Hi I been on seroquel 5 years now. And at every dosage level. I’m noticing a change in that higher dosages are much more noticeable in the side effect area. Like I’d wake mid night and it’d feel like my left arm had no sensation at all. And that awful sinking feeling felt like I was fading out of reality. So bad to the point I had to get up and get some water. I found 600mg to be too much as well. In the side effect department. I’ve been kind of weaning off an AP, just a couple years back I placed by the doctor on 400mg. And I called in, I felt panicky. However now 400mg is what I use. And I don’t feel any panic. In fact I been using 400mg for almost a year now. It’s just right when I made the dosage drop, so did my cognition to go to the gym. I still do push ups things like that, I was a gym fanatic anyway. I still after 1 year have the muscles I left off with. So I can continue back at anytime. My conclusion to this is because the rate of seroquel that I actually use in my body decreases, I took 200mg for a few days, it felt tolerable, manageable. Like in 2006 I was not any AP none. Just lithium. I wonder if again this is going to be the case, just back solely on lithium. It is strange how our symptoms and well change for the better. I have been in recovery since 2002. Back then was the year I turned it around for myself. Look how far I came.
Lithium is generally Rxd for bipolar; Seroquel for psychosis of whatever sort. 600 mgs is a fairly still dose; 300 is typical. BUT… Seroquel dosage for specific cases is really broad. I take 12.5 mgs. Some people take 3600. Lithium handles mania and depression. Seroquel is a good anti-manic.
I used to work at Dairy Queen when I was dosing myself with Lithium carb… I was barely serving ice cream. Those were hard days I eventually realized to inscrease my lithium carb dose and that it wasn’t inhibiting my natural personality but helping.