Posted by Quintal on January 1, 2007, at 1:51:43
In reply to Is Seroquel A Good Med If You Are Not Psychotic or, posted by Phillipa on December 31, 2006, at 23:35:17
Well I took Seroquel for insomnia years ago. I was prescribed 50mg one or two PRN but that was too sedating for me - like having a general anaesthetic. Many times the sedation would come on quickly while I was still sitting at the kitchen table having my supper and I wouldn't be able to climb the stairs so I slept on the floor. I'm now thinking this extreme sedation may have been due to the large doses of Klonopin I was also taking. When I took Seroquel this year I found it less sedating but it made me feel very heavy and spaced-out the next day which I hated. I usually took 25mg or even doses as low as 12.5mg.
I often got a stuffy nose with Seroquel and it made breathing very difficult. That combined with the heavy sedation sometimes made me feel as though I was suffocating. In all it was not a good sleep med for me considering the sheer awfulness of the Seroquel stupor which lasted well into the next day. Sleep meds like Ambien or zopiclone were much more efficient and had fewer side effects (of course with Seroquel there's the additional risk that diabetes and movement disorders may be silently creeping up on you all the years you take it).
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