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Originally Posted by Yoda
I stopped taking my zyprexa cold turkey when I had not refilled the prescription and I had withdrawal symptoms.
So maybe it is not the addition of the seroquel that is causing your irritability and change in sleep but rather it could be withdrawal from zyprexa. Perhaps you should ask your pdoc about low dose zyprexa and how to wean yourself off of it.
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Usually you can switch from one AP to a comparable dose of another AP ie zyprexa to seroquel without major withdrawal symptoms it's not the same as stopping all APs cold turkey..it would be like if you had a headache you could switch from Tylenol to Advil and still have an effective treatment but quitting all analgesics would lead to a return of headache pain. However seroquel is weaker than zyprexa so it might not be effective so you could have withdrawal an equivalent analogy would be switching to baby aspirin...it might work but not for everyone...