Question About Seroquel Xr, For Anxiety, Not For Insomnia

[lostforgottensoul]

Thanks @joeylittle! I already had trouble sleeping so i didnt touch my phone after I went to my bed. They open in an hour. I'll report back. Im sure they have it but my brain doesnt work like that, it always has to have a plan for worst case senairo.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

SHE ORDERED IT!!!! And has it filled. I would never have second guessed her as she's great (the most commonly there pharm tech and all know me by voice) but it was just the "well why order it if shes gonna put you on 150mg" which they have and I dont know shes going to, I honestly think she will give me 90 50mg two at night and one in the day instead of 60. But either way, im out and dont see the PDoc til Thursday.

OMG, i can stop shaking now lol. Worry over nothing, thats me.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Also to add, it was $25 and I had to say "wait are you sure thats the XR and not IR?" and look. Sure enough it was the 50mg XR 60 count that cost me $100 last month. Insurence companies!! It is almost $500 retail though and this also still isnt generic so unsure why it was $75 less but i'll take it! :woot:

 

[lostforgottensoul]

My PDoc is the most clueless person on the planet, I swear. So I had an apointment with her 5 weeks (last Thurs) after starting it (and a week after I had to refill the first perscription; 60 a month of 50mg XR) and I tell her that Im doing good, its starting to help my anxiety in the day taking one at night and one in the morning and she gives me this confused look and says "you're taking it in the daytime?" Yes, stupid, its not for sleep, its for anxiety...in the daytime. And I only told my therapist this weeks ago if you bothered to read my file that they hand off to each other.

Then I ask for 90 a month of the 50mg XR, 2 at night and 1 in the morning as my therapist (whom knows his shit when it comes to medications and chemicals in the brain including combining psych meds with opioid pain meds...he just doesnt have a prescribing licence; he should but doesnt) and she gave it to me but she is basing what she gives me off of what i ask for, she's not advising me, Im advising her. Oy vey! At least my therapist knows his shit so I can bounce things off of him before asking for them.

I havent dropped the one for 90 off at the pharmacy yet as just a week and a 3 days ago I got a refill of the 60. They can put it on hold so Im pondering on whether to do so Monday, if opened as im off for Memorial Day, or Tue on the way to work. It will be almost 2 weeks and if another prior authorization is needed then they have time to get it. But i dont know if they will fill the 90 until its due, im just worried about prior authorization as that was needed the first time.

Anyway, so thats where in at, still taking 2 a day for the moment until the other one is filled. This morning my anxiety was higher than it has been in a while. Everything was trembling inside and out, so i took a whole xanax instead of a half but just seems so odd to take a whole one to me now. Unsure why it was so high. Maybe too much coffee, whom knows.

 

[James312]

For me, Seroquel was like taking an elephant gun to my anxiety, but it killed most of my emotion too. My sense of humour disappeared almost entirely, and I didn't feel much in the way of emotion the entire time I was on it. And this was from 50-150mg, not even a high dose. Be very careful with Seroquel, it's a nice pill, but tends to do it's job way too well. And it makes life a living hell when you try to quit it.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@James312 its dulling my emotions some, I do agree with that, BUT, I need them all dulled. I feel every emotion in its extreme form. Theres some emotions I cant feel but the ones i do are extreme and extreme fast. Blind rage explosions come fast, on the edge suicide figuring out how im going to do it comes fast (and a lot of times out of complete no where). So taking my emotions from their extreme-ness and dulling them some, bringing the highs down a bit and lows up a bit isnt a bad thing. They are still more extreme then most people but not as much as they used to be. Its actually the main reason im on this, that and the increasing anxiety, lower it, would be the only reasons.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Well, i got my increased dose today of seriquoel. 50mg XR 3 a day; two at night and one in the morning. I hope it doesnt effect me much as i was falling asleep at work a week ago from last Mon. I had to go home early and ive been fighting it since. I have no clue why though other than my liver not doing well and i dont know why yet. My MD doesnt think its the meds. She wants another blood test and a ultrasound for my liver. I just hope this doesnt add to the exhaustion im already fighting.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I just got my increased dose again (not quite a month it looks like) so i am now off of the 50mg tablets and on the next mg up, the 200mg tablets. I was taking 3 of the 50mg so was on 150mg a day so the bump up is not much but it is nice to have less pills and a smaller bottle and also not have to worry about spliting them between night and day.

I dont want to take that many mg in the day right now and she advised to take it at night anyway. So im going to take it at night but i do hope that i can eventually take it in the morning because even though its built up in my system, i feel like if i take it at night, the bulk of the medication will delever in my system while im sleeping and i want it to deliver the bulk in the day.

I dont know. Maybe i'll take one in the morning on a day off from work and see how it effects me. It likely wont as i was already taking one of the 50mg tablets in the day. But i dont know.

ETA: I just remember that i have about 21 ish of the 50mg tablets left. I can take those and take 2 at night and 2 in the day and then 1 at night and 3 in the day and ease my way into it in the day. Hmmm. Just a thought. @joeylittle, what do you think? You know meds pretty well. Would it even really matter or should i ease my way into taking the 200mg tablets in the morning?

 

[joeylittle]

Would it even really matter or should i ease my way into taking the 200mg tablets in the morning?

If you no longer feel any sort of 'hit' after you take the Seroquel currently, then I'd say it really won't matter that much. If, on the other hand, you can still feel it when it kicks in - then yes, I'd (personally) titrate myself up as you suggest, over the course of about 8 days.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Thanks @joeylittle! Yeah, i dont feel it at all when i take it. So maybe i'll just switch the 200mg to daytime. It seems, since i need it for the day, it makes more sense to me to take it in the morning.

 

[trying2movefwd]

I just started it last night. I had tremors all day, and was extremely emotional today! Very anxious :( I think the fugue makes the medication management incredibly difficult. My Mom was bipolar though, so I thought this was worth one last try. My Doctor already declared me resistant to antidepressants.

 

[joeylittle]

My Doctor already declared me resistant to antidepressants.

Not wanting to hijack, but why? (seroquel is an anti-psychotic, and is given for depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia in different doses, as well as being used off-lable as a sleep aid/anti-anxiety med).