Question About Seroquel Xr, For Anxiety, Not For Insomnia

[Sideways]

Without having access to a MIMS I couldn't tell you what the ther. dose for anxiety would be. And I'm not a doctor. For depression, there is some dosage info that suggests titration every 2 days (not every day!) starting at 50mg, and maxing out at 300mg.

But then the dosage for Bipolar I and Schizophrenia is a fair jump up from, so it's guesswork without talking to your doc. In my case, I take a super high dose of everything because I drink 4-5L of water per day (ie more than twice what the WHO recommends) which washes a lot of stuff out of my system. So there's a lot of factors.

Give it a couple of nights. See how you go:)

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Yeah, its for BPD to help the increasing anxiety and hopefully level off my emotions all during the day.

Def going go keep going and see what it does. Its almost 3:30am here so gonna try sleep again...blah! :wtf: that smilie sums up my life well lol

 

[joeylittle]

Theres an app for everything, it wouldnt supprise me if there wasnt an app to tint your phone at night.

There is. It's called F.lux: https://justgetflux.com
That's only one of them; I believe there are a few.

Look into flux.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

There is. It's called F.lux:

Its funny cause as "flux" i was thinking reflux lol. Also i thought you meant putting a blue tint on, not off. I should of known, i know devices send out a blue tint.

So on the site it says "free for android" (id have to enable download from unknown sources if that comes off their site) but if its linked to google play then f.lux is for root only and as tech savvy as i am, i have yet to root my phone (though i swear i will once i upgrade just in case i break it :P) so the next highest rated app is called Twighlight and it does run on the suncycles (as they all seem to) so downloaded that and gonna try it. There are several though so i can go to others if i dont like it.

Thanks for that, def something i needed as my phone makes me squint at night and i have brightness turned down some.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@joeylittle im loving loving loving this Twilight app, though not f.lux, its the same thing and taking the blue tint off, making it seem like its a sunset, or thats what it reminds me of, helps so much and i didnt even think about when i have given up trying to go to sleep of just chatting waiting to get sleepy that my phone was keeping me up. I knew about my tv but never thought of my phone.

Ok so medication. Ive been trying to decide on what to do tonight, either stay doubled, take 1 xanax maybe 2 later and not sleep again and risking throwing my sleep off when i have to go back to work Sat, or mixing meds...having no clue what the muscle relaxer(s) would do as she told me to not take it but there doesnt seem to be a bad interactions, i think it was dont take too many meds that make you sleepy (but have to always keep in my that im on high doses of opioid pain meds, most now in my internal pain pump and have zero control over them, other than a one time opioid blocker shot), or to take the two XR and one 25mg IR equaling a total of 125mg. Both of the later two have risks and staying awake, well i can and have worked half asleep but would prefer not to so i chose what i thought had less risk of the later 2 and choose to take the 2 XR and 1 IR. Hopefully i'll be ok, im sure i wont die. Im just thinking that the IR likely wont be working be the time i wake up but will help throughout the night and the XR is still having a chance of building up in my system. I called my psychristrist's office but couldnt get her on the phone to ask her. I see my therapist Thursday and im sure meds will be the biggest chunk of our session. I'll see how i do tonight and in the AM and that will help me to decide to what to do going further.

So thats my boring med update. Oh the waiting, i hate the waiting. Hopefully if i can stay awake (getting easier each day) then hopefully i can go somewhere at least once as that was my therapist's homework...exposure therapy! :bag::sour::bag:

ETA: over 40 mins after taking the IR, its unbelievable how much anxiety there is still. I will wait 2 or 3 hrs but if not asleep i will have to break down and take a xanax but trying to give the IR a chance and mixing meds without a Dr telling me its ok makes me nervous, even though she prescibed both and are ok with them both being taken together...still.

 

[EveHarrington]

FYI for iPhone users, the f.lux app requires a jailbreak but there are other apps that do the same thing if you search f.lux in the App Store.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

requires a jailbreak

Jailbreak on iPhone = rooting on Android. Rooting an Android, many different ways, only one correct way and an incorrect way can break the phone which is why i want to wait for an upgrade (though i want a rooted phone...or "jailbroken" if i break into liking Apple).

there are other apps that do the same thing if you search f.lux in the App Store.

When i went into google play and searched f.lux a ton popped up along with f.lux, Twilight was the highest rated one (that i saw anyway, f.lux was the only one requiring root and all were free).

Twilight for android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...oid&pcampaignid=APPU_1_ofUeV6u1E4X--AHq9Z_ICA

Im not successful of googling any app in iTunes that doesnt require jailbreak (though i dont have an iOS to search in) but found this article written last Nov: http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/12/flux-iphone-sideloading-shut-down/

Id search "f.lux" in iTunes and if there are any (many on Android), they should come up.

