Posted by Jedi on May 26, 2008, at 2:35:03
In reply to Re: Sleep meds, posted by NewHampshireGuy on May 25, 2008, at 11:27:42
Hi,
I just use Seroquel for the histamine affect. 25mg knocks me out in about an hour. I've been taking it for over a year for this with no tolerance built up. There are some studies which suggest that adjunctive Seroquel at higher dosages can help with treatment resistant GAD.J Anxiety Disord. 2008 Mar 13.
Quetiapine as an adjunctive pharmacotherapy for the treatment of non-remitting generalized anxiety disorder: A flexible-dose, open-label pilot trial.
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18455360?
ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSumSeroquel is also being studied as an augmentation for ADs in treatment resistant depression:
Hum Psychopharmacol. 2007 Jan;22(1):1-9.
Effects of adjunctive antidepressant therapy with quetiapine on clinical outcome, quality of sleep and daytime motor activity in patients with treatment-resistant depression.
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17191266?ordinalpos=17&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSumIf I wake up in the middle of the night while taking just 25mg of Seroquel, I know for sure I am drugged. After eight hours sleep, I have a small residual hangover which is easily knocked out with about three cups of coffee.
Take care,
Jedi> approximately how long do you guys think I should take seroquel before going to sleep? I am using it for sleep but would rather just take ambien or lunesta and klonopin. but I am diagnosed bipolar.
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> seems like the only thing seroquel has done to help that is make me a little more moody and flat/zombified but am going to give it a few more weeks to see if it shuts down the thoughts in my head/high energy to where i can sleep normally without anything...
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> does seroquel work that way? can it so called "rebalance" a chemical imbalance and help me sleep again
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> same thing happened with me years ago wear I all of a sudden got high energy and songs in head/racing thoughts and severe insomnia, and Effexor fixed it. but tried effexor again years later and had exact opposite affect of making everything worse
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> so I am just worried Seroquel really won't "balance" what I need it to in the way that Effexor did
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> can anyone take a minute to educate me or take a guess as to what might help? it would be VERY much appreciated!
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