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 |
| 3 | mood disorder/OCD | I've been on seroquel for about a month. I've already gained 7 pounds, which is not a good thing. I was up to 150 mg at night, which helped me sleep all night, but made me feel like a zombie all day. I crave junk food constantly and eat all the time. I have little energy. I'm also on 20 mg. of Lexapro and 200 mg. of Lamictal and 200 mg of Wellbutrin. I'm lowering my dose gradually of seroquel so I can be done with this weight gain. I think I'll go back to Trazadone to help me sleep and hopefully that'll work. My main issue is that during times of stress (most of the time) I have a lot of "noise" in my head. Music mostly. Loud and annoying and I grind and tap my teeth along with it. I'm doing this all while maintaining a "normal" life as a stay-home soccer Mom. I can't make it stop and sometimes I beg myself to make it stop. Weird, I know. What else might work for that besides Seroquel? I feel like a science experiment right now. Any thoughts suggested. | F | 40 | 5 weeks | 5/21/2007 | 3 | Insomnia | Eating entire boxes of cereal before bed. Entire bags of peanut clusters, popcorn, hershey's kisses, cinnamon rolls, fudge, bacon, cookies, but I slept GREAT on 25mg. Dr. assured me that 25mg would not be enough to cause weight gain. WRONG | Taking 150mg of Seroquel for Depression, and 3mg of Lunesta for sleep, and .5mg of Xanax for anxiety. Still do not sleep, except when I'm taking Seroquel. Due to weight gain, stopping Seroquel. | F | 38 | 3 years | 5/20/2007 | 3 | panic disorder and anxiety | none so far | I dont expect to take that drug for long since it is only something I take to calm my anxiety until I start getting an effect from the antidepressant. I have to say I was prescribed 25 mg 2 times a day. 12,5 mg is enough to put me to sleep for 10 hours and if I try taking 12.5 mg during the day I can not stay awake without many coffees so I just dont understand how somebody could take 100mg of this stuff and not be in a coma! I am 125 pounds so I am not that small... Well, since the list of side effects from this drug is pretty scary I will only use it until I am stabilised on my AD and in my life which should take less than a month. | F | 28 | 3 days | 5/16/2007 | 3 | schizoaffective, ptsd, bpd | Sleep which is okay cause I take most of it at night. I used to love this drug at 150mg, cause it calmed me right down and gave me that sleep, but since an increase in dosage to 450mg, I notice an effect on my sex. Not that I lost interest, but I just couldn't cum. That made me angry and sad. Cure or cause... | I have just read that it can increase my risk of having an epileptic seizure, which I also suffer (taking tegretol). I like taking it at night, after any passion has been fulfilled, but now have to take more in the morning to stop me going off. This is a real grief for good daytime loving, and like I'm saying, can easily offset any benefit. I can still get excited, no problems there, just can't lose the load. I get so close and then, nothing. Why don't these quacks want us to have sex? Don't they understand that is enough to make you depressed and angry? Sheesh. At least I've stopped taking risperdal and all those other misery drugs | M | 42 | 1 years | 5/11/2007 | 3 | bipolar w/ psychosis, insomnia | weight gain (30lbs), daytime sleepiness during first few weeks, muscle spasms, difficulty breathing deeply | I've been taking 300mg at bedtime along w/ a MS, AA, & AD. It helped end a psychotic episode, but caused a strange "disconnected" feeling. (I was going through the motions but not really concentrating on anything.) It did not help with my insomnia. Will be tapering off now that I am on another AP. | F | 24 | 4 months | 5/9/2007 | 3 | bipolar 2 and insomnia | the only things i noticed were how it made me virutally unable to breathe through my nose and extreme dry mouth related to having to breathe through my mouth. | helped tremendously with my insomnia and depression. i didn't have any mood swings or mania while taking this med. | F | 35 | 4 weeks | 5/8/2007 | 3 | Anxiety | Horrible-Evil-Death-Kill-Nightmares-*EVERYNIGHT* and *EVERY NAP*. Just started taking Seroquel, and I am morbidly obese to begin with. After reading how much weight peeps gained, I'm puttin the Seroquel DOWN!!! | F | 26 | 2 weeks | 5/7/2007 | 3 | anxiety | It did relax me, but my reactions were severly delayed. My speech was slurred. I also got leg cramps while on the medication. | F | 16 | 2 weeks | 4/18/2007 | 3 | Cyclothymia (Bi-Polar II) | Taking seroquel in hopes of solving mid-level cyclothymia. | At this point I can't say if Seroquel is helping or not. I haven't had anymore drastic cycling however, I have stopped taking the SSRI I was on that was probably making the cylcing worse. I started with 50mg and I'm up to about 175mg a night. I don't really sleep too well on this drug, I wake