I have been on & off seroquel for years. Initially is was just for depression & then things got better & I went off everything & all was ok for awhile until I got into a horrible trauma situation with my Mother who was dying of cancer & the home care person abused her & pulled a horrible ID theft that I caught her doing. That situation turned into some PTSD symptoms that I couldn't handle. At first, my pdoc just tried antianxiety meds that did absolutely NOTHING. I had some left over seroquel & tried that. It seemed to work, but needed a huge dose to be able to sleep without the horrible nightmares that kept me awake.

As I was feeling better as time went on, I was able to lower the dose myself since my pdoc gave me samples at all the different doses. If I needed to function, I couldn't take much since it usually left me pretty groggy for long into the day. Now I am feeling much better but anxiety attacks are still bothering me as more & more things come up that have to be taken care of. Now however, when I feel a horrible anxiety attack coming on, I just take 25mg & lay down for awhile. The attack passes & I am functional again. I can pretty much judge what I need which really helps instead of having to take a set dose when I don't need it.