You're correct! He's reading the information from something like it. The incredible thing is that he knows what he's reading and understands it, almost fully. This man is a genius notwithstanding the fact that this information is known. Again, he has the incredible ability to read something and convey the information with superb accuracy, this is not easy. I'm completely impressed by his overall knowledge.
I was horrified to see what this drug did to my father 5 years ago and my father in law this past week! For the sake of needing sleep while in the hospital. My father in law went in for back pain and in 2 days was told he was dying. Called the family in and we thought it would be days and he would be gone. He was hallucinating, violent,swearing, and totally confused. Got him off this medication and he is fine!!! Thank you Jesus! 🙏
From my experience, it is an awful poison, leading to all sorts of crazy effects, god knows how the hell it was ever allowed to be seen as a 'medicine'.
I'm sitting here listening to this information, glancing at my prescribed Quetiapine (Seroquel). I took it one night for insomnia. I decided to stop after the first dose. Insomnia!!! This man gives a dissertation in under 40 minutes. 50 milligrams per pill, once a day before bed. Our Doctor said that side affects occur in low doses on par with 300 to 400 milligram doses! Thanks Doctor. I followed my gut, but now I know.
I went to an inpatient facility once at which nearly everyone who came in was put on a very high dose of seroquel. For me it was so high I got sick trying to get off it. Worse was whenever any of us got sleepy from it we'd be punished for putting our heads down. For your own safety, never go to Parkwood behavioral health in Mississippi.
This is standard and happening in many publicly funded facilities in New Zealand. Always for off label purposes. Those responsible seem to be ignorant of any of the lawsuits astrazenica have had to payout for this illegally marketed and dangerous drug
One of the best videos I've seen. Thanks. I'm taking it for severe anxiety and some histrionic traits. It helps me a lot, I feel calm and ok afterwards. It numbs me a bit and that's all I want right now. I'm not ok with how much I feel... constantly just feeling and being emotional..
I love your site. It’s maybe the most informative place on line for so many drugs and conditions. I have 5o sat, though, I’ve been taking 25-75 mg. every night for sleep for 25 years and it works amazingly well. But I know tgat the larger doses have the opposite effect. Your article gives me pause and I will be considering changing to benedryl or cyclibenzaprine . I am 71 and have degenerative disc disease,and an arachnoid cyst on my thoraxic spine, with ever increasing pain. I’ve had to go off opioid drugs that I took for many years so, having to get used to terrible pain. . I am subscribed to your channel. Well done doctor.
Great breakdown of this pill. Most doctors don't have enough knowledge to allow you to make informed decisions. One of the most important aspects, as always, is to follow the money. There is such a conflict of interest between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies. Safety is never the priority, it is usually last on their checklist.
@@bristlefist facts. I saw a kid in the hospital taking 300+ daily. Dude was a zombie. I saw spiders everywhere on my 2nd night on the medication. Never again
Hilarious! I genuinely need information as have changed very drastically, physically with problems including hospitalization for suspected heart attack. Never had problems with high blood pressure. Just looking for answers as doctors round here make Dr Nick look like a pro. Thanks for making me laugh tho man. Appreciate
College psych grad here! This guy knows this stuff!!! Really agree that people on Seroquel who are taking it for what it is originally prescribed for aren't prescribed the correct dose unfortunately, because of the misconception that it will cause more side effects. Try to find a psychiatrist who knows their stuff too to be in good hands
I almost killed someone on this stuff. Seriously took it for months as prescribed for sleep at a very low dose and then suddenly one night I blacked out and went crazy. I remember nothing and came to find out my body doesn't metabolize seroquel at a typical rate. It was accumulated in my system and eventually my brain said nope. What was crazy is I felt fine basically. That was 15 years ago and since stopping it I've never had any issues.
@@samiam2284 do you still take Seroquel, and does the unending hunger ever lessen? I'm about to go from lean to chonker in a few months of starting, I can already tell bc I'm eating like 3000-4000 cal a day. But I'm still always hungry. Would extended release maybe lessen the hunger?
My psychiatrist prescribed it for insomnia and it worked but the side effects were so bad. I have POTS and it made my symptoms of that like 10x worse. I stopped seroquel suddenly a few days ago and the withdrawal is bad but not nearly as bad as Xanax withdrawal. Experiencing headaches, paranoia, slight psychosis, and extreme nausea, I’m on day 4 and starting to feel better. Today was the first day I was actually motivated again to do anything.
How many milligrams were you on and how long were you on it before you went cold turkey? My psychiatrist prescribed .25 mg to me for insomnia. This video frightens me.
@Jennifer L I do.. it really irritates my throat, causing a feeling like a lump there that I can't swallow or cough up..Notice it most when in bed. Also a stuffy nose and have to breathe through my mouth to sleep so I keep waking up gasping for air with such a dry mouth.. I could go on and on the side-effects are seemingly endless.... ( Got given it for insomnia, anxiety and depression.. it took months for it to help me sleep..eventually on 100mg I got to I'm trying to get off this poison by tapering now and after reducing by only 12.5mg I'm getting withdrawals . I'm so resentful to my doctor for getting me dependent on this crap without any mention of side-effects or withdrawals Hey.. it's still early enough for you to get off this stuff before it accumulates in your system longterm.. I really hope you get off it and beware and research any other drugs they suggest before accepting them.. I know it's hard but I really think we have to try every drugfree therapy we can..it's the only way .. even if the meds were safe and gave relief, they cure nothing , they just numb the personality- they really are a chemical lobotomy . Psychiatric drugs are evil.. Best of luck, I mean that 💗
@@deliveredbyjace5977 Today I was extremely doped with 50mg, , more than 25. The solution will be to cut the 25 pill in half. Totaling 12.5mg. Who knows, maybe I will tolerate the sedation better
i can not thank you enuf for making this informative video...i know some lady taking this drug for "many" years ...yes...as a sleeping pill.....she is plague with so much headache....and maybe because i send her this video...YOU save a life......God bless you Dr. landow
Thank you doctor. I was prescibed this for use as a sleep aid. GAD/PTSD diatnosis and moderate symptoms. I called my MD friend for a second opinion bc I'm not schizoid/Bipolar disorders... decided to not take the medication and I only keep it as a reminder to be careful and do my research before trusing MDs who prescribe psych meds. Yikes. Thanks for backing up my and my friend MD's decision/opinion re use as a sleep aid. Nope! Thanks again.
it helps me with my panic attacks better than anything I ever used but it makes me feel much less intelligent than I really am when I access information or try to solve problems while it acts in my brain
al norrie if you have anxiety all the time it is like having panic attack all the time and it helped me of course I am a different person each person is a special case so I cannot guarantee that it will help you
@@kokomanation Thanks for answering man, yes its for a panic disorder, everyday day is a battle, i don't like meds but i will try this out and hopefully it works for me like thankfully it helped you, thanks, stay well
al norrie I wish it will work the only thing I would suggest you is if you can avoid medication like lorazepam or Xanax these benzodiazepines are really dangerous and addictive don’t fall into the trap of taking such things
I was misdiagnosed for 10 years and actually have C-PTSD so im being taken off of it. I hope beyond hope for your sake you never experience the withdrawls from this. Yea of course it helps with anxiety because you're apathetic and sedated and you don't even realize it.
Thanks for this information. I’m working on getting off of it for insomnia diagnosis. It’s so addictive, it’s only made my insomnia worse and me dependent on a substance. I’ve also gained about 70 pounds since being prescribed.
Peter Breggin is as good as it gets for real info on mental health meds. You can get off it but it’s extremely important to very slow as you’re weaning off and then you’re going to potentially start a roller coaster ride with your emotions ranging from mild to possibly extreme it varies from person to person. You shouldn’t have to worry about doing the nosedive that happened when you quit cold turkey. Breggin has books videos and articles for you to see how to stop safely and what you can expect along the way. Best wishes to you if and when you start your journey
@@Diaz4prez thank you so much for such a thoughtful comment! I just hit two months off of seroquel and I’m so thankful for it. This video had a lot of influence on me and how I worked with my psychiatrist to wean off. I do little updates on my channel if you want to see, either way thank you this comment helped me on a bit of a low day.
@@berryrhubarb I’m so happy to hear that you were able to get off I have watched the difficulties that people face along the way. My daughter has been off Prozac for 2 years and she is just now getting back to normal. I hope your good days will continue to increase and I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers ❤️🙏🏼
@@blairsterling6141 I agree and they have robbed countless people of the life that they should’ve been able to have. All of it being done to cater to the greed of pharmaceutical companies that care more about their money than the people who are taking their products.
I hear stories about how corrupt the big pharma companiea are but to hear this level of detail is frightening. Just promoting a drug with so many side effects to make money is criminal.
@@gregorymalchuk272 ive seen your anti circumcision videos and liked them, also im not sure. I have schizophrenia and hallucinate but thankfully it helps me. You could ask your psychiatrist about it. Maybe they'd know
I wish I could sue as a result of my pain from taking quetiapine. for the first 6 months it had a honeymoon effect, but that slowly faded to grey. fucking doctors would rather prescribe this over Nonbenzos for SLEEP claiming its non addictive but it's TOTALLY physically addictive, withdrawal worse than Alcohol for me. I quit one time but due to my inability to get meds actually designed for insomnia, I had to relapse on it 2.5 months later. Now I'm fighting for different meds
Im in withdrawls now after 10 years on it. My heart almost gave out last week. I ended up in and ambulance rushed to the hospital. Im in hell. Im terrified.
@@TheAbsterb Switch to Tizanidine or Baclofen muscle relaxers. Safer than Seroquel. I took Seroquel for a month and got restless leg syndrome.. No more Seroquel for me. I take the Baclofen once in a while to sleep, but my pain med helps my sleeping now.
I take this with lexapro and I love it. It helps me so much with anxiety depression and even my ocd! I’m a stress under eater so i haven’t gained weight like some reviews but it genuinely helps me. But when if I miss a day I get super depressed so I try not to
I have been on and off seroquel/quitapine for about 10 years. Majority of the time I didn’t take it. I happened to have recurring symptoms of anxiety and depression. Took it. It helped me a lot. It was a little hard to stop taking it but I manage just fine for now. Haven’t been taking it for about 5 days. Usually I don’t get much sleep the first day I stop taking it, then my sleep and mood gradually gets better.
My sister has COPD and has been prescribed this horrible drug. I do not understand how and why her doctor is prescribing this medication except for the fact that she’s in her late 70s and as you said in your video “to manage her”. I’m disgusted with how medication is misused to keep the patient under their control and not to be bothered by the patient. Doctors should be sued for malpractice in misuse of drugs.
