Going down on seroquel
I’m going to make my story short because I have posted on here before about this, but I am on 450 mg of Seroquel and I was prescribed when I was underage. I never really understood the drug and I’ll be honest for a long time never looked into it, but now that I have 2 kids, a husband, and it is really affecting my life I have started to go down on the medication. Tonight I’m tapering again from 450 to 400mgs. My goal is to be totally off.
I was prescribed at boarding school when I was 16/17 because I wasn’t sleeping through the night and my dorm Parent was concerned. my boarding school leaned very heavily on medication and had a school psychiatrist. Everyone I knew was on some form of Adderall, sleeping medication or antidepressant. I started off on 50 mg and now a decade later I’m on 450. I have gained about 30 pounds in the past year. Seroquel never really affected my weight until now. I haven’t changed my diet at all and I don’t know if it’s because im 30 now. Anyways, I am not bipolar. I may have some depression but truthfully, I don’t remember what it’s like being off of this medication so I don’t have a baseline to go off of, but I wanted to know if there’s anybody out there that is similar to me that has had an experience something like this and now is off the drug or on a very minimal dose. I’m trying to be so hopeful I can get totally off by December but transparency I’m a stay at home mom that has her kids home for the summer and I never want to be a bad mom so this will be my last taper till fall. Has anyone tapered by 50s or by 100’s? My doctor says to go slow that’s why I’m going by 50 now
Thanks so much 🫶🏼