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Medication backlashes

Posted by sleepygirl on August 13, 2005, at 23:41:20

My doctor went out of town and didn't write me a script for enough Seroquel, and I've been lazy about taking care of the situation (perhaps preoccupied?) So I've run out, cut the dose in half the last two nights. Yesterday I was a light shade of manic. Sure, I was hilarious-but mostly I felt agitated. I was restless, talking too much, impulsive, like a hyperactive puppy dog. Yucky, yuck, yuck
Today I couldn't formulate thoughts or organize them, felt sort of impaired.

I think that just like with the benzos, the SSRI's, effexor, there is a backlash of symptoms when withdrawing from Seroquel.
You know what I mean-? I reduce my zoloft script and I'm a crying mess, I skip the benzo-I'm anxious, wanting to crawl out of my skin, I lower the effexor-I'm a crying, hypersensitive, overwhelmed mess.

I don't think this is simply a re-emergence of my symptoms-I think the body has a remarkable ability to adapt and habituate to whatever substances it gets consistenly. So I keep this in mind because....

I think perhaps the effexor has been the root of some of my anxiety, and I'd like to decrease it. I think perhaps I would not need seroquel at all if not for the effexor.

My point: it is often difficult to determine the what, why, when, where, and how of symptoms with the consideration of certain medication effects. Any thoughts??


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