Hey friends. Patients at Quetiapine Reviews & Ratings - Drugs.com rates quetiapine fairly high with ratings of 10 being common occurrence.
My question is how do you folks view quetiapine? My doctor thinks that I should take it as part of my sleeplessness issue. But wondering how will it affect me since I also take other antipsychotic called “solian amisulpride.”
Thanks folks
Everyone reacts differently to meds. Quetiapine nearly killed me. So thumbs down from me!
Oh damn so sorry to hear it. I’ll probably consider pill rather than injection in case of allergic reaction.
Im Sorry to hear that. Right now it feels like quetiapin Seroquel saves my life
Seroquel gave me tachycardia, really bad . I was on it from 2005-2008 did work well for sleep. I was on 800mg
Good to hear you found your medicine. @anon55055794
Sorry to hear friend. It’s possible that the dose was very high as it seems that some people are having good results with much lower doses @Natron
It acts as a good antipsychotic med for me.
I still had episodes on it. But I took it for like 4 years. Slept good on it at high doses. I took 700mg.
It’s going great for me. When we’ve lowered the dose, I have had issues. I’m at 400mg oral route. I can sleep most nights, but other meds that I take (probably my abilify) allow me to feel less groggy during the day.
ETA: Weight gain! So much weight gain!!! It has been a choice between weight gain and sanity, though, and I chose sanity.
I’m very positive on Seroquel Qutiapine.
I take 750 mg for all the aspects of paranoid Schizophrenia with a LAI and they work were well for that.
It works well with very few side effects and very calming.
When used for sleeping 
the recommended dose is between 25 mg - 100 mgs.
Best answer.
Just because Quetiapine works for me doesn’t mean it will work for you. But for what it’s worth, I take 400 mg every night and the first year I took it, it made me tired in the morning on work days and it made me sleep in until 11:00 am on my days off. Now I’m used to it and I can get up at regular time and do stuff on my days off. It may affect you differently and even if it works for you like it works for me, you may need a different dosage then me.
Thanks folks really good insights.
@Happy_H Would you credit your surplus calories as main factor for gaining weight? The obvious answer is probably yes. But I’m thinking trying this out within nutritional ketosis framework, and then just having controlled portions and not allowing myself to binge, not even once.
@Ghosts 100 knocked me cold yesterday. But restlessness legs didn’t allowed me to carry on with that beauty sleep. Gotta try again.
I liked Seroquel for anxiety I took 50mg as needed however one time I couldn’t sit still manic as hell and took like 600mg or something and I felt Terrible it made me extremely depressed I had to call my therapist and he convinced me to wait till the seroquel got out of my system idk why people call it “the prisoners antipsychotic” after that I think all there trying to do is sleep through there prison sentence idk 
it’s the only reason I can think of
I honestly cannot say, @Genesis. I am prone to going up and down in weight significantly- doubling my weight and then losing it all for no reason, no med change. I didn’t do that this time, just gained more. THere is an extra calorie intake to a certain amount, but I generally try to keep track f that. When I was on my weight management program, I logged everything religiously and was much more careful than usual, and I still gained an average of 4-5 pounds a month. That makes me hesitate to blame calories outright since altering calories did not alter weight gain. Now, I have a mini fridge in my room with healthy snacks- apples, grapes, salad supplies, things along those lines. I tend to avoid getting up and going downstairs, so this way I only have good things available within reach.
It works pretty well for me but gave me metabolic syndrome so I’m switching to abilify, which is working better for me it seems
1-5 star ratings calculated for medication are not accurate. There is strong bifurcation in the ratings with clustering between two groups one rating strongly positive and one rating strongly negative. It is also likely that one person rating highly for this medication will also rate lowly for all the other previous medications that didn’t work well for them.
You can find an analogous argument to why everyone who is currently on their medication thinks it’s the best medication.
I chose seroquel because it didn’t rely on dopamine suppression,
and it did feel great;
however it warns there is a high risk of cataracts,
and that you should get a base line test, and regular testing
to see if cataracts are developing.
. my psychiatrist chose to ignore that advice
and after I started to feel symptoms of cataracts
even with melatonin supplementation,
I decided to stop taking seroquel,
and my cataracts never got worse after that.
. you can’t taper slow enough off seroquel;
I had extreme thyroid problems after withdrawing.
. you will always need a sleeping aid after using seroquel;
but there’s a bit of that with any antipsychotic.
(I was briefly put on antipsychotics for being
a non-compliant teen rather than psychotic
and withdrawing from haldol caused much less need for sleep
but seroquel withdrawal was much more powerful in causing sleep loss).
I’ve been doing well on geodon for 10 years,
but I’ve had heart pain
and then my psychiatrist started wanting testing for
long QT interval, which is caused by the geodon
and increases the risk of sudden death (heart stops).
It didn’t work for me and on high doses it gave me tardive dyskinesia in my arms.
I will always remember Seroquel as my life saver from the withdrawal symptoms I got from going off Ziprasidone and I rate it as one of the best atypical antipsychoticsn:star:
But it seems no longer as needed in my treatment as before so now I only take 200 mgs for sleep besides of my main antipsychotics that’s a LAI.
I’m one to say most mentally ill folk are overmedicated. That’s my opinion. I laid in bed a few extra hours today and I didn’t enjoy it. I am on a low dose of antipsychotic and antidepressant. It took a lifetime to achieve it.