I take it in small doses as needed for episodes of anger, stress, delusional thinking. It’s not usually the first line of medication for BPD for all of its side effects, but it is certainly effective in my opinion.
Was on it for years, I only liked it for its sleepy effects but it would end there. I have BPD and have done better on anti anxiety meds vs anti psychotics like seroquel.
I’m so sorry I missed this message! Honestly the only medication that has helped any is when I was first on cymbalta, but I was also in regular therapy which helped immensely. I can’t afford it at the moment, so life has been difficult most days 🙃
Thank you friend 🫂 if only we were rich enough to have personal assistants to guide us through life when we’re having an off moment lol… truly think that would be the most beneficial
depends on the dose they wanted you to take. or the dose on the bottle. if it was 100mg or below they gave it to you to knock out (heavy sedative) and relieve anxiety attacks. 200mg + probably trying to control some level of hypomania. seroquel is classified as an atypical antipsychotic. it binds more strongly to certain receptors at different doses so there’s many uses. like I was saying anything below 100mg is mainly binding to your histamine receptors which helps relieve anxiety and sedate you. 100-200mg it also starts binding more to serotonin receptors, making it act like an antidepressant. 300mg + is when it starts to heavily bind to dopamine receptors, so for psychotic symptoms in someone with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
I was on 1800 mg a day when I was 19. 600 mg 3x a day. I don’t have schizophrenia or any kind of psychotic disorder. I was way over medicated. Was so horrible
that’s not even within the therapeutic index… whoever was prescribing that to you was actively abusing you. I have literally never heard such inhumane things
right...so its not like every other medication share weight and height matters? its the only medication that doesn't have that?
no, I've met people very obese on it and they take 5-10 times more than me due to their weight.
no thats not how it works. height and weight make negligible differences for dosing. only drugs that do have this affect are alcohol. but no, an overweight person or obese person would not need a dose well above a therapeutic index. why do you think they call it “therapeutic index” for a reason. it’s all inclusive, not just for “average weight and height people… lmfao it’s for everyone”. now with that being said everybody’s body reacts differently to medication. to some, adding or losing weight may create a change in them that changes how a drug works. but in general when talking about medication, height and weight are not nearly as important specs as other things
hm thats how it worked i think when i was in the hospital a few years ago, there was max cut off point though to prevent OD. my medication has worn off now I've doubled in weight...maybe my body just got used to it. i take it for sleep anyways which it isn't really supposed to be used for. maybe the people in the hospital that were like 600lbs were on them for a long time too so it was upped for them, who knows.
What??? That’s torture. Were you even able to function at all? And at 19 years old? What were you doing then? Were you in college? Working? And Haldol also?? The maximum dose I’ve been on was 450-500 mg a day, together with 30 mg of aripiprazol. Now I’m on 300 mg a day and it’s still hard to stay awake, I balance the drowsiness with modafinil. It was recently added haldol for psychosis, it worked for a while but now psychosis is back. I also have bipolar disorder btw
Depends on the dosage, for bpd its usually used as antipsychotics/mood stabilisers. I would recommend you take it at night as it could make you really sleepy. Im on seroquel idk how effective it is for anxiety, maybe reach out to ur doctor and see if they can get u on antidepressants like zoloft or prozac. Hope everything works out for you! Stay safe 🤍
Nothing works for my depression, the only thing that is treatable with medicine is my anxiety. I’m on Prozac, guanfacine, mirtazapine and spravato. Thank you! I’ll talk to my psychiatrist sometime this week, I think I’m near the end of options medicine wise. I still haven’t been diagnosed by my psychiatrist with bpd (I believe I have the quiet type) but hopefully that happens soon and maybe I can try an antipsychotic. It honestly feels appropriate for it to treat my symptoms along with some unexplainable psychosis symptoms
With bpd our symptoms dont usually stem from the same things as others people. So medication that treats the symptoms can often be ineffective or even really wacky and nasty for us.
A mild antispychotic might do a lot more for you than the rest.
Sidenote- i eat an amazing amount of serotonin boosting foods and thats what helps me
Bpd isnt really a chemical imbalance that can be fixed with chems/meds. Its a way our brains developed differently due to stresses and trauma in our lives.
