It shouldn't take long but there are too many variables to say for sure.

You can google coming off seroquel and sleep problems and there are a ton of people talking about it.. I experienced about 2 days of sleep problems and it had me worried but then I finally crashed out and I was so happy the next day but I was also switching to a different med so that might of helped.

Having your dose lowered for just a week doesn't seem to me like it would be long enough for you have to start at the beginning again. It should go right back to the 600 dose in your system pretty fast. I'm treatment resistant and since I've been on so many meds trying to find the right ones I tend to forget the side effects of specific meds pretty quickly. My sleep pattern has been a huge problem for me all the way through this train wreck though. I seem to hear a pattern out there from a lot of people with sleep problems though so it might just be part of the disease, another unpleasant one.

Do you have anything else to take to help you sleep?

Bump

I also take remeron and atavan at night. I think i need to take my meds closer to the same time everynight. During the week i try and take them no later than 9 pm or i will be a zombie at work. On the weekends i tend to forget to take them until late at night because i get busy watching tv etc.....i know i need to make a point in doing it becuz i pay the price when i get off track. I should take them between 11 and midnight. Another thing that's got ne off track is that i have been sleeping in my recliner all night instead of my bed...and i am also not wearing my cpap either when i sleep in my chair. I basically am not taking care of myself because of my menral state. I also stopped going to the gym everyday and have been slipping up bigtime on my eating. It's like i have given up or something. any advice??? Ty!!!

Force yourself to go to bed tonight.

That's it, one thing, one baby step....

Spending a lot of time, firguring out how I got here, is the same as yours - I can draw a path! Doesn't change, I'm sick, weak, getting worse.....

So, I do the NEXT right thing, the choice in front of my face at that moment - not next weeks- I'll go back to the gym, or yesterdays' I slept in the chair... nope, I do one baby step, to try and get better...

So, I would go to bed and put that thingy on : ) When I'm unstable, or rapid cycling, or just don't feel good - I look at my thoughts and choices as "moving away from a depression OR moving towards a depression" Getting better is HARD! I know what its like to sit there all night, thinking I should get up! LOL

But try doing that one thing - we need to treat ourselves, not feeling good, as loving and tender as we would treat a sick child. Taking care of myself overwhelmed is difficult - so I break it down to HALT I might be fucked up - by I try and take small postive steps..

Don't get TOO

Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired

two of those things I get my fix HERE!!!! ((((BIG HUG)))) honey, I've been there! It can and will get better, you will smile and curl up under your blanket like a cat one night!!! LOL Just not tonight! Tonight, you just got to get there : )

Ty:))

what gina said!