Posted by JonJon on April 29, 2006, at 6:51:13
In reply to Re: Seroquel Withdrawl, posted by Boogymama on October 29, 2005, at 22:05:37
>I know that there are things that can help like >a bedtime routine and no caffiene and exercise. >But in the worst case, I need to know that there >is something I could do without Seroquel.
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>What about OTC medicine?I started taking seroquel due to the mental withdrawls I received from quitting pot. (I went from 1oz a week of extremely high grade(san diego) cannabis, to nothing).
I don't know what got me there, but I slowly went manic. I would have a rolling 5 hour (my poor mother) conversation with my mother, where I repeated myself five times. That sounds mild because I didn't describe it right - I had a conversation with her for the first hour, then I repeated it the second hour, then third, then fourth, then sometime during the fifth we were on our way to the emergency room and I had no f'ing clue WTF "my parents" problem was. I WAS FSCKING FINE!!! =P
(I'm one of those people who has been told by everyone else my whole life how smart I am, and have always been able to outsmart my parents, so I'm just glad I wanted to go to the ER to "prove them wrong", else who knows what would be of me now. I'd probably be roaming the beaches aimlessly, carrying on a very deep and complex conversation, WITH MYSELF =)I've been on seroquel ever since (100mg/day)
I resumed smoking once on seroquel, however I no longer smoke(2 months now).During my period of smoking while on seroquel, I found out a few things.
One of them was, and I hate to say this because I think some idiot may take it as a way to quit seroquel,
--**READ THIS**--(BELIEVE ME IT IS NOT A WAY TO QUIT, YOU WILL JUST BE DEPENDANT ON SOMETHING WORSE)--*READ THIS*--
however I could (and probably still can) switch from pot to seroquel, and back, easily.I think the way that works is, pot exhausts you enough if you smoke it all day, that you can actually sleep all night.
Anyways, smoked (I've not eaten it, so I cannot advise on that), you'd have to do it all of the time in order to replace the seroquel. And by that I mean I was smoking hourly.
So, ONLY IF IT COMES HELL AND HIGH WATER -- AND I'M TALKING MAJOR, if you use seroquel to escape mania/sleeplessness you MAY be able to switch it off with a VERY hardcore marijuana diet.
I'm, again, basing all of this on the experience of ONE.
I know it's something I'm glad to know, because being dependant on a drug really freaks me out (I didn't think I was dependant on pot until I quit -- I smoked for about a year STRAIGHT, and then one day decided I shouldn't anymore) especially when it's something I wouldn't be able to produce.
I'm reading all of this because I'm about to go off my seroquel.
It looks (to me, at least) that the gradual reduction method is the way to go. The only people that need to quit anything cold turkey are the people who still WANT(conciously) to be on whatever it is they're quitting.Welp, have fun.
Erg I had to register, (I missed #1 only =/ lol) I just stumbled on this thread on google by the way, so I probably wont be back here.
So some parting words that will definately NOT make me famous on this thread:
If a car salesman sells you a lemon, that's your fault.
A doctor may prescribe you something, however you're the one who chooses to swallow it.
If you're putting a potentially harmful substance into your body based solely on a doctors advice, and it kills you, well, in my eyes, the doctor didn't swallow the pill for you.Oh, and a one-liner for my generation right here, totally not related to this post at all:
If you KNOW you can do it, you can.
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