Yeah my doctor gave it to me for sleep...this along with Gapapentin. I had to go to urgent care because of the effects of not sleeping (as it didn't work) and feeling dizzy and blurry eye sight. My heart was beating like crazy & I barely made it into the ER. I'm not trusting of doctors at all
Been off Seroquel for 37 months.. Still my sleep is messed up. For two years I slept about 3 or 4 hours a night. Now I get 5 or 6 on a good night. Evil drug…
I've been on this for a year or so... I've also been taking Lamactel.. I honestly feel like this medication should not be on the market after doing alot of research and seeing how many lawsuits are against it.. I'm conflicted because of my mental health issues but I hate how it makes me sleep, feel the next day and constantly feel like a zombie. Always tired. Now that I stopped it. I can't sleep at all like I used to. I would take it and sleep for hours. Now. Nope
Thank you for this! Went to a new psychiatrist for PTSD nightmares. Asked for 1mg prasosin - had success with it in the past for short term problems. He prescribed 50mg Seroquel and 20mg Prozac for six month minimum. I don't have any other diagnoses. Didn't fill them. I've watched friends withdrawal from heavy-hitting psych meds. Awful.
So glad you decided against taking them.. I've been on both and found them useless but unfortunately I was desperate enough to go back on the seroquel for my chronic insomnia and now I've all the nasty side-effects and I'm trying to get off it but the withdrawals are becoming apparent already even in the early stages of tapering.. People need to be warned about these cruel drugs..
Thank you so much for your video! So much information. If patients were more informed as well as professionals, about medications, we could really make more progress in the mental health field, in my opinion. As a patient myself I try to be very informed about all meds I am put on but seems like most healthcare professionals look down on that and it affects overall treatment. Anyways thank you very much!
@rhiannaloft3158 it's a chemical lobotomy. It causes permanent brain damage, diabetes, high cholesterol and extreme brain fog. If you decide to get off the drug, the withdrawals are worse than torture.
If only I had had this information when I agreed to let my 15 year old daughter start on this. Five years and five episodes of "mild" nms we learned our lesson.
Be very careful. If for some reason you go to the hospital I would suggest you not let them give you this drug via IV. I alerted my care team and they still have it to me this way. 2 young gals came in with syringes. I asked what they were as one proceeds to administer the seroquel. I immediately started having hallucinations. Ungodly scary things. So the second nurse is pondering using the morphine. I'm like yes! Please do. Totally sane as anyone I found myself scared to death. Screaming. Once you get on seroquel as I have what are you going to do when your dose no longer works and a higher dose causes such terror? I'm totally stuck. I fall at night. Wandering around. It causes a voracious appetite so I am also wandering the kitchen late at night grazing for food. At the beginning I gained over 100 lbs and I'm a naturally skinny person. Cataracts, dry itchy skin that tears easily. My vision is horrible and I'm looking at having yet another cataract surgery. My muscle tissue has turned to flab. And 1 thing I will never understand is why give such a medication to some one with sleep narcolepsy? And the final fun fact I can't sleep at all without this drug now. Please please be very careful with this medicine. I've fallen asleep with food in my hair and all over. I had a pancreas attack. Nothing replaces this drug. God bless everyone taking this crap. Absolutely love this Dr. I wish he could help me.
I was prescribed this and It made me fat, groggy the next day all day. And I would also feel very uncomfortable mentally after taking it. It made my mind feel so weird/ not in control. Hard to explain.
@@nonyabinnis9111 Today I was extremely doped with 50mg, , more than 25. The solution will be to cut the 25 pill in half. Totaling 12.5mg. Who knows, maybe I will tolerate the sedation better
Ja idd waar kan je het kopen of hebben ze daar ook weer een andere naam aan geplakt in srilanka verkopen ze het bij de drogist ,waar kan ik legaal een Benzo kopen
Seroquel even at very small doses can cause irregular heart rhythm (scary drops on heartbeat). I told my doctor about this several times but he did not Record this in my Notes!
Thanx Doctor for presentations with in depth analysis of indications, side effects, anti indications, history, drug trials, etc . all without drug company bias. I am a psychiatric nurse in Australia & notice drugs along with diagnoses follow fashion & of course.the quick fix as demanded by clients & belief that post ww2 chemistry is life's panacea. Pharmaceutical products certainly have improved life for us lucky ones in the developed world but such are abused for money printing by Pharmaceutical companies & making doctors the agents for sales. So good you include in your presentations the abuse angle. Thank you.
I was on this for a while for bipolar disorder. But it made me sleep for 14+ hours a day. And I rapidly gained weight. I hated being on this medication. It didn't do anything for my depression. And I felt like a zombie when I wasn't sleeping.
The only thing that ever will once you start it. My skin rips and tears. This drug is killing me. I know it but I can't sleep at all without it. The longest I could go was 1 week. I really tried everything.
Lynda Yates find something else. you might have to go through a rehab program. they’ll give you something else to get to sleep. this is not a drug to take for sleep.
Most likely the only thing that ever will now that you've taken it. Last time I tried to stop taking it I didn't sleep at all for a week. I gave in after all that time and actually had to take the exact same dose to get to sleep. Pancreatitis. Dry eyes. Eye floaters. Dry skin. This drug dries your whole body up. Cataracts. On and on. It has aged me at least 20 years. I used to fall asleep with food on my face and in my hair because it caused me to be starving yet too tired to eat? Devil's drug to me. Nothing I have tried so far has worked for sleep. I was given 600mgs for sleep. Psychiatrists can't give you enough pills.
I want to try to get off of this medication. I’ve been on it for 16 years for insomnia. So far it is the only medication that has helped me sleep but I don’t like the side effects. It makes me feel a little nervous and makes my heart pound. It also makes me feel very hungry, especially for sweets. Recently I have been having trouble swallowing after taking it. I told my doctor and she said that it shouldn’t be from the Seroquel but I feel like it is. I want her to change it next time I see her.
You seem like one of the smartest people alive. I wish I could meet you. Is there any way to get off seroquel like how Suboxone does it's thing? Can't sleep without seroquel.. if the substance were to seize to exists what would you do??
Did it treat anxiety and panic episodes? Would you take it right before bed and it still helped with if you have anxiety the next morning? I’m on 2 doeses of 1mg Xanax two times a NIGHT and that doesn’t help me in the morning. The anecdote for my anxiety only extracts my anxiety during the night. I have super depressed/panic/anxiety episodes during the day however. But at night I’m drowsy happy and relived. If there is one What’s your opinion on what’s different between Xanax and Seroquel? I also have a faster heart bmp due to anxiety. Did this medicine increase your heart rate in conjunction due to anxiety? Thank you so much.
@@crunkedreviews5275 My personal opinion is that the resistance time for Xanax and other benzodiazepines is extremely quick and much faster than seroquel hence the higher rate of abuse. Seroquel will not relax you in the way that xanax does, xanax will actually make you feel good whereas seroquel is purely a tranquilizer and rather than calming you, will dull you. I find it helps with my anxiety long term much better than Xanax / Valium did
I love my seroquel. It helps me sleep, & keeps my moods stable. Now I still take an snri for depression & an axiolytic for anxiety as im on a pretty low dose at 200 mg / day. Only side effect is bruxism and i 100% feel that is the snri. Its the only AP ive taken that didnt send me into hypomania other than latuda which is way to expensive.
Dr, I would really be very grateful for your opinion on whether a person should be doing a very slow taper from Seroquel or get off quickly if they are presenting with Tardive Dyskinesia. There seems to be a lot of contradictory info online, with some studies showing that if you are presenting with TD, it is best to get off as quickly as possible; but, other evidence showing that a slow taper is needed in order to better prevent the possibility of permanency. Your opinion on this would be so appreciated.
It was improperly prescribed for a friend of mine who had a serious drinking problem and quite frankly it killed her. This is where a doctor really did not know his patient. I miss her so much to this day. When I here of this drug I get really upset
I have bipolar with hypomania and the crashes of depression are to the point I did at one point hurt myself. When I’m manic I love it bc I feel like I’m “better” and more capable cause the less need for sleep or food but extremely high energy. Mania is fun except for my bank account. Got 10mg to try for 10 days, next day add another 10, another day 10 Been on it but 9 years ago and zombified me completely but I was 16 and on 150mg Tried to kill myself Scared to try it again but doc won’t try lithium until my psychiatrist confirms the diagnosis I hope it works, I haven’t slept in 4-5 days now and ate 1 single meal total across those days. Maxed my credit card out and even almost lost my fiancé because it’s long distance right now. Extreme impulsivity, I hope they work 🤞
I stopped taking quitipine for bipolar disorder. Just made me feel very sleepy next day. Kept on waking up with dry mouth at night. Its bad on cholesterol and heart. Helped me with mania tho plotting against me.
Another option: Dry mouth may be from tongue thrusting. If you experience snoring, sleep apnea, respiratory disorders or abdominal migraines, it is heavily correlated with mouth breathing or an underdeveloped jaw. Expanding pallette (dna or alf appliance) might help. If it is a mild to moderate case, take a thin piece of sports tape before sleep and tape from just beneath the nose to below the lower lip, leaving side of lips free of the tape. This brings jaw forward and in turn presses tongue to the roof of the mouth, expands airways and keeps the mouth moist (lowers dental cavities). The commercial head strap uses compression which is detrimental for overall health. Many epigenetic doctors believe underdeveloped jaws leads to neurological disorders by putting stress on the nerves in the cervical and thoracic spine, as the chronic issue can causes disregulation of neurotransmitters and nutrients. Ultimately, neurology recommend the palette expander, as it relieves pressure from inflamation in the brain, increasing the threshold for inflammation and decreasing risk for disease.
As someone suffering from bipolar disorder, your videos are no less than indispensable. I’m on 300mg Seroquel and 1000mg Lithium and I’m curious as to what are the drugs that have pros outweighing cons? Would you recommend Seroquel in the treatment of bipolar disorder?
NO no I would not. It's more addictive than heroine and if you EVER want to come off of it the withdrawls feel like you're dying. Ive been in the hospital for the symptoms. Do not put it in your body.
Great PRN for acute mania, but as a maintenance therapy, you'd be better off on elephant tranquilizers. It's fascinating that the latter effect is not dose-dependent and I really appreciate that this video points that out..
@Steve diabetes is the only real thing I'm kinda afraid of. A lot of my family die from it. Gonna be kinda lame if thats how I go out but I can't say that I didn't see it coming, huh?
A 33-year-old married Caucasian male with a history of polysubstance dependence (cocaine, heroin, alcohol, benzodiazepines) reported to the local county hospital emergency room requesting assistance with drug detoxification and rehabilitation. The patient endorsed daily use of intravenous cocaine mixed with 400 mg-800 mg of quetiapine. Quetiapine was surreptitiously diverted from his wife’s prescription. He reported crushing the quetiapine tablets and mixing the resulting powder with cocaine and water.
