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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Bi-polar disorder | After having taken this large dosage, I began to experience toxicity almost overnight. I had to cut the dose to 600 mg. | This medication has made living possible to me. It has also made me pre-diabetic, and I have gained weight. But I am sane, which has more meaning to me than any of the side effects that I have. | M | 61 | 3 years 1200 1X day | 2/3/2022 | 2 | depression, anxiety, and sleep | Helped sleep but harmed my cognative processes. I thake this, Transodone and Klonopin when I go to bed. I also have sleep apnea and on a CPAP. I have difficulty waking and getting out of bed before 9AM. MY doctors have started me on Provigil to try and wake up more quickly. They still haven't sorted out dosages of this and the other meds. | It makes me feel very tired through the day. | M | 61 | 1 years | 2/28/2009 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | Horrible. I have tried lamictal and abilify. I am 61 years old, had OCD since age 12. Have been taking Prozac with complete success for 25 years. Started crying or feeling eurphoric. All of these meds have made me feel like I am no longer me and I hate it. Seroquel does make me sleep great but I'd rather cry all the time and feel like me than this other person. I feel like I am becoming unconscious. I'm off of these now, too, effective tonight. I believe this is my third bipolar episode. Had one 10 years ago. I started taking 2 Prozac instead of only one and it happened. This time my psychiatrist told me to take 2 again for the depression and constant crying, I told him I couldn't and he told me to do it anyway. Big mistake. Prozac is my "get out of jail free" card, and I won't do without it but the seroquel is horrible for me. I only took 25mg last night. I was perscribed 100mg, then he decreased it to 75. I decreased it to 50, then 25, and now zero. | Makes me feel unlike myself. | F | 61 | 15 days | 1/1/2009 | 1 | depression severe anxiety insomnia | grogy lithagic, gained 30lbs, couldn't remember name,s words etc zombie like the next day, would catch myself not inhaling or exhaling (too relaxed), I still have blurry eyesight occasionally, had hard time reading other peoples experiences with this deadly drug. | I started to feel like my organs were shutting down and I was swelling up. Developed a mass on my adrenal gland luckily my cortisol and hormone levels were normal. They thought I had hypothyroidism and developed nodules on my thyroid luckily no cancer and no hypothyroidim.. I now have to have both checked every 6mos to a year to make sure mass and nodules don't get to 4cc or they will have to operate. I was so knocked out at night didn't realize I was having acid reflux developed 8ccm hiatal hernia with a rare Cameron bleeding ulcer. Lost half my red blood cells 5 count (11 is normal)) had three blood transfusions and was in the hospital for a week I was acute critical and was severly anemic had to take large dosage of iron got my red blood cell count to 10. I am having sergury Monday for hiatal hernia repair and hopefully the Cameron ulcer will get better. I quit taking seroquel cold turkey the first night off of it my mind was racing and couldn't sleep at all sounded like hundreds of voices were talking at once it was horrible. Eventually after 3days I could sleep waking up about every 2 or 3 hrs. My doctor said that I was not suppose to go off it cold turkey and I was lucky I didn't have seizures. Besides side effects listed above I feel much better since I quit that deadly drug. My pysch was angry I went off Seroquel and told me that this will not end well????? Well she was wrong it has ended well , she prescribed me ambien 10mg and I sleep at night and wake up ref | F | 61 | 2 years 300 mg 1X day | 12/6/2017 | 1 | Bipolar | Horrible dry mouth with gagging and hackiing coughs - in the day time and waking up like this at night. | I am also very concerned about hair loss. With the under addressed "dry mouth" gaging/coughing day and night disruptions and disturbancess the "cure" is worse than the illness. | F | 61 | 24 months 200MG 1X day | 11/16/2011 | 1 | To help with sleep but I regret it | Constantly feel in a fog and now it's impossible to sleep without it. | I have tried to stop it and gabapentin but withdrawals are horrendous. Taking both for 12 yrs. | M | 61 | 12 days 400 mg | 4/7/2018 | 1 | Severe long-term depression | Unable to walk around safely during the night due to dizziness. Also was completely dehydrated when I got up to let the dog out during the night. | Let my dog out during the night and was unable to walk outside to get her due to fear of falling. Finally my neighbor stopped and helped. As I was thirsty went to get a drink of water, later that night found myself on the floor having knocked over a lamp and barking my shins. DON'T TAKE THIS if you live ALONE! | F | 61 | 1 days 150 1X day | 4/4/2015 | 1 | insomnia | Extreme anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations. When I finally went to sleep had horrible nightmares. | Will never take this again. | F | 61 | 1 days 50 1X day | 6/16/2015 | 4 | Bi-polar disorder | Slight weight gain, taken in conjunction with lithium. Intense grogginess and some unknown feelings of dread upon awakening. This passes as I arise and move about. I usually sleep at least 12 hours a night. Have been trying to awaken earlier, between 9&10AM by taking the drug at 7PM. Have some excessive muscle movements, and difficulty swallowing at night, which my doctor tells me could be a pre-cursor to Tardive Dyskenesia. I fear that, but am not ready to experiment with any of the newer classes of drugs for this disorder. I have Hyper-lipidemia have decided to take Niaspan (RX Niacin)in liew of statins. Not presently diagnosed with Diabetes, thankfully. | I am a 62 year old female who has suffered with the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder for 40 years. I have a very strong family history of this disorder. The initial manifestation was about 4 months after the birth of my first child. It was in 1970 and was