About 12 years ago when I went out of work from anxiety & then depression, the pdoc I had then was experimenting on trying to find something that would work on me.....they really didn't seem to have any real Dx for me, just experimenting. One of the experiments was with lithium.....I was in the hospital at the time after an OD & he decided to try a very low dose of lithium. I was so bad I couldn't hold anything in my hand, not even a cup of water without spilling it all over. I was off of it immediately.......my problem wasn't bipolar but at the time, they were grasping at straws.....trying to find anything that would help.....then never did find anything that helped that anxiety/depression state (which was situational).

After going through a trauma last year, my anxiety came back full force along with nausea that caused anorexia. The nightmares & flashbacks finally let my pdoc realize that I really did live through a trauma & was experiencing PTSD. The anti-anxiety med didn't help at all, & I kept getting worse until I tried a left over dose of my seroquel. I guess I am rather lucky in that it keeps my nightmares away mostly unless I don't get enough sleep & end up in that state between sleep & awake (that is when the nightmares & flashbacks haunt me). Mostly, I am able to sleep off the groggyness, so not badly effected by that aspect of the seroquel.

I know meds are totally dependent on our bodies reactions to them.....it is great when there is a med that actually works without all the horrible side effects that I get from most meds.

Debbie