My intent is not to frighten anyone regarding Seroquel. I believe it’s a very important and useful medication in a select group of people. However I believe that it is way over prescribed, it’s prescribed for uses that the manufacturer doesn’t think it should be used for nor do many researchers. It has extremely serious and sometimes irreversible side effects and I just believe people should be made aware of those facts, and they are facts. Admittedly some of the side effects may not happen often but they do happen. A friend of mine who has schizophrenia has been on Seroquel, he now has Seroquel induced diabetes. That’s not to say that he never should’ve been on it. Seroquel helped more than any other drug but the improvement for his schizophrenia caused him to have another serious disease, diabetes. I’m not a scaremonger and I’m sorry some believe I am. Sometime back I attended a support group meeting for people with Tardive Dyskinesia. Some of those people got it from Seroquel some got it from other antipsychotics. But the fact remains antipsychotic medications are powerful and can cause serious side effects and shouldn’t be treated with such a cavalier attitude by clinicians or patients.
Jake