Anyone Know Much About Quetiapine Fumarate?

[PTSD sufferer]

Very true Eat.

I have my GP monitor my weight gain and cholesterol. He works very well with my T's to keep up to date and make sure I am doing ok on all fronts. I'm very lucky that way. Thanks for bringing this up as it's an important point :)

You are right, when you reduce the meds you do loose the weight. I have made an attempt at reducing the meds and the 'fatties' did reduce too.

My philosophy is eat healthy and exercise, even if the weight doesn't come off, you're still looking after your total wellbeing. Monitoring your health is important, but it is not healthy to obsess over 'the things we cannot change'. If I wasn't on the meds, my anxiety would stop me from leaving the house, so then I wouldn't get any exercise anyway. That's not a good either. It's a matter of the lesser of two evils. And, it turns out, for me personally, the weight gain is worth it as my quality of life has improved immensely.

Its a shame, that I have to come off these meds in the next couple of months (I'm starting the process of trying to conceive). The side effects of my new option are pretty nasty :(

I hope to be off the meds all together like you, and I'm working hard to try to make this happen. It is possible....I have seen some sufferers on this forum do it - what an achievement!! They are a great inspiration and give me hope. Anything is possible, but we need to do what we need to do now to reduce the symptoms, so that we focus our attention on getting the full benefits of therapy. I believe that is what will make the biggest difference in my life :)

Love to you, xxoo

 

[Kb3]

I have my GP monitor my weight gain and cholesterol. He works very well with my T's to keep up to date and make sure I am doing ok on all fronts. I'm very lucky that way.

And, it turns out, for me personally, the weight gain is worth it as my quality of life has improved immensely.

Its a shame, that I have to come off these meds in the next couple of months (I'm starting the process of trying to conceive).

I hope to be off the meds all together like you, and I'm working hard to try to make this happen.

You sound very clued in, wish I had been in the past, and I suppose that I'm sensitive about other people getting the short end of the stick from medical professionals. Perhaps there is now greater awareness amongst them about working with patients who are taking these drugs and that is fantastic, but it wasn't the case for me.

I try to be realistic about being on meds and it may be the case that I need to take them for the rest of my life, so no judgements here!

Best of luck with your baby plans and see you around the forum:).

 

[Jordan444]

I've been taking it for a while, and all I can think of is how to get off. I hate it - it helps me sleep, but Its unfair to me, Its only treating symptoms nothing else, no underlying cause. I want it off me, i am angry that people and self righteous doctors think they know - Its help, but not a solution, they help and I appreciate it, but I'm taking it off.

I cannot see light with it, rather suffer, I just wanted to vent on here. I think people agree.... This is real life with real problems - and we try to substitute them with drugs and objects but I still feel empty, I cringe when my doctor says - it alleviates worry.

NO - IT DOESN'T - IT suppresses it and You have to know when enough is enough - I have another resolve - go to the country and just do manual labor and live. People in the past had the same problems, but they didn't have that, we have grown weak from tv, and movies and magazines and all sorts of things and we try to rely on drugs for our empty lives.

People survive this, trey truly do - with balance they really do. Rather have a way out - find a way to know that you can kill yourself if things get too rough to handle, but who here actually finds they want to live when that happens?

So find a simple life, a simple surrounding, and an ultimate way to end it all if everything else fails, but I will not be on drugs for the rest of my life - I'm 32, I cannot have a life like that.

Rather live - even if its on the edge of a cliff and there is darkness around and endless see in front, and you have to live just standing there surrounded by no one and nothing.... That is what Dostoyevsky said not me. Erase this message if you will, or discard me as premature, I'm tired of drugs.