up several times a night. A little grogginess in the morning, but it wears off. This drug has a very short half life, so I don't understand the chronic day time drowsiness people commonly complain about. I'll give the drug another week, if things don't better I'll dump it and attempt to let my brain work this out on it's own. This drug is not nearly as evil as people make it out to be | M | 33 | 8 days | 4/4/2007 | 3 | OCD | Seroquel does work. Its important to let you know that it brought my OCD to a total halt along with Luvox but it killed my sex drive. My wife is hot and for a month that I was on it I didn't have any thoughts or desire to have sex. After seeing my shrink today I am going off it for that reason. | M | 31 | 30 days | 3/22/2007 | 3 | Bipolar/Manic-Depressive(Mixed Stat | OK on the goodside i feel calm and relaxed (a feeling I am not used to) but on the bad side I have gained 70lbs. It does not help my sleeplessness (I still get up 3-5 times a night) and I sleep eat. I have uncontrollable movements of my legs/arms and sometimes very alarming time swallowing(scary, i mean scary) | My Dosage is 600mg at bedtime. I also take 900mg of lithium, 40mg of Inderal, 100mg of ultram, 400mg Ibuprophen, and 81mg of Aspirin all at bedtime (I still take some of these others + Nexium in the morning) | M | 8 months | 3/21/2007 | 3 | schizophrenia, major depression | Weight gain. muscle spasms in my legs. sleeping all day long. | I think this helps me over all. I just have to make sure I get enough sleep on the weekends. I also took an over the counter med for muscle spasms and it helped. I have yet to find a solution for the weight gain. | M | 34 | 1 years | 3/15/2007 | 3 | schizophrenia, major depression | weight gain, muscle spasms, sleeping all day and night | over all I think this drug helps me | M | 34 | 1 years | 3/15/2007 | 3 | Psychotic Bipolar Depression | Weight gain! To the tune of 60lbs! Lethargy. | Seroquel did help me with my illness, but at a high price. I slept all the time and gained alot of weight. I can hardly remember the year of my life while I was on this. Whether I can fully attribute that to Seroquel or a combination of the drug and my illness, who knows. But I was foggy and tired all the time even though the psychotic symptoms went away and my constant anxiety and insomnia were alleviated. | F | 25 | 1 years | 3/12/2007 | 3 | insomnia, anxiety/panic | Really bad restless legs for an hour or so after taking drug. Also, I ate everything in sight! | I was a complete mess going through a divorce. I couldn't get out of "the bad place" (like lying on my bed crying for 2 hours or wanting to all the air out of his tires). I'm on 37.5mg Effexor, 1-2mg clonazapam/daily, 10-20mg ambien, 0-1.5mg xanax/daily, 0-50mg trazadone/daily for long term anxiety problems, and the seroquel really helped get me "over the hump" emotionally. Only took it for a little over a week, but its like a heavy duty valium. | F | 30 | 10 days | 3/5/2007 | 3 | sleep, PTSD, TRD, Self injury | weight gain | It's the only drug I can take to get any hope of a night without flashbacks and nightmares | F | 49 | 1 years | 2/27/2007 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder NOS | weight gain, severe drowsiness | I gained about 15 lbs over course of a year, at which point I was prescribed Topamax to lose the weight (changing diet/exercise didn't work). I also was sleeping literally twice as much as before (14 hrs per night) on 400 mg per day, and felt fatigued all day long. Recently decreased to 150 mg, which in combination with Abilify manages the mania without making me too tired. | F | 39 | 2 years | 2/25/2007 | 3 | bipolar II | severe headaches, rapid weight gain, increased appetite, some memory loss, i couldn't remember anything from a half hour before taking the drug up to finally being woken up, waking up was quite the task also, i've been late to work multiple times this past week. the worst part, numbness in my left leg/hip region | I'm not sure what has caused the numbness, but I can't think of anything else that could cause it. It is numb as though i was given a shot from a dentist in the hip. I set up an appointment with my dr and hopefully can go off of it. | F | 20 | 6 days | 2/25/2007 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder NOS | acne | I forgot to mention this one | F | 39 | 3 years | 2/25/2007 | 3 | paranoid pyschotic tendencies | Extreme drowsiness(both after taking it and after waking up), dizziness, increased urination | I was admitted to a mental facility and prescibed seroquel for paranoid psychotic tendencies. I began with a 25mg. dose then progressed to 100, then 300mg all within the following week. It helped with the paranoia and the lack of sleep. But due to the recent information I have received I am not sure if the medicine was worth the side-effects it has been shown to cause. | F | 16 | 6 months | 2/22/2007 |