Does anyone get creepy nightmares from Seroquel?

I used to take seroquel because I could never sleep..It gave me crazy nightmares every night, multiple dreams everynight..So I had my doc switch me to trazadone... And no more nightmares!!!

Whenever I am experiencing a severe bout of mental illness (I have depression and anxiety) I experience extremely vivid nightmares, and more recently and for the first time in my life; night terrors. However I've JUST started on quintipine (or Seroquel in the US, seems so you guys call everything by its brand name!) and last night the nightmares were THAT bad that I woke the whole house up screaming repeatedly at the top of my lungs, and I think the neighbours too. Bearing in mind I'm a 31 year old male. I have NEVER done this so badly in my entire life. Scary stuff. With that and the intense anger I'm feeling since I started the quintipine two days ago, I'm not sure I will continue with this treatment. It's just I'm not responding to about 10 different antidepressants (no wonder when they barely beat, or are equal to, placebo in clinical trials) and they're trying everything they can before they send me in for an ECT :'(

I'm on 75mg of seroquel and I've been having nightmares more and more.

Just last night I had a dream within a dream within a dream. It was the scariest one so far. When I woke up I shook my fiance awake and asked if I was really awake. I had to explain I had already woken him up and asked this.

I still wasn't completely sure I was awake even though he stayed awake till I went back to sleep. I keep all of my nightmares on my phone so I typed it in. when I woke up the next time I looked at my phone and it had been put in about 1-2 hours after I fell asleep the first time.

It was the scariest, creepiest, and fastest time I've had a nightmare so far. I've been on seroquel for about 7 months.

I thought I was going crazy... I recently started taking it and I have a low dose... I have the most scariest vivd dreams I don't sleep at night anymore... I have even bitten my pillow thinking I was being attacked and I've answered my phone with my hand... I had a friend watch me for a few nights and when I saw the recording I was shocked.

On 50 mg. and have nightmares every night, usually about being in a helpless position.

I have been taken seroquel for 3 years I get 100 mgs and I brake them in half I have been getting crazy dreams that I feel like I cant wake up from its like a dream in a dream and I must admit this scares me to death I also take klonopin 1mg the dreams come and go it seems like if I take a specific color a light brown I don't get them as bad but my phmy change to some other ones and last night I had a bad dream is it possible to get a hart actack while you are trying to wake up out of a horrible dream? ??

I'm the same way, I've been having ok dreams and also bad nightmares about my love life and my relationships and my marriage for 4 years now, they been happening a few times now. Yes it's sucks, this med of seroquel really helps me with sleeping been on it for almost a year now, it's much stronger and more heavily effective then any other medication that my doctor told me. There pros an cons about this medication

yes indeed,at first I used to have pleasant dreams, but now it has changed to mild nightmares , not scary but unpleasant . I always wake up a few times a night during those mild nightmares because they are so vivid and last for such a long time (same long story) so now, when I'll wake up during a nightmare, i'll go sit for 5 minutes in the living room and eat half of a banana, then go back to sleep and see if this nightmare will either change the "topic" , go away and change for a more pleasant one .. I take only half of a seroquel orange 25 now instead of a whole one or 2 and it still put me to sleep anyway . I also take some Methocarbamol ( a muscle relaxant ) .The dreams are a bit less vivid and I feel better the day after.

I've been on Seroquel for 5 years first 300mg's then 600 and now 900 I cant sleep without it, I've had nightmares the entire time but I chose to continue taking Seroquel because without it I'd be lucky if I slept 2-3 hours.. I know some med's like Xanax do help but with the abuse of drugs so high your one of the lucky ones if you can get your Doctor to prescribe it.. I'm 53 and I'm no newbie when it comes to drugs and effects, what works and what doesn't .. Placidyl, 714's and lots of the old medications worked great for sleep but like most medications they had a potential for abuse and when the drug loses profitability and generics are made the drug companies want to sell the newest more expensive drugs. It's about the bottom line and it's BS but hey its the price we pay to live in the "greatest country" in the world?

A SOLUTELY!!! They are terrifying and so realistic like I'm awake when they are happening. I've been on Seroquel since about 2000 and have always had them but I need it for sleep. It causes panic attacks everytime I take it so, I have to take klonopin for that. Also, cause severe dry mouth and stuffy nose. I would love to change but even my regular sleep meds won't work without Seroquel

yes I have bad memories of Seroquel, horrible nightmares that repeated themselves and evolved and that was the main reason I strongly requested to be taken off of it. they would keep me up at night they were so vivid,still remember some of them. try to draw them to get them on paper as therapy.

Thank goodness I don't get them from Seroquel. I used to get night terrors from Cipramil/Cipralex. The nightmares would be like one horror movie inside another horror movie in graphic detail. I would wake up in sheer terror and to top things off, I'd hallucinate glow in the dark evil spirits in my room. Sometimes I'd just sit up in bed with the light on too terrified to go to sleep. Sometimes the dreams were so bad I'd be too traumatised to go to work.
It more than sucks it is incredibly distressing - a drug that sposed help BPD should help eliminate stress not create it . Maybe your meds need to be adjusted? In my case I discovered I can not tolerate SSRIs. Which also really sucks.

Hi, Mike! Ouch, that's nasty and I sorry you're having this problem! I wish I could offer some good advice, but I had the opposite problem. Before Seroquel I constantly had horrible, vivid nightmares waking me up, shaking and sweating into the next day. Now I sleep like a rock and only rarely, vaguely, remember any dreams.
If you've just begun taking Seroquel, it could be an effect that may resolve with a little more time.
Be sure and let your doctor know about this ~ a dosage adjustment might help. Seroquel's side effects seem to occur more frequently at lower doses, but if you're already on a high dose your doctor might advise a lower dose.
Good luck with this. I hope you're feeling better soon. WCV