I took seroquel for seven years. I ended up in the hospital with kidney failure, rhadomyolysis, neuropathy, problems breathing and very low blood pressure. I’m in pain everyday Now I’m being told that the only claims are for diabetes. This drug company took my life. No one is willing to persue my injuries because of cost effectiveness. I understand business i. But who will speak out for me???

i took it for 4years they said i might not be able to have kids because of it and i might have diabetes im only 17 freaking years old what is wrong with people you cant do this to a kid I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE BABIES NOW BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SO FREAKING STUPID PUTTING A KID ON 1,000 MILLAGRAMS OF THIS STUFF!!!!

i been on it for about a year n realy have wonderd if i dont see worse n im forgetfull . i do sleep beter.all this bad stuff im just hearn so gota do alittle more diggn.i think it helps me mentaly but wondern now

I am just amazed at everyones stories on here. How did this drug ever get on the market. Also I was shocked as to how expensive it was. Almost $500 a month and as a single mom thats a lot of money. I was also divorced while on this medication. Not that the medication was to blame for all of it but i can totally see how it can ruin a relationship. Its like they are getting away with rape and some murders. As I was diagnosed as being bipolar after I had my son in 2007. I had never been on any medications let alone something for depression or anxiety. I put full trust in my doctor and shouldn’t have. I have been considered borderline diabetic my whole life and im sure I will be one day and Seroquel will have some contribution to that. I was up to 400 mg. I have gained weight and mostly in my stomach. I dont know how some of you are functioning at the MG you are taking. There were sum days i just COULDNT get out of bed. Which in turn leads to more depression. Im now on depakote and would like to be free of all meds but my doctor says I will never get rid of my post-pardum depresion. I can only hope hes wrong. I would just STRONGLY urge people to consider other options before starting this drug! Or any drug really!!!!!

After being treated with Prozac for 10 years for Obessive Compulsive Disorder I had a stress induced nervous breakdown in 2005. The pdoc said, “You’re having a manic episode, you’re BiPolar, and you can either take Lithium or Depakote.” She put me on Seroquel, klonopin, Depakote and was still on Prozac. 3 months later I ended up in the mental hospital from extreme anxiety. Everyone there, who just happened to work for my pyschiatrist, said I was BiPolar. I never believed it and neither did my mom. But I went ahead and did what the doctor said going through Seroquel, Geodon, Abilify and back to Seroquel. Abilify made me shake so bad I had to stop. I became worried about Tardive Dyskinesia and the Dr. said I was such a danger to myself she wouldn’t take me off Seroquel even if I got TD. Well. Last year I started weaning myself off all the lithium, depakote and seroquel then I got another pdoc to say there was no way I was BiPolar. I ended up with super high cholestrol which has just started to come down since stopping Seroquel. My trigs were 400, now they are 230. I got dianosed with neuropathy but who knows if the seroquel caused it. I have tremors, nighttime myoclonic jerking and severe muscle twitches and spasms. I’ve been off Seroquel for 6 weeks but I still worry about withdrawal-emergent TD. That’s when you don’t have TD while taking the drug, but it can show up weeks or months later. I’m so freaked out I spend part of every day thinking about how to make suicide seem like an accident. The neurologist said I don’t have TD and he scoffed at it showing up later but I’ve read it does. He did say I may have some residual neurological damage from all the crap I was on. Since I do have OCD this has ruined my life. I worry about every twitch and jerk. Is my tongue moving? Am I blinking too much? What really makes me mad is that this never had to happen in the first place. If I had known the side effects before being given the pill I would have never taken them. I believe I was deliberately mislead about what anti-psychotics do and am suffering the consequences. By the way, my highest dose was 150mg and it took me 6 months to go from 25mg to 1/2 mg to zero. If you’re going to take yourself off this drug you have to go super slow.

I have severed from depression and anxiety for aleast 30 years.I was given Seroquel in 2008.a lot of numdness and tingle feeling on my left side.when speaking it was like listening to a static radio.I would lose my train of thought.From one second to another.awful mood swings.Anger ,lost of time.a lost days ,weeks!!and even now I don’t remember a lot of things that happen.

My mother recently died from severly high blood sugars. She was diabetic yet she was still perscribed serequel

After hearing some negative comment s about seroquel and astra zeneca on T.V. last week I looked on the internet ans was blown away with all the comments. I to have been on 500mg. of seroquel for the past three years. It was prescribed for bipolar disorder. I’m writting this because I also have a lot of the symtoms others are complaining about.I have hot flashes and sweats and was blaming it on the 30lbs. I have gained. Also, I have recently been put on thyroid medicine and my colesterol is to high. After reading everyones comments I no longer want to take seroquel because of all the side effects. I called my Drs. this a.m. and waiting for there call back. Other things like dry mouth and ringing in my ears are a constant bother.