treated as Post Partum Depression. After moving about the country for the first 8 years of the onset of this disorder, I was formally diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder. I was originally treated with major tranqualizors and was started on lithium in combo with antipsychotics and deseryl. In 2005 I moved to another state and my new doctor and I experimented with most of the usual antipsychotic drugs, all with disheartening side effects. About two years ago I was put on Seroquel and have taken as much as 600 mg in combo with smaller doses of lithium. I have recently decreased the dose of Seroquel to 450 mg and 300 mg of lithium. This combination seems to be working well for me and I am grateful for living in a time when these meds are so helpful. Hopefully, one day there will be a cure. | F | 62 | 2 years | 10/23/2009 | 3 | Bi Polar 1 | drowsiness, cognitive fog | I think it helps but I DON'T LIKE IT | M | 62 | 9 months 75mg 1X day | 8/9/2011 | 2 | Insomnia, depression | Somnolence, restless legs, increased risk of diabetes, thyroid suppression. | Added to Wellbutrin for depression and loved being able to sleep, though I didn't notice any improvement in depression (which I have had for 23 years). Cut dose in half to 25 mg due to restless legs. As the result of a routine thyroid test after 5 months, found I was at elevated risk for diabetes (other reviews have mentioned this) and thyroid, which had been fine for years, was suppressed. I weaned off over about a month and thyroid is returning to normal and diabetes marker is lower. I miss the sleep though, and occasionally take one for a night's rest, but am too scared of the other side effects to do more than that. Plus even on 25 mg I get a little sleep "hangover." | F | 62 | 5 months 50mg/25mg | 5/30/2015 | 1 | Bi Polar | Very out of it zombied, Caused my sugar to go out of control and caused me to develop diabetes. Psychiatrist stopped me from taking it immediately upon developing diabetes. | M | 62 | 3 years 200mg 1X day | 6/29/2014 | 1 | For sleep | Extreme weight gain..heightened depression..heightened suicidal thoughts.. extreme anxiety.. anti social.. irritability.. tired all the time.. constipation.. heart attack.. stroke.. kidney disease.. high blood pressure on and on and on | Very dangerous drug that should not be given to anybody | F | 62 | 21 years 100mg | 2/23/2020 | 1 | depressio sleep disorder | With this drug I can not function the next day, I have a foggy mind and feel I just can not move around. | F | 62 | | 5/25/2006 | 1 | insomnia | severe drug hangover the entire next day; took an additional day to wear off completely. | Pysch prescribed 12.5 mg about 1 hr before bed for insomnia. It did not put me to sleep until hours later. Was severely hung over and groggy all next day. This drug was NOT FDA approved for insomnia. A Legal website I visited stated that Astra-Zeneca could face legal problems if were found to be marketing this drug for insomnia, a non-FDA approved use. I would not recommend experimenting with it for this purpose. At my next visit to my shrink, I will tell him how I feel about being used as another guinea pig. | M | 62 | 1 times | 5/6/2008 | 4 | Not sure | Increasing memory loss, everything seems not real, passive and compliant. Lived so long in the Seroquel world, seems impossible to think more than a few thoughts ahead as it all starts to fade and go in circles. | It has been a slow long process to unplug my brain. Now I am paranoid and not sure the medication has done anything to slow or stop the paranoia. I think my doctor is experimenting on me. Has me on klonopin, Seroquel, Temazepam. Now she has added additional 200 mg of Seroquel during the day. Only in the morning for a short time can I seem to think a little of my own thoughts in the fog of Seroquel hangover. I read somewhere these are brain disabling drugs, a chemical lobotomy in a pill form. I hope this is not permanent but the strange part is I don't seem to care anymore if it is. I used to think it weird when whe would smile when she said this will probably make you feel a little funny, don't drive, but you will adjust. What's worse the cure or the disease. | M | 63 | 3 years 600 mg 2X day | 7/26/2015 | 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 | Bipolar | Loss of muscle control and loss of memory | This shit is dangerous!! After taking my bedtime dose, I could not control my muscles. I was unable to lift my legs and arms to get into bed. All I could do was pull a pillow to the floor and then sleep next to my bed until a few hours later when it wore off. Also, I would wake up in the morning and walk into my kitchen to discover that I had been up during the night cooking/frying food, which I had no memory of whatsoever. I was shocked when I saw the mess, not to mention that I could have burned my house down! I gained 15 pounds and haven't been able to lose it since. Worst of all, I went out of town to visit an old friend. I took my pill and have no memory after that. In the morning, my friend told me she had to carry me to bed because I couldn't walk. She thought I was on some kind of illegal drug (I don't do drugs), or I was drunk (I don't drink). I tried to explain the side effects I was having with Seroquel, but apparently she didn't believe me because she hasn't talked to me ever since. Very sad. My doctor said he had never heard of this reaction from his other patients. Seroquel was my worst nightmare. | F | 63 | 12 months ? 1X day | 9/1/2010 | 5 | paranoia | dry and tight sinuses with headaches | well so far I am not complaining. It has helped me . I fall asleep fast but do to my pain I have had for 20 years I awake often but I feel better than taking some potent pain meds.before, but never again. This has helped me have a life compared to being the zombie I was. | F | 64 | 2 months 50 MG 1X day | 2/15/2015 | 4 | For Bi- Poplar disorder. | So far no problem. I am taking Serequel in addition to Trileptal, Paxil, Klonopin and Trazzodone. I am feeling good. It may be helping with my IBS. It may be too early to tell if there are any side effects. | M | 64 | 3 days 50 mg | 7/7/2019 |