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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Depression | weight gain (15 pounds so far)Dry mouth, always tired | I have had no changes in my mood since starting seroquel, the only thing it does is make me sleep alot. I take 250 mg once a day before i go to bed. | M | 16 | 23 days | 11/29/2006 | 2 | bipolar 1, rapid cycling | Strange, I read through everyones' responses and found only a few people who had stuffy noses. I had the weight gain, slight hair loss, the lower doses cause more daytime lethargy, higer doses work better strangly enough. My problem was stuffy nose and sleep apnea. It started off as a mild side effect and ended up seriously affecting my breathing. I would wake up gasping for breath. I felt my nasal passages closing and my throat constricting. Could not sleep for the first couple of hours even though I was exhausted because I was trying to remember to take breaths. It seems to be a cumulative effect that gets worse over time. I went up to 300mg at night a month ago- I just had to use some nasal spray at night for the stuffiness, but it got worse- almost like a panic. I HATE that this happend because nothing worked as well as Seroquel for my anxiety and obsessions. I am sad and worried what symptoms of mine will return. I have tried everything- Abilify, Geodon, yadda yadda. Bu | Did experience some facial muscle twitches and restless leg syndrome. Gained 25lbs. Oh well, a nother option bits the dust! | F | 34 | 1 months | 11/27/2006 | 2 | Bipolar Type 2 | Severe memory loss. Ever since I've started to take it I've had to write myself reminders on the bathroom mirror in soap so that I wouldn't forget things. I have never had this problem up until I've started taking this medicine. | It's good, it really is, but I would rather have my memory than be treated. | F | 16 | 3 months | 11/19/2006 | 2 | Bipolar 2/cyclothmania | weight gain 40 lbs, blurred vision, stuffy nose, fatigue, elevated blood sugar levels | I was receiving poor medical care and was actually on 800mg for a whiel and was a mess. I am seroquel free now and feel great. I believe it can be used once in a while for a bout of insomnia but I believe because the drug is so new, the side effects are not worth the benefits. | F | 32 | 2 years | 11/14/2006 | 2 | Bipolar Disorder II | Extreme sedation, dizziness | I started on 100mg and had to cut it to 50. Still, the fatigue lasted all day long. It was aweful getting out of bed....Did it help? I dont have any idea.... | M | 38 | 1 years | 11/13/2006 | 2 | Bipolar Disorder | I was a walking zombie. everyone thought i was doing drugs. i looked totally spaced out all the time. i gained about 5lbs and slept about 12-15 hrs/day (lucky i was on unpaid disability from work). nightmares | a lot of people really like it. it is a like it or hate it kind of med. some people use it to sleep. for me, it didn't help me get to sleep, but once asleep i was out for the count. it also gave me nightmares. | F | 28 | 6 months | 10/20/2006 | 2 | Bipolar Disorder | I was a walking zombie. everyone thought i was doing drugs. i looked totally spaced out all the time. i gained about 5lbs and slept about 12-15 hrs/day (lucky i was on unpaid disability from work). nightmares | a lot of people really like it. it is a like it or hate it kind of med. some people use it to sleep. for me, it didn't help me get to sleep, but once asleep i was out for the count. it also gave me nightmares. | F | 28 | 6 months | 10/20/2006 | 2 | Bipolar II | Hypertension, racing heart, dizziness, inability to stand-up, weight gain | This medicine was not meant for me. It is trial and error when it comes to finding the right medication. With the several different medicines in this class, Geodon has proven most effective for me. | M | 21 | 1 weeks | 10/19/2006 | 2 | anxiety | being a zombie in the am. banging into walls at night. increasing my breathing problems. tremors. i am a recoving drug addict and it made my cravings worse in early recovery. | i have withdrawal symptoms when i try to quit cold. i had symptoms when decreasing my dose. | F | 47 | 5 months | 10/14/2006 | 2 | Sleep & Mood | Seroquel is very addictive. You’ll need lots of sleeping pills when coming off this med because what it does for dependency for sleep (replacing brain chemicals). If you know the history of drugs used for epilepsy (BP patients have a chance of having an epileptic episode while people with epilepsy may have BP symptoms with sudden discontinuation) never go on and of this kind of drug suddenly. Concentration is another issue when on this drug. | If you need a drug because you’re just too antsy it will definitely chill you out (maybe too chilled because you’ll feel tired all day). This drug will affect how you feel in the morning (drowsy) and how long you sleep. I would not recommend this drug. Avoid it if you’re just taking it for sleep since it will give you side effects that you have never dealt with before, particularly during discontinuation. | M | 28 | 5 years | 9/4/2006 | 2 | Insomnia and bipolar | Dry Mouth, clumsiness,grogginess. | I couldnt get out of bed in the morning and getting up with my kids at night was almost impossible. I couldnt hear them because I was so knocked out. | F | 31 | 14 days | 8/8/2006 | 2 | Depression, Bi Polar, Anxiety, ADHD | It only took 2 days to know that i would not be taking this med any longer. It made me very tired all of the time, like a zombie. No way i could work taking this drug! | As with any drug, people respond diffently, so there is only one way to find out if this is the drug for you. | M | 43 | 2 days | 7/21/2006 | 2 | Bipolar | 600mg/day. Extreme fatigue; anxiety. Sometimes unable to function, drive a car, or walk up stairs, which led to the anxiety. Slept 10-12 hrs. a night. Very hard to wake-up on time in the morning. | Not a very good medication unless you want to sleep all day and be extremely fatigued/drowsy for the relatively short time you are awake. | M | 