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#1
Dec 20, 2011, 09:58 PM
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Hey all:
My Pdoc recently prescribed me Seroquel. When I first tried it, it made me super tired in the morning and then pretty mellow in the afternoon (my music started sounding even better). This was at 50mg. Then I was bumped up to 100mg and it knocked me out so bad I was actually a little scared. So I'm going back to 50mg, starting tonight. I've read a lot of negative things about Seroquel. But has anyone had a good experience with it? Does it help with your concentration? How about this music thing? For some reason it makes music sound better for me. I've been a guinea pig for so many meds lately I'm getting sick of it and just want to find something that works. Thanks! |
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#2
Dec 20, 2011, 10:12 PM
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it worked very well until I was allergic to it.
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#3
Dec 20, 2011, 10:22 PM
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I have a pretty positive experience using Seroquel. Aside from a few nasty side effects of minimal weight gain and slightly disturbing vivid dreams, it's made me feel amazingly balanced.
I hope yours turns out to be a positive experience, also. 
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#4
Dec 20, 2011, 10:56 PM
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I wish I could say my experience was great.
my last experience with it was lousy(though I did not have the typical weight gain), and I am back on it again hoping against hope that It will help and work this time. I was just bumped up to 100mg and I will be there for a while regardless of whether I fall asleep on my feet. It is that Necessary right now. I am trusting my doc this time. We have a long history together and I don't seem to have a choice this go around. Gotta stabalize or go to the hospital. YUK 
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#5
Dec 20, 2011, 11:05 PM
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I am currently on 350mg of Seroquel XR - I have been on this medication at different doses for quite a while now. The experience is mostly positive.
POSITIVE: -Helps me to maintain a regular sleep cycle -Helps with anxiety -Helps with any possible psychotic symptoms that can come with manic episode NEGATIVE: -Depending on dosage in the past, I would sleep too much (14-16 hours per day) -Even after a huge amount of sleep, would feel groggy and unmotivated My highest dose of the Seroquel XR was 600mg, and it was too much. I am currently fine with the 350mg. I typically sleep 9-12 hours a day, which is fine with me. Usually 9 hours though! I hope you find this medication to be helpful. 
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Dec 20, 2011, 11:07 PM
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Once I adjusted (give it a week), it wasn't bad for me. The dreams sucked, but I didn't have weight gain and most of my manic moments were positive. I went off because I couldn't afford it anymore, but I would try it again. Plus, I had problems getting up in the morning. Once I learned that when I got up, I was fine; it worked ok.
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Dec 21, 2011, 04:00 AM
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I just put a post in the parenting forum. My 16 yr old son hates seroquesl will not take it. He was prescribed 300mg xr for bipolar depression. Said he felt cofused and foggy. I'm waiting for our next pdoc appt to find a better combo for him.
So, no , not a good exp here. Except he said he did like the anti-anxiety affect of the 25mg, but that was long ago. |
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#8
Dec 21, 2011, 03:54 PM
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I am on the regular Seroquel. It helps me a whole lot.
However, the XR version make me feel numb and I lost all my creativity.
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#9
Dec 21, 2011, 10:53 PM
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Wow. Sounds like Seroquel doesn't agree with a lot people. I'm on my second day at 50mg and feeling better. Once I get over that groggy feeling in the morning (nothing a few cups of strong coffee can't handle!), I feel fine. Mostly mellow, and I can concentrate easier because my mind isn't racing and it takes away my anxiety.
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Dec 21, 2011, 10:55 PM
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Dec 22, 2011, 12:07 AM
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Seroquel made me feel horrible.....almost more depressed than before. I just felt like a zombie and it was almost impossible to get up for work in the morning. I got to the point where I chose to feel pain than nothing at all and just out of it!
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#12
Dec 22, 2011, 02:24 AM
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I got fat! immediately! SEroquel definitely helped me get me sleeping while manic, however I was really groggy in the morning, slept through alarms, late to work, couldn't think until around 10am.
(my dose was 200mg) Lots of people I know feel awesome with 25 or 50 without too much grog in the morning. But at that time of my life i was on so much other crap its hard to tell.
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Dec 22, 2011, 02:54 AM
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This drug acutally caused me to hallucinate (never hallucinated before). I stuck with it though, and it around 300mg it was working somewhat. Although now that I view back on it, it mostly made me a zombie with no emotions, but it resolved the problem of disorganized thinking. 3 months into the 300mg dose I started to feel very uneasy a few hrs after taking the 300mg XR. This turned into severe akathisia, with me pacing madly for 2 hrs for the drug to settle down in my system so I could (literally) pass out to sleep. This in turn developed into something far worse, voices would turn low pitched and metallic, and my mind started skipping and starting like it was a stop watch; at one point I could feel myself succumbing to darkness like I was about to die. Needless to say, I will never take that crap ever again.
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#14
Dec 22, 2011, 09:21 AM
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I agree with everyone... Seroquel made me feel like cement. I even tried abilify, but that made mr more anxious. So now lithium is my main helping drug!
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Dec 23, 2011, 01:06 PM
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I sleep too much. I tried 50mg and I sleep 10-12 hours. I tried 25mg and I still sleep 10-12 hours. :|
I tried not taking it for a day and I felt horrible and couldn't sleep.
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