I think this is definitely an okay prescription for personality disorders, obviously depending on the case. But for me, a BPD guy, it's done things for my mood that I haven't experienced before in life. It has this great effect where, if I feel a very negative emotion that emotion stays in that moment and doesn't linger. So if you have serious mood fluctuation, anger, anxiety etc. as a symptom of a mood disorder, I would consider bringing this drug up to your doctor.
I took it for years and had no trouble getting off of it. I requested to get off it because I was 107lbs and gained about 30 lbs. My dose was 300 mg. No lasting effects at all or when I took it. I changed meds and hit the gym and lost the weight. It’s not as terrible as some are making it out to be. It was prescribed by my psychiatrist who is also a licensed neurologist.
WoW ! What a knowledgeable man. This detailed reminder of the side effects is precious. I am taking 100 mg of quétiapine together with 600 mg of lithium to treat my bipolar disorder type 2 and my anxiety disorder. It works well. The thyroid is influenced, tiredness is an issue, gain weight too but I will try to navigate despite these side effects. It’s an occasion to do more sport and improve one’s diet.
you're seeing what you want. I was extremely athletic 5ft weight 120lbs and had a 24 inch waistline even after having a baby at 33. 2010 had a psychotic break was put on 400mg Seroquel xr. My weight without out me changing mt diet and exercise routine jumped th 240+ lbs in about 7 to 8 months. I have fatty liver disease, my waistline is 45 inches, I am borderline type 2 diabetes. It took me eating a 800 calorie a day diet for 6 years to get down to 175lbs. That is a starvation diet, nobody should have to do that every single day for 6 years. 2021 my weight has plateaued at 175lbs. No matter what I do I can't loose anymore weight. In my 20s and early 30s I danced professionally and was in the military. I was in peak physical health. Still have fatty liver disease, still boarderline type 2 diabetes. And IF you are a doctor more evidence regarding longterm obesity with fatty liver disease, it starts causing fatty heart and other cardiovascular diseases. I don't drink any alcohol and watch other medications that can strain my liver and kidneys. I have severe osteoarthritis in my feet, ankles, hips, upper back and neck because my 5ft frame wasn't designed to carry 240 lbs or even 175 lbs. I am 51 and my health has been destroyed by Seroquel. Also, I have lost some cognitive skills: I can't read a novel, even writing at a grade 6 level (although I can read technical materials) In my career I had to Develop/Create complex calculations and algorithms, today I can't multiple or divide fractions! I have horrible memory loss. I have absolutely no creative parts to my personality which originally I had multiple creative endeavors. So yes it is slowly destroying my mind too.
It happened the same to me, i can´t read anymore without having an headache, and it a thing that used to like. Complex intelectual work was gone and have an economics degree, i barely can keep with a conversation, my liver is not good too an i never was an alcoholic. I was about 15 years in seroquel because stress problems\anxiety derived from military, the shrink tricked me into 300 mgs a day of it but i never tok more than 150, that was a key decision or i would be dead or a completely mental retard by now.When reading became painful,coupled with the discovery of cataracts in my eyes i start to suspect about that venom; i start to read all i could about it and became in panic because it was a vast amount of venom that i took in those years. And i took the decision of quit that thing, but, i was complwetely hooked on it, it is impossible to sleep if one do not take it cold turkey, i mean, you just do not sleep ever... but my decision was made , i never liked drugs and that is what i am a drug addict loosing my mind and became increasingly a zombie. I spend 3, 4 days without sleep, my brain was frying when i couldn't take anymore i called the shrink and he told me to take diazepam and i slept finally. When i woke up i thought that i was free from the venom but then i realize that i had a permanent buzz in my head particulary in the left ear, and at night my head seems like going to explode with my eyes popping and nearly hallucinating, so i went to hospital, they measured my blood pressure at 20 sistolic. I went like this about a month, normal at day and with very high blood pressure at night, this was caused probably beacause the dopamine receptors were not blocked anymore so the sudden rush of dopamine will overload your brain and mess with your body sistems to put it quite simply. I never can sleep more than 4,5 hours at night now , i'm always tired and sleepy, very difficult to work, this condition and the buzz in my left ear is clearly an indication of brain damage caused by this substance.If you take the decision of quit the drug don't do it on your own: it can be deadly, i mean it, there is people that was hooked on this and heroine and they say that the pain and suffering is comparable particulary when it came to quit definitely. Now to me shrinks are very dishonest people to say at least because they attribute the side effects of their "medicaments" to the mental disorders of the patients, washing their hands right there from it, the idiot that conned me into take this do not wnat to hear about the side effects of the drug he prescribed...i hope you get well i understand what you went through it is sad that it could be solved by other means without harming your health so much.
Oh, and the problems you got in your joints, don-t get fooled by them about your weight, Is that drug that DESTROYS the joints. Many people is complaining about that.
This was so depressing..I already worry about drug side effects.Im taking it for bipolar I've had a couple of Psychotic eps too it really helped me during those times,to not drive myself crazy overthinking every little thing and with my insomnia.I haven't notice too many side effects except dry mouth in the morning but goes away and possible weight gain.All the stuff he said does scare me but so does having more manic eps so that's why I'm taking it unless there's something better out there whether pill or other wise I don't see the point of fear mongering😑
@@jasonbig1353 As far as side effects there the same..Though i have noticed its not helping me with the intrusive thoughts at night anymore..But it does help me sleep without it i wouldn't have a normal sleeping routine..I would stay up till 7 am or even 1pm sometimes cause i couldn't sleep now i get sleepy around 11 pm or before 3 am depending how early i take it i notice for sleep i can be on a lower dose and still have it work for sleep like 100 mg i hear for people who only needed for sleep 50 mg is a starting dose..I was put on 400 mg originally for psychosis and when i first started it it was pretty strong i would wake up at 3pm and still be kinda sleepy so it takes a few months for your body to get use to it i think.You could also try lowering the dose if your on a higher dose than 50 mg and are too sleepy.Its up to you you could research supplements for sleep or try a different med..
@@jasonbig1353 do not take it for insomnia. It's not worth the risks. Look at my comment above and please try otc remedies like micro dose of time release melatonin and finding a combination of herbal sleep aids that work with great synergy. Also a lot of magnesium. People don't realize how important magnesium is and how much people are deficient. You can switch it up by taking benadryl or doxylamine succinate for a couple of weeks then to the melatonin and herbs or even all together. Ask your doctor for ambien and take that for a week or two MAX then take what I mentioned above and take 1-3 month breaks from the ambien so it doesn't build tolerance too quickly or enough to not work. Seroquel is a serious medication and that's why I recommend you doing something like what I explained. More hectic for sure but much healthier.
My anxiety is very bad so I'm willing to give this a try to take as needed - but I definitely don't want to take this long-term. I only think for those where literally nothing else works (e.g. severe schizophrenia) should consider staying on anti-psychotic for years on end. I think these drugs have their place (after all my anxiety is making my life unliveable and practically pointless because there's no relief, no joy, just stress and casual suicidal ideation). So I'm willing to try for a while but I want another long-term solution (e.g. regular cognitive behavioural therapy when I can afford it - it sucks how a lack of money means you can't get human to human help).
I also suffer debilitating generalised anxiety disorder, seroquel works wonders for anxiety even just 25mg makes my anxiety go away. I only take 25mg at bedtime to relieve nighttime anxiety so I can go to sleep, I don't find that it's actually a very good sleeping medicine sometimes I still have insomnia and can't sleep after taking it but I feel very relaxed and calm and don't feel anxious about not being able to sleep. I have never tried taking it for anxiety during the day.
I love my seroquel.. although my current dose is a bit high.. 550mg per day.. went up in hospital.. so waiting to come down a bit.. think my ideal is 150mg morning and 300mg in the evening..
Do not take this it makes it a drooling zombie. I was given 500mg once a day As a kid. The effect still affect me to this day and I'm 38. It's got very real long term effects. Especially if you use it if not needed
Man you did it all wrong!!! First of all 500mg is wayy too much, secondly you should always take it before going to bed, so you can sleep off the sedation effects... thirdly you took it when were a child, no good... 50mg or 100mg max before going to bed and be over 20y old...
@kitsune090 that's what I was told to do by a doctor I haven't taken it since I was 10 and haven't seen any reason for needing it. It's mainly prescribed to shut kids up.
Wanted to see if my psychiatrist would prescribe me this for sleep with my well known and documented prolonged QT and heart Rythem abnormalities and defects. Sure enough without hesitation, she called in a script to my pharmacy . I had a caring psychiatrist who wouldn't dream of prescribing any of these drugs for me.
@@Alvaro-fh5dd 50 mg as well. I had to start taking mine earlier, because I would sleep all day otherwise, but it’s worth it honestly. It is still hard to wake up though
Serouel has worked for me and is one of the very best psych meds there is that has not caused those aforementioned bad side effects of psychological meds.
I was just prescribed this. I’m officially scared to death to take this. I read it can mess with your cholesterol …. I take cholesterol meds , so to me it doesn’t sound like a good . I have ptsd and they just prescribed 25 mg to sleep at night. It doesn’t sound like a good idea to me after hearing g this. What are your thoughts 💭?? I’m also on BP meds. Colonodine .2 mg a day.
Well, you can say it should not be used for insomnia; however, as long as physicians believe they may be at risk prescribing minor tranquillizers, benzodiazepines class of controlled substances, they will use whatever works for insomnia. The proof it works is the common use of this drug for sleep. If you really wish to remedy this, the medical community needs to explain to the gatekeepers they are fooling themselves with 'controlled substances' making the public more vulnerable to excessive drugging by forcing people into compromising a less controlled, but more dangerous drug.
What this drug do is a chemichal lobotomy putting people to sleep or in a sleepy state, and it works by cognitive functions destruction, but it works and they don´t care about the side effects, so...in fact, in the end they do not care about the health of their patients...it is about prescribe, prescribe, without even rise their butts from the chair...it should be prohibited to prescribe this and other anti psichotic drugs to treat imsomnia.
@Charlotte Martin the proof oxy worked was the common use of that drug for pain. Really tells you nothing except how floored the entire industry and regulatory agencies are
Nasty med. I was on 800 mgs. of the immediate. made my heart race, was always hungry and highly sedated and sluggish/lethargic. Watch your glucose levels. Don't add it to an anti depressant. Same with abilify. Don't keep adding on the meds. Even at low doses it can cause some serious damage And you will gain weight. Just like Clozapine and Zypyrexa.
Seroquel got me high on as low a dose as 25 mg. It made me hallucinate at 300 mg. Doctors wouldn't believe this is true if I told them but it is. I laid in bed for hours unnaturally relaxed after awakening.
Hmmm interesting. I was just given for first time in my life to take 25mg every night, I found it has a "kinda of high", but you fall sleep most definetly. So you say I should take like 8 of my pills to get high?. lol. I feel like I'd die, and people would belive was suicide, and I was just trying shit around : P Jokes asides this probably happens.
