Re: first seroquel experience

In article<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ache
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>hi all
>
>i decided to give my newly prescribed seroquel a try last night.  My 
>doctor told me to take 100mg at bedtime and if not enough then take 25mg 
>more. well 10 minutes after i took 100mg tablet i could feel my mind 
>going slower and getting sleepy, so i laid down and was watching some 
>cartoon.. and then i could feel my whole body relaxing and my mind goes 
>so slow... i couldn't think about anything or i don't want to think 
>about anything.  5 hours after i fell asleep i woke up to go to the 
>bathroom.. i felt really dizzy and my preception of distance was all 
>messed up.. i feel like my skins are really tightening up and my brain 
>feels like a stone.. and so i crashed on the bed again... 10 hours after 
>i took seroquel i was still really drowsy and sleepy.. i still couldn't 
>think of anything and my body feels like it's turning into a big rock.. 
>so i slept total of 15 hours before i could finally wake up and get up..
>
>is this normal?? should i go lower dosage on seroquel??  any other 
>suggestions?? explainations??? 

 Right. I wasn't going to speculate on this, but...


"I slowed down and I didn't think anything" is a dopamine-suppressing
 (anti-psychotic) drug when you don't need one.  It is probably making
 the pro-sleep effects stronger too.  

 For the rest, too much pro-sleep might also just be too much dose.


 I think (and I am not qualified or a practitioner, Larry is 
 the practitioner) seroquel is drastically bad for you.
 Cease it.  Try remeron as Larry suggested.

 Any nasty surprises with remeron? well, it has a funny action 
 promoting noradrenaline.  If you say "I got physically aroused
 and active but then it just wouldn't go away for days... then
 I felt tired for days"... that's remeron.  Technically, that's
 blocking of the alpha-2 norepinephrine autoreceptors.  
 If outcomes like that become a big problem for you,
 then not remeron  either.  Try buspar.  The worst I have heard
 said about buspar is that there are quite a few people it has
 weak or no effect on.

 Try remeron first, though: it might work well for you.  
>
>thanks.. any help would be appreciated!

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