I do it on my own cause doctors don’t know me as well as I do. I’m on 300 mg Seroquel and 500 mg Clopixol every 3 weeks. I’ll keep the Clopixol and get off of Seroquel in a time span of 4 weeks. This would mean lowering Seroquel with 100 mg per week. I’m a Seroquel lover cause it helped me getting of 160 mg Ziprasidone. But I’ve got borderline diabetes so I’ve got to come off some of my antipsychotics and this means qutiapine.
You have talked about quitting seroquel quite a few times. Actually doctors are very important for people with our disease because we are prone to lose insight.
I really wish that you can get off the med, but be very careful. If things go bad, be ready to go back on them. It’s not a setback to go back on meds if you are losing your mind.
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Mr hope I remember you are Norwegian and my niece has lived with her Norwegian boy friend for 3 years now.
You’re right Mr hope I had to upper my dose of qutiapine to 400 mg tonight because of side effects not psychosis. My constant pie in has gone so I think that I’ve survived without diabetes so Monday I’ll negotiate with my doc to get lowered to 400 mgs of qutiapine.
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Its not good to lower then go up etc, if you can’t do it on your own, do it with your Dr. I tried going off meds on my own but I started getting symptoms so went back up. I am not going back off meds again in near future
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I lowered my meds a month ago and today took wellbutrin, no improvement in negative symptoms at all, it sucks. My Dr thinks my negative symptoms are from sz and that they only improve because I was psychotic so its not my normal dopamine
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I just had to get down to a dose that was safe and I’ll inform the doctor Monday and get an agreement.
I just want to tell you Aziz that your negatives can get better as you age.
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Hope the lower dose works for you
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you should take drugs like metformin to prevent you from developing diabetes. also green coffee extract would help as well.
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It seems that I’m finally settled on 500 mg Qutiapine. When I went below 500 mg my negative worsened so much so when I started using 500 mg qutiapine my energy motivation and mood improved very much. I cannot go abou 500 mg because that it makes me so thirsty and I don’t want to pie constantly. I’ve got no positive symptoms or what so ever.
Thanks to all of you for your contributions.
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Lowering or increasing my meds didn’t make a difference in negative symptoms. I am at the dr waiting to go up from 1.5mg to 6mg again. I was on 3mg risp for a few years, my negative symptoms are now a bit better on 6mg so I will stay at that dose. I have an addiction to increasing and lowering or going off meds, i think its from sz as I still don’t fully believe I am mentally ill, sometimes I think I am cured and don’t need meds anymore
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I feel exactly as you when I sometimes feel cured.
Let’s support each other to keep the meds.
thumbs up Aziz.
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