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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | insomnia/bipolar | It has been the only med. that really made me sleep all the way through the night I take 700mg and it puts me to sleep about 45 minutes later and I never feel drowsy in the morning. I haven't gained any weight or had any bad side effects | F | 19 | 1 months | 10/19/2004 | 4 | Delusions | fatique, nasal congestion, mild eps twitches sometimes, low blood pressure, unusual and bizarre dreams that I remember all the time, increased sweating. I take 200 mg daily. | Seroquel does work for me and at a suprisingly low dose. This drug is extremely sedating probably more so than any other of the anti-psychotics, so I take the bulk of my dose at night. When I take my heavy dose at night (usually 125-175mg), sometimes I will get stiff muscles, difficulty swallowing, and I always get very tired and congested. | M | 19 | 1.5 years | 4/20/2006 | 4 | Bipolar 1/Gen. Anxiety Disorder | excessive sleeping, could sleep 12+ hours. withdrawl symptoms are terrible! | This drug has been amazing. I also suffer from insomnia; and Seroquel, along with the Depakote puts me into a nice REM sleep. I'm easily affected by even the slightest change in dose though, which can throw off my sleeping pattern. Just make sure you don't take it too late or are taking too high of a mg at night time because it will knock you out. | F | 19 | 4 months | 1/9/2010 | 3 | Schizophrenia | Restless while being incredibly tired. Muscle spasms which subsided after 6 months.Sleep hangover. Excessive sleepiness. | This was added to my Remeron, Risperdal, and Topamax. I had to be given Cogentin to counteract the side effects. It works great for my illness but the side effects make it too much to bear sometimes. | F | 19 | 1 years 300 XR | 6/6/2015 | 3 | bipolar and insomnia | extreme groginess in the morning, sleep walking (acording to my boyfriend), exhausted while awake, and feeling impared while driving in the morning | I've been on seroquel for several years and I've started to realize that my sleep issues are probably do to it. It takes a couple hours for me to hear my alarm clock or a phone ringing right by my head. My boyfriend has noticed me thrashing in my sleep and getting up walking around several times in the middle of the night. When driving after waking up I don't feel in control of my truck. In high school I would have to slap myself on the way to sdchool so I didn't fall asleep while driving. On days that I can sleep in I will sleep 12 -16 hours and wake up, still feeling exhausted during the day. Seroquel has helped wiht moods but I'm not sure if the side effects are worth the reward | F | 19 | 4 years | 6/21/2009 | 3 | Bipolar/antidepressant/skitzo | more depression, drowsiness, dry mouth, loss of appetite | I was put on it for my Bipolar, schizophrenia, depression and my anxiety, but it hasn't seem to help..I'm on 200mg and have been on it for over a month..it just makes me sleep better...:/ | F | 19 | 35 days | 7/26/2009 | 3 | Early onset bipolar and psychosis | I had been diagnosed with bipolar at the age of 14 after having episodes of mania in which I was delirious, in a state of delusional thinking with a dramatic depression relapse lasting 2 weeks after. Part of the reason I started taking this drug after the pyschiatrist telling me to was I had been doing strange unusually risky behaviours withou conscious awareness such as sending weird letters to boys and wearing weird clothes to school and breaking rules. Started on 50mg went up to 100mg and was drowsy for weeks after causing me health problems with my energy levels. When anything stressful came into play I would still lose control of my emotions and had to go see the psyhcitrist again to have another "up the dose" session. Before I knew it I was on 500mg such a strong dose, only benefit was I didn't go into paranoia and psychosis but still had high moods and low mood swings. This drug will affects your brain! I had noticed feeling of lethargy, emptiness in my thinking, eye strain, confusion and headaches when trying to retain information. I felt like it had made me dumb! I felt like I was floating though life as a weight gained tired and lifeless ghost not realising what was going on living for the moment but only because I could remember hardly anything! Apart from this awful feeling as though I was masking out on other young people's non drug experience like they were feeling better than me (and I know I'm not the only one). Being a very creative person I felt my | Apart from feeling so called "normal" and "not manic or depressive" this drug is so powerful it's like a tranquilliser! Get off of you can! You almost lose all passion and interest if everything! It's got a prominent dark side. | F | 19 | 4 years 400mg | 2/6/2017 | 3 | depression/bipolar | knocked me out, not sure if it really did anything but that. | i started taking this and had to stop because it caused fainting the second day. three times in a row! that may have just been because it was my first few times taking it, but my doctor said i better stop. the being able to sleep was great while it lasted though. | F | 19 | 3 days | 1/20/2007 | 3 | Anxiety | Drowsiness, weight gain | In the three years I've been on this medication, I've put on 70 pounds. I'm not a regular exerciser so some of this is on my part, but I'd say probably about 40 or 50 pounds is the fault of Seroquel. I don't eat alot or eat foods high in fat, so I know it's not just me or my metabolism crapped out. I'm planning to get off Seroquel soon. I use it mainly now to go to sleep. | M | 19 | 3 years | 5/7/2006 | 3 | sleep/depression/anxiety | next day drozzyness/ weakness/ sluggishness/ nightmares | other than the side effects its works ok | M | 19 | 2 years | 2/8/2009 | 3 | ocd | drowsiness and insomnia at the same time, severe restless leg syndrome | took only one dose in my life, which was larger than what the doctor prescribed. first effect noticed was an euphoric calm-like feeling after which a state of intense drowsiness followed, also accompanied by insomnia and restless leg syndrome. it was a horrible state as i couldn't do anything because of the drowsiness but couldn't sleep either. | M | 19 | | 1/16/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | Bizarre sleeping patterns, a bottomless pit for a stomach. | My psychiatrist prescribed Seroquel in a last-ditch effort to control my sleeping patterns, which have been off for years. The first night I took it, it worked all right -- I woke up early and not groggy with 50mg. The next night, 50 did nothing. 