My doctor up till now has not given me a solution. For me, this drug quetiapine literally saved my life.
The following information is NOT intended to endorse any particular medication. 25mg is 2/10ths stuff all but 200 turns you into a flat emotionless droid. “Haven't had my med quetiapine for 3 days now and I have NOT been able to sleep. He told her she can take 50 mg if she feels she needs it. I took the 100mg and it literally knocked me out for 12 hours straight. Been on it for 3 weeks.” I am taking 200mg which is necessary.
“I was prescribed Seroquel as an emergency sleep aid earlier this year when I was having the worst insomnia of my life. “I took this quetiapine medicine initially for insomnia and while on it began hallucinating and became increasingly paranoid.
I'd never wake up. Turns out opioids have fallen out of favor even if you have a history of taking them as prescribed. “Seroquel at 25mg is a miracle sleep inducer. Will the risk of unwanted side effects be worth it? I rate it high although the first few days I felt really funky lol!” So do I keep taking it and the side effects will subside or is this drug just not for me. before bed for sleep. Then I went up to 50mg and same thing.” (It probably would've been at least 100mg.) I have tried sleep aids, NyQuil, nothing helps me sleep. But will also affect your dopamine negatively and make you groggy.” “I am prescribed 50mg dose Seroquel at night about 45min. I would ALSO always wake up in some kind of pain and it might be due to the fact that you're so knocked out your contorting your body in unusual positions while you sleep. Still walking in the night, but able to go back to sleep and get a full 8 hours. If anything, I slept too much. I also have found if I miss a tablet, I end up having withdrawals. The psychiatrist told me that they were going to give me something to knock me out and I asked what.
After an acclimation period which was tough it mellowed out and did the job. ... both 25mg and 100mg quetiapine administered at night increased the sleep quality and the amount of sleep… “I have been taking quitiapine for more than 15 years for bipolar but especially for insomnia.
I was literally on the verge of the end of my life until my parents forced me to go to behavioral health hospital. I have only been on it for three nights but I have slept all the way through those three nights, what is funny is for about an hour it gives me restless leg syndrome!” I had some awful endocrine dysfunction (high cortisol, adrenaline attacks in the middle of the night, physical anxiety) that at its worst had me sleeping 1-3 hours a night and literally shaking with hypertension, serotonin syndrome, anxiety attacks, and God only knows what else. The downside is that I gained an insane amount of weight since starting it.” They found 25mg quetiapine at night for primary insomnia did not improve sleep. “I have to start by stating every drug effects everyone differently and some respond positively to certain meds and others had horrible reviews. I had the best night sleep I have had in probably 5 years. I took it for 10 years every night. Fast forward to 2020 and for the last 8 years I have suffered horrible to mild insomnia and even on a good night I may get 5 hours of sleep.
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“I take half a 25mg tablet for sleep and have been for a couple years now.
OK i start taking Seroquel Fri night. I am tapering of Klonopin. 50 mg of Seroquel works for my insomnia every single night. Your body will start to tolerate it. I was forgetting things, losing train of though mid sentence and forgetting what I was talking about.
It belongs to the class of atypical antipsychotics.Due to its action on the brain, Seroquel can make you feel sleepy. And it takes about an hour. My doctors thinking I developed psychosis UPPED THE DOSE. The easiest way to lookup drug information, identify pills, check interactions and set up your own personal medication records. I find that I'm more sensitive to sunlight and my metabolism has decreased.