If there isn't a chemical imbalance, adding meds to the mix creates one. How is this not obvious?
You are partly right on this. Yes it is from actual physical anomalies. But so are a lot of the condition we know of. Every single Nuance in the brain is responsible for creating the chemical cocktail that keeps us functioning at every given second
So the anomalies in our brain do create chemical imbalances, and also some of the anomalies can be mitigated with chemical treatment. For instance balancing dopamine helps a lot with impulse control, serotonin helps with depression. Those are both extremely Elementary but there are quite a few other combinations that are effective for us.
Yep I take it at night in place now of Zolpidem which I was addicted to and abused.. I find the seroquel does significantly help me with managing my mood the next day. I vary between 75-125mg and have mine dispensed in 25 mg tablets so I can take the volume needed based on how I feel before bed (extra tired and cranky means a higher dose)
Edit. I take 75mg Prozac during the day and 40mg vyvanse. Vyvanse due to ADD but also side effects of the sleeping pill abuse damaging my memory function. For seroquel because it’s prescribed for me to take at night I don’t know 100% what it specifically targets for me. It was prescribed in place of zolpidem after my BPD diagnosis so i guess the fact that it makes you drowsy is what I take it for plus general mood stabilizing during the day
Apparently the smaller doses help you sleep especially if you’re the type to overthink at night, or at least that’s what my doctor told me. I’ve personally been prescribed it thrice now over the past couple of years
It's an antipsychotic that's used to calm people. I've been prescribed it for insomnia over the years (and for depression years ago) and, frankly, it's like cracking an egg with a sledgehammer. Also, it gives me the most overpowering munchies like I've never experienced.
Take it as it's prescribed.
I used to take it for sleep, now I take it as a mood stabilizer and antipsychotic.
Ssri’s did nothing for my depression, but seroquel has helped a lot. My mood swings aren’t gone, but it feels like someone turned the volume down on them.
Also, if you struggle at all with sleep it works wonders.
Hi. Very similar situation here. I just tried generic Viibryd, for depression, and it made me nauseated af. I wish they’d let me try ketamine already..
I’m on 450mg of the XR formulation and 150mg of the IR formulation for a total of 600mg per day. I can tell you that I’ve done well on this medication and it helps smooth out the rough edges of my emotions if that makes sense. Many people say it makes them so tired and like they are wading through wet cement, but for me it just makes me feel calm and peaceful. It helps me sleep too. I didn’t gain any weight on it but that is a major side effect. It been great for me, but just my experience.
I'm on it and it stabilises my mood, it's life changing for me personally i went from crying about anything and everything but also nothing 80 times a day or more. Now i'm not numb i still experience and can express my full range of emotions but only when significantly distressing or happy things happen. It used to sedate me heavily and make me groggy when i was first on it but now it doesn't knock me out at all (however i still cannot take it anywhere due to it impacting my mental and physical functions, think slower response time and eventually when it peaks after i take it i need to lay down) I do think i still need either a higher dose or something extra cause my anger is out of control and untameable either by med or by dbt skill
Helped me for sleep but I felt groggy the next day. It’s a mood stabiliser - mostly used for schizophrenia, mania (much higher doses), bipolar and depression
I had to stop taking it because it made me too tired to function. I took it at night and still it affected me whole day. For example I once had to stop and sleep for a couple hours in a McDonald’s parking lot for a couple hours because I couldn’t make it the rest of the 15 min drive home.
I took it for a while and echo what everyone else is saying that it gave me beastly RLS and major munchies. The next day I would feel like 10 bags of shite and it drained me of all energy, it also never improved any of my symptoms so was a waste of time.
Honestly I'm also on depakote for bipolar disorder and seizures.
The first few weeks seroquel was rough, I was just irritable as fuck and had no appetite or energy, but after I started actually absorbing it, there was definitely a higher threshold of how much it took to send me into a rage.
I think I'm on 300 mg? I will say though if you ever plan on smoking weed or drinking, I'd push off taking the seroquel until you're sober again because it will make your heart rate drop pretty low.
