Posted by katia on September 21, 2003, at 15:46:34
In reply to seroquel and morning after blues, posted by platinumbride on September 19, 2003, at 9:40:57
Hi,
I am also BPII dxed recently as well after a year bout on ADs to no effectiveness.
Anyway, my pdoc also gave me Seroquel for sleep. I only take 1/4 of 25mg = so 6.25? It helps me sleep, but I too experience that depression the next day. I only started noticing it since being on mood stabilizers. Because when you're really sad all the time, what's to notice about the "next day hangover" from Seroquel? Only since I've been feeling a little better, have I noticed that S. effects my mood the next day. even only after 6.25.
So you're not the only one. I will mention it to my pdoc next visit and maybe can get something else.
Katia> I goofed in the sending of the previous message....
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> I was a lurker..basically completely, hopelessly depressed and reading the experiences of others on different ADs. Now I come to this board again after a diagnosis of Bipolar II and a little run with some hypo mania (nothing too exciting---just some nasty insomnia resistant to benzos and remeron, some spending problems, behavior that was over the top -- even for moi :-)....
> SEROQUEL, for a very short period of time, just to get me sleeping again, so that the inevitable down to follow, would be less devastating and painful, was to be the drug of choice.
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> It was nice to sleep. I woke up feeling crappy, but it was to be expected, I felt. It had been a while since I had slept....
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> I soon learned that seroquel induced sleep meant a day to follow where I was worthless and a bit sad. (Good thing I am unemployed I guess).
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> But a night without S was a night without sleep...
>
> Pdoc says we should try 50 mgs, not 100 and augment it with some neurontin if necessary.
>
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> Better, but not great...Shrink says "well, I think another line of action is in order..we can try zyprexa, perhaps... this is just a temporary measure after all..."
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> But what I DON"T tell the shrink is that I don't WANT to get off the seroquel at 100mgs anymore. I can sleep my useless days away and still sleep at night. "I'll try to stick it out", I say instead.
> THEN....
> "Maybe this will eventually cause my husband of few months to figure me out and leave his junkie wife", I thought the other day...And more importantly, I have dealt with major depression my entire life!!! WHY would I do this to myself with a medication???
> OK....I apologize for being long-winded...
> I just havent' seen any reaction like mine to seroquel from anyone on this board. Thoughts?
> I guess I should kiss my expensive seroquel good-bye as I throw it down the toilet, huh?
> PB
> PS: Please, no shrink-bashing. We all know here that as much as we hate it, medicine is still considered an art rather than a science...and it is so.
>
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