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Lithium or Seroquel

I'm not kidding. It's a fucking antipsychotic used to keep enraged insane people from ripping out peoples' throats. It works by blocking the action of dopamine. In short it will rob you of any enjoyment or desire you may have already had. Doctors are people too, and just like regular people there are a lot of stupid ones. Like ones who prescribe Seroquel.
 
wait really???!
holy fuck!
dude
i fuckin knew it
i was hangin out with friends in santa cruz, took ecstasy one night, smoked lots of weed every day, drank hella beer, wine, vodka, and jack daniels all the time
felt great
hadn't been on my seroquel the whole time
went home, took my seroquel, went to bed, wondered why the next day i was depressed again.
fuckin christ... i thought it was just in my head but it seemed like the seroquel just depressed me further.
i still don't want to be taken off of it, i just want prozac with it.
when i went an extended period without my seroquel, took lots of dxm, drank lots of alcohol, then had a breakdown. i felt it comin on but there was nothin i could do. tears wouldn't stop, i tried cutting myself to bring myself back but the fuckin knives were too dull. i left the apartment, my friend jordie ran after me and i just like threw her off of me, gave her a black eye on accident which made me feel even worse.
eventually back in the apt. i punched a hole in my homie's wall, further exacerbating my breakdown.
finally i told my friends to punch me in the face. they did like once, real pussy like, i said that all you got? that all you got? until the 3 of them (1 dude, 2 chicks) socked me in the face a bunch of times really hard. the pain brought me back and i was ok again. my face was swollen hella bad for like a week afterward but i didn't care. told people exactly what happened at the mental hospital. stupid cops made me go there because of the scratches on my arm.
so, i made sure to have my seroquel with me to prevent anything like that ever happening again.
i don't have it anymore though. it did help a bit, it kept me listless enough to not kill myself, much like weed does. and it is really good at preventing persistent thoughts (kill yourself kill yourself kill yourself there's a rope out back that bottle of nail polish remover would kill you kill yourself)
yea, i like it anyway. probably because i feel almost psycho a lot of the time. i'd most likely snap one of these days and kill someone so it's probably best to keep me on the anti-psychotic.
 
Quetiapine (Seroquel) is a very viable option for the treatment of bipolar illness. Contrary to popular belief, it is effective for both mania or depression, although acutely, it won't do much for depression, but will conversely help mania. It will, however, keep you out of mania OR depression at baseline, much like lithium. Side effects are significant, i.e., sedation, possible TD/extrapyramidal symptoms, but Lithium's no walk in the park either, has a very narrow therapeutic ratio, and requires regular bloodwork. Lithium is a good drug, an old standby, but isn't necessarily a silver bullet, and research has borne this out.

Zyprexa (Olanzapine) is better than Seroquel in bipolar illness, works in both mania & depression. In one study (I'll dig up the cite if you'd like), bipolar pts were started on both Zyprexa & Lithium, most did fairly well, then some were taken off Zyprexa, and some off Lithium, the pts going off Lithium & staying on Zyprexa did better, FWIW. I'd look into it. Speak w/ your doc.

Feel free to PM me with any questions.

And to all of you posting who don't really have a clue about psychotropic meds, please stop. I don't mean to be rude, so please don't take it personally, but I feel that this is someone with a medical issue seeking help, not someone looking for a high or an opinion about a high, and some of the responses are just uncalled-for.
 
yea my shrink said 300mg was approved for bipolar depression and that's what i'm at but it's not cuttin the cake, i need something that gives me my serotonin back.
prozac jack
 
plutoniumboss said:
I'm not kidding. It's a fucking antipsychotic used to keep enraged insane people from ripping out peoples' throats. It works by blocking the action of dopamine. In short it will rob you of any enjoyment or desire you may have already had. Doctors are people too, and just like regular people there are a lot of stupid ones. Like ones who prescribe Seroquel.
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It works good for certain types of bipolar and it doesn't stop you from getting any enjoyment out of life. It has much less side effects the the old typical anti-psychotics and it's not that bad of a med. Also for sedation in violent people they generally use haldol or something similar in emergency situations because it's fast acting and much more of a chemical straight jacket.

It is a dopamine receptor antagonist but it doesn't block them nearly as much as the older typical anti-psychotics or ever risperdal. It's main action is with it's 5-ht2 receptor antagonism. It's heavy sedation is due mainly to it's histamine h1 receptor antagonism.
 
i like seroquel. a lot.
i got plenty of dopamine so it can use some of that. i just aint got shit for serotonin.
 
Seroquil gets some really shitty anxiety side affects but Lithium is some bad stuff too you can get some pretty bad hallucinations there.

if you want more seritonen just amp up tyhe extacies and be happy :D

but seriously my personal experience lithium is a better et tyhan seroquil. seroquil is good for acid/hallucinagenic comedowns but not for anxiety

i was given seroquil for anxiety and it only made it worse ( foreal )

ask your doctor about zyprexa
 
nonsense said:
Seroquil gets some really shitty anxiety side affects but Lithium is some bad stuff too you can get some pretty bad hallucinations there.
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Lithium toxicity is very different from the expected side effects of lithium, although a risk. In Rxing lithium, one must "start low, go slow" and then get regular bloodwork esp. in the beginning of therapy. This will avoid the worse side effects.

if you want more seritonen just amp up tyhe extacies and be happy :D
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bad advice. (aware you're kidding ... I hope :) )

but seriously my personal experience lithium is a better et tyhan seroquil. seroquil is good for acid/hallucinagenic comedowns but not for anxiety
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good advice.

i was given seroquil for anxiety and it only made it worse ( foreal )

ask your doctor about zyprexa
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good advice.
 
My psych tried to give it to me for sleep. I knew what it was and said no. He then gave me ambien for sleep, and I should have said no.

He really is kind of a shitty psych.
 
i was afraid to take seroquel when i first got it, but i am really glad i did because it is the only thing that helps my insomnia. I am on 100mg a night, and i never need to take more, it has consistently worked for almost a year same dose. I was given it for minor mania(doc opinion not mine, i dont think i have bipolar) but i am a chronic insomniac. some people who posted seemed to have had terrible side effects if they are true, because i have not experienced any sexual side effects, mood problems, hallucinations, or well really anything at all, so in my opinion it is a good drug, but like a few others said, it isnt for depression, it slows you down and depression has done that already, so i think it may not be for you, however i am not a doctor so i essentially know nothing other than my experiences, but from all the crappy antidepressants i have taken and the awful side effects from those, seroquel has been a godsend for me. no matter what i wish you good luck in finding the right medication, it is a hard thing to do so if you try something and it doest work, try sometihng else, just keep trying and eventually im sure you find what works the best for you :)
 
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