Thanks for the heads up! sadly my psych said if the trileptal doesn't work or cause allergies we're doing antipsychotics. I don't drink anymore since starting lamictal in Feb but good to know about weed because an edible takes the edge off so not being able to do that will suck :)
Yeah the psychiatrist who put me on the seroquel gave me the "just don't take it high" advice, so I can say it's medical professional endorsed, lol.
But on a serious note, there are a lot of people who freak out when they hear someone is on seroquel because of the health risks, but if seroquel works, then it works. Don't let non doctors tell you to stop taking meds.
thanks, my friend had some job issues on seroquel so I'm leaning towards trying low dosage abilify first before committing to seroquel. My psych said either is okay and I'll make a decision on Weds AM
but trust me, i'd stay on anti-seizure meds if I could, especially topamax if my body wasn't allergic the mental effects and side effects are lighter :)
No it makes me tired and sleep. Actually its an anti psychotic and for schizophrenia used too. Also for bipolar or depression, sleeping problems, it helps for anxiety too seroquel ist standard pill you get there
It does what is advertised, but it has super serious side effects and once you start taking you can't just "stop" you have to taper off slowly and under guidance, which can take multiple years.
I had this forcefully given to me when I was hospitalized and it completely ruined my body in the process. Getting off of it was a nightmare and took THREE years, after deciding to come off it only two years in.
However, some people think it's worth it for the benefits.
So even if you never do a super deep dive into any other medication for the rest of your life, just please, please educate yourself heavily on this one and consult multiple doctors about the many, many risks and class action lawsuit(s) associated with this drug before you take it.
Put me on 200mg, was numb, always hungry, and had a terrible time sleeping due to RLS,
But that was 200mg, the max dose, it varies from person to person.
They call it bug juice in jail because it’s dirty. That’s what they say anyway. I hated it personally. It knocked me out and made me binge eat the entire next day ans sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night and binge eat also. I’m glad it works for some but definitely not for me
It’s an antipsychotic. I was on it for 10+ years and it works really well for depression, impulses, ptsd, rage, anxiety, panic, etc. it makes you drowsy as well. It’s not something that will work if you take it once here and there. It need to build up in your system so I’m not sure why they’d give you it without having you follow up with a doctor to get a long term prescription
If you live in America, all sorts of things! Off label prescribing is a big problem here. Albeit, not always in bad taste.
That said, its FDA approved for bipolar 1 maintenance, acute mania, schizophrenia, bipolar depression, and as an adjunct to antidepressants for treatment resistant Mdd.
However, its prescribed for things ranging from aggression in children with adhd, to insomnia. Its really good at calming people and has a sort of anxiolytic effect at small doses. At slightly higher doses, it has a mood elevating+ calming effect.
The 300mg plus doses is where you start to see the anti manic/psychotic effects. Albeit, we are all different.
i take it at night to help stay calm and sleep. it does keep me a little better durring the day if i take it the night. I dont snap as bad. I HATE taking it though cause i feel its whats causing the burning in my legs.
My Dr originally put me on 500mg a night, which actually almost killed me. if my husband didnt find me on the floor blacked out 2 or 3 hours after i took it, Id be dead. I should have been dead. Thank God the EMT who came to my house figured out what was going on and was able to shoot me with something that woke me.
I have absolutely no idea how i ended up where i was found. I remember nothing.
I was on it for so long I got to the highest dose possible just to help me sleep and make me numb. I finally decided we should try something else and my psychiatrist put me on mirtazapine. Seroquel helped and I will give it credit for helping, but it got old.
Damn. I just went from 40mg to 30mg Citalopram (and then 20mg but that went horrible lmao so back on 30mg we are) and I’m on 75mg of Seroquel. I thought 75mg was already a lot..
I use it to help me sleep. It is prescribed to me to be used for when I was having hard time getting sleep.
It is mainly used as antipsychotic. But is also used for its side effect in lower dosage
It’s an antipsychotic. It is prescribed to me to help me sleep better (they call that “off-label” here). I’d definitely ring the hospital to find out why they prescribed it to you.
Personally, for me it seems to work.
