I have 25 mg tablets, and I can take half a tablet to a full tablet when required (e.g. paranoid thoughts coming back, can’t sleep). I just take half a tablet in the morning and half at night, which a GP told me I could. (He prescribed)
It feels like it has helped a lot – it helped me to finally get a full night’s sleep in the past 2 days. which I couldn’t have before, for 5 days in a row after a suspected psychotic episode.
Though when this wears off, a few hours before my next dose, the paranoid thoughts come back.
I will be able to see GP again this week and hopefully I can see a psychiatrist again and they can give me more advice about doses, so it doesn’t run out. These doses were only initially for backup so I don’t have that many, but when I called the mental health service I’m seeing on Tuesday, they said they will have doctors who can prescribe more if needed.
Before that I had Clonidine for sleep medication for two days but I feel like it made things worse. I didn’t get full sleep and I had unusual beliefs very strongly. I also had symptoms like dizziness, light-headedness, heavy head, and more, which I don’t have now.
Example of unusual beliefs - TW
I had thoughts of the government spying on me and going to imprison me for 10 years like Assange
When my Seroquel dose wears off, I have unusual beliefs like thinking that I’ve lost my ability to program and remember piano songs, and that many bad things will happen to me on 31 Oct. They stop after I take the meds, but sometimes it feels like the dose isn’t lasting the whole time, so I will also speak with the medical professionals about that.
ithats funny how various doses of antipsychotics work from individual to individual. You only take 25 mgs Seroquel while I must take 700 mg of Seroquel with a long acting injection to wipe out the psychosis totally.