SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1505 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Abnormal Space cadet | none | this drug put me back on planet earth from space and beyound | F | 32 | 3 days | 1/13/2007 | 5 | Anxiety/insomnia | none | Great med for panic attacks and insomnia. | F | 45 | 1 years | 1/8/2007 | 5 | Anxiety/insomnia | none | Great med for panic attacks and insomnia. | F | 45 | 1 years | 1/8/2007 | 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 | Not sure that I have had any other then having a hard time waking up. | I had a real hard time sleeping at night. Went to sleep fine but always woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep. Ended up waking the wife up and she got all crabby with me. Started taking the Seroquel and now I can sleep all night and my wife is happy because I'm now not talking all night to her. I'm taking too many medications so I told the wife that I was thinking about going off of Seroquel. Her first question was can I increase my life insurance. Then she called back and said 'honey, I've been thinking about getting a hand-gun permit. YOUR NOT GOING OF THE SEROQUEL. So much for me being the man of the house. | M | 55 | 150 days | 1/4/2007 | 5 | bipolar disorder | none..which is why i love it. NO...correction...it makes me very, very tired. That did get better with time, but I'm on a med that helps with that in the a.m.....so I don't even notice it now... | first bipolar med I've taken that doesn't make me stupid | F | 39 | 20 months | 1/1/2007 | 5 | gifted | I heard that president Bush's airforce one pilot takes seroquel. It really help's him fly the world's most important man safely, across the globe. He keeps it in his side pocket, and as soon as he's stat's seeing things he pops a few hundred mg's. Definitely a wicked drug, I'd reccomend it for the entire human race. If everyone took it, there'd be no wars because everyone would be sleeping or eatting all the time. I think scientists should try to geneticaly engineer this molecule into the human body permanently. It makes average people feel like their alive for once in their life. Take it before dinner, take it while with friends, and give some to the kids. You know serouqel will only make them better, and never worse. Props to astrazeneca and teh monkies which got the first chance to test it out. | M | 19 | | 12/25/2006 | 5 | Bipolar--mixed episode | Weight gain (in just 7 days!), muscle soreness (has anyone else experienced this?), lethargy, increased appetite (I want to eat everything in sight!), I am doing well except for the weight gain--I lost 60lbs in the past couple of years from drug side effects and I don't want to gain it all back again. I don't want the depression of weight gain in my life. Any ideas? I am thinking of getting back onto Weight Watchers, but with the mixed episode and the lingering depression at this time, I just don't think I have the energy left. I also don't have clothes to wear if I gain weight--I got rid of all my bigger clothes. Help! Any ideas? | suicidal thoughts are gone, sex drive is still good, i love that I can sleep again (I do wake in the middle of the night, but I can fall back asleep with few problems), I don't hate everyone anymore (decrease anxiety and irritability), increased concentration and cognitive functioning (I actually can make a joke again and I know that means that I am doing better because my brain in processing information at a good speed--not too quick), I don't dread the words that come out of my mouth such as "shut up you stupid idiot!" (while people may need to hear this, I now am beginning to feel that I have a "ego filter" for my id again!). I am currently taking Lamictal 300mg, Seroquel 100mg, Klonopin 3mg. I was on Klonopin and Lamictal only for 2 and 1/2 years and was doing great and then in the past month I became manic/depressed again and on the verge of psychosis--I started getting paranoid which has never happened before. Please keep talking because I feel alone in this a | F | 35 | 7 days | 12/24/2006 | 5 | bipolar II | Sleep 10 hours a day; hard to wake up; a little spacey; gaining a few pounds | I love this drug! It really works for my bipolarity. Everything has calmed down. I used to take Ambien and Lunesta for sleep, but now I don't need to. I take 100mg every other day, and 50mg every other day. This way I'm not so spaced out in the morning (well, afternoon!). I'm gaining some weight, but I didn't know that this drug makes you hungry until I did some research. So, I'm going to just watch my diet and get to the gym. | F | 36 | 3 months | 12/17/2006 | 5 | Bi-Polar II / Anxiety | Only on 75mg/day - feel bloated, gained a few pounds, but I think the weight gain has Plateaued. Felt my metabolism shift into low-gear when I first started taking it. Been on it for about a month, if I gain anymore, I will cut back even more than the 100mg/day the doctor initially prescribed. More diet and excercise will be the rule for the time being - we'll see | I can't say how much this medication has brought me back down to earth. I'm also on 100mg Lamicatal. Lamictal took me out of depression - but also took me too high. (especially with coffee...turned me into the great corn-holio). Seroqel "quelled" the racing thoughts and gave me a good nights sleep. Why does there always have to be a trade-off with medications? You either do well physically without, but suffer mentally - or you take the meds, feel well menatally, but pudge out! If these med-researchers ever figure out the metabolism/weight gain/endocrine problems, they would hit the jack-pot!!! GET IT RIGHT DOCS...but still...Seroquel is a mental life saver for me. | M | 30 days | 11/28/2006 | 5 | Bi-Polar | Weight gain. | Have been on Seroquel for over one year. Gained 45lbs. But with diet and excercise I have lost 35lbs. and still losing. Life saver for me. This med is the best I have taken. I took Effexor XR 150mg for three years but my Doctor at the time misdiagnosed me. My new Doctor has me on Trileptal 300mg, Lamictal 100mg, Seroquel 600mg and Klonopin 1mg. I have never felt better. | M | 43 | 1 years | 11/27/2006 | 5 | | 11/27/2006 | 5 | major depression, severe anxiety | a little bit groggy, pounding headache at first, nothing major. | LOVE IT! MELTS ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AWAY FOR ME. I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO SSRI'S AGAIN! SEX LIFE IS BACK, I CAN SLEEP AND I CAN FUNCTION THROUGHOUT THE DAY WITHOUT PANIC. SO IM A LITTLE GROGGY, NOT BOTHERSOME ENOUGH TO STOP THIS MIRACLE MED. WHO DOESNT FORGET A THING OR 2 NOW AND AGAIN??? I HAVE A 3 YEAR OLD AND 1 YEAR OLD AND A WAITRESSING JOB SO ITS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO KEEP UP AND KEEP A CLEAR MIND. SOMETIMES ITS MIND OVER MATTER THOUGH. SIDE EFFECTS EVENTUALLY SUBSIDE. GIVE MEDS A CHANCE TO DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO B4 U WRITE THEM OFF. DONT BLAME EVERY PROBLEM YOUR HAVING ON THE MED, U WILL BELIEVE WHATEVER U SET YOUR MIND TO. | F | 29 | 1 months | 11/24/2006 | 5 | Bipolar 1 sleep deprivation | zombie in the morning, dry mouth, restless legs | I take 800 mg in addition to Topomax, Abilify, Temazapam, Xanax to sleep through the night, sometimes I sleep a full 6-8 hours, other nights, I'm awake after three hours, although I'm very foggy (kinda of like sleep walking). I tried going off the meds twice and became suicidal both times. I've gained approx. 15 lbs, but at least I feel normal and I can sleep most nights. In the morning, I'm very lethargic, don't really know whats going on, It takes me a good hour to get up and moving (coffee helps). Going off meds because you don't think you need them is not a good idea for any of us posting here, I think we all know that! | F | 37 | 1 years | 11/23/2006 | 5 | Rapid Cyc Bipolar/Sleep Deprivation | Weight Gain, 15 lbs in 3 weeks. Other than the weight gain, this medicine is great. It will knock you out in no time, especially when you first start taking it, so be prepared to hit the bed, don't think about driving. It made me sleep and stopped the rapid thoughts, suicidal thoughts and I actually felt "normal", whatever that is! | The doctors were more concerned with my sleep deprivation, so I take 800 mg Seroquel, 30 mg Temazapam, 10 mg Xanax, 50 mg of Topomax. The topomax is used for migraines and bipolar, I have read that it works great for rapid cyclers so my doctor let me go back on it, and the best part, when I started taking it after I qained the 15 lbs from the Seroquel, I lost most all of the weight and am still losing. Plus I can actually sleep all night long (6-8) hours, with the receipe above. | F | 36 | 4 months | 11/12/2006 | 5 | Unipolar Disorder | My foot flips like thumper the rabbit on the movie "Bambi" about 30 minutes after I take it. It takes 3 hours to ejaculate. I`m tired, but I don`t give a shit. I feel high as hell and I get the muchies for Life cereal, but atleast I don`t feel like stabbing the neighbor`s dog anymore. | Seroquel is an awesome drug! Great job scientists! | M | 29 | 420 days | 11/10/2006 | 5 | ocd (obsessions only), Asperger's | weight-gain of 45lbs. from low of 105lbs.(during my ruminative depression) Previous normal weight ranged from 135 to 155lbs over the years on a 5'5" frame. Sleepiness when waking up; some groginess over the morning, which is combatted with coffee where I presently work. Cholesterol went from 160 two years ago to 239 at present: was that from weight gain or the seroquel itself? | After trying lamictal (& other antipsychotics for my obsessions, over the years), I must say that seroquel, at 200mg at bedtime, has virtually eliminated my ruminative depression over the loss of my last job, as well as other obsessions. In fact, I haven't had to go to any OCD support group meetings since I have been on seroquel. I'm still somewhat slow, but I'm less distracted, and not sad. I also take WellbutrinXL(300mg), and EffexorXR(75mg) in the AM. P.S: the prozac I had been on for 10yrs since my husband died finally "pooped out", and it never did help me stop obsessing as well as the Seroquel has. | F | 57 | 10 months | 11/6/2006 | 5 | bipolar II - depression, psychosis | extreme sleepiness | Only been on it a short time, but after a year of swings and roundabouts on Effexor XR and valproate, this has been a miracle drug for me. It has banished the white noise from my head, and allowed me to smile, talk, walk properly. I have no psychosis any more and use the sleepiness to get a good night's sleep. However it does seem to wear off by late in the day. | F | 33 | 3 days | 10/29/2006 | 5 | Nightmares, disturbed sleep, PTSD | Slight groggyness on waking & sometimes daytime lethargy if taken too late; and fewer than 8-9 hours sleep has been had. Elevated cholesterol levels. | I take Propranolol for anxiety (PTSD) during the day & 100mg Seroquel at bedtime to maintain sleep and stop nightmares. I love this med. It feels like more natural sleep patterns. Feeling tired and dropping off within 30 minutes to an hour of taking it. Staying asleep all night & even having normal REM dream sleep - pleasant dreams & no more nightmares. :) | F | 35 | 2 weeks | 10/18/2006 | 5 | Paranoid Ideation | Drowsiness, muscle twitching, anxiety when it wore off | This is the shit! It ROCKS for sleep - I can sleep eight hours a night no problem. | M | 58 | 14 days | 10/12/2006 |