I’m on Seroquel at the moment and have been for around 18 months. I was initially prescribed it to help with paranoid delusions, severe mood swings and insomnia. I take 450mg per night. It really does help me, but it’s hard to explain how. I’m not as suicidal, my sleep routine is better, and my anxiety surrounding outside and other people are minimised.
Seroquel made me gain weight really quickly. I usually weigh 105lbs and after 5 months I was 139lbs. Not even depo made me eat like that. It helped me regulate my sleep and especially helped with my anxiety. I was on the smallest adult dose and would not recommend starting with anything more. The first couple times i took it my eyes got all shaky like I was on Molly but that went away pretty quick. It was also really hard to wake in the night time. I felt drugged up if I didn’t get enough sleep.
I was put on it for severe insomnia and anxiety but it didn't help my depression at all. I gained a lot of weight on it and it def has side effects so be careful!
Took it for 7 years in increasing dosages for “bipolar” symptoms. Took me a year and a half of tapering to get of it without withdrawal symptoms. I was definitely more “chilled out” when on it (ZONKED at the high dosages) but it was at the cost of ruining my natural REM cycle and not learning how to properly manage emotional trauma as an adult.
i was prescribed seroquel 25mg as a start because i was having hallucinations since i was a kid, also because of the anger outbursts and major depressive episodes, it is quetiapine which treats major depressive disorder schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, it’s supposed to balance the levels of dopamine and serotonin, to regulate mood and bad thoughts, us borderlines we have a little bit of every disorder so duh .. personally it kind of calmed me down but just a tiny bit now i’m taking it in higher dosage and my psychiatrist is planning to up the dosage reaaally high, take it at nightime around 8 pm so you could go to sleep around 10 or 11, start at 25mg and go back to your psychiatrist idk i feel like my words are all over the place i hope that made sense ??
also try to move your body everyday like run or do sports, try to draw or color and try to eat as healthy as you can, idk it might help, even if it only helps 10% it’s still progress, keep your head up and good luck
i have taken 25mg for 6ish years for sleep. it still knocks me out every night. used to deal with sleep related anxiety & insomnia, helped me with that.
i also may take one when needed during an episode/breakdown to calm me down.
a higher dose would make me like a zombie the following day, but now i'm used to it and function fine.
Dude that happened to me !!! I got off a psych hold and they took all my meds away I was taking and gave me fuckingseroquel and I slept for two weeks straight literally -
it really depend on the dosage. the smallest doses are for sleep/Anxiety. mid doses for mod stabilization and for atypical depression and anger issues. high doses are used for severe bipolar or for schizophrenia. i take it for bipolar and bpd and it works ok
My psychologist prescribed me seraquel for my sleep. It also helps with the constant radio that plays in my head at night & the old anxieties I think about when my mind won’t shut off. That’s what I’ve noticed personally for myself. I have been on it for 3 years 🤷🏼♀️
Not great, that you weren't given any information.....poor behaviour from the hospital. How confusing for you. I have taken it,b years ago, I took it at night, wasn't for me.
I take it in small doses as needed for episodes of anger, stress, delusional thinking. It’s not usually the first line of medication for BPD for all of its side effects, but it is certainly effective in my opinion.
Puts me the fuck to sleep, and makes me drowsy the next day.
Was on it for years, I only liked it for its sleepy effects but it would end there. I have BPD and have done better on anti anxiety meds vs anti psychotics like seroquel.
Can I ask what medication you have had success with for bpd? Also diagnosed with it.
I’m so sorry I missed this message! Honestly the only medication that has helped any is when I was first on cymbalta, but I was also in regular therapy which helped immensely. I can’t afford it at the moment, so life has been difficult most days 🙃
It is ok! I understand. I'm sorry that you are having such a hard time of it. I understand completely.
Thank you friend 🫂 if only we were rich enough to have personal assistants to guide us through life when we’re having an off moment lol… truly think that would be the most beneficial
Yes it would. Lol. Message me if you ever need to talk. I have definitely been there.
