Hello everyone! I haven’t talk on this forum for a while.
It turns out, what I suffered almost a year ago was a brief psycothic break with a manic episode. This is what my doctor says… now, I went to a different doctor today, by my father’s suggestion, and she told me almost the same things but also suggested me to do some changes. She told me to try seroquel: 25mg in the night, 15mg in the morning. My current risperdal dose is 0.75mg both in the morning and evening.
I will say it, I don’t experience any side effects at this point: neither weight gain, nor muscle stiffness, nor dry mouth, nothing. So I was thinking, if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. But this doctor says that seroquel in those doses will be better than risperdal. Again, I will see my usual doctor next week, and I will tell him about this new doctor.
I wanted to ask you folks, what do you think? That change between seroquel and risperdal could be good, or it’s better to let what works as it is?
You mean 250mg and 150mg, right? Because 25mg and 15mg won’t do much for you at all. I don’t even know if 15mg pills exist.
I don’t have much experience with Risperdal, but maybe you should trust your father and your new doctor? They might be seeing things you’re not aware of. If it doesn’t work out, you can always change back.
I’ve taken 400 x 2 Seroquel along with 80 x 2 Geodon for over a decade. I don’t really notice the Seroquel. I don’t know if it has much effect because I don’t feel it. I’m no pdoc, but it seems to me that if the Seroquel controlled my symptoms I would stay on that.
If you are on a med, and it works, and you aren’t getting side effects heck no don’t change it!! Why does she even want to switch you in the first place??
If you go off a med there’s always a chance it won’t work for you again if you end up wanting to go back on so it’s not worth the risk if there’s no reason to switch.
Is this possibly an intermediate step to getting off APs entirely? Because that’s not much, nor is Seroquel known for being particularly strong… maybe they think you don’t need lifetime APs if you do OK on this?
I have no idea if you do or don’t, but I’d ask them what it is they intend to accomplish with this change.
Eta, I’m not sure from your post if the seroquel is an add-on or instead of your risperdal.
No, it’s really 25mg in the evening and 12.5mg in the morning (not 15mg, my mistake).
I don’t really know much about seroquel, but the thing is that I don’t have symptoms of illness right now. This new doctor I saw because my father works for a clynic and they recommended her to him, and he thought that a different opinion might be good.
I don’t think she is wrong or anything, but I have a history of almost 9-months with my doctor and I have grown fond of him, though she seems nice and likable and she surely knows what she is doing. She told me that seroquel could be better for me than risperdal.
And yes, I know the low dose seems too good to be true, and before I got this low I thought so as well, but at least for me, it’s working and I’m very grateful for being mentally stable.