[detour1]

Hi i got this yesterday and my pdoc gave me 100mg ,it took a long time for it ti kick in. is this less seding on high doses ? if so can i cut the tables in half or take the medication early in the evening

[Guiness187055]

100 mg should be pretty sedating. You could cut the pill in half if you wanted too but I think 50mg will be less sedating YMMV. Seroquel can take a long time to kick in that's perfectly normal.

[detour1]

Originally Posted by Guiness187055

100 mg should be pretty sedating. You could cut the pill in half if you wanted too but I think 50mg will be less sedating YMMV. Seroquel can take a long time to kick in that's perfectly normal.

Hi how long before bed should i take it ?

[Guiness187055]

Originally Posted by detour1

Hi how long before bed should i take it ?

at least an hour

I take 25 mg of seroquel around an hour before I want to sleep. Perhaps you could try a lower dose and see if that helps.

[Heavy doody]

I am currently taking 125 mg seroquel. For me it depends on a couple of factors as to how long it takes to kick in if you have eaten recently and or how tired you were when you took them. I have had them work in as little as 30 minutes and as long as 2 1/2 hours.

[confusedondid]

I was given 200 mg of Seroquel and it knocked me on my backside for several days. I noticed it stopped working as well after a few days and I experimented with it and found that if I took around 25 - 50 mg it worked MUCH better for sleep. Not sure why less worked better, but for me it really does. If I take more, the sleep help decreases again. Who knows, but just FYI

[Yoda]

I took seroquel for six weeks with my pdoc increasing the dosage every two weeks. I slept but it wasn't a resting sleep and in the morning when I woke up I felt drunk. After the sixth week when I couldn't walk and had to crawl back to the bed I said, no more, and called my pdoc and said I need something else. Some people do well on it but I wasn't one of them.

[detour1]

Originally Posted by Heavy doody

I am currently taking 125 mg seroquel. For me it depends on a couple of factors as to how long it takes to kick in if you have eaten recently and or how tired you were when you took them. I have had them work in as little as 30 minutes and as long as 2 1/2 hours.

Hi will increasing help ? will it work faster

[Sunflower123]

Would it help if you tried taking it earlier? Before you increase the dosage you may want to run it by your pdoc. I don't remember what dosage I was on but on the first night I took it I slept that night and all through the second day of my new job. Good luck.

[detour1]

Originally Posted by Jennifer 1967

Would it help if you tried taking it earlier? Before you increase the dosage you may want to run it by your pdoc. I don't remember what dosage I was on but on the first night I took it I slept that night and all through the second day of my new job. Good luck.

Hi i tired that still no luck

[Guiness187055]

Have you tried 50mg yet instead of the 100mg? 100mg for me was the magic number any more than that and the sedating effect went down. I was all the way up to 600mg until it gave me diabetes.

[Crook32]

I don't remember exact numbers since my memory is Swiss cheese. But I do remember my pdoc saying that lower doses of Seroquel are more sedating.