Fern, I'm sorry you got sick with a virus (or other), too. I hope you and your family members are on the road to recovery. There are still days to go before the holidays and New Years. I second that I hope we're all feeling much better and staying well in 2020.

Christina, I also hope that when you can finally get the treatment you need that you will see positive improvement in your health. It's a bugger that you have to wait longer.

I'm happy to say that my bronchitis/flu/cold is pretty much gone now. I'm still trying to take things slowly. I still get easily tired out from bigger projects.

Pookyl, I'm sorry about all of the extra weight you need to contend with. And I totally understand that feeling of wanting to rebel against diets. Has your doctor considered maybe adding a more weight friendly medication in addition to the Seroquel, as a means of slowly lowering the Seroquel dose? I see in your signature (if it's still up-to-date) that you're on three antipsychotics (two of which are Seroquel). How does the Saphris work for you? Is that weight neutral? Saphris is a medication I have never personally tried. I do know Seroquel XR and regular Seroquel quite well. I take a very small dose of Latuda as another antipsychotic. My guess is that Latuda is more helpful at keeping my bipolar depression away than curbing/preventing mania. Every time I start to get hypomanic or manic, my Seroquel XR dose goes up, or I take regular Seroquel as a prn.