SEROQUEL !!! COLD TURKEY?

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Tue, June 16, 2009

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hi there so i have eliminated venlafaxine from my life.....now i feel its' time to remove seroquel and zoplicone from my life too,,as i use those to sleep at night,,,but i find they sedate the shit out of me during the day,,im sluggish,lethargic...pretty much useless in everyday aspects of life,,can barely hold a conversation,,,my ambition and drive are nonexistant,,,decision making abilities are poor,,,,,,,.......NOW some of these symptoms are a result of the depression i am experiencing..HOWEVER i am certain that these drugs are holding me down in life as opossed to uplifting me ,,,,their poison for the brain,,,no worse than crack or heroin(which i have never tried).....so i guess thats where i stand right now!!!! just find alternate ways to get to sleep i suppose...that shits just not natural man,it fucks with your body and mind..lifes hard enough without purposely poisoning your body and mind........wish me luck(:

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Merely Me

6/17/09 4:05pm

Hi there

Well...if you feel the meds aren't working then all the power to you to make a change. I am just concerned that you say you are going cold turkey...so this means that you are abruptly stopping all your meds? You are going to probably endure some bad side effects this way. I would strongly suggest slowly tapering off of your meds under your doctor's guidance.

I wish you the best of luck with this. Nothing is a panecea. I hope you find what works best for you.

Anonymous

6/18/09 12:33pm

I use AmbienCR--it doesn't give that awful feeling---I couldn't take what you are taking either. what time do you take it????

I have learned that I take it two hours before I want to sleep but I feel for you with those awful side effects..yuckie

take care

life sucks

6/23/09 4:52pm

i usually takee it just before bed time ...10 o clock ish.....i try not to even take them..b ut it's pretty hard

Anonymous

6/23/09 6:12pm

I understand but take it earlier like 8pm... I have had to adjust the times when I take my lamictal about two hours earlier than the other meds.

My best friend has learned the hard way to just take the medicine and quit fighting the doctors--when she does take it she sleeps fine..but when she doesn't she doesn't sleep....

.....good luck and keep us all posted..

lee

6/27/09 9:23pm

hi my name is lee I went thru the drug thing with drifferent drs. you can't cold turkey seroquelMan thats a rough one too get off of.. please be safe cuz you will feel like crap.. baby take slow please be safe cuz life is hard enough "sorry but, I no you you already no that one, good luck with love to you drink lots of water and 1/2 and 1/4 then )0..good luck sweetie lee

ladygraycloud

6/30/09 11:10am

I'm no expert but have on the bad side of the headaches and have just been placed on seroquel 50mg only at nite and I have never felt so good when I get up in the am.I take mine about 9:00pm and wake with no problem by 7:00am at the latest and feel rested and ready to start the day. In the hospital I was on 50mg in day and 100mg at nite and told the doc I have kids and need to be able to function with them thru the day--when I came home they gave effexor xr for the daytime and seroquel 50mg for nite- between the two I don't have the severe headaches I had and if not good thru the day then have oxycodone 5m to take. My biggest problem was the price but qualified for the free program thru the company that makes it.

Hope and wish you well which ever way you go.

ladygraycloud/Suzanne

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