It is impossible to say that you “know” the medication causes the aggressiveness when there is a diagnosis of Bipolar disorder. That’s the problem with taking medications when diagnosed with a disorder known for the same possible side effects. There is no way of knowing unless the drug is removed, and in all likelihood it is her surroundings and state of mind causing the aggressiveness, unfortunately. I have had personal experience with family members and you would not believe the power of Bipolar disorder and what it can do.

I have been on Seroquel for almost 3 years, along with Klonopin, Tegretol, and Lexapro. I am about 50 pounds overweight and I can’t lose it…I am a complete ADDICT and I need to get off of it before it is too late….DO NOT EVER TAKE THIS DRUG. IT WILL RUN AND RUIN YOUR LIFE.

2 years ago I started having panic & anxiety attacks. Doctor put me on xanax and Lexapro. I went from having panic and anxiety attacks, to being very depressed. I could not sleep at night, my mind just raced. At one point the doctor put me on Seroquel. My depression worsened, but I was not aware it was the medicine making me feel that way. I was 49 years old and had never experienced depression before. At one point the doctor doubled my dose of Seroquel, then I started passing out and ended up in the hospital. They changed my medicine back to Lexapro, then all I did was cry, and felt there was nothing to live for. I felt hopeless. It was the worst feelings I have ever experienced. They finally put me on Cymbalta and that helped my depression. I am slowly trying to come off of it. Since starting the different depression medicines, I have gained 40 pounds. I never had a weight gain problem, before that. My cholestorol shot way up and now I am on cholestorol medicine. I would recommend if you can avoid ever having to take anti depressant, do so. They have changed my life and my families life. I still experience moments of fear, that I will go back to where I was 2 years ago. And I don’t ever want to feel like that again. Without God and my family I don’t know where I would be today.

Does anyone know if Seroquel can cause an increase in suicidal thoughts? I have been dealing w/depression for years and taken many different meds for it until I finally found what seemed to work for me. I was then prescribed Seroquel for about a year now to stabilize my moods and to help me sleep. Astonishingly, my dosage of Seroquel was upped soon after from 100 mg to 200mg after the attempt. I have ended up gaining about 30 lbs and attempted suicide by overdosing on Klonopin, which I have taken for years only as needed and that wasn’t very often. One night I ended up downing about 2 handsful of Klonopin and ended up going to the ER by ambulance, suffered respiratory failure and went into a coma for about 2 days. I was so unconscious that my stomach was pumped with charcoal, and that usually makes people vomit. I could not vomit b/c I was so “out of it” that they had it running out my ears, nose, and mouth. I remember nothing that occured that weekend nor anything for about 2 weeks after. It is still all hazy to me. I am still taking the Seroquel as of this time.

My 76 yr.old mother is currently taking 900mg. of Seroquel (for sleep and bi-polar issues). She exhibits very aggressive and hostile behavior and has never been so unhappy. She constantly abuses me if I go to visit her, yelling and being very disruptive to the point that my 17 yr. old s refusing to go with me. The psychiatrist will not return any of her concerned children’s calls and the one who is named her medical power of atty. (a family physician also) -also her son is afraid to interfere or to try and reduce this large dosage. She became diabetic on Zyprexa and this was the substitute. She also has heart disease, high blood pressure, and has suffered many mini-strokes. She stays at an Alzheimer’s/stroke facility but has had many fights and problems with the staff. I know this drug has caused most of her personality’s aggressive tendencies but what can we do? I want my brother to allow someone else to be her medical power of atty. She was a past alcoholic and then discovered psychiatrists and all the free “legal” drugs that she could mix with alcohol. While her husband lived, he kept the psychiatrists at bay and her drugs to a minimum. He was a family physician that remarkably distrusted the pharmaceutical industry and was one of the few that openly criticized the A.M.A. and called for a more ethical and moral health care. In short, where have all the good family doctors gone that helped patients without all the immediate pills that pharmaceuticals constantly bombard our T.V.’s turning even our children into guinea pigsfor Prosac, Zyprexa, etc. without any regard of future side affects, weight gain, dependency, or even suicide. I just hope this National Health care will evolve to where some of these drugs are regulated and some taken off the market. In England, Zyprexa was discontinued early on due to the many deaths of diabetic coma and I hope to see that happen here. Our country has fallen behind in regulating these companies to our capitalistic company controlled government. I hope to see people take control. We do lead the world in presriptions sold and more pills consumed. Some pills are needed while others only create more or new problems. Only 2% of medical grads. choose family practice because of the huge debt. of medical school and the low (compared to the escalating salaries of specialties) salary of a G.P.

I have been taking Seroquel for nearly 10 years (75 – 100 MG). Had a problem with sugar and sweating, taking a natural enzyme before eating has brought everything back to normal. Also, exercising 4 -5 times a week has kept all weight issues under control.

