İs anyone using seroquel or generic of this medicine. İf so how is this drug overall? Would you advice? Any side effect? İ heard that its good for cognitive
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i took a really low dose of it as my first medication when i got psychsosis, it made me
sleep all day long like i would go to take a nap and wake up 18 hours later
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Yeah im on the generic - 300mg at night. Cant sleep without it - and get breakthru symptoms if i dont take it, even with the monthly depot. You could say im sorta dependant on it. On the odd occasion the GP messes up the weekly script - im knackered without it.
No side effects - apart from making me sleep of course. But they keep a close eye on my pancreas, cos its irritated it in the past,
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I take 100 mg of Seroquel XR as an add to Risperdal.It only keeps me calm,and because it’s XR version last all day as it’s taken in the morning on empty stomach.I don’t feel sedation during the day.
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I take 700mg of seroquel or the generic quietiapine every day
I take 50’s during the day and 600 at bedtime
It’s the only thing that gets me to sleep 
The only thing that happened to me was it takes a little while to get used to the dose because it’s sedating
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Wow mate! And i thought i was on a high dose. Dont you get a slight “hangover effect” Any more than 300 and i feel it in the morning,
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I sure did feel like that in mornings for about three weeks but then I guess my body adjusted to it because now I don’t have the hangover.
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I cant take it because of heavy acid fluids. Dont really work for my sleep disorder.
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Been on generic for like 8 years. Is good. Makes you sleepy. Kinda puts the brakes on my rushing thoughts
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It is great for my chronic insomnia. It is also great for my mood swings. I stay even and calm all the time while on it. I’m kind of dependent on it too.
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I’ve been Seroquel taking it since it first came out in the late 90s. I was taking 400 mg but I’m now stable on 200 for Many years.
The only side effects for me are dry mouth and chapped lips so I sip water and use Chapstick.
There were a lot of post about it back then too bad with the new forum they are all lost.
I had agitation so the relatively sedative Seroquel was perfect for me. Take your full dose in the night and wake up fresh.
Or things were really terrible I took up to 800 mg and it would knock you out and you could sleep it off.
But picking a med is always trial in terror. Just have to see what it feels like for YOU.
Good luck in your search.
I’m on 400 x 2 daily Seroquel. For a long time I didn’t think it was having any effect on me, until I didn’t get it for five days one time. I got a little more jittery than I cared to be.
I used to take 800 at night. One of the 2, the other thorazine, that helped. Doubled my body weight and was still gaining when they took me off of it. All I wanted to do was eat and sleep.
I used to be on 900mg at night and it worked pretty good…but then I OD’d on it and they put me on injections so I wouldn’t be able to OD again. I loved the way Seroquel helped me sleep.
i tried it for sleep, only 25mg and after a few days of taking it, it gave me major aggression and bad thoughts. my gf even said i woke up in the middle of the night once and said something angrily too her then went back to sleep which i have no memory of.
so i discontinued it right away.
I used to be on 1600mg of Quetiapine extended release. The side effects I got were sleepiness, dry mouth, constipation, heart arrythmias and rarely severe dizziness. Now I’m taking Olanzapine.
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I’m on 900mg. It’s a great drug in my opinion. It’s sedating but calming and it knocks my psychosis out of the water.
Weight gain can happen though.
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it work for me for 2.5 years and was great for sleep
It gave me a bottomless appetite and I gained weight on it. It also seemed to cause half-asleep hallucinations. I was on it for like five years before I had voices and just had bipolar as my diagnosis, back then I was on it for sleep.
I’m off it now, I didn’t care for the zombification factor myself.