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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Insomnia, anxiety and depression | Few pounds in weight gain at first but managed to fight them off with Atkins Diet. Sleepiness long after waking up. Dry skin and corns on my baby toe. Slight sexual side-effects. I take 2x25 mg before bedtime. | It's a great anxiety and insomnia killer. However, my depression stayed firmly in place. I'm hoping to lift this by adding 150 mg Wellbutrin SR which I now feel (day 11) is increasing the anxiety again. May be this is only a side effect of Wellbutrin which will pass?? Anyone who can shed some light on this: feel free to e-mail me! | F | 37 | 5 months | 10/1/2005 | 2 | OCD, panic disorder | destroys sleep completely. digestion problems, gave me chronic abdominal pain on my right, which would get worse after food even with low amount of fat, destroys memory and impairs you cognitively. | yes it took care of my ocd very well - instantly. i was on 25 mg-50 mg a day for about 3 months. then it started worsening ocd and panic attacks. i had to reduce my intake and took it as needed. it worked well. even severe ocd episodes were reduced immediately. but as soon as i started taking it regularly again, the adverse effects came back. after about 2 years of using it on and off (3-10 times a month) i developed an almost chronic abdominal pain on my right and jaundice. i went off it for about 6 months and it subsided. however, it destroyed my sleep. i had a very hard time falling asleep and i was waking up every 2 hours. it's next to impossible to get your sleep back after this medication, i tried very hard (excluded all caffeine, tried to maintain good sleep hygiene, etc) never actually got it back completely. even if you do start sleeping a bit better after being off seroquel for many months, taking one 25 mg pill will throw you back to square one. i think when you're on these medications you really should listen to your body more than to your doctor sometimes and you should never ignore pains. yes for some people the benefit outweighs the side effects. but in my case it was replacing one problem with a bunch of others. | F | 37 | 3 years 25-100 MG 1X day | 3/31/2011 | 1 | Anxiety & Depression | Major weight gain...100+ pounds 60% increase in weight! Memory Loss forgetful & black out phases Nausea major Kidney damage | This is the worst drug ever!!!! Spend three months in bed trying to get off this toxic drug. 10 months later at the doctor again for major kidney pain...Gotta love this poison! I'll post later my kidney results in the next two weeks! | M | 37 | 20 months 900 1X day | 10/27/2011 | 1 | Depression | Slurred speech, drunk feeling, made me feel like I was spinning, made me scared, therefore more anxious so did not help with sleep. This drug terrified me!! | I took 25 mg of this last night, which I believe is the lowest dose you can take. I have never felt so weird in my life. Now it is almost 12 hours later, and I am finally feeling normal. Scary drug--please find another option. | F | 37 | 1 days | 1/4/2008 | 1 | anxiety and sleeping disorder | I haven't had side effects because I have pill phobia but I know I need to take my meds but after reading this site it just scared me even more. | I know I need help can anybody suggest to me what to do I suffer from paranoia and am afraid to tell the psychiatrist that I have an issue taking pills while on meds years back I attempted to kill myself three times what Can I do? | F | 37 | | 4/11/2007 | 5 | Anxiety | Weight gain (20 pounds) | This medicine works! I am no longer a slave to anxiety and panic. Peripheral benefits: seroquel cured my insomnia and, surprisingly, menstrual cramping, which I suffered from for years! | F | 38 | 2 years | 6/25/2007 | 5 | schizophrenia | Side effects can be poor quality of sleep, grogginess and irritability througout the day. There is also occasionally a sense of being "Frozen"..not sure how to descibe that.. it's like the energies build up in the head like a mental constipation, to become a palpible pressure. the only real solution is emotional reckoning which has to be found some time or another, or you become a very pitiable thing after a while. | I have grown to like this drug after i decided to start working again. It serves its purpose, helps me to be functional and be acceptably social in the work environment without ever freaking out. that latter is an important part of keeping your job and not offending others. i don't overweat so weight gain has never been a problem with this drug. | M | 38 | 3 years | 