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Seroquel + Tiredness , does it pass?
Posted on 11/19/08, 07:00 pm
I've been on a low dose, 50mg at night of seroquel because I went into another manic agitated couldn't sleep rage and my pdoc added some seroquel, I'm supposed to take 50mg at night, if that doesn't help me sleep, take a 100mg. It's really not making me sleepy for hours after I take it. So I feel like I need to take more. But then I wake up, and I'm fine, a little tired hung over feeling for maybe all of ten minutes. But then a couple hours later I'm ready to go back to bed and nap. So then I don't sleep even after taking seroquel until 4 am or so. Do you think that I just should take the seroquel earlier than I do? Or any suggestions?
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Reply #1 11/21/08 4:51pm
sorry i really dont know..ive told you what they did to me!!Time will tell hang in there! -
Reply #2 11/22/08 8:36am
When I was on Seroquel, my doctor told me to take it an hour before bed, but I found I needed to take it more like an hour and a half to two hours before, if I wanted to sleep. As for tiredness during the day, this was really bad for me the first time I was on it (at 100mg), but the second time (same dose) my body seemed to adapt and I had no daytime sleepiness at all. Good luck. -
Reply #3 11/30/08 12:08pm
I have been on 1200 MG of seroquel a night helps tramendously with my sleep and I have NO AFFECT in the morning.But when I take it a5t Night I have to lay down becouse it will make you drowsy and make you stumble and maby fall.I have see this in people on veryu low doses but I and others I hope DO not have side affects,
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Reply #4 12/04/08 5:36pm
my ex boyfriend was on seraquil and he would fall asleep within 15 minutes of taking it -
Reply #5 12/14/08 5:50pm
I was on 200mg as well as depakote at 1500mg. I used to take it about 20 mins before bed and it really made me drwsy, only stress kept me awake a lot! But I was so so tired the day after and put on so much weight I just had to stop it, even though it was helping with my symptoms. -
Reply #6 12/15/08 3:05pm
i would pass out about 15 minutes after i took it! then waayyy too drowsy the next day, i couldnt function, i had to stop taking it eventually. but my sister takes it and is just fine in the morning! i think your body has to get used to it -
Reply #7 12/18/08 2:14am
I started taking it because I was going thru some bad insomnia and my mind was racing and couldn't shut down. My pdoc put me on low dose of 25mg at night but I can't take it during the week as I end up being so hungover sleepy I am unable to function. My job requires me to be really on top of everything and I could not function adequetly after taking this med. I am hoping to get her to switch me to something else and add this to my graveyard of meds that don't work or cause bad side effects. lol -
Reply #8 12/23/08 9:11pm
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Reply #9 02/28/09 8:43pm
uggggggh groggy city, it can take awhile to get use to that, great for sleep, but gives pill hangover from hell, when extremely manic it's good i think... -
Reply #10 04/22/09 3:24pm
I no longer take it. My pdoc said I could just take it on a as needed basis, because the sleepiness hang over effect never lifted.
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