Omg 300 MG is ridiculous is your doctor trying to kill you. I take 50. I have been on medications for 30 years. I listen to my body over a doctor any day of the week. Your doctor WORKS for You. You Should not be taking that high dosage please tell your doctor to lower or ask for new Doctor Please you are suffering 😩
Way back when my crazy ass doctor gave me Seroquel for sleeping..along with Gapapentin. Ended up in Urgent Care. Wonder why I don't trust doctors...Breaks my heart when people suffer because of doctors who don't deserve to practice
Doctors are TERRIFIED to prescribe more practical and safer medications such as benzodiazepines because the DEA limits their ability to practice good medicine, threatening doctors with fines, losing their license to practice medicine or even prison time for prescribing proper medications to more patients than the DEA would prefer. Instead, they prescribe extremely strong and new antipsychotic drugs with unknown side effects for the smallest sleep problem or anxiety disorder when a small Rx for Xanax would be safer. 9 MILLION prescriptions a year for a drug whose only indication is the treatment of advanced schizophrenia...I'd love to hear a doctor, patient's, or law enforcement worker's point of view on this insanity.
@@steezy1729 I'm sorry they made you ill: They should be avoided when possible. The WD's are potentially fatal in extreme cases. Psychiatric illness is a very real problem that kills many more people than benzos. In a perfect world, nobody would need them but this becomes a less perfect world every year for the mentally ill. What I was attempting to convey is that it is not the place of the DEA to "teach" medical doctors how to prescribe medications: They are not qualified and it is insulting to the doctors' intelligence. Moreover, benzos are very often preferable to neuroleptics such as Thorazine or Zyprexa which give patients much worse symptoms long-term than benzodiazepines (look up tardive dyskinesia.) I find it even more brazenly irresponsible to prescribe atypitcal- antipsychotics with little long-term data in terms of side effects as "Seroquel" willy nilly for sleep or minor behavioral problems when a less invasive medication would suffice. Benzos have severe side effects for many patients if abruptly discontinued and should be avoided if possible. Antipsychotics should not be prescribed so commonly to non-psychotic patients like they currently are in 2021: Antipsychotics should not be an acceptable alternative for panic attack/intractable insomnia in non-psychotic patients in my view (and in the view of all the DSM's). I hope you are feeling better after your experience: That sounds horrible.
Wow Greg Rawlins. It's like you read my thoughts exactly. Seraquil was prescribed to me and I was taken off Xanax because Dr's are being threatened of loosing their license. Just imagine being stopped taking Xanax immediately, after taking it As Needed to replace it with Seraquil... I was Hallucinating snakes were coming out of my vents and onto my bed! I didn't dare close my eyes! And after telling my Dr about the Terrifying effects he doubled the Seraquil dosage which I Refused to take anymore, he refused to see me again until I see a counselor/therapist And a psychiatrist. Unbelievable how what the Patient FEELS no longer matters. It sickness me to know that Dr's and Pharmaceutical Companies are literally Stealing Millions and we are treated like rat labs. And now that everything is going Virtual... Really irritates the shit out of me. That's not what I call AN APPT WITH A DR IS. I ain't paying for no office visit OVER THE PHONE. Guess we won't be needing Dr's advice. My opinion only. Sorry Greg for getting off the subject. See what Seraquil does to me??? Glad I weaned myself off of that poison. Have a blessed day and be safe. 🤗
I've just been put on this after 3 straight days of being awake, no stimulants of any kind caused it I was actually on Ambien and lots of it just desperately trying to fall asleep, Xanax and valium and still didn't sleep in 3 days. First night on it I slept but today on day 2 I couldn't sleep so I took a 50mg dose after my 25ng dose didn't work a couple hours ago. If this doesn't work I won't continue on this drug.
@@luavasconcelos1637 I stopped taking it. But then the doctors put me back on it twice a day along with 30mg remeron and I take Xanax too. Xanax is the only thing that's any good for me. I don't abuse it or take it every day but the doctors are trying to get me off. But they won't stand a chance until they find me an effective replacement for it.
I took 50mg of Quetiapine for the first time last night. I could feel the effects of it after about 10-15 minutes? It made me tired, but put me in a weird tired mode, like I couldn't sleep on it kind of tired. There is kind of window of tiredness you have, to try and fall asleep on Quetiapine, I believe and if you miss it, it will leave you in a bizzare can't fall asleep tired state, or like in a strange state of exhuasted feeling but still to conscious and wanting to sleep state, but can not. I did finally fall asleep, but not for long, and shallow. I woke up with drymouth and a stuffy nose from it and a slight sinus headache. Don't feel rested the morning after so not sure what to think of Quetiapine yet? Was taking 15mg tablets of Mirtazapine, and that stuff didn't work as fast, but needed to take it at least a few hours before the time I wanted to sleep and have drank zero caffeine before 5pm taking mirtazapine, caffeine really counter acts low doses of Mirtazapine, but do believe it worked ok, but had a more gradual, and not as strong/strange effect as the Quetiapine, and least I did fall asleep on it in a more normal way, but would sleep only in 4 or 5 hour spurts on Mirtazapine but didn't have the residual tired effects from the Mirtazapine like the Quetiapine, might have made a mistake switching from low dose mirtazapine to a little higher dosage of Quetiapine. The psychologist that prescribed me the Quetiapine, thinks I may have manic depression, and is just seeing how I react to Quetiapine on lower doses. Will give an update to anyone reading this to tell how it effected me if anyone is interested.
I'm prescribed 25mg for insomnia due to anxiety, I often find that while it does a great job of quietening my mind and relieving my anxiety at night it often doesn't help me actually fall asleep, but when this happens I feel very relaxed and I don't feel anxious about not being able to sleep, also when this happens I'll end up feeling hungry and I'll get up and eat, which I don't actually mind too much as I have a problem with lack of appetite and not eating due to anxiety.
This Doctor is like a talking PDR with personality. thank you for your contributions.
You're correct! He's reading the information from something like it. The incredible thing is that he knows what he's reading and understands it, almost fully. This man is a genius notwithstanding the fact that this information is known. Again, he has the incredible ability to read something and convey the information with superb accuracy, this is not easy. I'm completely impressed by his overall knowledge.
I was horrified to see what this drug did to my father 5 years ago and my father in law this past week!
For the sake of needing sleep while in the hospital.
My father in law went in for back pain and in 2 days was told he was dying.
Called the family in and we thought it would be days and he would be gone.
He was hallucinating, violent,swearing, and totally confused.
Got him off this medication and he is fine!!!
Thank you Jesus! 🙏
From my experience, it is an awful poison, leading to all sorts of crazy effects, god knows how the hell it was ever allowed to be seen as a 'medicine'.
Wow
I'm sitting here listening to this information, glancing at my prescribed Quetiapine (Seroquel). I took it one night for insomnia. I decided to stop after the first dose. Insomnia!!! This man gives a dissertation in under 40 minutes. 50 milligrams per pill, once a day before bed. Our Doctor said that side affects occur in low doses on par with 300 to 400 milligram doses! Thanks Doctor. I followed my gut, but now I know.
I had a nightmare the 1st time I took Seroquil.
I went to an inpatient facility once at which nearly everyone who came in was put on a very high dose of seroquel. For me it was so high I got sick trying to get off it. Worse was whenever any of us got sleepy from it we'd be punished for putting our heads down. For your own safety, never go to Parkwood behavioral health in Mississippi.
It's an epidemic. Very freighting
This is standard and happening in many publicly funded facilities in New Zealand. Always for off label purposes. Those responsible seem to be ignorant of any of the lawsuits astrazenica have had to payout for this illegally marketed and dangerous drug
Same in the uk
Mental Health care sucks in this country
One of the best videos I've seen. Thanks. I'm taking it for severe anxiety and some histrionic traits. It helps me a lot, I feel calm and ok afterwards. It numbs me a bit and that's all I want right now. I'm not ok with how much I feel... constantly just feeling and being emotional..
I. Just started taking this omgggggg should I stop shit it helps me sleep
RIP SIR. We learned so much from you
This doctor died? 😢
Oh no! 😭
I haven't seen such an in-depth well covered interesting review since the old days of DOCTOROFMIND.
I love your site. It’s maybe the most informative place on line for so many drugs and conditions. I have 5o sat, though, I’ve been taking 25-75 mg. every night for sleep for 25 years and it works amazingly well. But I know tgat the larger doses have the opposite effect.
Your article gives me pause and I will be considering changing to benedryl or cyclibenzaprine .
I am 71 and have degenerative disc disease,and an arachnoid cyst on my thoraxic spine, with ever increasing pain. I’ve had to go off opioid drugs that I took for many years so, having to get used to terrible pain. . I am subscribed to your channel. Well done doctor.
He unfortunately passed away :(
Great breakdown of this pill. Most doctors don't have enough knowledge to allow you to make informed decisions. One of the most important aspects, as always, is to follow the money. There is such a conflict of interest between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies. Safety is never the priority, it is usually last on their checklist.
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This man knew the street names/ street cocktail names of Seroquel. Holy based.
He was a goddamn legend.
I was perscribed this stuff for over a year. Seroquel is no joke….and neither is the withdrawals tapering off of it.
I want to see him review Vitamin C. Nobody will ever eat an orange again.
🤣😂
Lol
@Lucas Antoszyk Maybe if that orange was created in a lab, and disingenuously marketed as an apple
@@bristlefist facts. I saw a kid in the hospital taking 300+ daily. Dude was a zombie. I saw spiders everywhere on my 2nd night on the medication. Never again
Hilarious! I genuinely need information as have changed very drastically, physically with problems including hospitalization for suspected heart attack. Never had problems with high blood pressure. Just looking for answers as doctors round here make Dr Nick look like a pro. Thanks for making me laugh tho man. Appreciate
College psych grad here! This guy knows this stuff!!! Really agree that people on Seroquel who are taking it for what it is originally prescribed for aren't prescribed the correct dose unfortunately, because of the misconception that it will cause more side effects. Try to find a psychiatrist who knows their stuff too to be in good hands
I almost killed someone on this stuff. Seriously took it for months as prescribed for sleep at a very low dose and then suddenly one night I blacked out and went crazy. I remember nothing and came to find out my body doesn't metabolize seroquel at a typical rate. It was accumulated in my system and eventually my brain said nope. What was crazy is I felt fine basically. That was 15 years ago and since stopping it I've never had any issues.
I don’t see how some of my patients were ever awake on some of the doses. It also made my patients super hungry. I was a psych nurse for 14 years.
DeviantMotives makes me so hungry
@@samiam2284 do you still take Seroquel, and does the unending hunger ever lessen? I'm about to go from lean to chonker in a few months of starting, I can already tell bc I'm eating like 3000-4000 cal a day. But I'm still always hungry. Would extended release maybe lessen the hunger?