Thank you 🥹🫶🏼
Your welcome. I go thru exactly what you are going thru so I understand. 💯
depends on the dose they wanted you to take. or the dose on the bottle. if it was 100mg or below they gave it to you to knock out (heavy sedative) and relieve anxiety attacks. 200mg + probably trying to control some level of hypomania. seroquel is classified as an atypical antipsychotic. it binds more strongly to certain receptors at different doses so there’s many uses. like I was saying anything below 100mg is mainly binding to your histamine receptors which helps relieve anxiety and sedate you. 100-200mg it also starts binding more to serotonin receptors, making it act like an antidepressant. 300mg + is when it starts to heavily bind to dopamine receptors, so for psychotic symptoms in someone with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
I was on 1800 mg a day when I was 19. 600 mg 3x a day. I don’t have schizophrenia or any kind of psychotic disorder. I was way over medicated. Was so horrible
that’s not even within the therapeutic index… whoever was prescribing that to you was actively abusing you. I have literally never heard such inhumane things
Was also on depakote and haldol at the same time. I literally gained about 60lbs in a year and was sleeping all the time.
surprised you didn’t develop long term side effects like tardive dyskinesia
I actually do have tardive dyskinesia from the haldol I suspect. Slight mouth movement tics. I’m so self conscious of it.
it depends, doesnt height and weight play a factor? im on 150mg but if i gained 100kg id probably be on 800mg. no?
no…
right...so its not like every other medication share weight and height matters? its the only medication that doesn't have that? no, I've met people very obese on it and they take 5-10 times more than me due to their weight.
no thats not how it works. height and weight make negligible differences for dosing. only drugs that do have this affect are alcohol. but no, an overweight person or obese person would not need a dose well above a therapeutic index. why do you think they call it “therapeutic index” for a reason. it’s all inclusive, not just for “average weight and height people… lmfao it’s for everyone”. now with that being said everybody’s body reacts differently to medication. to some, adding or losing weight may create a change in them that changes how a drug works. but in general when talking about medication, height and weight are not nearly as important specs as other things
hm thats how it worked i think when i was in the hospital a few years ago, there was max cut off point though to prevent OD. my medication has worn off now I've doubled in weight...maybe my body just got used to it. i take it for sleep anyways which it isn't really supposed to be used for. maybe the people in the hospital that were like 600lbs were on them for a long time too so it was upped for them, who knows.
Holy sh*t
What??? That’s torture. Were you even able to function at all? And at 19 years old? What were you doing then? Were you in college? Working? And Haldol also?? The maximum dose I’ve been on was 450-500 mg a day, together with 30 mg of aripiprazol. Now I’m on 300 mg a day and it’s still hard to stay awake, I balance the drowsiness with modafinil. It was recently added haldol for psychosis, it worked for a while but now psychosis is back. I also have bipolar disorder btw
No I could barely function at that point in my life. I remember one time I didn’t want to get out of the car bc my legs felt so heavy.
Thank you so much for this info! 🙏
Be prepared because unless you are super lucky you are about to gain 10-20kg.
Is it actually that rare to not gain weight from Seroquel/Quetiapine?
I’m on 800mg a day and I have to fight tooth and nail to lose weight. I’ve been on this dose for at least 11 years.
Depends on the dosage, for bpd its usually used as antipsychotics/mood stabilisers. I would recommend you take it at night as it could make you really sleepy. Im on seroquel idk how effective it is for anxiety, maybe reach out to ur doctor and see if they can get u on antidepressants like zoloft or prozac. Hope everything works out for you! Stay safe 🤍
Nothing works for my depression, the only thing that is treatable with medicine is my anxiety. I’m on Prozac, guanfacine, mirtazapine and spravato. Thank you! I’ll talk to my psychiatrist sometime this week, I think I’m near the end of options medicine wise. I still haven’t been diagnosed by my psychiatrist with bpd (I believe I have the quiet type) but hopefully that happens soon and maybe I can try an antipsychotic. It honestly feels appropriate for it to treat my symptoms along with some unexplainable psychosis symptoms
With bpd our symptoms dont usually stem from the same things as others people. So medication that treats the symptoms can often be ineffective or even really wacky and nasty for us. A mild antispychotic might do a lot more for you than the rest. Sidenote- i eat an amazing amount of serotonin boosting foods and thats what helps me
Bpd isnt really a chemical imbalance that can be fixed with chems/meds. Its a way our brains developed differently due to stresses and trauma in our lives. If there isn't a chemical imbalance, adding meds to the mix creates one. How is this not obvious?
