Posted by KrissyP on March 3, 2003, at 15:57:43
In reply to Re: Any Seroquel Users Out There???, posted by Mikey_C on March 3, 2003, at 8:56:32
Hiya-I hear ya here:-) When you say, "Like you need to be P'd off enough first that you need help settling down so you take it to settle you down. But why should you be getting that P'd off in the first place? You should have more strength than that over your temper and things that upset you."-Ohhhhhhhh have I gotten better concerning this. Exactly, I was hurt, so I punish myself by taking more Klonopin than I really needed? That is true. That's what I did. AND, I wasn't even pissed of (in terms of anxiety, anger, temper etc.) to have to even take it-I just had the FEELINGS and I'm dealing with them better-but still, I should have only taken 1 1/2 mg Klonopin like the doc said to start doing. That's what I mean by working so hard not to allow people to "rent space in my head" friend or not. My doc, at the time DID increase the Seroquel to like a total of 300 mg a day-and I DID wet the bed yuk-LOL so, I stay on the 100mg-which seems to do well, I am trying to use alternative solutions for getting and staying asleep in addition to the meds. I bought a sound machine which helps too.
CONCERNING THE TRAZADONE-I heard the same exact thing. And I do wonder to get the full amount of benefit as an antidepressant-you are knocked out to the point of where an earthquake or fire wouldn't wake you-that's a scary thought.
Keep me posted about ya:-)
Kristen
Krissy, from what you said below, shouldn't a higher dose of Seroquel, Lamictal, OR Effexor provide a long-term solution for that problem? Clonazepam in that regard is sort of an "after the fact" solution. Like you need to be P'd off enough first that you need help settling down so you take it to settle you down. But why should you be getting that P'd off in the first place? You should have more strength than that over your temper and things that upset you. If that's what you're taking the Clonazepam for, I would ask my Doctor to see what other drug I could increase to take that symptom away.
I went back to taking 1mg of Clonazepam last night, and honestly, I think I should drop it down to maybe .75mg or something... was pretty rough waking up this morning and my sleep was DEAD... I think if I had to wake up to use the bathroom or something I would have been out of luck... would have just wet the bed... lol... Even after all this time on Clonazepam (2 years, 8 months) I can't envision what it would be like to take 2mg of it. Probably strong enough to knock out a horse lol....
Hey, one other interesting tidbit that I found out last week... you know Trazadone? How it's used as a sleeping pill AND as a form of an Anti-Depressant? In order for it to be effective as an anti-depressant you generally need to take about 300-400mg per day of it. Now, would that be actually working as an anti-depressant or would it just be enough to knock you into a completely dreamless sleep so that you completely forget that you're even depressed?
Anyways, today seems good so far.... I'll let you know later on tonight how things went. I think my body's getting used to the 75mg of Seroquel now... going to increase it to 100mg tonight just to get that final dose increase out of the way.
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