I am on 2o mg …!! It is especially for sleep…!!! Guys what is ur experiece with seroquel…
I took 100mg for sleep.
Anything under 300mg doesnt have anti psychotic properties
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Well I was terribly unwell on seroquel
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Might work for you though
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It did knock me out though and i slept like a baby
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I would choose seroquil over a sleeping pill.
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I take 50 mg for sleep, makes me sleep a good 11-15 hours.
When I was hospitalised, that was the dose they gave me if my symptoms got worse as well, and it seemed to calm me down.
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When I was on seroquel I took 400mg at night and 150mg in the morning.
It was WAY TOO MUCH.
That doctor was out of his mind putting me on so much medication,
I was hardly a sentient being on all that seroquel.
Taking 20mg for sleep sounds super reasonable,
Hope you see some improvement with it.
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I think it varies for each person. I am sensitive, took 100mg as an only antipsychotic, was completely knock-out. Could hardly talk or walk or follow a conversation.
My friend uses 600mg seroquel and other meds too and she says she doesnt feel a thing.
Not everybody is the same…
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GoldenRex:
When I was on seroquel I took 400mg at night and 150mg in the morning.
It was WAY TOO MUCH.
That doctor was out of his mind putting me on so much medication,
I was hardly a sentient being on all that seroquel.
How long were you on it? Because I take 300mg morning and 300mg night now and feel pretty normal.
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roxanna
November 13, 2017, 4:28pm
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Seroquel tried to kill me. I don’t remember what dosage I was taking.
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I take 300mg morning and night too. Keeps me pretty good compared to others.
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Sable
November 13, 2017, 5:09pm
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Even at 25 mgr is posible. Take a look:
S Giménez-Roldán, E Navarro and D Mateo,
Revista de neurologia , Mar 2003 1-15
Quetiapine is a novel neuroleptic drug with pharmacological properties close to clozapine, the most effective drug in the management of psychotic symptoms in patients with Parkinson s disease (PD). Unlike clozapine, however, quetiapine does not induce agranulocytosis and therefore no haematologic controls are required.To assess tolerability and effectiveness of low dose quetiapine on psychotic symptoms, sleep disturbances and stress of the caregiver in PD patients with dopaminomimetic psychosis.We carried out a 16 week, prospective, open label study on the effects of quetiapine in 7 consecutive PD patients with psychosis. A ceiling dose was arbitrarily established at 25 mg/d. Antiparkinsonian medication remained unchanged throughout the study. Motor symptoms were assessed with UPDRS motor subscale portion, Schwab England scale, and Hoehn Yahr diseases staging. The effects on hallucinations and paranoia, sleep disorder, and stress in the caregiver were scored separately, aside from a global score on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Global impression of both, investigators and caregiver was obtained at study conclusion. A patient died from unrelated causes.Under a mean quetiapine dose of 24.9 mg/d (12.5 37.2) motor impairment during on periods remained unchanged, both according to patients and caregiver whereas mean UPDRS motor score remained unchanged (35.5 4.5 versus 32.8 5.2). Levodopa induced dyskinesias disappeared in the single patient with this complication. Improvement occurred in mean NPI global score, as well as subscores for hallucinations and paranoia, and caregiver stress. In over half the patients, effectiveness was scored as very good or good both by examiners and caregivers. A confusional episode occurred in one patient under 25 mg/d but readily resolved while maintaining the benefit following dose reduction to 12.5 mg.Quetiapine at low doses appears a useful alternative for psychotic symptoms, sleep disorders and stress of the caregiver in patients with PD
It nearly killed me too. Some people swear by it though. One person’s miracle med is another’s poison.
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Sable
November 13, 2017, 5:11pm
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Usefull for paranoia with just 25 mgrs, sometimes.
Yes, positive.
roxanna
November 13, 2017, 5:13pm
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I know right. Scared me though. I’ve heard of people being able to tolerate it too.
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It did something to make my symptoms very severe god knows what it was but I suffered on this drug
It took eight weeks to ween of it and those were the longest weeks of my life
Maybe three months of that,
I was initially on more at the hospital where I was prescribed,
But after being home for a couple weeks they put me on that.
Seroquel works well for some people, I was just not one of them.
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Really bad idea, serequel can give you diabetes