So sedated feeling? Is this combo doing it or just me?

IDoNotExist · Mar 04, 2015, 01:02 AM

I'm on:
900 mg Trileptal
600 mg Seroquel IR
1 mg Klonopin

all at night.

I feel like these are such small doses, but I feel so tired and sedated throughout the next day. They help me sleep, but I wind up feeling sleepy all day. It's hurting my performance, but it's working to keep my out the hospital, so I keep it.

Also, my psychiatrist thinks a lot is "just in my head," so I decided to withstand the feeling of tiredness. Is this baby dose really to blame at all?

kaliope · Mar 04, 2015, 02:11 AM

people react to meds in all different ways regardless of what the label say. i have a friend who doesnt understand how i can function on klonopin when half a xanax knocks her out. that seems like a high dose of seroquel to me but i dont recall what a low dose is. it was thinking around 200. i just went back on my geodon and find that it is making me groggy in the morning when it never did that before and im on a low dose. trileptal made me really agitated at 300 and the anxiety majorly intensified at 600 so i had to get off of it. doctors can be really inconsiderate as far as i am concerned. it may go away as your body adapts to the meds. try taking the meds earlier at night so you sleep it off before you get up.

-jimi- · Mar 04, 2015, 07:46 AM

Docs should never argue with raw facts. The brain is complex. We react differently to meds.

Docs think I'm faking it because I felt absolutely nothing on quite a hefty dosage of valium. So of course I should have high tolerance to SSRIs and antihistamines? They OD'd me for 3 years on max dosage of Zoloft which hurt my brain for life. Cuz it was a safe dosage in the dang books! My current SSRI dosage is 150 % of the absolute smallest dosage. They say it can't help! Eh, it helped and well, for over 10 years now! And as for antihistamines. A third of the daily dosage ages up to 12 years knocked me out for 24 hours! An alka selzer cold tab makes me a zombie for two days.

All this is real. Dosages MUST be adapted to the person's brain NOT to some dang book!

Mrs. Mania · Mar 04, 2015, 08:39 AM

It's probably the Seroquel. It knocked me for a major loop when first started it. Like you, I also complained to my pdoc about the morning lethargy. I take 150xr at night. And also like you, he doesn't want me to stop it as his plan is to titrate up! Takes about 3 hours and a pot of coffee to get going

splitimage · Mar 04, 2015, 09:00 AM

I'd say the seroquel is the most likely culprit. I'm in 200 mg IR at night and it knocks me right out, and it takes me a couple of hours in the morning to get moving and a lot of coffee. I do find though that the drowsiness does get better after a few days. But if I run out and then restart I'm back to the extreme drowsiness for a few days. And I find I need at least a solid 9 hours sleep if I'm not going to be groggy the next morning.

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