Seroquel dose for insomnia without hangover?

[diazepaman]

I suffer from insomnia & have been given some 25mg seroquel tablets.
could they be of any use to me?
I dont want a hangover in the morning
Im thinking of trying 50mg. Does that sound about right or will that give me a hangover?

 

[BiggDirty01]

If you've never taken seroquel, and depending on your size, I recommend staying under 100mg. I've only taken seroquel in rehab for like 6 weeks and it works wonders but once the dose got up to like 150mg at night I would wake up with the worst hangover imaginable. Definitely an excellent help for insomnia but like I said depending on size and tolerance best bet is 50-75 mg.

 

[diazepaman]

it's not worse than drinking like 16 beers is it?
i think i might try 25mg

 

[invisigone]

Seroquel is a weird drug. I can only speak from personal experience, when I started on it with no tolerance 50mg gave me really nice sedation, but my system adjusted to it really fast, in 6 months time I had gone to 400mg and still couldn't sleep. I take it for schizophrenia tho not purely insomnia, now I am on 800mg and get zero sedation without benzos.

Seroquel is not a drug I would recommend for chronic insomnia, there are much better options out there, for occasional acute insomnia, I can see how it might be of help, but don't expect any rec fun off them, or for that matter any fun at all

 

[BiggDirty01]

it's not worse than drinking like 16 beers is it?
i think i might try 25mg

16 beers! I wouldn't sleep well just from having to piss all night! But seriously, it is an excellent sleep medication and has been known to cause munchies. I have heard of people tho using it for recreational purposes (albeit shitty ones)...they referred to it as 'Quelin'.

 

[Pjkt2501]

I personally would refuse an antipsychotic if my Dx was insomnia, and no mental issues...

 

[Kid Amine]

same as ^. Seroquel works for insomnia in LOW doses (<100mg), but its evil shit. The weight gain from this stuff is unreal.

The first time I took seroquel was half a 200mg pill. I overslept the alarm clock and was an hour late for work. It had me effed up HARD before I went to bed, like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas hard. Being able to tolerate that kind of effed up (by taking Seroquel on a daily basis) is not something I want. Closest thing I can equate that experience to was doing a bundle of dope, 10mg alprazolam and a bottle of cough syrup at the same time. yeah, that effed up. Not fun at all.

 

[irwinr89]

same as ^. Seroquel works for insomnia in LOW doses (<100mg), but its evil shit. The weight gain from this stuff is unreal.

u not going get any of the nasty side effects until >200mg.....as below this doses it only acts mostly as anti-histamine, like benadryl.....the nastier stuff only starts becoming an issue at 400m or so....and this is the typical range for its normal use as anti-physicotic

 

[phatass]

even at low doses, you'll have a hangover from seroquel... apparantly the body takes time to "adapt" to it and the hangovers stop... BUT i tok it for 2 weeks and just could not function the next day so i stopped taking em..

 

[ErgicMergic]

Never tried it, but have read that anything more than 12.5mg gives a nasty hangover. I would start with 6.25mg, then try 12.5mg if that doesn't work.

Personally, I would choose an anti-cholinergenic (seroquel is a-c at a low dose) with less side effects; my favorite is Doxylamine Succinate, the sedating ingredient in NyQuil. I would start with 12.5mg of that, then try 25mg the next day if that doesn't work.