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Old May 12, 2014, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ginaaa22 View Post
Just started taking seroquel and its supposed to help nightmares?? Any thoughts?

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Not really... on low doses of 100mg or less it doesn't activate the antipsychotic properties of the medication according to medscape and my p-doc. I take it at night to sleep throughout the night giving me almost a good 8 hours.

However, the documented side effects and from my own personal experience with this particular medication is that you get *very vivid, colorful, surreal, sometimes nightmarish, and even erotic dreams from taking Seroquel/Quetipine*. I am fighting nightmares every night but my p-doc has put me on Prazosin at a recently titrated dose of 4mg a night to help and it is helping some but Seroquel is a powerful dream inducer. Please keep us informed how it is affecting your sleep and dreams.

DX: Schizoaffective Disorder, Panic Disorder, OCD, Depression, Nightmare Disorder, Seizure Disorder
RX: Neurontin, Xanax, Lisinopril, Metroprolol ER, Prazosin, Sinequan, Zyprexa, Seroquel

Best of luck with Seroquel,

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