 

[PTSD NON VETERAN mom]

My meds at this point is 100 mg Seroquel, 1mg Clonazepam, and 300mg Wellbutrin xl every morning. This helps with my flashbacks, depression, and aniexty, PTSD.
At night around 9:00 pm I take 1mg Clonazepam, clonidine 0.1 mg, 15 mg Prazosi n, 300 mg Seroquel and 200 mg of Zoloft. This combination helps with my night terrors, insomnia, sleep walking/running, flashbacks/psychotic episodes, it seems like alot of nightime meds, but my medications though they seem like a hodpog of pills but this has evolved over two years. And my psychiatrist has done alot of research on off label uses for PTSD. I refuse to do xanax because I just don't want to drug up for PTSD. I'm trying to fine a chemical and therapeutic cure for my PTSD to fix my damaged brain and to get my life back and grieve for my son and remember him with fun loving memories instead of the PTSD that has taken over my memories and turned them into death, destruction, guilt, blood, anxiety, and just reliving him dying in my arms over and over again. My husband says he notices I get very messed up and weird and distant every Mother's Day, Christmas, Birthday, Deathday, etc....

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I suppose i should update this thread (been updating my diary) but im taking one 50mg seriquel XR 50mg at 8:30pm and one 50mg 8:30am (if my alarm wakes me). Last 3 nights i havent been able to sleep until around 5am which has caused me to sleep past my alarm until 10am when my step mom wakes me wanting her meds so im taking it when i wake up. Thursday i have to be at my pain Dr at 9am and cant be 'drugged' looking though i did tell him about the meds as i always update every dr about every change in meds. But i have to get myself to sleep so im going to take one muscle relaxer and 1 xanax a bit earlier tonight, set down my phone and just watch tv and see if i can fall asleep at a decent time and see how i feel tomorrow morning.

So thats the update.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Well, today will be the tell tell day on whether i can half way function without sounding high! I have to go to my pain dr and my step mom talked me out of taking it and just taking it after as my pain dr may lower my pain medication and i cant let him do that so if im slurring speech (i dont know if im doing that now or not) then he may. And after the appointment would have been around 10am (but had already taken the night dose at 6pm to match when i was waking up 6am) but was going to do that but as i was taking my morning meds i decided that i needed to see how it affecting me on a morning where i just woke up and trying to wake up with coffee, how much is it going to affect me when i have to go somewhere rather than these days where im just wondering around my house. I need to know this before Sat and yes i have tomorrow and can try to stay awake etc but i wont know how its affecting my ability to drive etc. Lets hope i can still drive though as its early and i doubt i can get my dad out of bed to take me.

I woke up early so i took it at 5:25am and need to be out of the house at 8am, hopefully thats enough time to see how well i can push through the tirdness. Oh and i can blame the tirdness on working nights as that office is full aware that i work nights and im usually tired there for that reason and his office doesnt know ive been off of work. I just hope it doesnt affect me like last week at my therapist. My therapist is later today but he knows why im all high and crap, my pain dr will think its the pain meds and it isnt.

Sigh! Heres to hoping i made the right decision. Ive been on it 2 weeks, doubled up for a week and a half and doing the 8pm/8am thing for a week. Lets hope thats enough to not slur speech and act half way normal.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Im def feeling a bit high, like head cold feeling and so im advising i have a cold. I dont think my speech is slurred but im def taking this driving abilty to the extreme and driving down one of the most dangerous interstates in the US during morning traffic (aka bumper to bumper stop and go the entire way).

What I realized though, is i still have anxiety so i might mix in a half of xanax as my psychristrist advised to do, cant take it at the same time as i dont take my first dose until 11:30 am, with seriqueol at 8:30am, im wondering if they are going to hit at a weird time. I guess we will see today as its 10:30am now and i leave for my therapist at 1:30pm but i think tomorrow will be a better tell as this morning i took it 3 hrs early. I didnt want to add to the 'head in clouds' feeling going to my pain dr and driving on the most dangerous road in the area and it has construction with weird lanes, and small lanes. Its a scary interstate without the 'head in clouds' feeling that i avoid but going to this one dr i cant, if i want to get there in a decent timeframe that is.

Tomorrow i wont be driving anywhere unless i just want to, to 'test out' how I feel I could go around the block. It will put me on a main road but its the best way to test it as i dont feel the 'whoa' til im driving. I guess i could have my dad with me just in case. Sat is work and i cant make that change now so im gonna have to figure it all out. How much xanax and when. My seriquel schedule is 8:30am/8:30pm and my xanax schedule when working is 11:30am, 4pm, 11pm so i dont know if the seriqueol will hit the xanax at a weird time but i have FMLA breaks that i can rely on too if i have a 'whoa' moment; techically 30mins a day but ive broke them up into two 15 min breaks as or if needed but i can take it all at once if i must and i can set it right next to a break (total 45 mins) or lunch (total an hour and a half) if i need to.

I dont know, we'll have to see. I can work around being tired and even the head in the clouds feeling if i can still do my job and as long as my speech isnt slurred which i dont think it is as if it were id get werid looks at my pain dr.

Also, 4 hrs after i took it, it doesnt seem to be affecting me as much as it was an 2 hrs ago. So if i stick with the 8:30/8:30, i start work 3.5 hrs after. Maybe it will not hit that xanax weird at 3 hrs? Dont know, again will need to see.

 

[joeylittle]

Congrats on sticking with it!

You are also taking a very, very low dose of seroquel. When you see your psych next, to discuss options, you can ask.

Also, once the med is built up to full concentration, shifting to once a day dosing can help.