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Apr 27, 2018, 01:45 PM
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I've been on 600mg of Seroquel XR for almost a month. I take it early in the evening so I'm sleepy by 9:30-10. I sleep until 8am or 9am. It is still not enough sleep or doesn't feel like it. I'm in a fog all day and I have to fight through it every minute of everyday. I thought my body would acclimate to taking and the side effects would get better, but they are not. I take a big dose of Vyvanse in the morning with Wellbutrin and it feels like the Seroquel is blanketing those and they're not even working to keep me up. I might as well stop taking them.
I want to talk to my doctor about an AP med change but in the last two months I have changed from Latuda to Seroquel. I'm worried about asking for a new med because I don't want to seem like I'm just being a pain who's never satisfied with anything. I was thinking about Vraylar. Has anyone here taken it or is taking it? Does it make you drowsy? How well does it work? How do I ask for Vraylar without looking like I just want to play AP merry go round? I see my doctor in a few hours.
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Bipolar 1 ADHD Carbamazepine (Tegretol) Vraylar Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) Mirtazapine Adderall XR My Journal https://jenniferforreal.wordpress.com/ Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.  ~ Alan Cohen
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Apr 27, 2018, 02:01 PM
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Seroquel turned out to be the best AP for me after much experimentation. But thats just me. I found it extremely sedating and did feel like I was in a fog. At first I was on like 300 or 400. I dont remember. My doctor and I tried reducing the dose gradually. My goal was to reduce manic episodes without compromising my ability to sleep well. Ive been on 100 for over a year now. Some people poop poo 100 mg and claim that its not enough to make any significant difference. whatever! It works for me and thats all I care about.
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Apr 27, 2018, 02:02 PM
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PS: I also switched from XR to immediate release. So I get sleepy at night but have dont have as much much of a sedation effect during the day.
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Eat a live frog for breakfast every morning and nothing worse can happen to you that day! "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Bipolar type 2 rapid cycling DX 2013 - Seroquel 100 Celexa 20 mg Xanax .5 mg prn Modafanil 100 mg
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Apr 27, 2018, 02:19 PM
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Your not being a pain. That's your pdoc's job is to get your meds right. If you can't function correctly it's time for a new med.
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Apr 27, 2018, 07:23 PM
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Instead of asking for a new med at this point I'd ask to lower the Seroquel dose and possibly switch to immediate release rather than XR, that Shazerac suggested.
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Apr 28, 2018, 05:37 AM
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I have taken up to 600 mg of Seroquel XR. When it became too sedating the solution for me was that my psychiatrist lowered it a bit. That worked. When I really needed the 600 mg, I had no major issues with it.
I currently take 450 mg Seroquel XR (with Tegretol XR and Lamictal) and do quite well in the morning. I'm writing this at 6:30 am (no alarm) on a Saturday and though I'm slightly sleepy, I wouldn't be in 10 mins if I got up and going. I fell asleep last night at perhaps 10 pm. I took my evening meds last night at 7 pm. Seroquel XR has been the BEST antipsychotic for me in many ways. Fewest side effects, effective at curbing my mania, and relieves my depression and anxiety, too. I'm even able to lose weight at my current dose. I've lost almost 8 pounds on a serious diet in just these last 3 weeks. Right now I weigh the same weight I was at my highest weight BEFORE ever taking a bipolar medication over 16 years ago. Soon I'll be less than that. I've been this weight even on 600 mg of Seroquel XR. Last edited by Anonymous46341; Apr 28, 2018 at 05:56 AM. |
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Apr 28, 2018, 11:33 AM
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My experience with Seroquel XR was not good, at all. It caused me to feel very odd. My pdoc changed it back to regular Seroquel and that was much better.
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Apr 28, 2018, 02:27 PM
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I was on 600mg of Seroquel XR. Any lower than that, it doesn't work for me. 600 is the minimum I can take for it to work. I have been on 800mg before.
But, saw my doctor and no Vraylar - I didn't ask for it because when I told my dr that Seroquel left me to much in a fog during the day and I felt it overpowered my ADD med and my Wellbutrin, which should be activating - he already had something in mind. He put me on Olanzapine/fluoxetine. Generic Symbyax. Hopefully this is the one because I'm tired of switching meds.
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Bipolar 1 ADHD Carbamazepine (Tegretol) Vraylar Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) Mirtazapine Adderall XR My Journal https://jenniferforreal.wordpress.com/ Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. ~ Alan Cohen
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Apr 28, 2018, 03:00 PM
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Zyprexa was way less sedating for me than seroquel. Hopefully it has the same effect on you.
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Apr 29, 2018, 08:51 PM
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My daughter could not handle XR she switched to straight and shes been 95% stable for almost a year and has no hangover in the am
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Apr 29, 2018, 11:34 PM
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I found Seroquel very sedating at first. But it was a temporary side effect for me, in that Im only slightly sedated from it now.
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Apr 30, 2018, 04:08 AM
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When I took seroquel it was alright for sleep, but I felt like I was moving through syrup for most of the day. I swear my thinking could have been preserved in amber.
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. ~ Charles Bukowski |
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Apr 30, 2018, 04:57 PM
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hi. symbyax is remarkably effective for a lot of people. i hope it helps.
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Apr 30, 2018, 10:13 PM
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I slept for 3 days...was only awake an hour each day....cant run a business like that....so I switched to lamictal.
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