I took Seroquel for approximately four years. I’ve gained 100 pounds that I can’t get off, I have type II Diabetes, and cholesterol levels that would make your jaw hit the floor in sheer disbelief. My psychiatrist didn’t handle the medical end of things (including monitoring glucose and cholesterol levels), and the primary care physician who was did not, so far as I can tell, ever communicate with her to notify her that he was treating me for high cholesterol. This same primary care physician checked my fasting glucose exactly one time in the first 18 months that I was taking Seroquel and being treated for high cholesterol. My glucose was 195, if I recall correctly, but he never again checked it, at least according to my medical records that I collected from his office. The worst thing, in my opinion, is that I don’t even know if the Seroquel was ever effective in treating me. I have no way of knowing for certain. I’m no longer taking it, but now I have to live with the consequences of having done so, for the rest of my life. I’m not sure it was worth the price.

I was prescribed Seroquel a few months back to aid in sleeping… If I remember correctly it was 200mg… The second day I experienced repetitive, tic-like rocking that was completely involuntary, so I only took half the dose that night… the third day the involuntary movements were more pronounced. It never made it to a fourth day. I completely stopped taking it and looked up the effect. Thats how I learned about Tardive Diskinesia… glad I stopped immediately too, since apparently TD can be irreversible.

I have been taking 25-50mg of seroquel for about 4 years now and it’s the only thing that helps me with my sleep disorder. I have gained a little weight but not that much, and I have had no other health issues from it. I wonder at which dosage are the problems noticed. I can finally sleep through the night which I have never been able to, so I love it! I have to get regular blood work, but it’s totally worth it. Of course I am concerned about the latest lawsuits, but I feel like I have no choice. I have tried every sleep aide out there and nothing works the way seroquel does. Only xanax comes close but the drs do not want to prescribe it for sleep because it’s too addictive… Not sure what I should do now, because not sleeping makes me more sick than seroquel.

I WEGHED 160 IBS WHEN I WAS PUT ON SEROQUAL, CELEXA, NEOUROTIN IN 2001. WEIGHT WENT UP DRASTICALLY I STOPPED TAKING THE MEDICNE IN 2005, BY THEN I WAS 240 IBS. I’VE HAD A HORRIBLE TIME LOOSING THE WEIGHT. I NOW HAVE HYPOTHYTOIDISM, IRON DEFICIENCY, SNEMIC WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE

im 31 years old my mom had been taken seroquel for less then 2 months and she died 4 days ago the dr’s that she was seein gave her depression meds and seroquel and it says that its bad to give both of them ….. i should have had my mom here for aleast another 20 years not to say im being greedy but hell why did she have to die so soon ….

since taking seroquel, i have passed out,no circulation in leg and foot, blood clot in leg n lung, triglycerides are high, low blood pressure, cant breathe, eye vision loss, triggered lupus, my legs are weak n knees. i walk with a cane but not very far..

I took Seroquel xr for about 6 weeks , after I took the first dose (50mg) for sleep problems associated with Bi-polar disorder type1, I was knocked out completely for two days, yes that was a full 48 hours. I continued to take it with the advice from my Psychiatrist that it would get better and I was to increase my dose every 7 days until I reached 500mg. Once I reached the first step up of doses to 150mg I began to experience severe facial pain only on the right side of my face…. once again I was told that my body would adjust to the medication. After 6 weeks the facial pain became so extreme that I had to stop taking it, at which point I was prescribed 2mg Abilify. During the two week gap in medications the facial pain stopped completely. I took one dose of the Abilify and the pain returned. I stopped it immediately but the pain hasn’t went away even after a month. The pain is so severe that I had to go to the emergency room because it caused my right side of my face to droop like I was having a stroke which is a scary thought because I am only 28 yrs old with two young children. After having an MRI and CT scan the final conclusion is that my 5th cranial nerve has been damaged from the Seroquel. I am now looking at being on pain medication for the rest of my life. I will never take any other medication from a Psychiatrist. I would rather go without sleep than suffer with this pain. It has affected everything about my life I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can’t even play with my kids. And it is all because I took SEROQUEL!!!!!! I have also had severe mood changes that scare me I am angry all the time and I have at least one thought of suicide a day and my Psychiatrist still insists that it’s all in my head even though I have had a Neurologist confirm a diagnosis of Trigeminal Neuralgia.

I live in Sydney, Australia and my best friend was diagnosed with acute psychosis on the 12th March 2010. She was prescribed Seroquel, took one tablet and went to bed. The next day she woke up, went to a cliff top and it took police five hours to negotiate her off the cliff. She was admitted to hospital and was released in to a friend’s custody for two hours four days later. Her friend went to the toilet and she went straight to the cliff top and jumped off it. She died on impact. I only assume that she was taking Seroquel whilst she was in hospital and I know it is a known fact that if a person is depressed once they feel a bit better they will find the energy to put their plan for suicide in action. I knew her and she never had suicidal tendencies and was scared of heights. I guess I would like to know if anyone has been prescribed this drug for paranoia, how long has it taken to work to stop the paranoia?

