I have depression and insomnia and have been on meds for 15+ years. I've been on Seroquel for sleep for a while. Starting off at 25mg, then 50, and now 100. (This happened over YEARS.) My new doctor wanted to get me off of it because of the long term side effects it could have. (I currently have none of these and am still fairly young.) So I slowly started going down until I hit 50mg every night. My sleep has been ok. Not as good as on the 100, and lately I'm noticing I'm sleeping half the night and then waking up 6-12 times the rest of the night.
The problem is, I'm having mood and depression issues, which I haven't had in a LONG time. I've had those under control for a while and it took me by surprise that I would have these issues coming off of something that I just took for sleep.
Is it possible that the Seroquel is helping with my depression and I didn't know it? I'm confused about what's going on and what I should do now because I feel like crap and I think my doctor is being overly sensitive about these long term effects.