Posted by whiterabbit on July 18, 2003, at 22:10:12
In reply to Re: stupid time for a dosage question..., posted by Sabina on July 18, 2003, at 19:53:47
It's only stupid to not question; we're all here to learn.
Jeeezzz aren't I the hookah-smoking caterpiller on the mushroom, dear Alice. Don't mind me.
There's no specific standard, graph or schedule you must adhere to while you're adjusting to the Seroquel. I know this is an uncomfortable concept
in reference to medicine, where dosage is usually prescribed in exacting terms.As I tried to explain in my last post, at this time you're not taking the optimal dosage of Seroquel. In order for a drug like this to produce maximal benefits, you must take the optimum dosage for a continued period of time.
This is so important and so not-understood by patients, it bears repeating:
YOU MUST TAKE THE OPTIMAL DOSAGE OF MEDICATION FOR A CONTINUED PERIOD OF TIME TO GAIN FULL ADVANTAGE FROM THAT MEDICATION.
However, a drug powerful enough to improve the quality of your life to such a degree - how you remembered feeling as a child, maybe, or how you always WANTED to feel but had never experienced -
a drug powerful enough to do THAT is a powerful drug indeed, a potion from Lord of the Rings.It's not quick or easy or painless in the usual American way, but it does work and I'm living proof. It takes much longer than we want and requires a great deal of more old-fashioned endurance than we expected or even knew that we had, but there is always a reward for such patience and persistence.
Hard to describe the reward...it's not like winning the jackpot or striking oil. It's more like - going home, when you always believed there was no home to go to.
-Gracie
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