10/17/2008 | 5 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | weight gain, dry mouth | Has worked great in eliminating my paranoid thoughts and delusions. However, I've gained 40 lbs. that I can't loose no matter how little I eat. I tapered off Seroquel once, but my paranoid delusions returned, and I ended up having to go back on it to control the delusions. I did loose weight while I was off of Seroquel but gained it back (plus more) when I started taking it again. I'm thinking about trying to come off of Seroquel again, but am worried about the paranoia returning. | F | 38 | 2 years | 12/6/2004 | 5 | prednisone induced psychosis | makes my head hurt and within half an hour I'm asleep | Placed on Seroquel after a BAD reaction to prednisone took about 5 days to start feeling better. Have been on it for 2 months and will soon begin to taper off | M | 38 | 2 months | 10/26/2004 | 5 | Bipolar, anxiety | sleepiness & weight gain | I was taking this several years ago and gained 60 pounds. that was the main vain reason i quit using it. i did lose the weight, though my severe level of anxiety and quick witted anger has taken control of my life. i now take seroquel again 400mg daily along with 3 tranquilizers a day (lorazepam). As i told my doc... living in my brain was like pure hell on a daily basis. At this point, I welcome the lethargic afternoon naps and the dyslexic typing, thank goodness for spellcheck and a very understand loving family. I've already noticed the weight gain again... shooot. but days of normalcy outweigh the extra pants size or two... hell... maybe i'll go up a cup size! lol | F | 38 | 1 months | 1/24/2008 | 5 | anti-psychotic | In the beginning I felt tired. But now after many years, and many different dosages (up to 550 mg a day.) I find it helpful. | F | 38 | 5 years | 2/26/2008 | 5 | sleep aid | after about 3 weeks of use I developed a higher level of anger and hostility towards everyone around me,same thing happened with zoloft. | after an entire 38 years of my life trying to actually be able to sleep like a normal person is able to , this is the first drug that actually works. After my doctor gave it to me I was terrified to take it as I dont have schitzo. Finally after sleeping about 10 hours a week I tried it. ITS A MIRACLE only 25-50 mg. puts me out like nothing iv ever tried. everyday use makes me crabby as hell though so Im using it 2 or 3 times a week and Im now fully rested and happy. | M | 38 | 2 months | 5/21/2006 | 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 | 5 | bi-polar, ptsd, adhd, boderline per | sleeping through the night and sometimes during the day!! THE BIGGEST SIDE EFFECT OF SEREQUEL IS THE 50 LBS WEIGHT GAIN!!!! BUT I LOVE TAKING IT. I HAVEN'T BETTER!!! | F | 38 | 2 years | 3/10/2007 | 5 | bipolar | about five pounds weight gain in two weeks and a little sleepy at first, but it went away. The doctor says that the weight gain may be due to the fact that I feel so much better. Honestly, the weight gain stinks, but I feel so much better. My hubby says the weight gain is well worth the change in my attitude and mood. | the crazy thinking/racing thoughts have just almost stopped and i feel almost normal after just being on the meds for two weeks. I was on Cymbyax for three weeks and did not feel as good as I do after being ont he Seroquel for just two weeks. I take 50mg at night and 25mg in the morning. I also take 500mg Depakote at night, .05mg of Synthroid in the morning | F | 38 | 2 weeks | 7/5/2005 | 5 | BPD/DDNOS | Drowsiness. Extreme drowsiness. Some weight gain. | Seroquel helps me a great deal. My moods have stabilized, I have far fewer hallucinations, I sleep well every night. I do know that I need to go straight to bed after taking it. If I eat ANYTHING after it kicks in, I cannot stop eating until I fall asleep. But that's easy to avoid... | F | 38 | 7 years | 7/28/2009 | 4 | extreme chronic long-term insomnia | won't allow ADHD meds to work, makes me extremely hungry after taking it, causes or worsens depression, Regularly having full body feelings of extreme discomfort w/sick feelings after taking dose, impossible to wake up before noon the following day, cannot fall asleep & stay asleep without taking it, excellerated pounding heart & its rate, sleep eating at times, fast weight gain, withdrawals horrific accompanied with long period of suffering, etc...... | My diagnosis' are PTSD, depression, general anxiety disorder, chronic extreme insomnia, & AD/HD. When I was a preteen, I had the HUGE misfortune of being misdiagnosed as being bipolar. I lived with this stigma up