I got seroquel for panic attacks so I only should take it once a week or so, does that Work?!
Not a doctor just a nurse practitioner lol
My psychiatrist prescribed it for insomnia and it worked but the side effects were so bad. I have POTS and it made my symptoms of that like 10x worse. I stopped seroquel suddenly a few days ago and the withdrawal is bad but not nearly as bad as Xanax withdrawal. Experiencing headaches, paranoia, slight psychosis, and extreme nausea, I’m on day 4 and starting to feel better. Today was the first day I was actually motivated again to do anything.
How many milligrams were you on and how long were you on it before you went cold turkey? My psychiatrist prescribed .25 mg to me for insomnia. This video frightens me.
I started taking it because I ran out of pots.
@Jennifer L I do.. it really irritates my throat, causing a feeling like a lump there that I can't swallow or cough up..Notice it most when in bed. Also a stuffy nose and have to breathe through my mouth to sleep so I keep waking up gasping for air with such a dry mouth.. I could go on and on the side-effects are seemingly endless....
( Got given it for insomnia, anxiety and depression.. it took months for it to help me sleep..eventually on 100mg I got to I'm trying to get off this poison by tapering now and after reducing by only 12.5mg I'm getting withdrawals
. I'm so resentful to my doctor for getting me dependent on this crap without any mention of side-effects or withdrawals
Hey.. it's still early enough for you to get off this stuff before it accumulates in your system longterm.. I really hope you get off it and beware and research any other drugs they suggest before accepting them..
I know it's hard but I really think we have to try every drugfree therapy we can..it's the only way
.. even if the meds were safe and gave relief, they cure nothing , they just numb the personality- they really are a chemical lobotomy .
Psychiatric drugs are evil..
Best of luck, I mean that 💗
@@deliveredbyjace5977 Today I was extremely doped with 50mg, , more than 25. The solution will be to cut the 25 pill in half. Totaling 12.5mg. Who knows, maybe I will tolerate the sedation better
@@babynaysc Good luck. Yeah they really knock me out, too.
i can not thank you enuf for making this informative video...i know some lady taking this drug for "many" years ...yes...as a sleeping pill.....she is plague with so much headache....and maybe because i send her this video...YOU save a life......God bless you Dr. landow
Thank you doctor. I was prescibed this for use as a sleep aid. GAD/PTSD diatnosis and moderate symptoms. I called my MD friend for a second opinion bc I'm not schizoid/Bipolar disorders... decided to not take the medication and I only keep it as a reminder to be careful and do my research before trusing MDs who prescribe psych meds. Yikes. Thanks for backing up my and my friend MD's decision/opinion re use as a sleep aid. Nope! Thanks again.
it helps me with my panic attacks better than anything I ever used but it makes me feel much less intelligent than I really am when I access information or try to solve problems while it acts in my brain
Hi, does this medication still help stop panic attacks as i'm about to start this medication and i'm very anxious about it?
al norrie if you have anxiety all the time it is like having panic attack all the time and it helped me of course I am a different person each person is a special case so I cannot guarantee that it will help you
@@kokomanation Thanks for answering man, yes its for a panic disorder, everyday day is a battle, i don't like meds but i will try this out and hopefully it works for me like thankfully it helped you, thanks, stay well
al norrie I wish it will work the only thing I would suggest you is if you can avoid medication like lorazepam or Xanax these benzodiazepines are really dangerous and addictive don’t fall into the trap of taking such things
I was misdiagnosed for 10 years and actually have C-PTSD so im being taken off of it. I hope beyond hope for your sake you never experience the withdrawls from this. Yea of course it helps with anxiety because you're apathetic and sedated and you don't even realize it.
Thanks for this information. I’m working on getting off of it for insomnia diagnosis. It’s so addictive, it’s only made my insomnia worse and me dependent on a substance. I’ve also gained about 70 pounds since being prescribed.
Peter Breggin is as good as it gets for real info on mental health meds. You can get off it but it’s extremely important to very slow as you’re weaning off and then you’re going to potentially start a roller coaster ride with your emotions ranging from mild to possibly extreme it varies from person to person. You shouldn’t have to worry about doing the nosedive that happened when you quit cold turkey. Breggin has books videos and articles for you to see how to stop safely and what you can expect along the way. Best wishes to you if and when you start your journey
@@Diaz4prez thank you so much for such a thoughtful comment! I just hit two months off of seroquel and I’m so thankful for it. This video had a lot of influence on me and how I worked with my psychiatrist to wean off. I do little updates on my channel if you want to see, either way thank you this comment helped me on a bit of a low day.
@@berryrhubarb I’m so happy to hear that you were able to get off I have watched the difficulties that people face along the way. My daughter has been off Prozac for 2 years and she is just now getting back to normal. I hope your good days will continue to increase and I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers ❤️🙏🏼
@@Diaz4prez Breggin is our hero. We love him. !!! He has come to reform a dangerous profession--- psychiatry. Psychiatry is hiding huge lies.
@@blairsterling6141 I agree and they have robbed countless people of the life that they should’ve been able to have. All of it being done to cater to the greed of pharmaceutical companies that care more about their money than the people who are taking their products.
I hear stories about how corrupt the big pharma companiea are but to hear this level of detail is frightening. Just promoting a drug with so many side effects to make money is criminal.
False. It helps me but is does have some crumby side affects
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What are both the good and the bad things it does for you?
@@gregorymalchuk272 it helps my schizophrenia, no bad side affects. Stops my hallucinations. Also, surprised to see you here. Small world
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Wait, you know me? My real question is if it does anything for motivation problems and extreme fatigue. That is what I am dealing with.
@@gregorymalchuk272 ive seen your anti circumcision videos and liked them, also im not sure. I have schizophrenia and hallucinate but thankfully it helps me. You could ask your psychiatrist about it. Maybe they'd know
Thank you Doctor for all your great videos. Could you please do a review on Geodon?
I wish I could sue as a result of my pain from taking quetiapine. for the first 6 months it had a honeymoon effect, but that slowly faded to grey. fucking doctors would rather prescribe this over Nonbenzos for SLEEP claiming its non addictive but it's TOTALLY physically addictive, withdrawal worse than Alcohol for me. I quit one time but due to my inability to get meds actually designed for insomnia, I had to relapse on it 2.5 months later. Now I'm fighting for different meds
Me too. This drug should be illegal. This drug has nearly killed me. It's no joke.
Im in withdrawls now after 10 years on it. My heart almost gave out last week. I ended up in and ambulance rushed to the hospital. Im in hell. Im terrified.
@@TheAbsterb how long were you on it? omg this makes me nervous, I hope you are ok
@@TheAbsterb Switch to Tizanidine or Baclofen muscle relaxers. Safer than Seroquel. I took Seroquel for a month and got restless leg syndrome.. No more Seroquel for me. I take the Baclofen once in a while to sleep, but my pain med helps my sleeping now.
fuck just get some phenibut or get on a gabaergic like lyrica or gabapentin
I take this with lexapro and I love it. It helps me so much with anxiety depression and even my ocd! I’m a stress under eater so i haven’t gained weight like some reviews but it genuinely helps me. But when if I miss a day I get super depressed so I try not to
i take the same stuff, we twins
I would try to taper off before it gets any worse, seriously
Are you sure your brain isn't also being fried by this drug? Seems inappropriate to take an APsych for anxiety and depression
I have been on and off seroquel/quitapine for about 10 years. Majority of the time I didn’t take it. I happened to have recurring symptoms of anxiety and depression. Took it. It helped me a lot. It was a little hard to stop taking it but I manage just fine for now. Haven’t been taking it for about 5 days. Usually I don’t get much sleep the first day I stop taking it, then my sleep and mood gradually gets better.
Why is this comment at the top when it was 10 months ago
This was added along with my Desvenlaxine, due to Mood Swings, and vivid dreams nightmares. Only 25mg, and it has helped me big time
Jesus! They got me on 400 mg after a couple weeks
My sister has COPD and has been prescribed this horrible drug. I do not understand how and why her doctor is prescribing this medication except for the fact that she’s in her late 70s and as you said in your video “to manage her”. I’m disgusted with how medication is misused to keep the patient under their control and not to be bothered by the patient. Doctors should be sued for malpractice in misuse of drugs.
Yeah my doctor gave it to me for sleep...this along with Gapapentin. I had to go to urgent care because of the effects of not sleeping (as it didn't work) and feeling dizzy and blurry eye sight. My heart was beating like crazy & I barely made it into the ER. I'm not trusting of doctors at all
Doctors get away with so much.
Been off Seroquel for 37 months.. Still my sleep is messed up. For two years I slept about 3 or 4 hours a night. Now I get 5 or 6 on a good night. Evil drug…
I've been on this for a year or so... I've also been taking Lamactel.. I honestly feel like this medication should not be on the market after doing alot of research and seeing how many lawsuits are against it.. I'm conflicted because of my mental health issues but I hate how it makes me sleep, feel the next day and constantly feel like a zombie. Always tired. Now that I stopped it. I can't sleep at all like I used to. I would take it and sleep for hours. Now. Nope
Thank you for this! Went to a new psychiatrist for PTSD nightmares. Asked for 1mg prasosin - had success with it in the past for short term problems. He prescribed 50mg Seroquel and 20mg Prozac for six month minimum. I don't have any other diagnoses.
Didn't fill them. I've watched friends withdrawal from heavy-hitting psych meds. Awful.
Seroquel plus Prozac has given my loved one her life back.
So glad you decided against taking them..
I've been on both and found them useless but unfortunately I was desperate enough to go back on the seroquel for my chronic insomnia and now I've all the nasty side-effects and I'm trying to get off it but the withdrawals are becoming apparent already even in the early stages of tapering..
People need to be warned about these cruel drugs..
So thorough ….. one cannot save (I cannot) this review to a playlist oddly
We miss you Dr. Landow!
Thank you so much for your video! So much information. If patients were more informed as well as professionals, about medications, we could really make more progress in the mental health field, in my opinion. As a patient myself I try to be very informed about all meds I am put on but seems like most healthcare professionals look down on that and it affects overall treatment. Anyways thank you very much!
Doctors who prescribe seroquel should be in prison.
Why
@rhiannaloft3158 it's a chemical lobotomy. It causes permanent brain damage, diabetes, high cholesterol and extreme brain fog. If you decide to get off the drug, the withdrawals are worse than torture.
they handed it out to basicly everyone when i was in psychiatry, just diffrent dosages
Thanks for great videos doctor. Can you make a video of clozapine?
If only I had had this information when I agreed to let my 15 year old daughter start on this. Five years and five episodes of "mild" nms we learned our lesson.
2011 is when I was prescribed 25mg for sleep and I’m still on it and I’m definitely currently having side effects from a recent dose increase.
