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 |
| 4 | insomnia | very hungry, mild trouble waking up. | i am in the army and currently in iraq. i had been having trouble sleeping until i was prescribed this med 100mg. i think it works great! just make sure to keep very physically active or you will gain some weight | F | 26 | 3 months | 11/21/2008 | 4 | Anxiety, Depression | Initially, very sleepy. As I continued taking it weight gain (25-30 lbs on my 6' frame). | It's worked great for me except the weight gain. I take 100 mg right before bed, read for 15-20 minutes and then I'm out like a light. Vivid dreams, but no bad ones. Wake up feeling great. | M | 47 | 3.5 years | 11/20/2008 | 4 | insomnia | spaced out . munchies | personaly i think that seroquel has worked pretty good for me but my fiance says that it has really bad long term side effects. he says that hes known people that have taken it and that there brain pretty much turned to mush. i get kinda worried because i have noticed that i do space out alot and sometimes i dont know how to get thoughts out of my head. like literally my mind is screaming to say something but my mouth just wont figure out how to say it. does anyone know about these long term effects?????? please e-mail me if you have any info about this. | F | 18 | 2 years | 11/19/2008 | 4 | Anxiety, depression | Lethargy, restless legs | Ive recently cut my dose of seroquel down to 25mg from 50mg, and we cut my Remeron in half from 60mg to 30mg. It had to be done because i simply could not function on the higher doses. Would sleep for 10-12 hrs and still have a really hard time getting out of bed and leaving my house. So far so good on the smaller doses. | M | | 11/18/2008 | 4 | Bi-polar II | Restless legs and the first night I had a panic attack, but I think it was from reading too many bad side effect reviews. I psyched myself right into a fright-fest. | This forum has so many horror stories and this drug has been great for me. This has truly helped me balance out my emotions and my life. I do have some grogginess, but after about 3 weeks, it lessened. I sleep great now and before seroquel, I didn't sleep, which was leading me into a world of mania (it was still happy mania, but that's a slippery slope). This may not be for everybody, but for some of us, it is great. I am only on 100 mg, which is low. Also, there has recently been an article on anti-psychotics that people should look up: A Conversation With Nancy C. Andreasen Using Imaging to Look at Changes in the Brain By CLAUDIA DREIFUS New York Times September 16, 2008 | F | 39 | 7 weeks | 11/10/2008 | 4 | PTSD | Weight gain. Fatigue - particularly in the A.M. I have a severely diminished sense of time passing. | It helps with the worry, anxiety and feeling of doom - but at a price. I am on a very low dose but it seems to make me a bit "zoned out" - particularly time just passes without my taking any notice - I just think think to myself: "where did the day/night go? - how did it get to be 11:00 PM?" I've been given a second shot at life - I hate to think of it just passing by without me having the ability to appreciate it. Docs say the Seroquel has less severe side effects than other meds they could give me - it's all a balancing act: the horrors of PTSD or the side effects of the meds. I'll definitely take the sides! | M | 25 | 3 months | 11/8/2008 | 4 | OCD, Insomnia | Strange muscle feelings in legs about 1 hour after taking, hungry more often but no real weight gain due to strict dieting. Drowsiness the next morning. | 200mg sometimes take 250mg, at night only. Also taking 300mg of Luvox which makes me not sleep but 4 hours at a time, this is why the Dr. is giving me the Seroquel. It also helps with my general anxiety and OCD related paranoia. | M | 35 | 5 months | 11/4/2008 | 4 | PTSD, Depression, Anxiety & OCD | Major weight gain, memory loss only enough to annoy me when trying to think of things in the past, feel very groggy in the mornings | Take 300mg before bed. | M | 24 | 3 years | 11/1/2008 | 4 | manic-depression | Weight gain and impossible to lose (all around the middle), increased OCD symptoms greatly. 