Posted by bandoracer on September 17, 2002, at 8:54:57
Hi long time since I have posted here as bpbando, but I am puzzled by something and would like your impressions.
I have been on 2400 mg neurontin and 1 mg of klonopin for bipolar for about two years and 20 mg of ritalin for add for about ten years.
I take the last dose of ritalin around noon; that way only my wife is driven to madness by my in attention. I take no caffien past my second cup of coffee in the morning.
However over the last two months sleep has become a problem. I guess I am a little irritable.
Anyway my last visit to the p-doc she gives me this stuff seroquel to try. I think it was 25 mg
(I HAVE THROWN THE REMAINING TABLETS AWAY)so i am not positive of strength but she said it was the smallest dose. This stuff knocked me on my ass.
I took extra ritalin the first few days hoping it would clear my noggin. It did not work!! I was totally loopy. I did sleep though. But I am Pissed Off..I found out what kind of drug seroquel is. Nothing against folks who that med is designed for but i have been bipolar from early childhood and She did not tell me this stuff was an anti-psycotic med. If she thought i was psycotic
she should say that. not give me something that i was totally unfamiliar with. (a few years ago when i switched from ambien to sonata little needed to be said because they are the same class of drugs.) I understand that seroquel is a dopamine anatgonist. So what does it mean when you give somebody a small amount of it and it knocks them out. Does it mean i have too much or too little dopamine. Or am I reading too much into it. I have a appt later this week and i probably have a lot more that i want to say than i should. How would some of you handle it.
thanks.
so
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