SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)

Average Rating: 2.9 (1505 Ratings)

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SEROQUEL  (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE):  This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood conditions (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, sudden episodes of mania or depression associated with bipolar disorder). Quetiapine is known as an anti-psychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. This medication can decrease hallucinations and improve your concentration. It helps you to think more clearly and positively about yourself, feel less nervous, and take a more active part in everyday life. It may also improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level. Quetiapine can help prevent severe mood swings or decrease how often mood swings occur.   FDA Approval Date: 2005-10-04 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 5  skitzophrenia puts me to sleep hard to get out of bed leveled me out completely no more extremes no more halucinations or auditory halucinations i got to keep my job because of this drug M 21 10 months
50 mg 1X day
10/19/2013
 5  Bipolar, anxiety, depression, insom After taking this medication my heart always races. Makes me sleep for 12+ hrs. Also I have noticed that in my hand at the side, the muscle twitched there for about a week. Also now I have noticed my eyelid twitched. So people be careful, as this drug is known to cause tardive dyskinesia. For the past 8 years, I have been dealing with my mental illness by myself, through whatever ways I could fill up "the hole".Drugs, cutting, sex , jumped from relationship to relationship. Now being 21 and on this medication ( 100 mg a night ) Also now drug free and have turned my life around, This medication definitely hels me sleep at night and has balanced out my moods, just have to be careful with drinking and what not. There's still a lot of stuff that brings me down, just like ur avergae person, but Seroquel has controlled the episodes as much as it could. The rest is up to me. It puts my deamons to sleep<3 :) F 21 3 weeks
1/6/2010
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 5  Bipolar i speed excessively and want to eat all the time. Seroquel isn't so bad, i sleep like a baby, and i don't think violent thoughts toward people i don't know. If you can master being hungry all the time, then this drug is amazing. Within the first two months of talking seroquel and zyprexa i put on 30 pounds. After struggling to get into my pants, i decided i'd just have to deal with being a little hungry all day long, its a small sacrifice for its benefits. M 21 3 months
6/26/2007
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 5  Bipolar disorder and sleep disorder Sometimes i get panic attacks and restless leg syndrome. Comes and goes. I would only take for bipolar or other mental problems. Cause its a mood stablizer. Its a good drug when u get passed the occasional side affects. F 21 4 years
200 mg 1X day
9/13/2010
 4  Bipolar, anxiety, BPD, ASPD cant not take it or ill not sleep but dosnt help a lot to sleep weight gain i want to stop but every time i try i cant sleep get agitated worked up agressive anxious i would like to get off seroquel im currently taking the XR 300mg morning and 900mg at night F 21 5 years
1200mg 2X day
3/13/2011
 4  schizoaffective disorder/ bipolar I was first diagnosed with a problem and given Seroguel while I was in a drug rehab. I was a zombie for the first few days. Within a week it didn't make me tired anymore. Within my first month I felt amazingly happy/ content for the first time in my life. I have noticed the sugar cravings, and the weight gain!!!! My god I've gained 30 lbs. I've also noticed I get a heat sensation in the small of my back. For no apparent reason my back will feel like im leaning on a heating pad. It's nothing serious enough for me to discontinue use of Seroquel but it is odd. I do think Seroquel is a miracle pill. It is rather expensive when you start taking high doses, for example I take 500 mg per day. However you cannot put a price on your health and happiness. So it is worth it. F 21 4 months
9/9/2006
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 4  Anxiety / Depression / Insomnia Right after I would wake up I CRAVED sweet food. Chocolate, cinnamon buns, cookies..anything! Seeing how before I took this I was steadily losing weight I was happy with this. I'm finally at a good weight and can control it AND the cravings. Amazing. I can finally sleep! I went years without really sleeping at all or passing out during the day, to actually having a good nights rest. F 21 1 years
1/22/2007
 4  insomnia Unable to walk, talk, or move, but I did sleep for 14 hours straight. M 21 6 months
1/11/2008
 4  OCD, GAD, INSOMNIA None so far, except sleepiness, which I wanted. A lttle dizzy, but overall great. There is such a wide range of likeability with Seroquel. Some people complain that the weight gain was horrible, yet have been taking it for years. That's difficult to comprehend, if it causes weight and health issues, stop taking it. There are always other options. Anyways, I am on 25 mg at night, and it seems to be helping a lot. F 21 5 days
4/3/2009
 4  PTSD, mood stabilizer extreme sleepiness at any dosage over 100mg, and at 100mg I can't move or walk without tripping all over myself. Overall it is good at calming me down (I think) but I had a very disconcerting experience with it recently. I was having a major anxiety attack and took 3 Ativans (lorazepam), and it wasn't doing anything. My psychiatrist told me to take 4 Seroquels (@ 25mg each) and go to bed. Unfortunately, I had a guy friend over and I started babbling about who-knows-what and then found out in the morning from my roommate that I had sex with him. The scary part is that I was to blacked out from the Seroquel I wasn't even aware that I had sex. From now on, I'm not going to hang out with anybody when I take a higher dosage. F 21 1 months
2/22/2005
 4  depression/anxiety drowsiness I have to set two alarms to wake up, but the full night of restful sleep prevents my depression-induced daily naps. I like my low-dose of Seroquel along with Lexapro. I don't really feel zombie-like at all. F 21 3 weeks
