I took Abilify, but it didn’t help.

Seroquel has helped me tremendously, but I responded differently to delayed release versus the regular release, so if you tried one form, and it didn’t help, it doesn’t mean the other won’t work for you. Regular release works great for me. The pdoc tried me on the time released version, and I felt sedated and sleepy all day, no energy at all. I have seen others post having the opposite effect for them, so it could be worth it to try the other version if you have not.

I took geodon a long time ago (prescribed during a psych hospital stay). I don’t think I took it long though once out of the hospital. The pdoc took me off it, and that was when I was using the state county sliding scale/free mental health system. The one I went to in the Houston area could and did prescribe everything under the sun. I am not exactly sure why I was taken off the geodon except that I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder at the time and not bipolar.

Some mental health workers (both pdocs and therapists have vastly different opinions on meds). When I was trying to find a T just recently, I talked to one on the phone. The instant I told her I was on Seroquel, she told me to go back to the pdoc, get my meds adjusted and then call her again; needless to say, I did not take her advice or call her again. And of course lots of pdocs don’t want to prescribe benzos because of the tightening laws.