A good pdoc prescribes meds that will help in your situation. You shouldn't want to be given an anti-psychotic because whatever you're on right now isn't working. An AP isn't going to help either if it isn't effective for what it's prescribed. Lots of people (I'd say the majority, in fact) tend to experience weight gain on APs, sometimes quite a lot of weight gain. I am lucky in that I have not gained weight on Seroquel, but I my experience is not at all typical. The exact opposite in fact. I'm happy with the Seroquel; for me, if I were gaining weight because of a med, I wouldn't take it because of my past with eating disorders and I tell every pdoc that. I am lucky with the Seroquel; it does help me quite a lot with sleep, but a lot of people experience all-day fatigue on it. I had to stop taking Seroquel XR because literally, I would sleep as much as I could all day, every day. I was exhausted on it.

I, too, have noticed issues with my memory. Whether it's the Seroquel or the cocktail, I can't say. Sometimes I have to say or write a sentence in a roundabout way because the word I want won't come to me. When I'm typing, sometimes I have to use a homonym for a word because I can't think how to spell the word I really want to use, and it's a big pain to go to an online thesaurus on a cell phone. Earlier today, I struggled for awhile typing an email because I couldn't remember how to spell the word "such".

Now, I graduated valedictorian of my high school class, university
summa cum laude with only one "B" with a B.S. in Microbiology. My university grades were higher than a lot of students applying to med school. Eventually, I got an M.S. in Cell & Molecular Biology, publishing several scientific articles, one of them a first author article in a major journal in the field of microbiology (did my grad school work on protein transport in gram-negative bacteria like E. coli). I was always a voracious reader, and I think that resulted in my becoming an excellent speller, and here I am, and it probably took me 3 minutes today to figure out how to spell "such". These little memory blips always come & go; you can't predict them, and rarely is it ever the same thing twice.