So I took only 25 mg of Seroquel last night (instead of 100) and I feel sooo much better!!! As if I had been a serious alcoholic or drug addict and suddenly woke up clean (without the withdrawals). The 25 mg still helped me sleep last night (without making me pass out), I got up at a decent time (instead of at 12 or 1, I don't have work today), my head isn't cloudy, I feel great.

My pdoc returned my call today and wanted me to take 25 on workdays and 100 on non-workdays, but I insisted on taking 25mg every day; I don't want to sacrifice my days off to this med, spending half the day in bed, waking up so groggy, etc.

I'm hoping this will help my job performance as well (which takes a great deal of focus, a very good memory -lots of energy) and I'll hopefully be able to go way down on caffeine (I was up to 5-6 double espressos a day to be able to do my job).

In any case, it should certainly help with what is most important, which is not getting in a car accident and potentially hurting or killing myself and/or others.

I'm keeping a mood diary. The idea is to increase it on non-workdays if something were to happen mood-wise. The Seroquel had always been prescribed to prevent/stop hypo/mania, so my only concern is that if I were to get hypomanic, would I not increase it because I felt so good? At least I have some people looking out for my mood, and could help me do what needs to be done, if it comes to that. It also helps with depression, and that's when I'm most likely to increase it again (on non-workdays), but if I were to start just feeling down, I don't want to jump immediately to increasing it, I want to try other modalities (meditation, turning to my support system, etc.) rather than that, at least if and until it gets really bad.

So I'm really happy about how things have played out so far. As I say, I'm keeping a mood diary and hopefully this will help my quality of life in so many ways.