Seroquel

[CarrotHead]

I am a few pounds heavier but that could also be due to the lexapro. I don't know which. Either way it isn't a great deal of weight.

I used to wake several times a night and have trouble getting back to sleep. I used to dread going to sleep. Now I don't. The Seroquel has really helped me with alot!

 

[Heather]

stone

What's a stone? I only understand weight in pounds:)

 

[WonderingWhy]

Not sure the conversion? :thinking: But whatever it is, hmmmmm?
I am pretty sure I would look better if I got rid of a bunch of stones!:lmao:

 

[cherryblossom]

A stone is 14 pounds. So Lucy has lost 49 pounds!! That's great Lucy :applause:- just don't disappear completely :lmao:

 

[Lucycat]

just don't disappear completely

Ha ha. Don't worry. I needed to lose it. If I could lose a further 14 pounds then I will be pleased and that would be enough. But I'm not really trying. I think the main change that made the difference was the reduction in my alcohol intake.

 

[fairydust]

I have tried seroqel last year. I also was on lexapro at the same time and I did put on a heap of weight. I found that I was eating compulsively in the evenings. I didn't find it very helpful but I think it's a very individual thing when it comes to medication.

I tried heaps of different meds over the past two years and recently decided that nothing was really working for me and cut out everything other than 2 mg of Xanax in the evenings. I actually feel a lot better but I'm not sure if that is because of coming off the meds or if the therapy is really starting to have an effect? Still a long way to go though.

 

[Heather]

But no, I have lost 3 1/2 stones!

Well, thanks to CB I now know what a stone is:). That is awesome! Here's my happy :dance: dance for you! You go girl! Keep up the good work.

 

[Hlost]

I use 25mg seroquel for sleep and night terrors, it doesn't stop my regular dreams or give me a drug hang over in the morning. Because of the low dose I don't crave sugar, any higher of a dose and I'm like a sugar junkie :insane:literally eating it in my sleep but more than that get manic :funnyfaces:, but on a lower dose (and believe me it took the last pdoc a long time to talk me into it but nothing was working to help me) I at least have nights where I sleep well and my anxiety is much much lower.

Seroquel doesn't give you a "high" or stunt your emotions, or at least it doesn't mine, maybe because I take it at night and at such a low dose. That's my experience anyway. Years ago when I use to take anti-depressants l could feel that.

HL

 

[WonderingWhy]

I have tried seroqel last year. I also was on lexapro at the same time and I did put on a heap of weight.

Gee Fairy Dust,

How much is a "heap of weight"?:bounce::lmao:

 

[CarrotHead]

Actually I got on the scale and I have put on probably ten to fifteen pounds.
Not happy about that, but it still is not enough that I will quit these meds. I was a mess on the stuff my old pdoc gave me.

The old pdoc was trying to tell me I was bipolar and had me on five different meds. I was a basket case on all of that stuff. My new doc is treating me for ptsd and I am almost my old self.

That weight is something I will struggle to get down, but the attitude I have now is worth it.

 

[Lionheart]

I don't remember why, but I wasn't able to tolerate Seroquel, but I am on Abilify which I think is similar. (Correct me if I am wrong).

 

[cherryblossom]

Lionheart - they are both classed as atypical anti psychotics, so yes, I suppose they are similar.