Has anybody else almost died from Seroquel? Because I have bipolar, I have gone without sleeping as long as 90 days. Seroquel seemed to be the answer. However, when I first started taking it, I'd get racing pulse and hallucinations for several hours, but once they wore off, I'd be able to sleep. But I had dizziness each morning. My dose was lowered, to where I was only taking 25 mg. a day, but I kept getting sicker and sicker. I was so nauseous, I lost 50 lbs. My pulse went down to 49....not to mention my blood pressure. Then, I couldn't feel my legs at times, got double vision, I got a lump on the side of my face, then woke up one morning to find another lump on my back. Then I began having profuse sweating, as though I had a fever, and having pain everywhere, including my teeth. I eventually got so sick I could not get out of bed, even to call the doctor. So I went off the medication for two days, finally felt well enough to call the doctor. Within 5 days of quitting this medicine, all the symptoms, except the lumps, went away, including my pulse going back to 69. A friend who farms told me about Melatonin, which we used to get naturally in food. I started taking that, and now I'm sleeping normal hours, with no side effects. Melatonin is also a powerful anti-oxidant. The doctors are running tons of tests, but I didn't have the symptoms before Seroquel, and I don't have them now. But when I got well enough to research Seroquel, I found out it works by blocking nerve transmissions in the brain, which is the ONLY medicine I have ever found that works this way...other meds work by inhibiting Serotonin other less readical methods. I was also sleeping about 20 hours a day, only able to sit up for a half hour a day. I also read that sales of it last year were $300 billion dollars, and 10,000 people have died of it. I got so sick that I felt if I took ONE more dose of it, I'd die. The last dose I took, my feet were tightening, to the point of my toes sticking together, and my doctor told me muscle stiffness is one of the rare but fatal side effects. Your heart is a muscle, so stiffness of muscles would account for my pulse getting down to 49. I'm on a crusade now to let people know how dangerous this drug is. I am sleeping better on Melatonin than I have ever slept on any psychiatric medicine, and it is available at health food stores at about $6.95 a bottle for a month. II am taking 2 3mg tablets a night. As long as I sleep, I don't get symptoms of bipolar. St. John's Wort contains a little Melatonin, but not enough to help me sleep regularly. I am now feeling the best I have felt since I was a child, sleeping regularly, not groggy in the morning, finally able to focus and feeling relaxed enough to quit smoking. I hope this helps someone else, because they've tried many, many medicines on me over the years, and I know people who've taken 10 hits of acid at once, but tried Seroquel (400mg) and felt like they were going to die trying a single dose. My doctor's office just called me because my brain CAT scan has something alarming on it, and now I have to see a neurosurgeon. I've been on the medicine for 3 years, and if there's anything messed up with my brain physically, I'm sure it's from the Seroqel.