Be very careful. If for some reason you go to the hospital I would suggest you not let them give you this drug via IV. I alerted my care team and they still have it to me this way. 2 young gals came in with syringes. I asked what they were as one proceeds to administer the seroquel. I immediately started having hallucinations. Ungodly scary things. So the second nurse is pondering using the morphine. I'm like yes! Please do. Totally sane as anyone I found myself scared to death. Screaming. Once you get on seroquel as I have what are you going to do when your dose no longer works and a higher dose causes such terror? I'm totally stuck. I fall at night. Wandering around. It causes a voracious appetite so I am also wandering the kitchen late at night grazing for food. At the beginning I gained over 100 lbs and I'm a naturally skinny person. Cataracts, dry itchy skin that tears easily. My vision is horrible and I'm looking at having yet another cataract surgery. My muscle tissue has turned to flab. And 1 thing I will never understand is why give such a medication to some one with sleep narcolepsy? And the final fun fact I can't sleep at all without this drug now. Please please be very careful with this medicine. I've fallen asleep with food in my hair and all over. I had a pancreas attack. Nothing replaces this drug. God bless everyone taking this crap. Absolutely love this Dr. I wish he could help me.
I was prescribed this and It made me fat, groggy the next day all day. And I would also feel very uncomfortable mentally after taking it. It made my mind feel so weird/ not in control. Hard to explain.
@@nonyabinnis9111 how did it make you fat? Increased appetite?
@@nonyabinnis9111 Today I was extremely doped with 50mg, , more than 25. The solution will be to cut the 25 pill in half. Totaling 12.5mg. Who knows, maybe I will tolerate the sedation better
@@babynaysc good luck. I hope it works for you or you find something that does.
Whatever happened to good old Valium?
Ja idd waar kan je het kopen of hebben ze daar ook weer een andere naam aan geplakt in srilanka verkopen ze het bij de drogist ,waar kan ik legaal een Benzo kopen
Seroquel even at very small doses can cause irregular heart rhythm (scary drops on heartbeat). I told my doctor about this several times but he did not Record this in my Notes!
This happened to me - have had irregular heart rhythm ever since.
Thanx Doctor for presentations with in depth analysis of indications, side effects, anti indications, history, drug trials, etc . all without drug company bias.
I am a psychiatric nurse in Australia & notice drugs along with diagnoses follow fashion & of course.the quick fix as demanded by clients & belief that post ww2 chemistry is life's panacea.
Pharmaceutical products certainly have improved life for us lucky ones in the developed world but such are abused for money printing by Pharmaceutical companies & making doctors the agents for sales.
So good you include in your presentations the abuse angle. Thank you.
I have been taking Seroquel for over 10/ years for sleep. It's the only thing that helps me sleep. I love your work and information
Kaleb St clair what doses do you take?
25-50mgs should be enough. I can take 25 and sleep fine. Don’t go over 75-100mgs for sleep though
I wish this would help me sleep. I’m on same dose and it doesn’t help me sleep. But when I do sleep I over sleep, it’s so strange. 😏
Roxy Roller what dosage do you take?
@@emad7540 300mg
I have been on Seroquel for a few months at 50mg strictly for sleep. It caused me to gain weight, and now is no longer working.
They should never put you n this shit for sleep. it is so addictive.
@@kewlmark72 in Psychiatry thats the Job to prescripe seroquel for sleeping
@@clausmehl8731 Bullshit.antipsychotic is not for a sleep disorder!!
you will hoooked on it you will not be able to sleep without it! ween off and get off that evil drug.
@@kewlmark72 it’s been working great for me. I have no need to get off of it.
I was on this for a while for bipolar disorder. But it made me sleep for 14+ hours a day. And I rapidly gained weight. I hated being on this medication. It didn't do anything for my depression. And I felt like a zombie when I wasn't sleeping.
It's garbage. Any psych that gives this to a person for depression is a quack; it is designed for psychosis -- people catatonic in asylums.
The only thing that puts me to sleep...
Jamie Leigh Brooks I was the same, then I got sick of it and tried not taking it, was able to sleep without it. So, you can get it back
Heat Pete everyone’s brain is different. what you experienced has to do with your brain, not the brain of someone else.
The only thing that ever will once you start it. My skin rips and tears. This drug is killing me. I know it but I can't sleep at all without it. The longest I could go was 1 week. I really tried everything.
Lynda Yates find something else. you might have to go through a rehab program. they’ll give you something else to get to sleep. this is not a drug to take for sleep.
Most likely the only thing that ever will now that you've taken it. Last time I tried to stop taking it I didn't sleep at all for a week. I gave in after all that time and actually had to take the exact same dose to get to sleep. Pancreatitis. Dry eyes. Eye floaters. Dry skin. This drug dries your whole body up. Cataracts. On and on. It has aged me at least 20 years. I used to fall asleep with food on my face and in my hair because it caused me to be starving yet too tired to eat? Devil's drug to me. Nothing I have tried so far has worked for sleep. I was given 600mgs for sleep. Psychiatrists can't give you enough pills.
I want to try to get off of this medication. I’ve been on it for 16 years for insomnia. So far it is the only medication that has helped me sleep but I don’t like the side effects. It makes me feel a little nervous and makes my heart pound. It also makes me feel very hungry, especially for sweets. Recently I have been having trouble swallowing after taking it. I told my doctor and she said that it shouldn’t be from the Seroquel but I feel like it is. I want her to change it next time I see her.
I had that issue before. I think your taking too much. @Jenny H.
Sweets craving is real. I’ve been on it for about 8 years and I get up in the middle of the night for sweets or bread
Your doctor is wrong. One of the side effects, and a common one is GI issues including reflux, esophageal spasms, constipation, etc.
How do you taper off of this?
You seem like one of the smartest people alive. I wish I could meet you. Is there any way to get off seroquel like how Suboxone does it's thing? Can't sleep without seroquel.. if the substance were to seize to exists what would you do??
Seroquel is the best drug I have taken for my depression, anxiety, erratic behavior, and impulsivity.
Hands down. This stuff is the only medication I'm on now, and it's bloody brilliant. Antis are a scurge
It is toxic...in the long run, your health will deteriorate quickly, and death will come 10 to 25 years sooner than without this poison.
@@blairsterling6141 based on what exactly? Could you please point me to anything that supports what you are saying?
Did it treat anxiety and panic episodes? Would you take it right before bed and it still helped with if you have anxiety the next morning? I’m on 2 doeses of 1mg Xanax two times a NIGHT and that doesn’t help me in the morning. The anecdote for my anxiety only extracts my anxiety during the night. I have super depressed/panic/anxiety episodes during the day however. But at night I’m drowsy happy and relived. If there is one What’s your opinion on what’s different between Xanax and Seroquel? I also have a faster heart bmp due to anxiety. Did this medicine increase your heart rate in conjunction due to anxiety? Thank you so much.
@@crunkedreviews5275 My personal opinion is that the resistance time for Xanax and other benzodiazepines is extremely quick and much faster than seroquel hence the higher rate of abuse. Seroquel will not relax you in the way that xanax does, xanax will actually make you feel good whereas seroquel is purely a tranquilizer and rather than calming you, will dull you. I find it helps with my anxiety long term much better than Xanax / Valium did
Thank you so much for your exceptional videos, can you please talk about Sulpiride?my son has been using it for about a year.
Thanks for your videos I feel better knowing exactly what I am taking!
I love my seroquel. It helps me sleep, & keeps my moods stable. Now I still take an snri for depression & an axiolytic for anxiety as im on a pretty low dose at 200 mg / day. Only side effect is bruxism and i 100% feel that is the snri.
Its the only AP ive taken that didnt send me into hypomania other than latuda which is way to expensive.
Did you experienced weight gain?
Definately not Seroquel, the bruxism
Dr, I would really be very grateful for your opinion on whether a person should be doing a very slow taper from Seroquel or get off quickly if they are presenting with Tardive Dyskinesia.
There seems to be a lot of contradictory info online, with some studies showing that if you are presenting with TD, it is best to get off as quickly as possible; but, other evidence showing that a slow taper is needed in order to better prevent the possibility of permanency. Your opinion on this would be so appreciated.
I take 100mg and I will say it has helped my 100%.
Same brother everyone body react differently from it
Can u do a THC one I wanna see this doctor explain weed 😂
On god!!!
😅🤣😭😂😂🤣😅
He will say it will make you psychotic and turn you into a monster...
It was improperly prescribed for a friend of mine who had a serious drinking problem and quite frankly it killed her. This is where a doctor really did not know his patient. I miss her so much to this day. When I here of this drug I get really upset
How did it kill her may I ask? Sorry for your loss.
Raspiratory depression? Or suicide?
Cause my type 1 diabetes....
@@FinbarPatrickMcGrath Seroquel and Alcohol do not mix
"quite frankly it killed her", but don't say how she died, much better to leave an irresponsible comment. I'm sorry for your loss.
every time I take a very low dose 50-100 for several months, I need to take more thyroid medication as I have had Hashimoto's thyroid disorder 20yrs
I have bipolar with hypomania and the crashes of depression are to the point I did at one point hurt myself. When I’m manic I love it bc I feel like I’m “better” and more capable cause the less need for sleep or food but extremely high energy. Mania is fun except for my bank account. Got 10mg to try for 10 days, next day add another 10, another day 10
Been on it but 9 years ago and zombified me completely but I was 16 and on 150mg
Tried to kill myself
Scared to try it again but doc won’t try lithium until my psychiatrist confirms the diagnosis
I hope it works, I haven’t slept in 4-5 days now and ate 1 single meal total across those days. Maxed my credit card out and even almost lost my fiancé because it’s long distance right now. Extreme impulsivity, I hope they work 🤞
It sounds like you have bi polar 1 not bi polar 2. That sounds like mania not just hypomania.
I stopped taking quitipine for bipolar disorder. Just made me feel very sleepy next day. Kept on waking up with dry mouth at night. Its bad on cholesterol and heart. Helped me with mania tho plotting against me.
Could you explain what dose you were on and for how long please?
Another option:
Dry mouth may be from tongue thrusting. If you experience snoring, sleep apnea, respiratory disorders or abdominal migraines, it is heavily correlated with mouth breathing or an underdeveloped jaw.
Expanding pallette (dna or alf appliance) might help. If it is a mild to moderate case, take a thin piece of sports tape before sleep and tape from just beneath the nose to below the lower lip, leaving side of lips free of the tape. This brings jaw forward and in turn presses tongue to the roof of the mouth, expands airways and keeps the mouth moist (lowers dental cavities).
The commercial head strap uses compression which is detrimental for overall health.
Many epigenetic doctors believe underdeveloped jaws leads to neurological disorders by putting stress on the nerves in the cervical and thoracic spine, as the chronic issue can causes disregulation of neurotransmitters and nutrients.