26 | 5 months | 5/23/2006 | 2 | bi-polar/mania | Extreme Weight Gain, Extreme tiredness cant get up in the am! On the weekends I will sleep until the pm, literally will have to set the alarm to get up! | I feel like this has been the worst drug for me since day 1! My doctor hasnt listened to me in the past about the weight gain, tiredness, etc. I have 1 more appt to see him, if he doesnt make a change for me I am going to get a different doctor. I cant live like this any longer. I have gained 50lbs in a yr, and that is enough to make someone depressed and everything that goes with it! | F | 32 | 1 years | 5/3/2006 | 2 | panic attacks/school avobea | weight gain 20lbs used to be 80lbs now im 100lbs within less then 1 year dizzyness/very sleepy | ive been taking seroquel for about 1 year and its made me very tired i can hardly do anything i take 25mg at night befor i go to bed and it helps me in the moring for school but now i am getting off of it becuase it caused me to gain weight and i have issues with weight all ready and i rather just take tylonal pm and go to sleep then take this and gain weight | F | 14 | 1 days | 4/17/2006 | 2 | panic attacks | weight gain dizzyness | ive been taking seroquel for about 1 year and its made me very tired i can hardly do anything i take 25mg at night befor i go to bed and it helps me in the moring for school but now i am getting off of it becuase it caused me to gain weight and i have issues with weight all ready and i rather just take tylonal pm and go to sleep then take this and gain weight | F | 14 | 1 days | 4/16/2006 | 2 | bipolar rapid cycling/mixed episode | I didn't ascribe the weight gain (10 lbs) to seroquel until I read this board. Dizziness, physical imbalance, crankiness, sleep too much or wake up groggy and can't go back to sleep. Searching/struggling for words on a consistent basis (I have a very high IQ and teach as well as work in customer service) and this makes me feel like a DOPE. Pdoc says, "oh, that happens to EVERYONE when they get older." OK, I am FORTY two, not NINETY two... Brain moves slowly. Motor movement is affected, I am sometimes klutzy. I have had two car accidents (not my fault) and several close calls, ALL on the RIGHT side. Coincidence?? My vision is sometimes blurred. I used to be 20/10, now 20/20. Some days I'm fine, probably about 60% of the time I feel functional and able to perform my job and interact with others at optimal level. Currently taking 3 20 mg tabs of seroquel at night (used to sleep with 2, but now even 3 doesn't do it). Now I can't fall asleep at night, wake up during night, | I was prescribed seroquel for insomnia by a doctor who would nod, say "mm hm", and write the same prescriptions without regard for my comments. I wanted a happy sleepy pill, he gives me an anti-psychotic. Went a new office, GREAT therapist, new pdoc. More attentive than the "mm hm" guy, makes you think he is listening, then prescribes how he wants to anyway. I asked to be taken off seroquel, explain side effects. So pdoc decides seroquel will be the BASE of my treatment! Sick of being treated like a child, bringing my fiance next time. Pdoc says it hasn't been proven that seroquel causes diabetes. Then says, "if you take good care of yourself, you will have to take some pills (FOR DIABETES)in your 60s. If you don't,you will be taking pills in your 40s & 50s" So he says it doesn't cause diabetes, then tells me it WILL, no matter WHAT I do? Also, on last seroquel scrip pdoc wrote 2 a day, have been on 3 for almost a year. Had to call pharmacy, have him w | F | 42 | 2 years | 3/20/2006 | 2 | Depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia | Drowsiness, strange dreams, obtrusive thoughts, incapacitation during the night. | Have been taking 25mg nightly for about a month, and was previously on Dothiepin/Prothiadin. Seroquel has helped with the anxiety, but hasn't treated the depression and lack of sex drive. As far as side effects go (both short and long term), I think the tricyclic antidepressants are better. | M | 25 | 30 days | 3/10/2006 | 2 | insomnia related to daily migraines | I gained 10 pounds in the first two weeks, which sucked, but it was all water weight. Also, I was ALWAYS hungry. Especially for sweets. But I sure did sleep well, and everything comes at a price, right? The problem that took me off of the drug really quickly was that after we raised my dose to 50 mg I started to have suicidal thoughts whenever my migraines would get bad, which was often. This was not normal, but I kept my worries to myself for quite a while. Finally, I had a bad enough migraine that I knew I had a problem. The thoughts were overwhelming. Luckily, I was clearheaded enough to take myself off of the Seroquel and tell my boyfriend what was going on. After that, I began to hallucinate - I was seeing things, hearing things, "feeling presences" in the room. This went on for an entire weekend, on top of the migraine. When my doctor came into the office the following monday, I told him what was going on, and I was admitted to the hospital. I truly thought I was g | At first, I thought this medication was a godsend - it helped me sleep better than anything else ever has. To this day, I'd give anything to sleep like I did during my time on Seroquel - 20 minutes after taking it, I would be out cold, and I'd sleep for 8-10 hours straight. This is unheard for for me, as every other sleeping pill I've tried has acted as a placebo by comparison. I consider myself lucky if I get 6 hours of sleep a night with high doses of Halcion in my system currently. It's the only other pill I've found that even comes close to working. It's a shame that it all worked out the way it did, and it really depresses me :-( | F | 24 | 2 months | 2/26/2006 | 2 | BI-POLAR SCHIZOAFFECTIVE | Loss of coordination. Losing center of gravity and falling down on occassion. Extreme blurred vision. Slurred speech on some mornings as I only take it at bed time. I am on 300Mg currently | M | 32 | 3 months | 2/13/2006 |