r/seroquelmedication

Hi everyone

So, my lurasidone experiment has failed. I've really tried with this medication. But the side effects have been too bothersome and intolerable. The akathisia has been unreal. I've had prickly feet. Sometimes I feel I could run a thousand miles. It's incredible. So, with a heavy heart, I'm going back to the quetiapine. I'm sad and disappointed. But it is the right decision. I've honestly tried with this medication. I've tried magnesium, lorazepram, mirtazapine, but all in vain.

hello, wanna ask if anyone have an experience with cutting the pill in half and if its okay.

im starting with the 25g but my psychiatrist told me to cut it for 12.5 so it makes less effects on my sleep as im a student mid exam seasons

would it actually make a difference or is it even okay to do so?

Seriously want to switch to something else. The munchies are something else and sometimes I still don’t go to sleep till 1 or 2 am after taking at 9pm.

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 🫶🏼

I have been on seroquel since the age of 14 (im 26 now) for insomnia, ive been on 300mg at the highest and 50mg at the lowest (currently on 200mg and all have been fr not sr). Im looking at getting off the medication this week with my doctor. Was anyone else terrified of getting off of it? What was it like getting off it? What was your sleep like? How long until your sleep cycle went back to normal? I cant for the life of me remember what my life was like before it and im terrified for the long term side effects of getting off it and what the rest of my life will be like. Just to clarify before anyone asks i have forgotten to grab the medication from the chemist a couple of times over the years so i wasnt able to take it a couple of times and the withdrawals were absolutely insane. Also medication leaves my body sooner than the average person so i start feeling the effects of not taking it sooner than the average person ive found.

I'm sick of not being able to get out bed prior to 10am. I dont have bipolar I just got put on it for sleep in rehab and psychiatrist kept me on it. I don't like the idea of going through another withdrawal. I was considering just weaning off 1/4 pill a week till at 25 and stopping but wondering if it would just be ok to use my gabapentin script for like a week for sleep and get off this stuff?

Seroquel makes cigarettes feel less rewarding or “less satisfying".

Does anyone has a similar experience? What other med has this effect? What antipsychotic doesnt have this effect? Thanks

Bonjour qu'est ce qui se passe si on prend des cachets de 300mg a libération prolongée et que l'on les coupes (pour diminuer)?

I wanted to share my experience because honestly this medication has destroyed my self-esteem, and I want to know if other people deal with the same thing.

I was prescribed quetiapine because I couldn’t sleep and I also suffer from anxiety. Later on, another doctor diagnosed me with ADHD. Ever since I started taking quetiapine, I wake up almost every night feeling desperate to eat sweets and carbs. It feels impossible to control sometimes.

My current doctor doesn’t think the nighttime cravings are related to the medication, but I asked ChatGPT and it said that increased appetite and carb cravings can actually be a side effect of quetiapine.

In about a year and a half, I gained more than 20 pounds. My body changed completely and I even developed gynecomastia from the weight gain, which has really damaged my confidence and self-esteem.

Now I’ve started losing weight slowly by tracking calories, but it’s really hard to make progress when I wake up in the middle of the night craving carbs so intensely.

I’d really like to hear if anyone else has experienced something similar with quetiapine or found a way to deal with these cravings.

Don’t see my doctor until Friday and wanted to ask for guidance. I’ve been on Seroquel for about 2 weeks total. Before starting it, the voices would come and go a couple times a week. After starting the medication, especially when the dose was increased to 300mg, the voices started feeling constant and much more intense. I also started feeling very mentally and physically off on it.

I was only on 300mg for 2 days before being lowered back to 150mg, but I still feel worse overall. Would it be dangerous to suddenly stop taking it tomorrow, or should I stay on the 150mg until Friday?

I had what doctors described as a psychosis episode that would come and go, and it was usually accompanied by me feeling physically sick at the same time, which my psychiatrist thought was unusual.

About two weeks ago I was prescribed 150mg of Seroquel. Since starting it, instead of having episodes that come and go, I have been feeling “telepathic” almost 24/7, along with other side effects like rapid heartbeat, heart fluttering/palpitations, blurry vision, increased hunger, and memory issues.

I can handle most of the physical side effects, but the constant telepathic feeling is what worries me the most because it makes me feel like I am mentally getting worse or losing touch with reality.

Two days ago my dose was increased to 300mg, and since then the telepathic symptoms feel like they have intensified even more.

I wanted to ask if this can be normal early on when starting or increasing Seroquel, or if it could mean the medication is having the opposite effect on me.

Also, are the memory problems and forgetfulness usually temporary side effects, or can they become long term?

BTW not saying that I am telepathic lol it just feels like it

Hi, long story short, I was section in 2009 and again in 2011 diagnosed with paranoid psychosis in 09 and Bipolar disorder in 2011. I had been taking olanzapine on and off from 2009 to 2011. Then consistently taking it from 2011 -2015 scaling down from 20mg to 5mg over that 4 year period. Due to the nasty side effects of Olanzapine I moved to quetiapine fully by the end of 2015.

Move in to Spring 2016, I was told by the mental health team including doctors and car workers, I no longer needed to take medication at all, I was fully discharged to GP and that was that.

However, due to a sense of psychological reliance on antipsychotics and the fact that it has aided sleep for so long, I have been scared to come off it. My GP is flexible and my prescription has essentially been a 30 day rolling meditation that’s always open to review.

