u/crazyjabari

I’ll try to make this as short as I can. I have GAD and some OCD, where I took 20mg Fluoxetine for a couple of years, and stopped cold turkey about 6 months ago. My symptoms of anxiety and OCD got really bad after a few months, and I decided to get back on Fluoxetine recently. My symptoms got way worse and it got to the point where I couldn’t sleep due to hypnic jerks, and had the urge in my thighs to move. I had nights sweats, nightmares and would sleep maybe 1-3 hours. I stopped after a week and decided to wait to see a qualified psychiatrist, who I saw yesterday. In the three weeks before seeing him, the only thing that has helped me sleep a little better at all has been 100mg of hydroxyzine before going to bed.

Anyways, he listened to my story and symptoms and wants me to try a few things to get better sooner than later. He prescribed me:
- 5mg of Trintellix for the first week to start and then up to 10mg starting the second week.
- 10mg of Propranolol to take as needed for anxiety (off label) (up to twice a day and 6hrs between doses)
- 100mg of Seroquel at night needed for sleep (off label)

He said that the Seroquel is non-habit forming and will help me sleep for a period of time using it. However, I’ve read so many things about how it has a lot of negative side effects of weight gain, extreme drowsiness, and of course the terrible stories of those who get tardive dyskinesia. Of course, I’m anxiety ridden and have OCD, so it’s probably the anxiety speaking, but I’m terrified of getting something like TD because I don’t know if I’m susceptible for Parkinson’s, granted with my current symptoms (I have a neurologist appt in September…the soonest they can get me in lol).

Although, I’ve heard those some of those symptoms from Seroquel can be more rare when taking a low dosage of it to sleep (some people say they take anywhere from 12.5mg-50mg and it works very well where they can sleep and not have zombie like grogginess the next day).

Should I even attempt to take the Seroquel at 100mg? Maybe take a half at 50mg or even 25mg to try one time to see how it may affect me? Or should I stay away from it completely and just continue to take Hydroxyzine at night to sleep until the Trintellix starts to kick in?

I know we’re not doctors, but am curious to anyone’s advice might be or personal experiences with Seroquel.

P.S. I haven’t started any of the meds yet as they aren’t even ready for me to pick up until tomorrow evening.

I’ll try to make this as short as I can. I have GAD and some OCD, where I took 20mg Fluoxetine for a couple of years, and stopped cold turkey about 6 months ago. My symptoms of anxiety and OCD got really bad after a few months, and I decided to get back on Fluoxetine recently. My symptoms got way worse and it got to the point where I couldn’t sleep due to hypnic jerks, and had the urge in my thighs to move. I had nights sweats, nightmares and would sleep maybe 1-3 hours. I stopped after a week and decided to wait to see a qualified psychiatrist, who I saw yesterday. In the three weeks before seeing him, the only thing that has helped me sleep a little better at all has been 100mg of hydroxyzine before going to bed.

Anyways, he listened to my story and symptoms and wants me to try a few things to get better sooner than later. He prescribed me:
- 5mg of Trintellix for the first week to start and then up to 10mg starting the second week.
- 10mg of Propranolol to take as needed for anxiety (off label) (up to twice a day and 6hrs between doses)
- 100mg of Seroquel at night needed for sleep (off label)

He said that the Seroquel is non-habit forming and will help me sleep for a period of time using it. However, I’ve read so many things about how it has a lot of negative side effects of weight gain, extreme drowsiness, and of course the terrible stories of those who get tardive dyskinesia. Of course, I’m anxiety ridden and have OCD, so it’s probably the anxiety speaking, but I’m terrified of getting something like TD because I don’t know if I’m susceptible for Parkinson’s, granted with my current symptoms (I have a neurologist appt in September…the soonest they can get me in lol).

Although, I’ve heard those some of those symptoms from Seroquel can be more rare when taking a low dosage of it to sleep (some people say they take anywhere from 12.5mg-50mg and it works very well where they can sleep and not have zombie like grogginess the next day).

Should I even attempt to take the Seroquel at 100mg? Maybe take a half at 50mg or even 25mg to try one time to see how it may affect me? Or should I stay away from it completely and just continue to take Hydroxyzine at night to sleep until the Trintellix starts to kick in?

I know we’re not doctors, but am curious to anyone’s advice might be or personal experiences with Seroquel.

P.S. I haven’t started any of the meds yet as they aren’t even ready for me to pick up until tomorrow evening.

Hi there, I’ve been slowly getting into fasting - spent the last two months doing a 24 hour fast a week pretty regularly (I think I skipped one or two weeks).

Anyways, I wanted to do a 72 hour fast but I stopped eating on Tuesday at 7pm. I wanted some advice as to whether or not I should break the fast today at 7pm (which would hit exactly the 72 hour mark) by eating a couple of boiled eggs with sardines? The only thing is that it’s late in the evening and don’t know if it will disrupt my sleeping, rest and digest schedule.

Or should I just continue and soldier into breaking the fast sometime tomorrow in the late morning? That would put it at almost 90 hours fasting.

Would love to hear some advice!

Edit: oh, I forgot to mention that I’ve been doing strictly only a water fast.