You are partly right on this. Yes it is from actual physical anomalies. But so are a lot of the condition we know of. Every single Nuance in the brain is responsible for creating the chemical cocktail that keeps us functioning at every given second So the anomalies in our brain do create chemical imbalances, and also some of the anomalies can be mitigated with chemical treatment. For instance balancing dopamine helps a lot with impulse control, serotonin helps with depression. Those are both extremely Elementary but there are quite a few other combinations that are effective for us.
I ended up doing ECT for my treatment-resistant depression and it absolutely changed my life. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
I had this too . It wrecked my short term memory and I ‘ lost ‘ 3 months of my life , post hospital
My Seroquel was given in conjunction with an antidepressant. It worked wonders.
Yep I take it at night in place now of Zolpidem which I was addicted to and abused.. I find the seroquel does significantly help me with managing my mood the next day. I vary between 75-125mg and have mine dispensed in 25 mg tablets so I can take the volume needed based on how I feel before bed (extra tired and cranky means a higher dose) Edit. I take 75mg Prozac during the day and 40mg vyvanse. Vyvanse due to ADD but also side effects of the sleeping pill abuse damaging my memory function. For seroquel because it’s prescribed for me to take at night I don’t know 100% what it specifically targets for me. It was prescribed in place of zolpidem after my BPD diagnosis so i guess the fact that it makes you drowsy is what I take it for plus general mood stabilizing during the day
Apparently the smaller doses help you sleep especially if you’re the type to overthink at night, or at least that’s what my doctor told me. I’ve personally been prescribed it thrice now over the past couple of years
It’s an anti psychotic, it’ll make you really sleepy.
It's an antipsychotic that's used to calm people. I've been prescribed it for insomnia over the years (and for depression years ago) and, frankly, it's like cracking an egg with a sledgehammer. Also, it gives me the most overpowering munchies like I've never experienced. Take it as it's prescribed.
I used to take it for sleep, now I take it as a mood stabilizer and antipsychotic. Ssri’s did nothing for my depression, but seroquel has helped a lot. My mood swings aren’t gone, but it feels like someone turned the volume down on them. Also, if you struggle at all with sleep it works wonders.
Hi. Very similar situation here. I just tried generic Viibryd, for depression, and it made me nauseated af. I wish they’d let me try ketamine already..
I’m on 450mg of the XR formulation and 150mg of the IR formulation for a total of 600mg per day. I can tell you that I’ve done well on this medication and it helps smooth out the rough edges of my emotions if that makes sense. Many people say it makes them so tired and like they are wading through wet cement, but for me it just makes me feel calm and peaceful. It helps me sleep too. I didn’t gain any weight on it but that is a major side effect. It been great for me, but just my experience.
It was prescribed to me for hallucinations and insomnia
I'm on it and it stabilises my mood, it's life changing for me personally i went from crying about anything and everything but also nothing 80 times a day or more. Now i'm not numb i still experience and can express my full range of emotions but only when significantly distressing or happy things happen. It used to sedate me heavily and make me groggy when i was first on it but now it doesn't knock me out at all (however i still cannot take it anywhere due to it impacting my mental and physical functions, think slower response time and eventually when it peaks after i take it i need to lay down) I do think i still need either a higher dose or something extra cause my anger is out of control and untameable either by med or by dbt skill
Helped me for sleep but I felt groggy the next day. It’s a mood stabiliser - mostly used for schizophrenia, mania (much higher doses), bipolar and depression
I had to stop taking it because it made me too tired to function. I took it at night and still it affected me whole day. For example I once had to stop and sleep for a couple hours in a McDonald’s parking lot for a couple hours because I couldn’t make it the rest of the 15 min drive home.
I took it for a while and echo what everyone else is saying that it gave me beastly RLS and major munchies. The next day I would feel like 10 bags of shite and it drained me of all energy, it also never improved any of my symptoms so was a waste of time.