until a couple months ago, when I realized I was not bipolar ever, but had AD/HD since I was a child. Several times while growing up, I was made by my family & psych's to spend time in many psych wards. Nightmare! I was first prescribed Seroquel in 2002 for "bipolar possible psychotic" symptoms. I took it at night & all it did was help me get a good sleep every night. So, that is why I continued taking it nightly up until 2004. I stopped because I had to relocate, and the county's mental illness dept. I was going to for my mental illness' dropped me. Then in 2006, when my daughter was born, I immediately started receiving psych treatment again at the above place, because I suffered extensive postpartum depression. I was put on different cocktails of meds all the time, because none of them helped me what-so-ever. Out of all those many pills, the Seroquel was the only one I chose to keep taking. I divorced that last psych. last year, but I was prescribed 800mg Seroquel to take every night by bedtime, to treat my insomnia for almost 7 yrs. now. It is a blessing for me by helping relax my brain, allowing me to both fall asleep & stay asleep every night. I have been reading all over the web that only very small dosages help insomnia-I believe ar | F | 38 | 7 years 800 MG 1X day | 7/21/2014 | 4 | MAJOR DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, INSOMNIA | Ringing in the ears, Balance problems, Hair Loss, Excessive Night Sweats, Vivid Dreams, Increased cravings for sweets. | 75mg at night I have found it amazingly helpful for insomnia, distorted thinking, Eating Disorder, and anxiety. It is a good adjunct to my other 3 psychiatric meds. The side effects are currently tolerable as the benefits outweigh the deficits. I do have some stubborn belly fat as Seroquel produces cortisol. My appetite is managed by following a strict mealplan with my Nutritionist so it is not from over eating or junking out nor is it from lack of excercise as I go 4-6 times a week. With the above, however, the weight gain has stabilized and I have just the small roll of belly, hip, and thigh fat which I am working on at the gym. | F | 38 | 4 months | 5/17/2006 | 4 | Bipolar Disorder | At first, like many, I had many of the bad side effects, the "Zombie" effects, I would zone out, if I would close my eyes, I would have nightmares in the middle of the day and couldn't think. I had my doc change the whole dosage to just nighttime, before I go to bed, that cleared up the daytime confusion, but for the first couple weeks, I still had very lucid nightmares. I didn't have weight gain (thank god, I had just lost a bunch of weight from a bad Zyprexa experience) Now I get a good 8 hours night sleep, my mood has definitely improved signifigantly, I still occasionally have a bad dream, but not nearly like when I started it. I would recommend hospitalization for when starting this medication to help get your body tritrated up to the proper dosage because of the signifigant side effects, especially if you live alone. When I first came home from the hospital, my wife had to walk me to the bathroom at night after I would take my meds, and would stay up to wake me if I | The docs had started me on dosages in the morning, afternoon, and bedtime, which was keeping me a zombie all day, and I was stuttering, couldn't think clearly, if I would close my eyes, I would start 'soaring' and having very lucid daydreams like I was tripping. I told the doctor that I was unable to function as such and wanted the medicine all in the evening. | M | 38 | 3 months | 9/18/2007 | 4 | bipolar ,anxiety, mind racing, ect. | I have experienced eye twitching, restless leg syndrome realy bad,extreme hair loss,feeling extremely hot when waking in night or amto the point of not being able to move easily. go out in winter in shorts to cool off 10 min. or once I'm up moving around for 10 min. it goes away.at 50- 100 mlg. at 300 mlg, massive head aches. Had to drop back down to 100 mlg. joint pain, head aches once a week lasting 3 days. | This drug works for my anxiety and depression and sleep at night. I take at night so if I don't go right to sleep, or wake within a couple hours I get the late night feeding frenzie, but I don't eat much during the day, so this is probably nutritionally good for me though I have eaten some crazy things at this time and vaguely remember what. I have to go off this med couse of hair loss and twitching, and feeling so old but am scared of other meds too. This takes care of a big portion of my symptoms but causes damage.been on for 2 years. | F | 38 | 2 years | 3/10/2009 |