay away from carbs. Somehow it seemed not to matter if I ate a tub of ice cream a day. Nothing mattered. I tried to take it only some days, but then couldn't sleep. In the end I went back to just not sleeping at night. I sleep during the day, have an evening job which is "morning" for my body. Hey whatever, I learned to adjust. | Lots of people are saying headache. I think I understand why. I have migraines and they are affected most by my blood pressure which needs to stay low. Somehow this was pushing my blood pressure up, giving me a constant headache and tinnitus. It did have some great side effects like, my gut calmed down and stopped constipating by being uptight. My heavy periods became perfectly normal. It was almost worth it to stay on it just for that, except for the headache which was a deal breaker. | F | 46 | 2 weeks 25mg 1X day | 1/20/2016 | 5 | schizoaffective disorder/bipolar | First few months, very tired; but that passed, and now I feel very well with minimal side effects. | I have been prescribed many different antipsychotics, and I feel that Seroquel is the best and safest so far. | M | 66 | 800mg 2X day | 1/9/2016 | 4 | Bipolar | Make me a little drowsy when I first take it | Iits fine for me! | M | 56 | 6 years 100 | 1/6/2016 | 1 | Bipolar | Fast & uncontrollable weight gain, endless hunger | I took Seroquel 10 years ago when I was a lab rat for Astra Zeneca. I was young & naive and thought they knew what they were doing. I was 105 lbs when I started taking this and was up to 120lbs in just 3 months. My hunger would not cease. Round the clock I was so hungry. It was terrible. I'm not sure if it worked for my bipolar as I only took it for 3 months, but it wasn't worth it. The withdrawal symptoms were hell. Not as hellish as Effexor withdrawal but really bad. I was sick for 2 weeks after Astra Zeneca took me completely off this horrible drug. | F | 38 | 3 months 300 | 12/30/2015 | 1 | Bipolar | OK short term, very bad long term. Experienced stiffness, complete lack of empathy and compassion, extreme exhaustion, total disinterest in everything, suicidal thinking, tardive dyskinesia,lack of emotion and a seething depression. | Withdrawal from this drug is hell on earth!! Do not stop cold turkey! Even reducing slowly I have experienced terrible rebound insomnia, sickness, itching and irritability. | F | 53 | 10 years 400 1X day | 12/18/2015 | 4 | insomnia | The main one is that I get joint pain or like an ache in my left elbow and knee, starting one hour after I take it at night, and lasting for an hour. Can't sleep till it goes away. It comes on, spikes to an intense level, then goes away for 10-15 seconds. Anybody have any ideas how to deal with this? | M | 60 | 2 years 300mg 1X day | 12/4/2015 | 4 | Bipolar and depression | Joint pain, dry mouth, difficulty waking up. | Seroquel works fine and I never had any problems with it except for the joint pain that won't go away. But strangely they don't list joint pain as a side effect at all. Wondering if anyone else has been taking it for more than 6 months and has experienced joint pain as well. | F | 30 | 2 years 200 | 12/2/2015 | 3 | Bipolar | Even when I take a lower dose it's hard to get up in the morning. If I don't take it I don't sleep at all. Weight gain . I have never been so thirsty in my life. Don't want to be sociable coz I don't like explaining my illness | F | 30 | 2 years 100 -75 | 11/27/2015 | 3 | Depression, anxiety and BPD | Massive red/purple spots appear all over body, especially face, weight gain, and swollen legs. | It helps me sleep, and seems to help a little. | F | 24 | 1 years | 11/22/2015 | 4 | Insomnia | Only 4 days but works great. Does what it was supposed to do. | All this idiots who report strange side effects after one day are bogus. You can tell by the way the reviews are written. Ignore them | M | 59 | 4 days 50mg | 11/14/2015 | 3 | Initial dizziness, dry mouth, cravings for sugary food which is why I nicknamed this drug "Sugarquel" rapid weight gain, sluggishness, et al. | The medicine, along with Trazodone 150 mg tabs and Clonazepam (Klonopin) 0.5mg tabs initially would knock me out cold, but now they seem to take longer idk why. Otherwise its a good medication. | F | 56 | 10 years 300 mg at | 11/13/2015 | 3 | Bipolar (cyclothymic) | extreme tiredness, stiffness | the weight problem goes off with time passing. the fatigue doesn't. I am currently on a 225 mg at nighttime. Kind of habit now, I get used to it. Best way is to move swiftly with 25 mg pills, ea from 200 to 225 then back to 200, 175 etc... But all the "mental" side effects are weakening (vivid dreams, vision double, sore eyes...) | M | 53 | 8 years 225 mg 1X day | 11/13/2015 Patient History | 1 | Insomnia, mild depression | Zombie like, spacy, could not do normal daily chores, could not focus | Do not take!!!!!!!! | M | 67 | 2 days | 10/18/2015 | 1 | belief of a prexisting diagnsis | Heart heavy n very hard to swallow walk. Masturbated so much. Miserable existence. Loss of years of truly getting to know who i was the list goes on | Just dont take it. Usually a mental or physical problem is caused by unresolved issues. | M | 26 | 1 days forgot | 10/16/2015 | 1 | Bipolar 2 & insomnia | fatigue, restlessness, vivid stress dreams, total lack of interest in sex, erectile dysfunction, feeling emotionally null, foggy mind on waking and getting worse throughout the day, next to impossible to wake up and get out of bed. | So hard to get any quality of sleep with bipolar. Thought this was the solution, first night I was out like a light. Every night after that just left me drowsy, irritated, foggy and restless and when I did eventually get to sleep I was tormented with stress dreams. Rock and a hard place with these medications. | M | 35 | 1 years 250 | 10/7/2015 | 2 | For sleep | Only worked for a couple nights in a row. Got anxious in daytime. Zyprexa works better. | M | 63 | 30 days 50 MG 1X day | 9/27/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | Constipation (go to the bathroom about once or twice a week), weight gain/fat increase (15-20 pounds), daytime fatigue, increased sun sensitivity (huge increase in moles, freckles, and sun spots even with VERY minimal sun exposure) | Unacceptable weight gain. Mostly FAT gain around my stomach area. Me and my family are naturally thin but now I look TERRIBLE, and I did NOT change my healthy eating habits...in fact, I ate LESS. Gained 3-4 inches on waist eating ONLY between 900 and 1800 calories most days (usually about 1200 a day). Sun sensitivity has given me white spots all over my body (dermatologist says from the sun) and a TON of new ugly moles. Weird thing is I avoid the sun like the plague now but I STILL get new moles. Only while on seroquel. This drug is the devil. Avoid it at all costs unless you are seriously schizophrenic!!! It is also dreadful to try to get off of. | F | 29 | 1 years 12.5-25mg | 9/2/2015 |