Ultimately, neurology recommend the palette expander, as it relieves pressure from inflamation in the brain, increasing the threshold for inflammation and decreasing risk for disease.
I was on 350mg taken few hours before bed. I'm back on it now because I could not sleep without it and crazy thoughts came back.
As someone suffering from bipolar disorder, your videos are no less than indispensable. I’m on 300mg Seroquel and 1000mg Lithium and I’m curious as to what are the drugs that have pros outweighing cons? Would you recommend Seroquel in the treatment of bipolar disorder?
NO no I would not. It's more addictive than heroine and if you EVER want to come off of it the withdrawls feel like you're dying. Ive been in the hospital for the symptoms. Do not put it in your body.
I recommend marijuana edibles, seriously.
@@TheAbsterb dont See a hospital. And you dont see seroquel
Lamictal I would say.
@@TheAbsterb I was forced on this when sectioned under mental health act. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I salute you 👏 ❤
You are incredibly honest . Well done doctor…
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RIP. he's gone.
Great PRN for acute mania, but as a maintenance therapy, you'd be better off on elephant tranquilizers. It's fascinating that the latter effect is not dose-dependent and I really appreciate that this video points that out..
Been on seroquel for 26 years best thing that helped :-)
@Steve this med gave you diabetes?
@Steve diabetes is the only real thing I'm kinda afraid of. A lot of my family die from it. Gonna be kinda lame if thats how I go out but I can't say that I didn't see it coming, huh?
do you have nightmares?
@@drakeo7594 me too. its LETHAL
they had me on these this was the most brutal med on my brain next to risperdal but one of my exs loved it for sleep lol
Very very good for sleep nuttin else match's it nuttin.its that great.
Would wake yo after seven hours ready to go.
@@johnsonjohnson5169 yeah if you are on meth or something and your nuerochemistry is broken, sure
A 33-year-old married Caucasian male with a history of polysubstance dependence (cocaine, heroin, alcohol, benzodiazepines) reported to the local county hospital emergency room requesting assistance with drug detoxification and rehabilitation. The patient endorsed daily use of intravenous cocaine mixed with 400 mg-800 mg of quetiapine. Quetiapine was surreptitiously diverted from his wife’s prescription. He reported crushing the quetiapine tablets and mixing the resulting powder with cocaine and water.
Could you please to about Penelzine (Nardil). Its such an important antidepressant
I think this is definitely an okay prescription for personality disorders, obviously depending on the case. But for me, a BPD guy, it's done things for my mood that I haven't experienced before in life. It has this great effect where, if I feel a very negative emotion that emotion stays in that moment and doesn't linger. So if you have serious mood fluctuation, anger, anxiety etc. as a symptom of a mood disorder, I would consider bringing this drug up to your doctor.
I'd rather be able to actually feel my emotions
I took it for years and had no trouble getting off of it. I requested to get off it because I was 107lbs and gained about 30 lbs. My dose was 300 mg. No lasting effects at all or when I took it. I changed meds and hit the gym and lost the weight. It’s not as terrible as some are making it out to be.
It was prescribed by my psychiatrist who is also a licensed neurologist.
WoW ! What a knowledgeable man. This detailed reminder of the side effects is precious. I am taking 100 mg of quétiapine together with 600 mg of lithium to treat my bipolar disorder type 2 and my anxiety disorder. It works well. The thyroid is influenced, tiredness is an issue, gain weight too but I will try to navigate despite these side effects. It’s an occasion to do more sport and improve one’s diet.
Ik ben 35 kg aangekomen 🙇♀️🤦♀️🫀🫀🤢🤮
@@Josjekleinedingenwtf!!!
you're seeing what you want.
I was extremely athletic 5ft weight 120lbs and had a 24 inch waistline even after having a baby at 33.
2010 had a psychotic break was put on 400mg Seroquel xr.
My weight without out me changing mt diet and exercise routine jumped th 240+ lbs in about 7 to 8 months. I have fatty liver disease, my waistline is 45 inches, I am borderline type 2 diabetes. It took me eating a 800 calorie a day diet for 6 years to get down to 175lbs. That is a starvation diet, nobody should have to do that every single day for 6 years.
2021 my weight has plateaued at 175lbs. No matter what I do I can't loose anymore weight.
In my 20s and early 30s I danced professionally and was in the military. I was in peak physical health.
Still have fatty liver disease, still boarderline type 2 diabetes. And IF you are a doctor more evidence regarding longterm obesity with fatty liver disease, it starts causing fatty heart and other cardiovascular diseases.
I don't drink any alcohol and watch other medications that can strain my liver and kidneys.
I have severe osteoarthritis in my feet, ankles, hips, upper back and neck because my 5ft frame wasn't designed to carry 240 lbs or even 175 lbs. I am 51 and my health has been destroyed by Seroquel.
Also, I have lost some cognitive skills: I can't read a novel, even writing at a grade 6 level (although I can read technical materials)
In my career I had to Develop/Create complex calculations and algorithms, today I can't multiple or divide fractions! I have horrible memory loss. I have absolutely no creative parts to my personality which originally I had multiple creative endeavors. So yes it is slowly destroying my mind too.
It happened the same to me, i can´t read anymore without having an headache, and it a thing that used to like. Complex intelectual work was gone and have an economics degree, i barely can keep with a conversation, my liver is not good too an i never was an alcoholic. I was about 15 years in seroquel because stress problems\anxiety derived from military, the shrink tricked me into 300 mgs a day of it but i never tok more than 150, that was a key decision or i would be dead or a completely mental retard by now.When reading became painful,coupled with the discovery of cataracts in my eyes i start to suspect about that venom; i start to read all i could about it and became in panic because it was a vast amount of venom that i took in those years. And i took the decision of quit that thing, but, i was complwetely hooked on it, it is impossible to sleep if one do not take it cold turkey, i mean, you just do not sleep ever...
but my decision was made , i never liked drugs and that is what i am a drug addict loosing my mind and became increasingly a zombie. I spend 3, 4 days without sleep, my brain was frying when i couldn't take anymore i called the shrink and he told me to take diazepam and i slept finally. When i woke up i thought that i was free from the venom but then i realize that i had a permanent buzz in my head particulary in the left ear, and at night my head seems like going to explode with my eyes popping and nearly hallucinating, so i went to hospital, they measured my blood pressure at 20 sistolic. I went like this about a month, normal at day and with very high blood pressure at night, this was caused probably beacause the dopamine receptors were not blocked anymore so the sudden rush of dopamine will overload your brain and mess with your body sistems to put it quite simply. I never can sleep more than 4,5 hours at night now , i'm always tired and sleepy, very difficult to work, this condition and the buzz in my left ear is clearly an indication of brain damage caused by this substance.If you take the decision of quit the drug don't do it on your own: it can be deadly, i mean it, there is people that was hooked on this and heroine and they say that the pain and suffering is comparable particulary when it came to quit definitely. Now to me shrinks are very dishonest people to say at least because they attribute the side effects of their "medicaments" to the mental disorders of the patients, washing their hands right there from it, the idiot that conned me into take this do not wnat to hear about the side effects of the drug he prescribed...i hope you get well i understand what you went through it is sad that it could be solved by other means without harming your health so much.
Oh, and the problems you got in your joints, don-t get fooled by them about your weight, Is that drug that DESTROYS the joints. Many people is complaining about that.
This was so depressing..I already worry about drug side effects.Im taking it for bipolar I've had a couple of Psychotic eps too it really helped me during those times,to not drive myself crazy overthinking every little thing and with my insomnia.I haven't notice too many side effects except dry mouth in the morning but goes away and possible weight gain.All the stuff he said does scare me but so does having more manic eps so that's why I'm taking it unless there's something better out there whether pill or other wise I don't see the point of fear mongering😑
It’s been 2 years, how are you with the medicine ?
My doctor prescribed it for insomnia but after watching this video I don’t wanna take them.
@@jasonbig1353 As far as side effects there the same..Though i have noticed its not helping me with the intrusive thoughts at night anymore..But it does help me sleep without it i wouldn't have a normal sleeping routine..I would stay up till 7 am or even 1pm sometimes cause i couldn't sleep now i get sleepy around 11 pm or before 3 am depending how early i take it i notice for sleep i can be on a lower dose and still have it work for sleep like 100 mg i hear for people who only needed for sleep 50 mg is a starting dose..I was put on 400 mg originally for psychosis and when i first started it it was pretty strong i would wake up at 3pm and still be kinda sleepy so it takes a few months for your body to get use to it i think.You could also try lowering the dose if your on a higher dose than 50 mg and are too sleepy.Its up to you you could research supplements for sleep or try a different med..
@@briarrose4747 thank you for sharing your experience.
I appreciate it.
All the best.
@@jasonbig1353 Yw! :) thank you ditto!
@@jasonbig1353 do not take it for insomnia. It's not worth the risks. Look at my comment above and please try otc remedies like micro dose of time release melatonin and finding a combination of herbal sleep aids that work with great synergy. Also a lot of magnesium. People don't realize how important magnesium is and how much people are deficient. You can switch it up by taking benadryl or doxylamine succinate for a couple of weeks then to the melatonin and herbs or even all together. Ask your doctor for ambien and take that for a week or two MAX then take what I mentioned above and take 1-3 month breaks from the ambien so it doesn't build tolerance too quickly or enough to not work. Seroquel is a serious medication and that's why I recommend you doing something like what I explained. More hectic for sure but much healthier.
I was on this for two months (50mg) and developed Tardive dyskinesia which has persisted 5 months after ceasing
Now, how is your Tardive Dysknesia ?
The best antipsychotic in the world if compared to other antipsychotics
This medicine saved my life
Matt R : ditto....Bipolar 1 here
My anxiety is very bad so I'm willing to give this a try to take as needed - but I definitely don't want to take this long-term. I only think for those where literally nothing else works (e.g. severe schizophrenia) should consider staying on anti-psychotic for years on end. I think these drugs have their place (after all my anxiety is making my life unliveable and practically pointless because there's no relief, no joy, just stress and casual suicidal ideation). So I'm willing to try for a while but I want another long-term solution (e.g. regular cognitive behavioural therapy when I can afford it - it sucks how a lack of money means you can't get human to human help).
Is it helping with your anxiety? and what mg do you take. Best regards
I also suffer debilitating generalised anxiety disorder, seroquel works wonders for anxiety even just 25mg makes my anxiety go away. I only take 25mg at bedtime to relieve nighttime anxiety so I can go to sleep, I don't find that it's actually a very good sleeping medicine sometimes I still have insomnia and can't sleep after taking it but I feel very relaxed and calm and don't feel anxious about not being able to sleep. I have never tried taking it for anxiety during the day.
I love my seroquel.. although my current dose is a bit high.. 550mg per day.. went up in hospital.. so waiting to come down a bit.. think my ideal is 150mg morning and 300mg in the evening..