Firstly after reading this thread, I am Extremely shocked at the VERY high doses of seroquel people have been proscribed & the pain and suffering people have gone through. My view on Anti-psch medication (I have been on both risperdone and seroquel ) is that they are generally fantastic drugs that serve their perposes of removing pyschotic symptom, inducing sleep (sleep being even more important for those of us who are mentally ill than regular people) & having a calming effect for aggitation. ALSO to advocate that it been said time and time again but its very TRUE… YOU KNOW YOUR BODY BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE. I you feel your medication dose is damaging you SPEAK up and YOU don’t like what your doctor has to SAY GET ANOTHER OPINION! I strongly believe the drugs are over prescribed in dangerously high doses. If the drugs need to be given in such high doses, than I also believe they can’t really be that effective in managing the symptoms & ALTERNATES for these individuals should be sought MUCH SOONER. Having said all of this I would like to share my story and the POSITIVES for medication. I take what is perceived as a Moderate dose of LITHUIM SR (which is easier to manage dose wise as their is blood test for OPTIMUM LEVELS) & A LOW DOSE OF SEROQUEL. I was diagnosed with Bi-polar Disorder at age 15 and now I am classified as Bi-polar One Skitz Affective. My bipolar is severe in any case I have hospitilised many time & suffer pyschotic symptoms in the manic phases, I AM proud to say that I lived episode free of bi-ploar for a stretch of 4 and Half years & had a baby during this time. During this time I was taking 450mg of LITHUIM SR in the morning and 900mg a night. In the Last 9 months I suffered THREE rapid cycling episodes (with are Manic & Depression episodes in combination). Whilst hostpilised for the first TWO of the THREE episodes I was proscribed 100mg of Seroquel in the morning and 200mg at night. I NEEDED and anti-psch drug at the time to bring me down from my Manic State. Going home I perscribed 100mg of Seroquel at night and 50mg in the morning. I immediately stopped taking the 50mg in the morning and simply told my doctor flat out “I have a toddler and I can’t function with the morning dose” I had a turbulant time their after and had 2 more Manic Episodes. I am now still on 450mg SR LITHIUM and 900mg At NIght. And managable 75mg of Seroquel at night. *Weight gain has been slight – 1 dress size & I have been able to address this with excercise and healthy diet and have been able to lose weight when I commit to it. *I am sleeping better than I literally can ever remember. *I have no problems driving & don’t have any lethagy.

i was on seroquel for about 2 yrs. highest dosage they had me on was 1100mg/day. I have suffered from tardive diskenesia symptoms. i also have had a history of EXTREMELY high blood pressure ever since i started the med. never had blood pressure issues before that. I ended up in ICU with congestive heart failure. I am now currently seeing a cardiologist. I had a stress test done and found out that while blood flow into my heart is good, I have one chamber? that is not pumping blood back out to my body.

The reasons that weight is gained is caused by the drugs (see below). Your doctor may suggest you are eating poorly but that is not true. Except from medicalnewstoday.com Cause Of Antipsychotic Drug Weight Gain We’ve now connected a whole class of antipsychotics to natural brain chemicals that trigger appetite,” says Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Our identification of the molecular players that link such drugs to increased food intake means there’s now hope for finding a newer generation of drugs without the weight-gain side effects.”

while I was on this medication I was gainning weight and It was alot of weight I beleived it was like 80 pounds. My doctor sent me to a sleep study were he thought that may of been what was makeing me gain weight. Then I had been telling my doctor that I had been having these spells of being dizy and sweating and then sick to my stomach and he kept telling me it was my inner ear. I tried to tell him it was something else then the day I wen’t to see him my sugar was 318 at that time he wen’t to tell me that some of my medicine can cause you to end up with being a dibetic and he at that point after he put me on medication and with it being so high he decided that it was the serequel that was causing all of this. Now what the damage is allready done and we can’t seem to get my sugar under control. I couldn’t get anyone to listen to me and take me serious until I wen’t to the doctor with my sugar 318 and then the nurse wanted to tell me it was because, I ate a hamburger and that shouldn’t of had anything to do with it. I have never had problems with my sugar before and now i am a type 2 and we cant get it under control. I know Lots of times i thought i was going crazy I was begenning to forget alot of things i couldn’t concetrate on anything so I don’t know if this is related or not. My unlce had herd if you were told you were a dibetic while on serequeal contact an attorney but, he didn’t get the telephone number so I decided to google it and find out some information.

