Posted by ronaldo on December 21, 2006, at 16:05:26
In reply to seroquel works but strange enough it didnt work, posted by Jeroen on December 21, 2006, at 15:36:59
> i took seroquel 100 mg (bedtime for 20 days and it worked) but then got psychotic and withdrawal symptoms...
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> took higher dose 400 bedtime and 100 am (morning) and it didnt work
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> strange no???? should i switch to clozapine...??Hi Jeroen
You went from 100 mg to 500 mg ? Bit of a jump isn't it - a five fold increase? Maybe you should try 200 mg at bed time and see how that works or even 150 mg. Sometimes LESS is better than MORE. It is even possible that 100 mg was too much and you might do better on 50 mg... You will only know if you try it out.
I was once trying Seroquel for really resistant insomnia. I tried it at 25, 50, 75 and 100 mg. Nothing worked. Then I tried it at 12.5 mg and 6.25 mg - these are very rough approximations, it is not possible to cut a 25 mg tablet with such accuracy. I didn't get to sleep but approx. 8 mg did make the room move. I bet if I had started on 12.5 or 6.25 I would have been more lucky. My pdoc prescribed it at 50 mg. What does he know?
I don't know anything about clozapine, I've never used it. But doesn't it entail a lot of blood tests? If I was you I would experiment with varying doses of Seroquel first. You might hit the jackpot.
ronaldo
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