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@Lady Shadow - Definitely check into a prescription of Seroquel to see if it will help. I know at high dosages it can be prescribed in place of an AD (but tended to make study subjects too sleepy so it is rarely prescribed that way), but my pdoc says there are still AD benefits in lower dosages of Seroquel. Even if you don't get AD benefits, you may see benefits in terms of anxiety or panic, and for me, my mood tends to be better when I'm not anxious or having panic attacks. I know people tend to shy away from Seroquel because of weight gain, but not everybody gains weight on it, and I'm on pretty high dosages - 25 mg twice a day for anxiety and 300 mg at night for the AP benefits. I do exercise, and it's not that Seroquel gives me the energy to exercise, it doesn't really, but I have enough drive usually to start exercise in the morning and once I start I'm able to go a little farther and a little farther from that and in the end, I've had a good workout that morning. Still, it was better than Zyprexa; I had ZERO willpower to exercise on that and gained 25 lb. before I just refused to take it any more.
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