The medication itself being such a low dose 25mg is probably offering a greater placebo effect rather than actually medicating my condition(s) and as I have been able to officially speaking stop taking it for 10 years I am now considering actually doing it.

Has anyone done this before and what has your experience been? Is it worth it and will it better my life? I always feel better in the morning when I don’t take it and wake up with more energy for the day but I soon get scared and start taking it again. I haven’t gone longer than 3 days.

I'm on 3 different mental health meds and take Seroquel for sleep alone and all my meds make me unable to lose weight even with a GLP . It's really defeating so I'm hoping someone has a possible alternative.

Trazadone made my heart skip beats, hydroxozine did absolutely nothing and I'd prefer not to take something like Ambien because I sleep walk every few months and I'd really love to not sleep drive or sleep walk into a dangerous situation.

Other mental health meds are Zyprexa, Lithium, Adderall. (Surprisingly adding an extra 10mg Adderall in the evening got me better quality sleep but my current doctor isn't a fan of an extra dose)

TIA

“I am not asking for medical advice”

When I first started seroquel it was a god send. 25mg gave me 9 hours of perfect sleep. Not 200mg doesn’t even keep me asleep for 3 hours and I can’t get any sleep without it. Theoretically, is there a way to reset tolerance? If not, what would you recommend I switch to?

Again, not asking for medical advice. Thank you

I tapered from 450 mg to 0 mg for over a year and I was doing pretty well for a couple of weeks after getting off but now my anxiety is really bad. I’m hoping that this is temporary? Has anyone else experienced this and it got better?

I been on Seroquel for 11 years at 380mg (originally 400mg I been tapering slowly). I got off my Valium that was also prescribed for Almost 11 years and I did a safe taper . I realized that all my negative thoughts are coming from my Seroquel! I never noticed it until now since I am off my Valium and I almost wondered why I always felt so “bothered” or annoyed easily or just always upset or frustrated as if my mind can’t even go into anything positive no matter how much therapy I did . My creativity and emotions are gone , the whole time I thought it was the Valium but it’s also the Seroquel .

I know that at this dose it blocks my dopamine that I need ! I don’t have bipolar or any mental illness. I was put on it for sleep and anxiety.

I’ve only ever previously taken hydroxyzine and melatonin to sleep but was prescribed seroquel. What should I expect tonight?

Hello everyone.

I have struggled with sleep for a while, and I recently got prescribed Seroquel 25 mg. I have only used Seroquel during the last 2 nights, 25 mg tablet each night.

I also use ketoconazole shampoo for dandruff.

Before y'all tell me that I am stupid for mixing medications without checking the safety profile, I already know. I have used ketoconazole for a while now and didnt think that it would interact with Seroquel.

Apparently using ketoconazole shampoo messes with a liver enzyme that breaks down Seroquel, which leads to a massive increase in available Seroquel in the blood.

Today I woke up and felt drowsy. It didnt cross my mind that the drowsiness was from using ketoconazole and Seroquel last night. And I went to school.

During my time there, I absolutely could not stop moving/twitching my back, chest and neck muscles.

I could not stop shaking/having tics, and I was having muscle spasms in my neck, chest and back the whole day.

According to google, this is called "dyskinesia".

One of my classmates asked me what my problem was, but I just laughed it off. 😁

Is this a normal side effect for Seroquel?

Has anyone else also experienced this?

Does the shaking and twitching go away if I stop using Seroquel for some nights?

Should I stop using ketoconazole and Seroquel for some time?

I will most likely experience insomnia, but its better than violently twitching and having dyskinesia.

I probably shouldnt have mixed Seroquel with ketoconazole. Holy shit 🤣🤣.

hi all. i've been on quetiapine (200mg) for a few months. i've been tapering off to quit it entirely and i am now in 50mg.

i used to not be able to sleep with 100mg, but 50mg is still enough to make me sleep now. however, i've only been sleeping 5-7 hours (mostly 5-6) and i feel really tired. i used to need 10+ hours of sleep on 200mg, but now i don't get enough.

i can't sleep unless i take the 50mg. can my sleep go back to normal eventually without relying on other meds/supplements like melatonin?

Hey 👋

So for context, I have been taking 200mg Quetapine for just over 10 years, I take it with 200mg Sertraline and together, along with talking therapy and managing my triggers they are my treatment programme for Bi Polar Affected Disorder, which I was diagnosed with 20+ years ago.

To complicate matters, I have an autoimmune disease for which I take dmards and steroids.

I have been on many different medication programmes before this combination and have never been as stable as I am on this particular regime and have no interest in changing. However I was 140lbs overweight when I started on quetiapine, which has steadily increased to 230lbs overweight over the 10 years I was on it.

I started taking GLP 1 jabs in October last year. Side effects have been minimal, and actually, my ibs has cleared up greatly.

I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every day 200kcal high protein breakfast, 500kcal high protein lunch, and a lean meat/fish, potato or rice and veg meal in the evening. Definitely in the emotional zone of food as nourishing fuel, and I don't hate that tbh.

I am losing weight, but it's soooo slooooooow. I have lost 48lbs in 6 months and still have so much more (180lbs) left to lose! I am wondering whether anyone else has a similar experience and has advice for me? Tips, tricks and success all welcome!