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Originally Posted by VanGore28
Your on the right track some antipsychotics lower blood pressure.
I am on 500mg quetiapine. When I was first put on it, at 300mg I would wake up before work every morning with a dizzy spell and have to stand out in the cold till it passed and I had a couple cups of tea to rehydrate. You simply have to build up a tolerance, if its keeping you well, mentally. It is worth getting used to. I have fainted on certain drugs like ripseridone, smashed my chin off the kitchen work tops. And when I took on a second job I had to sit down once as I was dizzy and they thought I was pregnant lol that was the quetiapine.
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True, that is a good way to look at it that more time needs to go by before I can fully tolerate the higher dose. It is keeping me well mentally, so I really don't want to lower my dosage yet. Eventually I will be ready to bring down the dose a little bit, but I haven't had enough time stable yet. It's the downside of finding a medication that seems to work well, but then all the other side effects we must deal with.
Today, I didn't notice any signfiicant side effects, knock on wood. It seems like it is every few days where I'll notice something that bothers me. The tremor in my hand hasn't happened this week. I'm trying to keep hydrated and not pop up so quick at my alarm so that I don't get as dizzy.
Since I have some days where I don't experience the side effects, maybe eventually I'll adjust where it is rare or no longer a problem as time goes on. I do wish the appetite increase would go away.