150 mg. Needed to increase dosage 5 times in 8 months because my mood dropped. | It was the best thing to ever happen to my mood. I gained 30lbs, which I hate but I was underweight to begin. At first the benefits to my mood outweighed the side effects. Then the OCD became unbearable and am utterly frustrated with the weight. With the addition of zoloft it may have been okay. I will definately go back to it if I have issues with lamictal | F | 27 | 8 months | 10/30/2008 | 4 | depression,insomnia, panic &anxiety | Constipation, dry mouth, twitching of legs at times. | This drug just about saved my life. I was in such a bad place and within 2 weeks I seemed to be much more positive and had my life back again. The positives vastly outweighed the negatives for me personally. | F | 56 | 2 months | 10/29/2008 | 4 | insomnia | Sleepiness | No weightgain, i take 100mg before bed and i fall asleep fast and stay asleep, feel great in the morning! i like this drug. be carful not to take other downer drugs with this med. it lowers your heart rate alot. | F | 29 | 2 years | 10/25/2008 | 4 | for antipsychotic preventive effect | sleep | Main positive effect as sleep medication. Found time release very slow for this. Found low dose of tablet chewed very effective sleep aid. Low dose of 50 mg or higher. Wonder if general or family practice physician can prescibe this for sleep or other reasons? | M | 1 years | 10/10/2008 | 4 | Depression, anxiety | Its only been a week but RLS and memory loss are apparent. | Im on 100mg as of right now. I like it minus the RLS which counteracts the sedative properties that seroquel is supposed to give me. Perhaps it will go away in due time. | M | 7 days | 10/3/2008 | 4 | depression/mood swings | day time drowsiness when I first started at 25mg twicwe a day. have learned to take just 25mg 1-2 hours before bed. get mild restless legs some nights but will pass within 10-15 minutes, so when the feeling starts I get up for 5-10 minutes. slows my mind so I can sleep. wake up groggy but that passes within 15-20 minutes as i get on with my routine. enrgy levels increased because I sleep through the night. | so far so good. moods have stabilized....worried about mind racing again if ever doc says I should reduce to nil. | M | 49 | 10 months | 9/22/2008 | 4 | Mood Disorder and Insomnia | Insatiable Hunger | I didn't put weight gain down as a side effect because everyone says I look healthy, the other drugs I'm on probably left me looking too skinny. Anyway, this medicine works great, I take 50mg at night. I've put on some weight, but I was never overweight. The hunger is easy to control, just correct some behaviours. If you take it at night, when you start to get hungry go to sleep, if you can't control that eat something HEALTHY like a salad or soup. No cravings for food during the day at all and no cravings for sugar. My doctor told me up front about the weight gain. | M | 28 | 1 years | 9/20/2008 | 4 | Anxiety/Insomnia | None so far. | Seems to work well on controlling my anxiety without the emotional compression I get from SSRIs. In addition, w/ 50-100mg at night it is the first drug I have ever taken for sleep that didn't stop working after two weeks. I feel like I have much more control in my life. My only complaint is that it doesn't work completely consistently, but I gather that that is because I am more stressed some nights than others. In that case I just take 50mg more and fall asleep. | M | 20 | 1 months | 8/13/2008 | 4 | Unspecified Mood Disorder/Insomnia | Heaviness in legs, sleepiness & a bit of weight gain | I have taken this for coming close to a year now, 200mg once a day, it has helped SO much. I can finally sleep! I've managed to gain 8lbs while on this. The carbohydrate cravings are pretty bad. But it has helped me so much I would never give it up. However the one time I went off of it was HORRIBLE! I was vividly hallucinating. I had experienced hallucinations before but I could always tell that they were just that, these withdrawal hallucinations were too real...and frightening too. I've also noticed that if I don't get enough sleep I get extreme heaviness in my leg the following day. I never had this until I went on Seroquel. | F | 18 | 1 years | 8/12/2008 | 4 | anxiety, OCD | Sleepiness, but it's a good thing. A dazed, hung-over feeling the next day. | I only take it as-needed for anxiety/OCD symptoms (in addition to my regular meds) and I think it's awesome. 12.5 or 25 mg at night leaves me feeling calm, mildly euphoric, and pleasantly sleepy. I try not to take it more than once or twice a week because I fear becoming addicted to it and unable to sleep without it. | F | 27 | 6 months | 8/5/2008 | 4 | insomnia | morning grogginess, so I take it 1-2 hours before bedtime. | When I was first being treated for depression/anxiety, there was no medication that would help me sleep - Ambien, Lunestra, OTC Benadryl, melatoin, etc. Once I had been taking an effective antidepressant (first Effexor, now Cymbalta), 25 mg of seroquel works like a charm. I get naturally drowsy as bedtime gets near, fall asleep shortly most nights, and sleep pretty well - I do wake up a few times at night (that is why I rate it a 4 instead of a 5) but fall right back to sleep. | F | 48 | 13 months | 7/31/2008 | 4 | Insomnia, Depression | MAJOR APPETITE; BOTTOMLESS PIT; CAN'T STOP EATING. It's driving me crazy. | Gaining weight very fast. | F | 38 | 2 months | 7/7/2008 |