Posted by Scott L. Schofield on January 8, 2000, at 16:56:12
In reply to Re: Seroquel for Depression ?, posted by Elizabeth on January 7, 2000, at 10:42:51
> I tried using Seroquel for insomnia, but I kept having to increase the dose every couple days. In general people develop tolerance to the sedative effect, though it may take longer than it did for me!
>
> FWIW, the risk of tardive dyskinesia is comparable to that of Zyprexa -- i.e., low. I think Seroquel is a good choice, Scott, given your previous response to Zyprexa. Good luck with it! (How much are you starting out on?)50 mg/day hs.
I do get quite sleepy after taking it, but I don’t experience somnolence the next morning. However, these past few days I have felt the need to take a nap (more so than usual). Hopefully, it will disappear as you have described.
From where I’m coming from, I have to plan on continuing to take whichever drugs I end up responding to for the rest of my life. Hopefully, that will be a good, long time. It also seems like an awfully long time to be on a neuroleptic that carries with it any risk of inducing an irreversible movement disorder, regardless of how small that risk may be.
As I’m writing this, I sort of hope that it won’t work. That’s pretty screwed-up seeing as how I have spent the last @1$9& years trying to find a treatment that will.
Thanks.
- Scott
poster:Scott L. Schofield
thread:18201
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000101/msgs/18411.html