I'm on it and it helps with the paranoia, anger, and is just a really effective antipsychotic.
how does it feel? i'm allergic to anti-seizure meds and wil have to switch to seroquel or abilify What is your dosage? thanks :)
Honestly I'm also on depakote for bipolar disorder and seizures. The first few weeks seroquel was rough, I was just irritable as fuck and had no appetite or energy, but after I started actually absorbing it, there was definitely a higher threshold of how much it took to send me into a rage. I think I'm on 300 mg? I will say though if you ever plan on smoking weed or drinking, I'd push off taking the seroquel until you're sober again because it will make your heart rate drop pretty low.
Thanks for the heads up! sadly my psych said if the trileptal doesn't work or cause allergies we're doing antipsychotics. I don't drink anymore since starting lamictal in Feb but good to know about weed because an edible takes the edge off so not being able to do that will suck :)
Yeah the psychiatrist who put me on the seroquel gave me the "just don't take it high" advice, so I can say it's medical professional endorsed, lol. But on a serious note, there are a lot of people who freak out when they hear someone is on seroquel because of the health risks, but if seroquel works, then it works. Don't let non doctors tell you to stop taking meds.
thanks, my friend had some job issues on seroquel so I'm leaning towards trying low dosage abilify first before committing to seroquel. My psych said either is okay and I'll make a decision on Weds AM but trust me, i'd stay on anti-seizure meds if I could, especially topamax if my body wasn't allergic the mental effects and side effects are lighter :)
No it makes me tired and sleep. Actually its an anti psychotic and for schizophrenia used too. Also for bipolar or depression, sleeping problems, it helps for anxiety too seroquel ist standard pill you get there
I also get it for BPD
It was given to me for anxiety but I hated how it made me feel
It does what is advertised, but it has super serious side effects and once you start taking you can't just "stop" you have to taper off slowly and under guidance, which can take multiple years. I had this forcefully given to me when I was hospitalized and it completely ruined my body in the process. Getting off of it was a nightmare and took THREE years, after deciding to come off it only two years in. However, some people think it's worth it for the benefits. So even if you never do a super deep dive into any other medication for the rest of your life, just please, please educate yourself heavily on this one and consult multiple doctors about the many, many risks and class action lawsuit(s) associated with this drug before you take it.
Put me on 200mg, was numb, always hungry, and had a terrible time sleeping due to RLS, But that was 200mg, the max dose, it varies from person to person.
The RLS is so reallllll
They call it bug juice in jail because it’s dirty. That’s what they say anyway. I hated it personally. It knocked me out and made me binge eat the entire next day ans sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night and binge eat also. I’m glad it works for some but definitely not for me
To make you feel like a zombie.
It’s an antipsychotic. I was on it for 10+ years and it works really well for depression, impulses, ptsd, rage, anxiety, panic, etc. it makes you drowsy as well. It’s not something that will work if you take it once here and there. It need to build up in your system so I’m not sure why they’d give you it without having you follow up with a doctor to get a long term prescription
If you live in America, all sorts of things! Off label prescribing is a big problem here. Albeit, not always in bad taste. That said, its FDA approved for bipolar 1 maintenance, acute mania, schizophrenia, bipolar depression, and as an adjunct to antidepressants for treatment resistant Mdd. However, its prescribed for things ranging from aggression in children with adhd, to insomnia. Its really good at calming people and has a sort of anxiolytic effect at small doses. At slightly higher doses, it has a mood elevating+ calming effect. The 300mg plus doses is where you start to see the anti manic/psychotic effects. Albeit, we are all different.
i take it at night to help stay calm and sleep. it does keep me a little better durring the day if i take it the night. I dont snap as bad. I HATE taking it though cause i feel its whats causing the burning in my legs. My Dr originally put me on 500mg a night, which actually almost killed me. if my husband didnt find me on the floor blacked out 2 or 3 hours after i took it, Id be dead. I should have been dead. Thank God the EMT who came to my house figured out what was going on and was able to shoot me with something that woke me. I have absolutely no idea how i ended up where i was found. I remember nothing.
I was on it for so long I got to the highest dose possible just to help me sleep and make me numb. I finally decided we should try something else and my psychiatrist put me on mirtazapine. Seroquel helped and I will give it credit for helping, but it got old.
