I haven’t been sleeping ever since they started me on Abilify. I really want to stop the Abilify but it looks like my psychiatrist really wants me on it. In short they’ve now given me 200mg of seroquel to help me actually sleep. Does anyone have advice about this? I have to be up tomorrow at 8am and I’m terrified of sleeping through my alarm but I’m also frustrated with the lack of sleep. Should I wait to take it till I don’t have to get anything done in the morning?
I take 50mg for sleep, and 50mg in the evenings as well.
It makes it harder for me to get up in the mornings and I sleep for longer, but if your doctor has told you to take it, you should.
You can always tell them to decrease the dosage if you find you oversleep too much.
Try to take it 10-12 hours before you have to get up.
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25mg seroquel at night here.
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I take Haldol in morning.
My sleep dose of Seroquel is 25-100 mg.
My Seroquel works in combo with Haldol. Do not know if it works without the 2 for me.
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From what you are all saying it sounds like 200 mg is a lot for me to be taking just to start
Yeah I’m on it for sleep. 200 mg is kind of a high dose for sleep. I’m on 50 mg. It puts me to sleep reliably and I do not gain tolerance to it like I do with literally every other sleep med. Unfortunately it doesn’t really keep me asleep and I tend to wake up multiple times a night anyways. (My sleep is naturally very disrupted)
Also when I first started it it gave me very vivid dreams
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I think I’ll take a quarter of a tablet and see what happens
Seroquel is such a toxic thing just to take to get to sleep. I use a supplement called ZMA to help me get to sleep.
Ive recently been put on 100mg of Seraqoul just for sleep - in addition to my depot, but ive just asked for it to be upped to 200mg as im still waking up at odd hours. Only thing is i found it gives me a slight hangover in the morning - but strong coffee soon sorts that out. Was my social workers idea, cos i wrongly assumed they would never prescribe me 2 Aps.
I was on 300 mgs seroquel. It knocked me out
I tried the 50mg last night and was still waking up every couple of hours. I think I’ll try 100 tonight and go from there
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