A few years ago, my doctor put me on prescribed seroquel to help with my anxiety. My dose was eventually increased to 600 mg every night at bedtime, and I was on the medicine for a total of about six months. I complained to my doctor and therapist that I was experiencing uncontrolled movements of my jaw and tongue. They decided it wasn’t noticeable enough to take me off the medicine. I eventually tapered off the medication, on my own, because I experienced a fast and pounding heart rate about 30 minutes after taking the drug that I could feel all throughout my body. It was very uncomfortable and troubling. Later, after discussing my cessation of Seroquel with the doctor, she agreed that it was probably for the best. I had also gained 40 pounds in the six months of taking it. The heart symptoms went away quickly but I noticed the jaw and tongue movements even more. I clenched my jaw during my sleep and subconsciously throughout the day as well. This led to lots of facial pain that radiated into my neck and shoulder. I took ibuprofen constantly, and wore a mouth guard at night for a while, but the guard seemed to make things worse. It’s been about two years since I’ve taken seroquel, and although the jaw issues have gotten some better, I still have problems. Unfortunately, I have not been able to lose the weight, and my liver enzymes and cholesterol have been quite elevated ever since my experience with Seroquel. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to take seroquel considering all the damage it has caused my body. I think It should be reserved for those who experience severe schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder, rather than used for off-label issues such as anxiety and sleep disturbances. I’m still hoping that that over time some of this damage can be reversed!

Wow this sight has been an eye-opener. My mom died 4 years ago. She had lived with me and I had taken care of her for years. I am an nly child and she was my best friend. She got a unrinary tract infection and became delusional and hallucinated. She was misdiagnosed as Alzheimers, the catch-all diagnosis for older people, when really what had was Lewy Body Disease. They gave her mega doses of Seroquel. It breaks my heart to know this probably hastened her death. She hever came out of it and died within 3 months. I think I am going to join a class action lawsuit.

I was prescribed Seroquel about three years ago. My doctor kept saying that I had bipolar disorder even though I have never had mania or any other symptoms. My mother and I were assured by the doctor that the side effects of taking Seroquel were much lower than any drug in its class. Three years ago I was 125 pounds with perfect vision and no major health problems. I now have a very low white blood cell count which means I am in danger of developing cancer. My vision is shot, I can barely read books or magazines because the print is too small. I have put on 56 pounds even thought I exercise daily and eat well. I am very scared that I have developed diabetes. I am thirsty all of the time and my cuts do not heal. I am so mad I am shaking while writing this. The drug companies need to be stopped. I cannot believe that this is allowed to happen to people. It affects people already vunerable due to emotional or mental problems. They are making money at the expense of people already in turmoil. Take this crap of the market tomorrow!

I gained 100 lbs, lost my family and friends due to the stupor this evil drug has caused me. My health will never be the same.

I was on large doses of seroquel for over 2 years as a teenager in 1997, until I had a second opinion from a different psychiatrist ( I guess I was bipolar, but it didn’t deem the need for the anti-psychotic). In 2001 I had a physical done for a job I was starting. After returning from the appointment I received a rather frantic phone call from the clinic’s lab concerning what I’d had for breakfast and that I had to return to the clinic to have more blood work done. My blood glucose was over 650…..I was officially a Type 1 or Insulin Dependent Diabetic. I hadn’t recognized how lethargic I had become over the last few months, but I could eat large amounts of food, and for whatever reason, I still was losing weight. I know that currently I have to take over six injections a day and am taking metformin, the expense of prescriptions alone is unimaginable. In the past I have been hospitalized for massive infections due to high blood sugars and am at high risk if I ever plan to have children. There is a history of type 2 in my family, but never type 1. I’m not entirely sure if seroquel is responsible for my condition, but it’s an abused drug, it’s addictive, it causes people to become submissive and non responsive (which is why it’s so great for rebellious teenagers), people suffer from symptoms similar to narcolepsy, and it causes pancreatitis or diabetes mellitus. What exactly were the benefits? The only people I have seen reaping any gains from it are those with issues of psychosis, schizophrenic tendencies, or severe rapid cycling bi-polars. I just wish they wouldn’t prescribe it out like Tylenol or take it off the market.

I was on Seroquel for five years (average dose 200mg). Now I need 15,000 to 20,000 dollars worth of dental work (crowns). Denist suspects the dry mouth caused by seroquel eroded my enamel. Dry mouth is also a diabetic symtom. I also gained weight, but my weight is dropping since I have stopped taking this med.

i was on seroquel for 7 years. i started out at 100 to 150mg aday in the end i was at 750 to 900mg aday. i keep telling my Doctor this med was making me crazy and humacidal and suicidal i tired to take my on life 2 different times and he wouldn’t take me off seroquel. i was on thorzine in 2000 and doing fine. he told me seroquel was an experimental drug and would work for me. how wrong he was. i believe seroquel ruined my life. i lost everything my wife, my children family and friends, and my business. i don’t take seroquel anymore and i’m trying to rebuild my life. i’m finding out now that you shouldn’t take seroquel with a history of seizures or if your suicidal well my doctor knew i was and kept increasing my dosage.

