Posted by tonyz on June 29, 2009, at 21:48:35
I had to wait a few weeks to get in to see this guy maybe longer don't remember. W/O looking at the history of my past depressions, he asked about what drugs I had taken. Prior to seeing him I was on 16 mg of valium and 150mg of Nortriptyline, and I was also taking some seroquel
He told me to take Zoloft, Serequel, lamictal, and continue the Nortriptyline. He told me to take between 50-200mg of Seroquel.
I took 100mg the first night. This was last Friday.
Then I reduced to 75mg, but have not gotten really good sleep.I saw him today and he insisted that I need to take Seroquel as much as I can tolerate. I asked what else could I use for sleep and mentioned Restoril and he wrote me a prescription for that. I explained to him my concern with the neuroleptics but he kept insisting that that is what I need and that I had a problem in so far as having too much anxiety over the medications that have been prescribed.
All I know is I feel worse now. It has only been a few days on the Zoloft (50mg) and Lamictal (25mg). I don't see why both of these had to be started at the same time.
When I told him that valium and temazepam are in the same class as benzos and if I took the restoril I should probably reduce the valium - his response was you take what you need.
What kind of doctor is this - who gives me such little guidance and doesn't address my concerns about medications. At least the former guy was willing to work with me (problem was he is out of network).
Now I don't know what to do take the seroquel or just taper it back by 25mg and take the restoril and then knock the valium down some. I think this is very irresponsible to tell me to take as much as I can tolerate of the Seroquel.
Opinions anyone?
poster:tonyz
thread:903861
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