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lynne82155
lynne82155

I have depression/anxiety

My meds have been reviewed I am now on 200mg of sertraline 15mg mirtazapine and 25mg of seroquel/quetiapine twice a day but only if I really need it.

It says on the leaflet its an antipsychotic drug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What are theses people doing to me ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyone got any experience on seroquelcool

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  • richard89308
    richard89308 lynne82155

    Posted

    anti psychotics are used to control mood or distorted thoughts so hopefully it will help you.  Don't worry too much about the name antipsychotic it's just a psychiatric term.

    richard

  • mar99927
    mar99927 lynne82155

    Posted

    Hi Lynne,

    I too take seroquel 50mg at night, it was the only drug that worked for me to sleep, been on it many years, I now sleep soundly,

    Hope it works for you, it's prescribed for different reasons,

    Take care

  • heidivr61
    heidivr61 lynne82155

    Posted

    Yes, I am on seraqual I am on 100 mgs but I cut it in half that makes 50 mgs it is the only med that makes me sleep at night, but I have too take it with clonazapam or I won't sleep at all. Antipsychotics are tough, and if you stay on them long it is hard to tapper off them, I was on risperidol and it messed me up pretty bad, I feel like I am in another world always depressed, and so on. Just be carful with these type of meds.
  • NooNooHead1981
    NooNooHead1981 lynne82155

    Posted

    I agree, be extremely careful of these types of meds.

    I got the movement disorder tardive dyskinesia from just ONE WEEK of taking a first genderation typical anti-psychotic, prescribed for severe insomnia and anxiety.

    I hate the medical profession for prescribing such powerful meds and not telling me of the potential side effects (extrapyramidal) and risk of movement disorder. Only take antipsychotic meds if absolutely necessary. And for the very shortest time possible. Taper off very slowly abd carefully too (I didn't, it was horrendous).

    Take care.

    • lynne82155
      lynne82155 NooNooHead1981

      Posted

      Hi Nikki

      Thanks for the advice.

      I have decided I will not be taling the quetiapine.

      I will stick with the sertraline for my deoression and continue with CBT for anxiety

      Stay Strongeek

    • NooNooHead1981
      NooNooHead1981 lynne82155

      Posted

      Great decision... I wish you all the best. I only wish someone had told me of the potential harmful effects when I was prescribed them but hindsight is a wonderful thing. 😖😫😥

      Good luck... 👍🏽

    • caroline50055
      caroline50055 NooNooHead1981

      Posted

      Hello Nikki

      What an awful thing to happen. Who prescribed the first generation anti psychotic - it does seem extreme. Was it a psychiatrist? It is worrying as I have severe anxiety and insomnia and would hate that to happen to me! 

      Is your movement disorder getting any better?

      Caroline

    • lynne82155
      lynne82155 caroline50055

      Posted

      Yes it was my pychiatrist who prescibed quetrapine to

      "take the edge off my anxiety"!!!!!!

      Lynneredface

    • NooNooHead1981
      NooNooHead1981 caroline50055

      Posted

      Hi Caroline

      The meds were prescribed by my GP in desperation for something to help my anxiety and severe insomnia last Nov after I had a pretty horrid few months in the summer as I had post concussion syndrome after when I banged my head in May (at a country house in Norfolk, at an outdoor treehouse-type play area when I was filming my daughter on my phone and didn't look where I was going up a ladder, then banged my head...!).

      After this I had lots of neurological health issues / cognitive / anxiety/sleep probs etc. Ended up taking quite a lot of psychiatric meds including Valium, Zopiclone and the dreaded Pericyazine that left me with bloody TD which is very annoying / embarrassing.

      Am still trying to get through it now and had a lot of time off work last year. Have been to 3 diff neurologists when one finally diagnosed TD a couple of weeks ago.

      I think my post concussion symptoms are still ongoing as I find it difficult to plan/organise/write articles for work and find I've become a bit dyslexic too, and struggle to understand when I'm reading. 😩

      Life goes on though and things may improve. 😳

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