[Doxie mom]

I recently started taking tegretol and I was not really feeling any side effects. On Friday I went up another 200mg and my doctor said I could stop taking the 75 mg of seroquel I was taking during the day. I stopped Saturday. Today is the worst day of side effects I am having. I am very nauseous, my body and lips feel slightly numb hot flashes basically I feel awful. I was thinking maybe it was from going up on the tegretol but now I am reading that it sounds like seroquel withdrawal. Has anyone had this happen. Maybe I should slowly taper off the seroquel my doctor said I should not have a problem but I always do when I withdraw from a med. I knew maybe I should ride out the withdrawals. I know tegretol can cause similar side effects but I have been taking it for a month and not had these side effects. I thought maybe it was because I went up 200 mg.

[Anika.]

I would say ride it out, but maybe you should let your pdoc know whats going on just on case. Or ask a pharmacist. I know when I came off AP's it wasn't fun. Neither was going on meds tho. I am really sensitive to meds too.

Maybe try Genetics tip with the squeezed lemon juice in a glass of water and see if that helps. I know other people have been finding it helpful. I think the way she said it works is that it nuetralizes the acicdity that the medications cause in our tissue and something else.. Sorry bad memory but the lemon makes it alkaline. So that might be helpful for your body right now while it is dealing with these changes.

I didn't have the numbness tho and actually that sounds concerning to me. I don't think expriencing numbness anywhere in the body is very good. So really maybe you should call and just check.

[Doxie mom]

Maybe it is more like a tingling than numbness I do not lose sensation. The symptoms are the worse for about three hours. I was worried because it said you should not withdraw to quickly because the effect it can have on the brain depriving it so quickly of the serotonin the meds were providing. I am going from 350 mg to 275.

[hamster-bamster]

I asked to give me Lithium and stop Seroquel and I did not have any problems. The dose of Seroquel I was initially on was huge. The med chance was done on an inpatient psych unit so it must have been relatively quick, but not overnight.

[OutlawedSpirit]

It could still be the tegretol. When I stated taking seroquel during the day, I was fine with the first increase, but I started getting side effects when it was increased the second time, so I had to quit taking it during the day. With you increasing one med, and decreasing another at the same time, it makes it incredibly difficult to say which med is causing your problem.

[Confusedinomicon]

Yes and I had to take it again.

I became sick and developed acid reflux. You have to taper slow if you are one that gets a lot of side effects from the withdrawal. I was only on 25you mg at the time.

[Faraway tree]

I just tried to go down from my baby dose of seroquel to an even babier dose (25mg to 12.5) and that threw me off kilter, it makes sense stopping cold turkey would mess you up. I rung my doc and told him our wee test of cutting back wasn't going too well and he just said pop it back up again. I just have it for sleeping though mainly.

[Speed3]

I slowly tapered off seroquel over six weeks. By tapering I did not have a problem and I finally starting to lose weight off it. Then my son died and to keep my sanity I am back on the Seroquel. I hope sometime in the future to taper off again. I would never go cold turkey.