10/18/2004
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 4  depression/anxiety drowsiness I have to set two alarms to wake up, but the full night of restful sleep prevents my depression-induced daily naps. I like my low-dose of Seroquel along with Lexapro. I don't really feel zombie-like at all. F 21 3 weeks
10/18/2004
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 4  Bipolar and maybe something else?? Well, I've only been on Seroquel for a few weeks. I'm taking 100mg a night. At first it made my heart beat really fast as soon as I took it, annd it knocked me out for 12 hrs, still does it I take the full thing. I have noticed though that parts of my body twitch?? And this drug also can cause tardive dyskinesia( so guys be carefull ) My hand and fingers twitch, and I have noticed that my eye lid at one point.. So maybe they have to lower my dose? Anyways other then that it balances out my moods but just have to be careful with taking it regularly and drinking etc. Puts my deamons to sleep <3 :) lol F 21 3 weeks
1/6/2010
 3  depression anxiety insomnia etc I experience only at night paranoid like somebody watching over you and like you cant breathe it keeps me up mostly at night from being paranoid and it gives me anxiety but i do work other night with sleep i feel refreshed in the morning i dont feel anxetiy in the morning and im very active in the morning it just at night that will kinda mess with and sometimes i gives you horrible night mare that keeps you awoke but if works different for many people i keep taking and it works for sleep when i dont take it im up if im up all night if i take it i least get 6 hours of sleep if very difficult to explain but if your going through it to your not alone but this will make you very addicted to the medicine so be careful Seroquel does make you sleep dosage over 200 makes you sleep well at night under 200 works for anxetiy be careful with the doseage it can become very addictive F 21 6 years
600 mg
11/2/2016
 3  to sleep and prevent psychosis extreme sleepiness, increased appetite i have to take more than i did at first to be able to sleep, and i have gained some weight F 21 8 months
11/17/2003
 3  insomnia, anxiety sleepyness, also made my head feel a little weird before falling asleep I only took a tiny dose to aid sleeping, but felt drowsy almost the entire following day. F 21 1 months
7/17/2005
 3  bipolar I On higher dose, rapid weight gain (from crazy sweet cravings) and major hair loss. Dry mouth and some confusion. I had been on this medicine at 25 mg dose in the a.m., 100 mg at night, for about 6 years, no problems besides some foggy-headedness. My pdoc took me off of lithobid and trileptal, and put me on lamictal. After about 10 months she increased my lamictal, added lexapro, and upped the seroquel to 200 mg at night. I started having these side effects, and she thought it was the lamictal. Told me to go off and she'd see me in a month! I don't think so! I didn't stop the lamictal, but ran into a snafu with insurance over seroquel. It's the best thing that could have happened. Within a week the cravings stopped and I could see a difference in my scalp! Not getting up in the night for drinks anymore, either. I just figured all this out today. Yay! F 21 7 years
2/21/2009
 3  anxiety, panic, insomnia, BPD terrible memory problems shortly after taking (leaving appliances on, for example, or my contacts in), fluttery heart, panic (counter-intuitive!), drooling, slurred speech, intense cravings, increased libidio, falling, "drunken" feeling, dehydration, hangover-effect, brain-fog lasting 24 hours, chills, inability to concentrate the next day, extreme exhaustion, respiratory symptoms I only take it as-needed, and the smallest dose does me in VERY well. This is the only medication, herbal or prescription or OTC, that I have found that will knock me out. I am pretty well immune to every other drug, even at very high doses (I could pop 4 Ambiens and go on with my night). I do admit this is an incredible drug for insomnia of any kind, though I wonder...if it doesn't destroy sleep quality, as I never fail to wake up miserable after 12.5-25 mg. I tend to need a lot of sleep and feel like I have a cold all the next day. Thus I only take Seroquel if I am either REALLY unable to sleep, or if I have a BPD "episode" or "freak-out." Perfectly-sedating but dangerous. I'll eat everything in the house.. F 21 2 years
4/3/2008
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 3  bipolar 2 At first, I had unexpected rushes of dizziness and I couldn't stay balanced. I wouldn't be able to move my head much at all, otherwise I would get a headache. I will continue to take it until my doctor and I decide if I need to stop. The side effects from first taking it are slowly going away, and I am pleased with the medication so far. F 21 1 weeks
9/12/2007
 3  Bipolar/Anxiety/Paranoia Extreme lethargy if I take during the day so I made it only for night time, makes me sleep right quick. Took my full dose once (300mg), but it caused racing heartbeat (200 BPM+) which fluctuated. Inability to ejaculate a few hours after taking and drymouth. Abnormal vivid dreams, agitation/irritation towards others. Trouble with memory and some incoherence. Slight hallucination (Bug flying around where the was none) and at times increased Paranoia, slight arthritis. Increased appetite after I take, but haven't seen weight gain as of yet. So far Seroquel has been helping my mood but at some expense. My fuse is alot shorter now, and I tend to be snippy and easily annoyed by almost everything around me, alot of the time in the daytime. When I first took it while using Marijuana, It skyrocketed my paranoia to a level where I could no longer function in society. I was scared for my life from some unseen threat for 3 months until I calmed down, and I had only taken the Seroquel for a week before I crashed. I still haven't recovered from that 6 months after taking, but It's almost there. Taking it again to help my mood. And it does, but nothing can help my cognitive process. M 21 2 weeks
8/18/2006

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