I was on seroquel for a bout a year. But had not filed a claim yet…against the drug (seroquel). But since that time, I have had gained weight,have high cholesterol,I started gritting my teeth,my hands shaking alot, as well as having my heart beat off rhythm.This since I’ve taken this drug. The drug companys need to take responsibility and be held a countable for releasing the drugs to the general publice. Since they have failed to do the research for a least 20 yrs before releasing the drug to the public.

After trying over a dozen sleep medications, my Doctor prescribed serequel at 25 mg and it worked unlike the ambiens, sonatas, trazadones, etc. of this world. However, over the past couple of years, my dosage has increased to 100 mg per night as my system was not responding to just 25 mg. Coincidence or not, I have unexplained breathing issues (notwithstanding the fact that I had multiple pulmonary tests to confirm no issues with my lungs AND a stress test to confirm no heart-related issues) and have gained 10-15 lbs despite not changing my diet. My question for my fellow serequel ingesters is: Can 100 mg of serequel per night casue shortness of breath and/or weight gain? From what I read, it appears that the weight gain seems to be most prevelant in those people that take higher doses such as 200 mg and above. If you have experienced any of these symptoms please post. Thank you.

i am on 250mg of seroquel and am suffering blackouts had 2 car crashes in a week one nearly fatal,just seem to be constanly having blackouts????????????????

I am absolutely furious that Astra zeneca put Seroquel on the market. My college age son has pancreatitis now- he is unable to work, he is unable to attend college , and it has cost huge amount of dollars due to hospitalizations. I intend to fight to get it removed from the market. The physicians he has seen who are experts in pancreatitis are working to try to help him. The Clinical trials done in 2003 showed that seroquel could cause pancreatitis. I intend to fight this drug company with every ounce of my motherly passion and determination.

Lovely stories all. My multiple disabilities go back many years. I was a bit of a wild child so massive amounts of drugs and alcohol were a way of life. It could be postulated at this late date that I was ‘self medicating’ all those years. Been clean an sober 18 years now. I have tried to avoid all drugs in my recovery. However there have been times where I felt stressed sometimes over-stressed and would talk candidly to my Dr about what to do. Take a pill… and, with out fail, (more hind-sight) my life would nose dive, I would go from stress to anxiety… take pills and my life would totally fall apart. I would be overwhelmed with life, by life. SLeep two or three months from what ever drug-of-the-moment was prescribed… and WHALLA! Im fine again. What ever had been stressing me in life had disappeared after a week or two of drug induced coma, and after a few more months, all of life was new again. Out of the last 18 years I have been ‘medicated about three years tottal. Whith the longest stint of about 18 months the rest six month and less. seroquel I have been looking at getting back into the work force. I have been working with our local DVR, vocational rehabilitation. I have worked with DVR many times over the years and I recently noticed that EVERY TIME i had gone on medication it was at the insistence of the DVR counselor. My mental health issues are depression… mostly depression… with the added benefit of a bi polar diagnosis. WHen I am not depressed I am fun> not depressed>depressed is bi polar? Mono pole, any one? My ‘learning disorder’ or cognitive disability has been the main reason for my SSDI. I like to think of it as DD. Dumb and Depressed. I was prescribed all the ADHD amphetamines… that only made me sleepy till Vivanase. Wakes me up, I can focus, I can get things done… but would often have a hard time falling asleep. Enter seroquel. Crap. Bad crap and Holly crap. My first dose, 25mg knocked me out for sixteen hours. I was a zombie the next day. But, coffee and Vivanese woke me right up… so I took another seroquel, this time cut in quarters… about..6-7 mg and slept good 8-ten hours. And groggy and stupid till noon the next day… and DREAD. Is it just me? Yes, weird gut churning DREAD. But I needed to sleep too. Over many weeks of off an on with seroquel I moved up … 7mg… 14…25… 25X2…25X3 … 25×4… 50X2 50X4… 100 100X2 100X2X2… 100erX2 100erX2X2X2… I came to relise today, the most panic and anzyity I have now, the more seroquel… I need to sleep at night. Really? I was anxious about DVR, I was a little apprehensive about school… I was feeling very in control of my life, feeling good and optimistic with some healthy fear about going to school/work. DVR push HARD to get me on drugs. OK, a little pick me up or put me down couldn’t hurt. Right? My weight has shot up , again. I clentch my jay so tight and so much I split a molar and had to have emergency surgery for extraction. My tongue is swollen and flops around like a fish out of water and my face always seams to be in motion, grimacing and stitching. My cholesterol is off the charts, I cant hold a conversation with out my lips turning blue I am SO out of breath. I have had a constant head ache from night one with seroquel, libido is … well,. I am old anyway, but I cant even … um… do it my self…so to speak. Before I took my first dose I had gone online and looked at a few sites. All the ‘side effects’ didnt sound any worse than anything else I have taken… but I didnt look to deep. Only like AstraZeneca and Web MD stuff. I have spent today, all day researching … O M F G !!! I called the Doc and said, I am going off this, AND I want medical supervision. I have been on it six months, and, I will quit cold Saturday. Friday I meet with Dr. It will either be Inpatient or at home with a bottle of valuim, I dont care which, but I am off this crap. Run!

