Posted by whiterabbit on June 28, 2003, at 17:03:27
In reply to Re: anxiety ,panic, people read!, posted by Caleb462 on June 28, 2003, at 0:01:37
I take 400 mg of Seroquel nightly - not specifically for insomnia of course. I've been diagnosed with Bipolar II and ADD and Lord knows what else, I was pretty screwed up. (How's that for honesty.) It took awhile to work up to that dosage - I believe I started out at 100 mg after I bombed out on Depakote.
It's quite sedating, and I would be very tired for awhile each time the dosage was increased.
Also you can't take it if you've been drinking alcohol - it will make you sick. By now I've adjusted nicely and no longer have trouble with side effects. And as long as I take the Seroquel at night, I sleep just like normal people do, it's bizarre. I used to either sleep all the time or not at all in manic cycle, I would go and go and go until I was sick with exhaustion but still couldn't sleep for very long. I didn't like the Seroquel at first because it made me lethargic but the insomnia was worse, it was torture. So now I'm thankful that I stuck it out with the Seroquel while my system was still adjusting to it.I've also been prescribed 25 mg tabs of Seroquel for anxiety (in addition to the maintenance dose) and 100 mg tabs PRN for insomnia before I was started on Seroquel as a regimen, and it worked pretty good. You might be able to get results with a low dosage if you don't need the industrial strength like me 8^)
-Gracie
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