Posted by maryhelen on April 1, 2006, at 16:39:38
In reply to Re: drop the seroquel, posted by med_empowered on March 27, 2006, at 3:03:15
My experience with Seroquel was horrible. I think it is nasty drug. When I started taking it, it was because my pdoc gave it to me at the end of a session. I had already told him that I wanted to change my sleeping med. I had been taking Immovane (I don't know what it is called in the States) off and on for 10 years. It has a nasty, metallic taste and it never seemed to leave my system. When i brought it up again, at the end of the session, he seemed frustrated and went into his filing cabinet and gave me two sample boxes of Seroquel, without discussing it with me. The only thing I could see, is that on the box it said it was an anti-psychotic. I took it anyway to sleep and I had the most horrific, disgusting, terrifying nightmares that I have ever experienced. I kind of felt that I was some weird maniac because, these thoughts had to be coing from my brain somewhere. I didn't take them for a few days, but after getting no sleep, the same thing happened. It wasn't really worth the 3 - 4 hours sleep, because I was too terrified to go back to sleep. I kept taking it for a while because I thought it was a side effect and would go away. Never did, so I stopped. It also affected me in the day with tremors and dizziness and a dull ache in my head. If that is just one example of the drugs that schizophrenics have to take, no wonder they hate taking their medications.
Med says it is a front-line med for schizophrenia and acute mania, for midler cases of bipolar. I do not have any of these conditions. I have treatment resistant unipolar depression. When I was still taking the Seroquel, the pdoc added Lithium, Lamitcal and Lexapro. I told him I would not continue with Seroquel. He wasn't thrilled, but I told him my experience with the drug and that I thought it was a nasty drug. He seemed surprised.
Can drugs, such as Seroquel, being presribed for conditions that we don't have, screw our brains up even more?
Personally, with my experience, I would say Seroquel was a nasty drug for me and I would stop taking it.
maryhelen
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