ME TOO BROTHER AMEN 😃
is there a way i can talk to you by email about this please?
Do not take this it makes it a drooling zombie. I was given 500mg once a day As a kid. The effect still affect me to this day and I'm 38. It's got very real long term effects. Especially if you use it if not needed
Man you did it all wrong!!! First of all 500mg is wayy too much, secondly you should always take it before going to bed, so you can sleep off the sedation effects... thirdly you took it when were a child, no good... 50mg or 100mg max before going to bed and be over 20y old...
@kitsune090 that's what I was told to do by a doctor I haven't taken it since I was 10 and haven't seen any reason for needing it. It's mainly prescribed to shut kids up.
Wanted to see if my psychiatrist would prescribe me this for sleep with my well known and documented prolonged QT and heart Rythem abnormalities and defects.
Sure enough without hesitation, she called in a script to my pharmacy .
I had a caring psychiatrist who wouldn't dream of prescribing any of these drugs for me.
Poison category like Antipsychotics Etc Lithium.
I gained 37 lbs in one month when I was taking this. It does work but my doctor took me off because of the weight gain.
So I was prescribed this, and I have PTSD, and it has helped. Is it normal for it to be prescribed for PTSD?
Hi liz, I love my seroquel it has given me my life back.
@@mrhead5823 How much mg do you take? i am taking 50 mg and i want to sleep all day, i cant open my eyes
@@Alvaro-fh5dd I take 600mg of the xr at around 7pm for bipolar. I find I'm ok by morning
Hi I got diagnosed with ptsd and I was prescribed this as well.
@@Alvaro-fh5dd 50 mg as well. I had to start taking mine earlier, because I would sleep all day otherwise, but it’s worth it honestly. It is still hard to wake up though
What do you know about daily marijuana use combined with nightly seroquel use?
Serouel has worked for me and is one of the very best psych meds there is that has not caused those aforementioned bad side effects of psychological meds.
I was just prescribed this. I’m officially scared to death to take this. I read it can mess with your cholesterol …. I take cholesterol meds , so to me it doesn’t sound like a good . I have ptsd and they just prescribed 25 mg to sleep at night. It doesn’t sound like a good idea to me after hearing g this. What are your thoughts 💭?? I’m also on BP meds. Colonodine .2 mg a day.
short term use not more than 2 weeks
Maybe I could do a channel on class A drugs.
Don't do them anymore but had years of experience lol
You the type of dude to ask his drug dealer for a receipt
I take 300mgs at night but i get involuntary movements, how can i fix the movements?? It wakes me in sleep and feels horrible.
Benzos
300mg is too much... take 50mg or 100mg max... it will work without any adverse effects!!
"My soul gone, but the Seroquel heals me."
😂😂😂😂😂
Well, you can say it should not be used for insomnia; however, as long as physicians believe they may be at risk prescribing minor tranquillizers, benzodiazepines class of controlled substances, they will use whatever works for insomnia. The proof it works is the common use of this drug for sleep. If you really wish to remedy this, the medical community needs to explain to the gatekeepers they are fooling themselves with 'controlled substances' making the public more vulnerable to excessive drugging by forcing people into compromising a less controlled, but more dangerous drug.
What this drug do is a chemichal lobotomy putting people to sleep or in a sleepy state, and it works by cognitive functions destruction, but it works and they don´t care about the side effects, so...in fact, in the end they do not care about the health of their patients...it is about prescribe, prescribe, without even rise their butts from the chair...it should be prohibited to prescribe this and other anti psichotic drugs to treat imsomnia.
@Charlotte Martin the proof oxy worked was the common use of that drug for pain. Really tells you nothing except how floored the entire industry and regulatory agencies are
yo half way through..wtf is this? medicine or some super damaging chemical?what is safe exactly
Nasty med. I was on 800 mgs. of the immediate. made my heart race, was always hungry and highly sedated and sluggish/lethargic. Watch your glucose levels. Don't add it to an anti depressant. Same with abilify. Don't keep adding on the meds. Even at low doses it can cause some serious damage And you will gain weight. Just like Clozapine and Zypyrexa.
Caused my diabetes type 1. Had only been on 100mg am 200mg 4months. Evil drug
Seroquel got me high on as low a dose as 25 mg. It made me hallucinate at 300 mg. Doctors wouldn't believe this is true if I told them but it is. I laid in bed for hours unnaturally relaxed after awakening.
Hmmm interesting. I was just given for first time in my life to take 25mg every night, I found it has a "kinda of high", but you fall sleep most definetly. So you say I should take like 8 of my pills to get high?. lol. I feel like I'd die, and people would belive was suicide, and I was just trying shit around : P Jokes asides this probably happens.
Omg 300 MG is ridiculous is your doctor trying to kill you. I take 50. I have been on medications for 30 years. I listen to my body over a doctor any day of the week. Your doctor WORKS for You. You Should not be taking that high dosage please tell your doctor to lower or ask for new Doctor Please you are suffering 😩
Thank you for the information.
Thank you, Doc!
Love this doctor...
Way back when my crazy ass doctor gave me Seroquel for sleeping..along with Gapapentin. Ended up in Urgent Care. Wonder why I don't trust doctors...Breaks my heart when people suffer because of doctors who don't deserve to practice
Doctors are TERRIFIED to prescribe more practical and safer medications such as benzodiazepines because the DEA limits their ability to practice good medicine, threatening doctors with fines, losing their license to practice medicine or even prison time for prescribing proper medications to more patients than the DEA would prefer. Instead, they prescribe extremely strong and new antipsychotic drugs with unknown side effects for the smallest sleep problem or anxiety disorder when a small Rx for Xanax would be safer. 9 MILLION prescriptions a year for a drug whose only indication is the treatment of advanced schizophrenia...I'd love to hear a doctor, patient's, or law enforcement worker's point of view on this insanity.
Benzos are fucking horrible medications they made me so ill and the withdrawals can kill you
@@steezy1729 I'm sorry they made you ill: They should be avoided when possible. The WD's are potentially fatal in extreme cases. Psychiatric illness is a very real problem that kills many more people than benzos. In a perfect world, nobody would need them but this becomes a less perfect world every year for the mentally ill. What I was attempting to convey is that it is not the place of the DEA to "teach" medical doctors how to prescribe medications: They are not qualified and it is insulting to the doctors' intelligence. Moreover, benzos are very often preferable to neuroleptics such as Thorazine or Zyprexa which give patients much worse symptoms long-term than benzodiazepines (look up tardive dyskinesia.) I find it even more brazenly irresponsible to prescribe atypitcal- antipsychotics with little long-term data in terms of side effects as "Seroquel" willy nilly for sleep or minor behavioral problems when a less invasive medication would suffice. Benzos have severe side effects for many patients if abruptly discontinued and should be avoided if possible. Antipsychotics should not be prescribed so commonly to non-psychotic patients like they currently are in 2021: Antipsychotics should not be an acceptable alternative for panic attack/intractable insomnia in non-psychotic patients in my view (and in the view of all the DSM's). I hope you are feeling better after your experience: That sounds horrible.
Wow Greg Rawlins. It's like you read my thoughts exactly. Seraquil was prescribed to me and I was taken off Xanax because Dr's are being threatened of loosing their license. Just imagine being stopped taking Xanax immediately, after taking it As Needed to replace it with Seraquil... I was Hallucinating snakes were coming out of my vents and onto my bed! I didn't dare close my eyes! And after telling my Dr about the Terrifying effects he doubled the Seraquil dosage which I Refused to take anymore, he refused to see me again until I see a counselor/therapist And a psychiatrist. Unbelievable how what the Patient FEELS no longer matters. It sickness me to know that Dr's and Pharmaceutical Companies are literally Stealing Millions and we are treated like rat labs. And now that everything is going Virtual... Really irritates the shit out of me. That's not what I call AN APPT WITH A DR IS. I ain't paying for no office visit OVER THE PHONE. Guess we won't be needing Dr's advice. My opinion only.
Sorry Greg for getting off the subject. See what Seraquil does to me??? Glad I weaned myself off of that poison. Have a blessed day and be safe. 🤗
I've just been put on this after 3 straight days of being awake, no stimulants of any kind caused it I was actually on Ambien and lots of it just desperately trying to fall asleep, Xanax and valium and still didn't sleep in 3 days. First night on it I slept but today on day 2 I couldn't sleep so I took a 50mg dose after my 25ng dose didn't work a couple hours ago. If this doesn't work I won't continue on this drug.
Blaggard999-_- Did you keep on it?
@@luavasconcelos1637 I stopped taking it. But then the doctors put me back on it twice a day along with 30mg remeron and I take Xanax too. Xanax is the only thing that's any good for me. I don't abuse it or take it every day but the doctors are trying to get me off. But they won't stand a chance until they find me an effective replacement for it.
Blaggard999-_- Let me know if you find
Can you discuss perphenazine please?
I took 50mg of Quetiapine for the first time last night. I could feel the effects of it after about 10-15 minutes? It made me tired, but put me in a weird tired mode, like I couldn't sleep on it kind of tired. There is kind of window of tiredness you have, to try and fall asleep on Quetiapine, I believe and if you miss it, it will leave you in a bizzare can't fall asleep tired state, or like in a strange state of exhuasted feeling but still to conscious and wanting to sleep state, but can not. I did finally fall asleep, but not for long, and shallow. I woke up with drymouth and a stuffy nose from it and a slight sinus headache. Don't feel rested the morning after so not sure what to think of Quetiapine yet? Was taking 15mg tablets of Mirtazapine, and that stuff didn't work as fast, but needed to take it at least a few hours before the time I wanted to sleep and have drank zero caffeine before 5pm taking mirtazapine, caffeine really counter acts low doses of Mirtazapine, but do believe it worked ok, but had a more gradual, and not as strong/strange effect as the Quetiapine, and least I did fall asleep on it in a more normal way, but would sleep only in 4 or 5 hour spurts on Mirtazapine but didn't have the residual tired effects from the Mirtazapine like the Quetiapine, might have made a mistake switching from low dose mirtazapine to a little higher dosage of Quetiapine. The psychologist that prescribed me the Quetiapine, thinks I may have manic depression, and is just seeing how I react to Quetiapine on lower doses. Will give an update to anyone reading this to tell how it effected me if anyone is interested.
I'm prescribed 25mg for insomnia due to anxiety, I often find that while it does a great job of quietening my mind and relieving my anxiety at night it often doesn't help me actually fall asleep, but when this happens I feel very relaxed and I don't feel anxious about not being able to sleep, also when this happens I'll end up feeling hungry and I'll get up and eat, which I don't actually mind too much as I have a problem with lack of appetite and not eating due to anxiety.
So glad this dude has nothing to do with my mental health care!!!