Seroquel Withdrawls???

[ryand123]

I have been on 300mgs of Seroquel for about a year now. i hate the way i feel when i take it. I know its an anti-psychotic, but quite frequently, shortly after taking it, i get real paranoid and have crazy illogical delusions and real bad anxiety. i dont understand why that is. So i decided i to get off of it. For the past 2 days i have been feeling like shit. no sleep, headaches, sore, and really hot and sweaty. can anybody explain why it would do this???

 

[effie]

Stopping any psychotropic (affecting the brain) medication dead is usually not a good idea at all - they will have altered your neurochem/receptors and it can be quite a shock for the brain to suddenly not have any at all. Antidepressants are classic for this but I would not be at all surprised if antipsochotics are too.

Have you spoke to your doc about it? Seroquel/quetiapine is quite a "weak" (ish) antipsychotic - no antipsychotic should leave you geeling paranoid, anxious and delusional though! Have you spoken to your doc about it?

Really, the best thing is to speak to your doctor - explain it doesn't get on with you and is making you worse (tell them exactly how bad it is) and ask if you can discuss other options. Is probably best to arrange a taper off with them too, rather than stopping abruptly, especially as it is making you feel rubbish. Do you mind telling us what it is prescribed for? No worries if you'd rather not.

I suspect the lack of sleep is because seroquel is quite sedating - sounds like rebound insomnia. The other symptoms are quite similar to antidepressant discontinuation symptoms - wouldn't like to speculate why you get them, but it's definitely something to discuss with your doctor as soon as poss.

Please go and speak to your doc about it - come up with a plan that involves tapering off the seroquel and considering the alternatives to help you. Best of luck, really sorry you are feeling so rubbish

 

[ryand123]

Thank you. I didnt think that a non-narcotic would have such shitty withdrawls symptoms!
And i am really confused about the paranoia and anxiety that comes with the seroquel for me. Ill think that people are upstairs waitin to kill me or hurt me and stuff and i hate it. Maybe it has a paradoxall effect (i think i used that word correctly, maybe not though...) for some people or somethin, i honestly dont know. it just SUCKS. thanks again for the advice though =]

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

Only withdrawals I experience is insomnia problems, nothing more than that. But yes, there are mild withdrawals from anti-psychotics. I can't explain the paranoia and illogical thinking because that's what anti-psychotics are prescribed for. When it wears off I guess your symptoms could be returning but not right after you take it.

 

[ryand123]

yeah it happens right after i take it. its the weirdest thing... ide like to find out if this has happened to anybody else before.

 

[paranoid android]

yeah it happens right after i take it. its the weirdest thing... ide like to find out if this has happened to anybody else before.

One person i know get's vivid hallucinations and insomnia after taking only 25mg's of seroquel and they have no previous history of any mental illness so a paradoxical effect can certainly happen with seroquel.

 

[ryand123]

Oh really? ok thats makes me feel a bit better =P. How does a paradoxial effect work? is it just certain peoples brain chemistry?

 

[paranoid android]

Oh really? ok thats makes me feel a bit better =P. How does a paradoxial effect work? is it just certain peoples brain chemistry?

Well everyone's brain chemistry is different and what may work for me may not work for you and vice versa. I have taken seroquel in doses of up to 400mg's a day and all it does is calm me down and help my bipolar.

So yeah everyone is different

 

[ryand123]

really? damn. thats too much seroquel haha. although ive heard of doses as high as 900mg's. which i think is just nuts. ok well thank you guys for all your help!

 

[ghostfreak]

I'm on a combination of 45mg Mirtaipine and 50mg Seroquel (4 in needed), for sleep disorder but as yet nothing. Was slurring my words earlier but that could have been the valium.

IF

 

[paper planes]

i wasnt taking that much..when i was prescirbed it it was for sleep and only 100mgs this was years back but when i quit taking it i didn have and problems

 

[ryand123]

i guess it just works differently for some people. were you able to go to sleep pretty easily with it?
I had a cycle that i did about half the week. (cuz this side effect didnt happen everyday), i would take my medicine and then try to go sleep about 30min, i would start thinking i was hearing something or maybe i thought i saw something so i would try and figure out what it was cuz i was sure EVERYTIME that whatever was there was gonna i kill me. I would run downstairs and open all my doors and windows and sit on my couch with a sharp object until i was so tired from that crap that i passed out. I was absolutley psychotic on it. Ha ha and when i woke up i would realize that i left my fukin house completely open all night. i was a mess...

 

[paper planes]

ya all stuff effects people different..when i took it the stuff stuffed me up bad like i couldn breathe and i got the munchies from hell

 

[ryand123]

haha ahh yes the seroquel munchies!!! those are serious. i eat like Jaba Da Hut after i take that stuff.

and trazodone stuffs my nose up. its so annoying >=[

 

[paper planes]

yap..i use to be winning snacks from the other kids playing spades or whatever and just stack up and get down when they sent us too lockdown..id compare it to the munchies no doubt..then you just pass out and wake up with some hella dry mouth

 

[ryand123]

oh yeah. i think thats caused by sleeping with your mouth open, ive noticed alot of sleeping pills do that. I could be totally wrong, its just a theory i have. but im pretty sure if i was breathing outta my mouth all night it would be pretty dry!

 

[Orlando_Doom]

Just fyi, this isn't withdrawals, this is a so called "discontinuation syndrome". If you call it withdrawal people might start asking what antidepressants actually do better than say opiates for mood...

 

[effie]

^ ooh, good point. It can all be very confusing, but as antidepressants are not addictive (according to the generally accepted medical model of addiction) you are getting a discontinuation syndrome, not withdrawals

Not that calling it something else makes the experience different for the person, of course.

I believe, from my own experience and people I know, that the prevelance of bad discontinuation syndrome symptoms is rarer than it seems on the internet - I imagine people only bother to post if they are bad! And they can be very nasty indeed, but I'd hate someone not to take a drug that could potentially help them a lot as they are scared of coming off it. Education and freedom of choice is the key

Good luck ryand123, I hope your doctor can help you come up with a way to manage this

then you just pass out and wake up with some hella dry mouth

It could be due to its anticholinergic effects - they cause a dry mouth in a lot of drugs (some antidepressants for example, most antipsychotics).. not much fun I know! But I guess in the grand scheme of things there are worse side effects...