I had gestational diabetes with my 2nd child. It went away. I went through a divorce and my dr. put me on seroquel. I didnt know you arent suppose to rake this med if you have ever had any type diabetes. i became full blown diabetic after taken this med. My blood sugar levels were always between 500-700 daily. I am currently taken 4 shots of insulin a day and two pills, all because of a Drs. negligience. Seroquel has ruined my life.

I have been taking 600 mg of Seroquel at night since 2/05 for Bipolar Depression and as a sleep aid. I had already tried Lithium, Abilify, Lamictal, Geodon, and Depakote as a mood stabilizer. They didn’t work and had intolerable side-effects. Seroquel gives me cotton mouth, constipation, and extreme carb cravings but it’s the ONLY med that has helped with my Rapid-cycling Bipolar 1 (Severest form of BP). I haven’t developed Diabetes or TD so far. I probably would have been dead already by suicide or manic accident without the Seroquel so a supposedly shortened life doesn’t bother me. I don’t want Seroquel taken off the Market!!! Let those of us who benefit have the opportunity to take it. Patti

I was given seroquel for bi-polar paranoid scitzaphrenia i was type II diabetic from beginning doctor knew this but gave it to me anyway i trusted my doctor then i fell asleep for six months in a coma like state and my kids missed 35 days of school and i woke up one morning and picked up my bible and i said god i dont know whats wrong with me but i feel like im dying so i flushed pills then i went into a bad rage coming down off of seroquel broke all my dishes in my house then i saw on tv that seroquel causes death in type II diabetics and my doctor knew i was type II diabetic from beginning he obviously didnt care enough about me to read my chart now i have type I diabetes and im on 40 units of insulin a day and 2000 mg of metaformin a day my kidneys gave out last christmas they started working again and i was on heart attack and stroke level so my family doctor not a pschiatrist put me on 2 blood pressure medicines one for kidneys cholesterol medicne, lasix fluid pill and my chest hurts and i feel that this is total negligence on the pschiatrists part for not reading i was type II diabeitic from time i walked in his office now im in very bad health and i would like something done about this. It is a shame our doctors cant be trusted to really read your charts while they are giving us prescriptions and they kill us by doing so. I would appreciate a good lawyer to help me i am disabled because of all of this and i used to work for state of west virginia on the West Virginia Child Abuse, Adult Abuse, and Domestic Violence Hotline covered the whole state. I also was diagnosed with sleep apnea and had surgery and had to quit my job for the state because of me falling asleep on job disability i was forced out of my job because of health problems. I was stop breathing 500 times a night every 60 seconds i stopped breathing. Pschiatrist knew this also before giving me seroquel that causes death in type II diabetics. I was only getting 70 percent oxygen at night. Now im only getting 50 percent oxygen at night my condition has worsened and i pray to my god above that i survive through this. This is not right for doctors to get away with killing people by not reading their charts. Sleep Apnea causes memory loss oxygen loss heart attacks strokes diabitis my pschiatrist new all of this when he prescribed me seroquel. Im not a doctor i trusted him though and almost died from it and i could still die from it. Pure negligence on pschiatrist part please help me im in bad health have been for three years.

I forgot to mention in my last post that in the past few years my wife has attempted suicide (in front of our then 5 year old son) and it hasn’t really done anything to stabilize her mood unless you can call sleeping a”mood”,she still has severe mood swings,she is already at risk for diabetes(family history),and now she is even more depressed due to the amount of weight she has gained.(as I mentioned in my last post,5 kids in 7 years.She went back down to a size 2 within a month of having number 5 without any diet or exercise.)

My wife started taking Seroquel back in 2004 for Schitzoaffective disorder and Bi-polar disorder. In less than a year she gained about 70 lbs. My wife had 5 kids in 7 years,and she was a size 2. Her doctor(if that’s what you want to call him) had her on apprx 6 to 8 different meds at one time,including Seroquel.(At 1 point she was taking 1200mg at bedtime) This stuff destroyed her!! Her energy went down to nothing…she slept all day and night,she would get up in the middle of the night and raid the fridge because she said it made her always hungry. She has had a few seizures(not sure if its related because she had her first one before we ever heard of this stuff).Our marriage is over,she is completely dependant on this drug,she cant sleep without it. None of her “doctors” have ever communicated with each other to discuss my wife’s history.( she is a recovering substance abuser),all they ever do is push more pills down her throat.With her disorders,they shouldnt be giving her a ton of this stuff, sending her home and then asking her a month later if she thinks it’s working.They did it with Xanax,Colonapin(sp),you name it.. Now my kids can’t see their mother unless I’m present. My 13 year old daughter now has issues of her own,and the doctors want to put her on meds.When and how does it end??? Everyone I know is on something,or someone they know is on something. It’s like 6 degrees of seperation with this stuff. Oh, and my wife left me for a Schitzophenic she met in rehab,this stuff killed my 14 year marriage. Don’t let your loved ones take this drug,please.

