Posted by ronaldo on October 29, 2006, at 11:11:29
In reply to No longer sedated by 300mg seroquel, posted by Lindenblüte on October 28, 2006, at 16:40:49
> Hi all,
> About a month ago, my pdoc increased my seroquel dose from 50 mg titrating up to 300mg. Reason- to reduce intrusive thoughts of bad stuff, flashbacks, etc. I protested, saying I'd be a zombie. My pdoc said I'd get used to it. pdoc was right. I can't believe it.
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> I take it at night. Within 20-30 minutes, I'm barely able to stagger to bed. Then I sleep for 8-9 hours and I wake up and feel fine. It took about a week once I got to the 300mg dose before the fatigue went away. For the first week, I could barely manage to swallow a provigil pill before collapsing in bed and getting up an hour later to make a big pot of coffee.
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> Fatigue did go away though. So did most of my bad thoughts and flashbacks. (I'm not psychotic, btw)
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> Here are my other meds.
> 120mg cymbalta, 200mg provigil, klonopin prn.
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> If your doctor asks you to take a dose of seroquel, and you find it completely knocks you out, try titrating up gradually. It took me 10 days to go from 50-300.
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> Don't give up- I hope you will be able to stick it out for a week at your final therapeutic dose and see if the fatigue/sedation gets better each day. This morning I was feeling so awake, I forgot to take my provigil until I had been up for an hour already :)
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> -LiI'm glad you had better luck than me, Li. Maybe I should have perservered like you did. I only gave Seroquel three and a half weeks; and then I was taking it at all different strengths from 6 mg to 100 mg. Maybe if I had stuck to one dose, say 50 mg and kept at it for a month I would have had better luck! But dammit I needed some sleep!
So I went back onto the Zyprexa at 10 mg and after 2 weeks I have just had the best night's sleep I have had for years. I hope it continues......Alan
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