Question About Seroquel Xr, For Anxiety, Not For Insomnia

[Ed Norton]

Oh and thanks for the for the dosing info...In what I wanna do in medicine I'll have no business dealing with seroquel so I don't know dosing for everything and every formulation


I think ill have many private free patients so it may still come in handy one day...heck some may cost me money paying for tests and prescriptions

Da eta byla lubov....yes it was love- Russian

:)

 

[lostforgottensoul]

just allow her to be the doctor

That one is a hard one but one i need to do. If i shoot this down, it will be around the 10th one...im sure she is feeling like she cant win with me. I do need to let the Dr be the Dr but I suppose i dont wanna take or pay for something thats not helping or doing anything but also i cant shoot it down too early. If i can stay awake at work i will finish the prescription and see at that point if i can tolerate in increase in mg.

Guess its just early discouragement that you're seeing here. I had high expectations for this.

 

[Ed Norton]

A good psychiatrist starts low and slow and sees each step through that is what she is doing

Not like an ER doc dealing with preeclampsia- eclampsia when you bolus about 10 GRAMS of magnesium :)

 

[joeylittle]

Well, @lostforgottensoul - it does sound like there are meds you maybe haven't tried. The reason I'm asking is because everyone responds differently, within the zone. Seroquel will dampen your anxiety, but it's likely you'll need to get up to around 300mg/day. That's a working dose.

Whatever you decide - you need to give it a complete trial. If your doc suggested that you'd need to up the dose, then add the addl 50mg in the AM now. If you want to wait, wait the full 7 days and then go up. (I'd be very surprised if you did not need to go up).

Seroquel works. It will slow you down, and that will diminish your anxiety. Honestly, it's not going to do that at 50mg. You'll get better sleep on 50mg, that's it.

You might want to consider asking about the other mood stabilizers and atypical antipsychotics. Also Effexor and Lithium. Basic SSRIs ('antidepressants') are often ineffective.

I know you're on a bunch of other meds for pain stuff, and I'm guessing there are interaction challenges, so your menu might be limited. Just remember that you won't know if something is working for at least a month, really - and that's assuming a titration period. Judging on how you feel after a few days is just not possible, medically. You need to reach peak concentration in your system, which takes many days. Some are faster, some are slower - but a week is the absolute fastest.

I know how frustrating it is - been there, bought the T-shirt - but there's no shortcut.

 

[Ed Norton]

You got this JL :D :tup:

I'm going to grandma...nanu..so I must depart but will check in later

:)

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I know how frustrating it is - been there, bought the T-shirt - but there's no shortcut.

Indeed it is and thank you for that reply! I know its too early to judge it. It was started this way to let me get used to it. So i suppose lets see if i can work on 50mg and go up and see what the does.

I do want something to work and i think im taking in the failure of the other meds into this 3 day, 50 mg frustration.

I guess hearing that everyone was prescribed it for insomnia, i wanted to hear from someone "its worth to keep going" for this anxiety/emotional regulation reason. So you gave me that. :)

 

[lostforgottensoul]

nanu

Nanu nanu...that made me go "awww". Miss Mr Robin Williams!

Thanks for the replies Ed!

 

[Ed Norton]

Couldn't say grandma as a baby so I said Nanu..like Mork...never changed just like aunt Cottie (Carla)
Mom was easy I could do mommy..oh and couldn't say 'I think'....'I stink' which is true a lot of times anyway :p

:)

 

[Sideways]

I'd probably try bumping up the night dose to 100mg rather than taking some in the morning. The morning dose will help your anxiety levels in the afternoon, but it will peak in your system just after lunch and may make you sleepy around that time for a couple of hours. 100mg is still a low dose. I think the next tablet up is 150mg for the XR and you can't split them (braking the outside layer will turn it into an IR).

My sister was able to use Safras for a while but the side effects got too bad. Personally I only managed it for 2 days because the chemical aftertaste in my mouth made me hurl:(

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@Ragdoll Circus i can do that tonight, take 2 instead of 1 (now that i can hold my head up in the day on 1) and see if that helps.

She did give me 60 pills and if im gonna do trial and error, this week off of work is the time.

I didnt even think about that. Unsure why.

Last night i got sleepy again around 8pm (took it at 11pm the night before). Last night i waited and took it at 10 and im starting to go up from there. Seeing how long til i cant drive and seeing when i can be fully awake the next day. I get up at 8:30am for work but work til 9pm. I have to get up earlier than most due to letting pain med in the morning work before i go in the shower. So its sort of a tighter schedule due to that.

I am gonna take it at 9 tonight so will take 2 and see how i do in the AM. Thanks for that!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

So last night (sat night) i doubled the dose to 100mg XR as @Ragdoll Circus advised, taken at 9:15pm (about when id get home from work if not going over my end time) and i fell asleep at about 10, woke up from a nightmare and was up til about 1am. Then woke up around 10am and fell back to sleep off and on but i felt that there was a bit of 'calmness' in my anxiety and mood. Ok, this i can work with.

I took 100mg again tonight (sun) at 9:30pm. At 12:30am im still not sleepy and give up on the anxiety and took a xanax 1mg...its now 1:15am and still not asleep. What the f*ck on the sleep thing? I did sleep a lot today but the meds did that and isnt the meds suppose to make you sleep at night? I cant be that used to it by now.

I set my alarm as i was going to slowly start setting it earlier and earlier til i get to where i should be for work around wed but if i cant stay awake i now wont know if its the meds or lack of sleep.

Any ideas? I cant do 2 and a half as if i slpit it, its an IR and I have 25mg IR anyway and not sure 300mg XR is a good idea...seems like a too fast of an increase...and its precribed 2 a day anyway. Maybe 2 XR = 100mg and one 25mg IR totaling 125mg but 25mg is IR? I can take what i used to take for sleep (2 muscle relaxers and 1 xanax for the amxiety) but i dont like to mix meds and im trying to see what the seriquel does on its own.

 

[Ed Norton]

I just wanna say that do not rush to a therapeutic dose...a lower dose than 300 maybe therapeutic for you anyway after I was dragged to a far hospital an incompetent evil psychiatrist forced me by threatening court to start at 400 after 2 days at 200 and without self measures. ..carotid sinus massage...I would've gone into cardiac arrest..also my bp dropped s lot...he also almost killed me with depakote (bad allergy )

Dr Robert Barris at NUMC....I hope he f*cking sees this and tries to sue for libel I need tuition money
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