[cocoabeans]

I didn't want to sleep so, I didn't take my seroquel. Now it is morning and birds are chirping, I'm not tired but, I'm lazy and don't want to do anything not even sleep, sleep is a waste of time that I could use doing nothing at all.

[Trippin2.0]

Wow, have you been reading my mind? I've been feeling like that for the last 2 months or so... I'm here if you want to chat, on this thread or PM, it's daytime now, so highly unlikely that I'll fall sleep.

Hi, I'm pretty new around here and new to meds. Was just recently diagnosed. I was prescribed Seroquel only if I find myself heading towards a depression. I was just wondering, once you start taking Seroquel, if you miss a dose, is it usual for anyone to be up all night like that?? Thanks!

I've spent the last few nights like that as well. I don't have and meds for sleep. I live beside a heron rookery, we have tons of different birds here and I cannot get to sleep if I wait till 4 am because the birds are sooooo loud.

I'm trying to pay attention to my sleep because it's spring and I usually get manic about this time. Not sleeping and not feeling tiered is my number one trigger for mania.

[Confusedinomicon]

Its harder to fall asleep without a sleepaide once youve been using it for a while. Im kind of weaning myself off seroquel.

[cocoabeans]

Originally Posted by TheHighPriestess

Hi, I'm pretty new around here and new to meds. Was just recently diagnosed. I was prescribed Seroquel only if I find myself heading towards a depression. I was just wondering, once you start taking Seroquel, if you miss a dose, is it usual for anyone to be up all night like that?? Thanks!

It is usual for me to want to be up all night sometimes depending how I feel. I'm wired like that, and I drink a lot of coffee/energy drinks and smoke so, I've got a good amount of stimulants circulating let alone Wellbutrin. I'm terribly unhealthy and I'm not properly medicated.

I don't take Seroquel daily but, I do take it quite often, when I'm super anxious, racy minded and it is unpleasant like or when I clue in that despite not wanting to sleep, I should be sleeping. Seroquel makes me drowsy. I did end up taking it at 6 am and slept for about 5 or 6 hours so, there's that.

Emotionally I feel like crap today. Completely all over the place, up and down and both at the same time, apathetic in some respects anxious as hell in others, again. I was off meds for a short bit because I couldn't afford them (I'm really not as broke as I am, just my money doesn't go to basic needs or anything really, I get impulsive like) and then I was just lazy. I'm tired but, I don't want to sleep, I just want to sit here feeling sorry for myself feels good right now like right after puking when you're nauseated.

Oh yes, when I missed a dose I would be up all night! When I went off it I didn't sleep hardly at all for a few weeks.

[noneedtoknow]

Yup guarrenteed that when I miss my first dose of Seroquel, I don't sleep that night, and not great typically for the next few either if I don't continue with it. I am suppose to take Seroquel nightly.

[moremi]

Ive been off seroquel a couple months now and i still cant sleep good. I wake every hour or more often and cant fall right back to sleep. Its awful leads to a lot of hypo days some of them being not at all good hypo but dysphoric instead. Im that way today, just dont know how i feel except aggrivated and tense. :-(

[SmokeyPoole2012]

I really enjoy the night, everything about it makes me feel like I'm in my element. However when you don't get enough sleep chaos erupts turning good mood feelings into confution, lack of interests, including social interaction and so forth. These are just some of the problems that I face when mania gets out of control. Mania is a feel good state that actually might be the cause of some depressive states I've experienced.

After all these years I still allow myself to go overboard. It was just a few days ago I was having trouble sleeping, no not trouble I simply didn't want to I was on a manic high and wanted it! So I stayed up for over 48 hours, took a couple of my 3am walks until the ride was over. When it was all said and done I felt the usual affects. Confution, rapped speach, presure in my head it goes on and on. But guess what it didn't disrupt my life. I wasn't lost wondering what was going on with me (I knew what was happening) and what I think that is most important I didn't experience depression, a little mixed mania but nothing extreme.

In a way I'm actually proud of myself for being able to better manage my life. Even if it's not always doing the right thing.

This reminds me I better get to the store for more coffee.