I am not prescribed seroquel but was given three 300mg pills from a friend to help me sleep after my mother was diagnosed with aml luekemia and I started having anxiety and sleep problems. I was reluctant to take them but on monday nov. 30th at 4:30am unable to sleep i broke a third off one pill and took 100mg and fell asleep. I woke the next morning to take my mother to the cancer center to do labwork. I remember waking and driving down there but have no memory after arriving till 10pm that night. Also my mother says I was very irrational and agitated, I have no memory of being upset ot anything of the sort. So that night around 10:20 I remember I was going to bed and decided the 100mg didnt help so I decided to take the whole 300mg pill. I have no memory of anything until dec.4th 12:03am where I awoke in the county jail charged with 1st degree armed robbery facing 10-20 years in prison. I’m not in some desperate situation which would push to me to commint such a horrid crime. Now anyone that knows me, knows I would never do such a thing. I’ve never been charged or convicted of any violent or crimes of theft. And one thing anyone, even my enemies, could never call me is a thief. Since then I’ve had the most realistic terrifying dreams that leave me afraid to sleep because I know they’re there. The dreams are not even scary just the realism of them scares me. I also see things, like on a blank wall I see images in the paint texture, or on the floor. Even stains in clothes, a ruffled blanket, and when I close my eyes I see these images. The images are nothing bad just startling because they are just there and before taking 400mg of seroquel I had never experienced them before. I dont have to look for them or make them out, I just automatically see them. But please if your taking this drug or deciding if you should, DON’T! It has so many terrible and deadly side effects, and can change you and make you capable of doing things you never would do. I don’t see or know how this drug could ever have been approved. It can ruin your life and the lives of your loved ones in so many ways.

I’m 18, I was 15 when my psychiatrist gave me Seroquel. I was 110 pounds. Over a 3month period my weight went up to 175. I have since lost all the weight and am down to 120, but I have a lot of confidence issues now that I have bad stretch marks from the Seroquel.

My mom started taking Seroquel a few months ago. She has Alzheimer’s and hallucinations. Not only did the doctors give her this medicine but 7 others. My mom was in excellent health. Two days ago she had a seizure and passed out. She was rushed to the hospital and her heart stopped. They had to put a temporary pacemaker in. Tomorrow she will have a permanent pacemaker. I researched the drugs she was on and told my sister (her legal guardian) to tell the hospital to take her off of all drugs. My sister did and the doctors did reluctantly. I’m so upset we trusted in a system that destroyed my Mom’s health. I truly believe Seroquel and this cocktail of drugs destroyed her health. My grandmother and her ten siblings lived to over 90 with no heart problems. The doctors said the drugs had nothing to do with her heart problems. Bull@&%$! That is was her age. She is 77 and like I said was in excellent health. My sister asked the psychiatrist at the hospital if she could have a referral to another psych hospital for my Mom to be re-evaluated once she leaves because her drugs did not work. He said she had no psych problems and refused the referral. ????? My Mom has been at this particular hospital for two weeks very recently. We believe he does not want to be found out that his cocktail of drugs destroyed my Mom’s health. Please people, do not take this horrible drug and research every drug your doctor prescribes.

Hello I am a 30yr old female and I have been perscribed seroquill for bipolar and sleep disorder. I am takin about 150 every night. I been gaining weight and am lethargic. My moods r more stable but I now see all the horrible health risks involved and I’m scared. Can I stop this drug cold turkey? What is an alternative like as in a natural herb.

I was prescribed Seroquel for sleep and proceeded to take the medication over a 3 year period as prescribed. During the third year I developed severe chest pain and an EKG showed that I had developed a right bundle branch block, a condition usually found in elderly patients, and of an unknown cause. I took this pill for sleep as prescribed by a doctor, and now all I have for it is this. I also have esophageal ulcers.

I was given Seroquel while in rehab in Jacksonville Fl. I have gained about 30lbs.my nervous are shattered and I am having muscle spasms. I was given around 700mg a day. I know this is a high dose and I have alot of problems now.

i started taking seroquel in 2004 i gained 100 pounds and i’ve had a hard time getting the weight off. i think to myself how can a medicine company be so cruel; knowing that this medicine can cause diabetes and even death