Posted by blueberry on October 27, 2005, at 17:38:55
In reply to Getting off Seroquel, posted by greenhornet on October 26, 2005, at 12:18:54
If you want to just stop the seroquel, then I think lunesta 1mg to 3mg per night could be very helpful. I get 3mg pills and cut them in half to get 1 1/2mg per night. The side effect of a bad taste in the mouth lasted one day for me. It is pretty good for insomnia, both falling asleep and staying asleep, with hardly any hangover at waking. And it has been tested up to 6 months without developing tolerance to it.
Or you could slowly decrease the dose of seroquel over a period of 1 to 2 months. You can do that by using a knife to cut off just tiny chunks. Is it a 25mg tab? If so, you could cut it in half...then with a knife cut just a little corner off one of the halves, and take both halves. After 2 or 3 days of doing that, cut off a little bit bigger chunk. Keep going like that and slowly decreasing.
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