Posted by Christ_empowered on December 19, 2015, at 10:47:15
In reply to Re: increasing quetiapine (Seroquel) for unipolar » rjlockhart37, posted by Escapee on December 18, 2015, at 20:11:41
Could help. I personally wouldn't take it w/ a TCA.
Old school AP drugs were used in depression, alone and in combo with other drugs. Problem is...they caused all kinds of problems, and mood disorder-ed people are more prone to side effects than psychosis people (supposedly).
there's a tardive dyskinesia risk. I wanna say that seroquel is on the low end of the AAP TD risk scale...above clozapine, but below most other options. It can happen, especially with long term use. Low potency AP/AAP drugs cause fewer EPS and TD.
AP/AAP drugs can also worsen or induce depression. I couldnt tolerate seroquel because it made me so sad. I now take Abilify at a high dose. It doesn't help the depression, but it doesn't make it worse, either.
I knew a woman on Seroquel and Adderall, and that combo made a huge difference in her life. Sort of like...how, back in the day, there were these combo pills...ThoraDex (yes, Thorazine and Dexedrine), or the one w/ Parnate and Stelazine (old school AP) in a fixed ratio. Treatment of depression isn't (thankfully) limited to "antidepressants."
I take an AAP and I also take loads of b vitamins and antioxidants, in the hopes of preventing TD. So far, so good...its been 5 years on a lot of Abilify, and I don't even have a tremor or stiff gait.
Good luck, and please keep us posted.
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