75mg took a couple hours, but eventually I fell asleep. Since then, it's been a turbulent roller coaster -- sometimes I sleep for 12 hours, while on other nights I don't sleep at all. I'm not even sure if I slept last night; I know I didn't the night before. It hasn't been very long, but I'm concerned about how effective the stuff is. Even when I do take 75mg and become sedated, I still don't sleep -- I sit barely conscious, unable to move but also unable to sleep. | F | 19 | 2 weeks | 3/19/2008 | 2 | Severe Bipolar | WEIGHT GAIN (20+ lbs)lethargy, zombie like feeling, dependance on it to sleep, shaking, visual problems that slowly went away, strange paralysis feeling if i try to stay awake for long after taking it at bedtime. Hair loss and poor overall mood. | Being eating disordered as well as bipolar relly killed me with this drug because within 5 months I had gained a ton of weight and my self esteem hit the floor. I was told by my doctors that I wouldnt gain weight- they lied. I started taking this in the hospital and it helped right away but now I'm trying to get off it as soon as I can. My dose is currently 600mg, I also take paxil (37mg) and lithium (900mg) but nothing is as bad as the seroquel. | F | 19 | 9 months | 4/14/2005 | 2 | bi-polar depression paranoia | terrible withdrawal feeling when not using the drug hangover feeling in the morning, zombie like feeling during the day. | just like what the others said dont take it, it makes you lose your will to live. awful medication. | M | 19 | 16 months | 12/18/2005 | 1 | mood stabilizer | makes me very sleepy. have to take before bed. in the morning i experience shaking and tingling in my body that is unbareable. | this sucks | F | 19 | 1 days | 10/30/2004 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder/Paranoia | This is one of many addictive drugs that are in circulation today with which the effects are completely counterproductive to the problem that you would be attempting to solve by prescribing them. NEVER let anyone tell you that being bipolar is a disorder because it is a GIFT. Mediocre minds work on a scale of good and bad, great minds work on a scale of great and horrible. However difficult this may be for some of you to understand I promise that for every time you feel negative there will be an equal and opposing feeling of positivity if you would just be patient. The purpose of these drugs is not to help you, more so to trap you. In my opinion taking this medecine is just as, if not more damaging to a persons mentality than getting heroin off some street corner, it offers a short term escape route but in the long term it knocks you off track. | I assure you that through a careful recognition of the root of your problems, exercise, healthy diet, vitamin B12, and eliminating from your life people like your psychiatrist will provide for a much more suitable and tolerable approach to a solution. Seroquel much like heroin will only make you even more miserable in the long term and thats if its side effects dont kill you first. DO NOT USE THIS DRUG FOR BIPOLAR. | M | 19 | 2 days | 12/9/2007 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder/ acute psychosis | I experienced about 20 different side effects in the brief time I took this medication. The worst were probably abnormal facial muscle spasms, dizziness/vertigo, confusion, migraines, and feeling really spacey and out of it. | I wouldn't recommend this drug to anyone. It made me feel like crap all day and eventually knocked me out at the end of it. I didn't give it time to control my mania or psychotic symptoms because of the amount of harm that I felt it was causing to my body. | M | 19 | 4 days | 12/9/2007 | 1 | Bipolar disorder/Scizophrenia | Lethargy, loss of interest, over sleeping, memory problems, permanent stutter, permanent shaking, permanent muscle spasms/rigidity, permanent twitching, equilibrium issues, eye titching, occasional black-outs( permanent), constant daily itching. | Started taking it around 12y/o and got off it when I was 16 1/2 y/o. It caused problems at school and in my social/home life(and still does) due to the side effects. My muscle spasms/rigidity are often so bad my legs lock up if I stand/sit for too long and I can't move them AT ALL(they're literally as hard as rocks). Oftentimes my stutter is so bad I have to stop talking because I get so frustrated or people start laughing at me. The twitching is often so bad it wakes me up when I'm sleeping and I tend to unintentionally throw things. The doctors think my "black-outs" are a rare form of epilepsy that was brought on by neurological damage due to being on such a high dose of seroquel for so long. I can't keep a steady job due to the permanent side effects and have trouble in social situations. My advice? If you're taking it, get off it as soon as possible. And if you're not on it? Don't start. Many of the issues I have now due to seroquel are rare or uncommon, but i know if I had another chance I wouldn't even risk it. | M | 19 | 4 years 450 mg | 9/7/2017 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | Seroquel can cause tardive dyskinesia. I was diagnosed with it at 19. It's an unbearable, potentially permanent and disfiguring neurological disorder that destroys lives. I do not recommend it. | F | 19 | 2 years 500 MG | 5/9/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | Severe depression, thoughts of suicide, extreme fatigue, tiredness all throughout the day | Would not recommend using this as a sleep aid; it's not safe. | M | 19 | 10 times | 1/13/2010 |