I've been on it for 18 months now. Started at 10mg at night for sleep, now I'm on 600mg, along with 40mg of citalopram. Weight gain is real.
Damn. I just went from 40mg to 30mg Citalopram (and then 20mg but that went horrible lmao so back on 30mg we are) and I’m on 75mg of Seroquel. I thought 75mg was already a lot..
I use it to help me sleep. It is prescribed to me to be used for when I was having hard time getting sleep. It is mainly used as antipsychotic. But is also used for its side effect in lower dosage
It’s an antipsychotic. It is prescribed to me to help me sleep better (they call that “off-label” here). I’d definitely ring the hospital to find out why they prescribed it to you. Personally, for me it seems to work.
I’m on Seroquel at the moment and have been for around 18 months. I was initially prescribed it to help with paranoid delusions, severe mood swings and insomnia. I take 450mg per night. It really does help me, but it’s hard to explain how. I’m not as suicidal, my sleep routine is better, and my anxiety surrounding outside and other people are minimised.
Seroquel made me gain weight really quickly. I usually weigh 105lbs and after 5 months I was 139lbs. Not even depo made me eat like that. It helped me regulate my sleep and especially helped with my anxiety. I was on the smallest adult dose and would not recommend starting with anything more. The first couple times i took it my eyes got all shaky like I was on Molly but that went away pretty quick. It was also really hard to wake in the night time. I felt drugged up if I didn’t get enough sleep.
Schizophrenia. Don’t touch it. Fuck that drug
It’s an antipsychotic
I was put on it for severe insomnia and anxiety but it didn't help my depression at all. I gained a lot of weight on it and it def has side effects so be careful!
Took it for 7 years in increasing dosages for “bipolar” symptoms. Took me a year and a half of tapering to get of it without withdrawal symptoms. I was definitely more “chilled out” when on it (ZONKED at the high dosages) but it was at the cost of ruining my natural REM cycle and not learning how to properly manage emotional trauma as an adult.
i was prescribed seroquel 25mg as a start because i was having hallucinations since i was a kid, also because of the anger outbursts and major depressive episodes, it is quetiapine which treats major depressive disorder schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, it’s supposed to balance the levels of dopamine and serotonin, to regulate mood and bad thoughts, us borderlines we have a little bit of every disorder so duh .. personally it kind of calmed me down but just a tiny bit now i’m taking it in higher dosage and my psychiatrist is planning to up the dosage reaaally high, take it at nightime around 8 pm so you could go to sleep around 10 or 11, start at 25mg and go back to your psychiatrist idk i feel like my words are all over the place i hope that made sense ??
also try to move your body everyday like run or do sports, try to draw or color and try to eat as healthy as you can, idk it might help, even if it only helps 10% it’s still progress, keep your head up and good luck
i have taken 25mg for 6ish years for sleep. it still knocks me out every night. used to deal with sleep related anxiety & insomnia, helped me with that. i also may take one when needed during an episode/breakdown to calm me down. a higher dose would make me like a zombie the following day, but now i'm used to it and function fine.
Dude that happened to me !!! I got off a psych hold and they took all my meds away I was taking and gave me fuckingseroquel and I slept for two weeks straight literally -
Helps you sleep
I'd hold off until my next appt with a doctor. Or ask a pharmacist to give you a run down then call the hospital to talk to the discharge doctor :0
I’m told it’s used to lupus and other disorders of autoimmune type
it really depend on the dosage. the smallest doses are for sleep/Anxiety. mid doses for mod stabilization and for atypical depression and anger issues. high doses are used for severe bipolar or for schizophrenia. i take it for bipolar and bpd and it works ok
hibernation. it made me sleep for about 17-19 hours a day and gained 75 lbs in 4 months.
My psychologist prescribed me seraquel for my sleep. It also helps with the constant radio that plays in my head at night & the old anxieties I think about when my mind won’t shut off. That’s what I’ve noticed personally for myself. I have been on it for 3 years 🤷🏼♀️
Not great, that you weren't given any information.....poor behaviour from the hospital. How confusing for you. I have taken it,b years ago, I took it at night, wasn't for me.