My pdoc had temporarily upped my Seroquel dosage to 450 mg/night due to a recent bout of manic symptoms. The mania seems to have subsided a bit, and I called him up today and asked if I could go back down to the 300 mg/night. The 450 mg was just making me so tired, I needed to nap every day. He said OK, but if I get manicky again to call him and we'll discuss the dosage, or I might have to come in early. I hope and pray I do not fall back into mania. I can't stay that tired every day especially since the school year is drawing to a close, and I will have my daughter at home all day for the summer, except for a couple of week long day camps. I can tolerate the 300 mg/night just fine, but not above that. I think it is worse in that it is also that time of month for me, and because I had a perforated ulcer, I can no longer use NSAIDs for pain, only Tylenol, which doesn't do a thing for me. Fingers crossed manic symptoms won't return.
I hate having to constantly tinker with meds...sigh.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, anorexia, panic disorder, ADHD
Seroquel, Cymbalta, propanolol, buspirone, Trazodone, gabapentin, lamotrigine, hydroxyzine,
There's a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen
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