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 |
| 1 | my 13 year old son has been taking | nausea.headache | M | 13 | 8 months | 5/4/2005 | 1 | severe depression, insomnia,anxiety | 6 stone of weight gain (nearly doubled in size), shakes, sleepy | I wish i'd never been put on this medicine as feel more depressed than before i started taking it. On 200mg a day, and feel terrible about the amount of weight i have gained, as is impossible to lose any weight whatsoever, when previously had no weight problems at all. Have cut back dosage very recently to come off it and feel slightly better. | F | 23 | 6 years | 5/3/2005 | 1 | Teleporter Psychosis | Couldnt float in space anymore, sunk. | M | 459 years | 3/14/2005 | 1 | Bi Polar/Insomnia | Terrible drug, experienced extremly drugged feeling at 25mg dose, slept but awoke feeling hung over the entire day. Next day cut dose in half and had extreme anxiety, tingling in my entire body, hypotension, feeling of confusion, restlessness | I thought this was an awful drug for me. I'd say if you are going to take this to try a very small dose at first to see if it effects you the way it did me. Didn't help me at all. | F | 33 | 2 days | 2/16/2005 | 1 | Hallucinations | drowsiness, dizziness, twitching, appetite inrcrease, depression... | being lethargic is the worst side affect. i can not wake up in the morning and i feel comatose throughout the entire day. im only on 50mgs, though i have been on 125mgs for over a month last year and the affects never got better. it makes you lose your will to live. awful medication. | F | 17 | 2 weeks | 1/20/2005 | 1 | mood stabilizer, bipolar disorder | very sick when i didnt take it..it made me light headed...but it made me feel good...but i didnt like the effects it had on me when i didnt take it...it felt like i was withdrawin from heroin | dont take it | F | 17 | 2 years | 1/18/2005 | 1 | Depression with mania | Although I've only been on Seroquel for a month, I have grown to dislike this drug very much. Initially it seemed like a | F | 39 | 4 weeks | 1/1/2005 | 1 | insomnia due to fibromyalgia | Uncontrollable craving for sweets which caused a huge weight gain in very short time, dry mouth so bad that it woke me up at night unable to swallow,hung over feeling in AM. | Prescribing dr would not let me go off so when she went on vacation I went to another dr who was flabbergasted that anyone would prescribe this drug for fibromyalgia. She got me off and I will never again take it | F | 50 | 5 months | 12/31/2004 | 1 | | 12/25/2004 | 1 | anxious,sleeplessness | muscle aches, disoriention, forgetfulness, unable to wake up in am. HUGE WEIGHT GAIN!!!! severe headaches upon withdrawl.... | side effects on it and getting off it outweight the pros...loved to be able to sleep with it....cant take the side effects of the weight gain and uncontrolable eating on it....has adversly effected my life negatively...very dissatified...to say the least.. | F | 34 | | 12/22/2004 | 1 | I had a few psychotic episodes | My main complaint is a tremendous weight gain of 25 pounds in 2 years. I take so much other stuff for depression, that I can't separate out the other symptoms. I desperately want to get off Seroquel and tried tapering it, but tapering threw me into even worse depression, so I had to go back on it. How can I stop using it? | I think it works for my depression, but I'm not positive, since I also take Prozac, Antenolol, and trazodone. I need a safe way to test out which meds are working for me and which I don't need. | F | 59 | 2 years | 12/12/2004 | 1 | Insomnia | Since being on this drug for nearly 7 months, I have experienced weight gain and hair loss. This is very concerning to me, I'm only 22 years old and want to keep my youth. I wish there was a wonder drug of come kind that has no side effects, but I don't foresee that ever happening. Hair loss is not one of the listed side effects, so it is important to note that not all of the side effects are sometimes known. And I was only taking 150mg for insomnia. | M | 22 | 7 months | 12/11/2004 | 1 | not being able to sleep at night | I had to be the one in a 10,000 who had side affects by takeing Seroquel. I have involuntary shaking movements . My doctor does not want me to drive a car anymore. I cannot sit and eat with out shakeing. When I walk I can fall over. | Other doctors either did not know what was wrong with me or would not admit it. Neurologist told me what was wrong and now has to treat me with medicine for Parkingson disease which helps a little bit but not completely. I donot have Parkinson. | M | 54 | 3 months | 11/28/2004 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | In May 2004 I hired a personal trainer to help me lose those extra 10 ponds I needed to lose to fit into a bridemaid dress. The wedding was in June 2004, and I started Seroquel about a month after. In September it I had to hire my trainer again because I had GAINED 25 POUNDS. I am exercising way more than I have exercised before Sero-SUCKS. I got on the scale tonight, and surprise...another 5 pounds gained. This is my first time ever going online to research a medication. I feel compelled to let you know, because I KNOW FOR A FACT that my eating habits have been healthier, I have been exercising more than I have ever in my life and I am gaining too much. It's unbelievable. I cannot believe that this side effect is merely at 5% clinically. This medication should be discontinued or not even prescribed for anyone because the effects of looking and having to struggle to lose the Seroquel weight is 100 times more depressing than being my regular depressed self. I will take my manic skinny days back if I could over my now fat (big gut, skinny legs, looking like I have a belly tumor) self. I HATE IT. I am throwing all of my pills out the window as I drive to the gym to lose this swollen gut. | MORE DEPRESSION BECAUSE OF WEIGHT GAIN mixed with bipolar disorder has caused me to seriously think about self medicating again to lose the weight. | F | 29 | 4 months | 11/13/2004 | 1 | Bipolar and schizophrenic symptoms | Tired, can't focus, can't concentrate, can't talk without slurring or missing a word or not saying what I want to say in the right context, stoned feeling, tingling feeling throughout body, restlessness, figgidy, jerky movement in fingers and neck, zombie-like feeling. | only taken this med twice and only 25 mg's, did not like the overall way it made me feel, could not tolerate another dose, I like myself better without it. | F | 30 | 2 days | 11/11/2004 | 1 | irregular moods | none | I havnt noticed any change. | F | 34 | 6 months | 11/2/2004 | 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 | insomnia | muscle soreness, joint pain, back pain, onset of arthritis, sweating, cough, fungal infection, weight gain, pneumonia, teeth grinding. | Over the last 18 months my health has gone steadily downward. Yes, I could sleep at night (for the first time in 5 years), but gradually I developed one sympton after another. Until I developed a drug induced pneumonia, I did not associate ALL these side effects as coming from seroquel. I have stopped taking the medication and am having terrible heart burn, indigestion and horrindus sweating. | F | 55 | 18 times | 10/28/2004 | 1 | anxiety/depresion | I have had too many side effects to remember. The worst ones are the extreme drowsiness and muscle twitches. I occasionally developed headaches but they were quick to get over. I slept better but it doesnt make a difference when you cant wake up. | Its horrible and i hope it didnt cause any permanent damage. | M | 14 | 4 times | 10/20/2004 | 1 | bipolar | Sleep Problems, very drowsy during the day. Upset stomach, Weight Gain. | I was only on this stuff for 3 weeks before I had to stop. I felt worse while on the drug, and I couldnt stop eating. I wanted to scream. | F | 33 | 3 weeks | 10/16/2004 |