I have taken Seroquel before and it didn't work very good for me. But my daughter took it for about 5 years and it did the same thing to her. Made her groggy and hard to get up in the morning for school/work. She was weaned off of it gradually by a doc and given a sleeping pill to take every other day instead. Then she would only take the seroquel every third day ect. (sleeping pill inbetween.) Now she has been weaned off the sleeping pill and sometimes has trouble sleeping. But not enough to warrant taking a sleeping pill every night.
Good luck!
Kimberly4

Oh ya, sorry. I forgot to answer your other question. The melatonin is quite harmless. But if you take it every night I have read that your body will not produce enough naturally and you could have worse sleeping problems. (only to be used occationally.)
Good luck on this one too!
Kimberly4

I took it in small doses following a hypomanic attack. I had dizziness and fogginess the days after. If I didn't take it I couldn't sleep.

But then the hypomania actually went completely and I was able to sleep normally.

I have heard that while melatonin works, it can also become habit forming.

well it did nothing for me and I was on 300mgs of seroquel

I took the same dose of seroquel you're on for awhile. It did the same thing to me. But now it takes 100mg to knock me out, even to get me to sleep through the night. I think our body builds up tolerance to it. I don't know if you can get addicted to seroquel or not, sorry I'm not much help with that.

I've been taking 300mg for almost a month to combat a surge of hypomania and I have the same reaction in a way; I wake up sleepy and sleep walk zombie-like until the afternoon. Then, after 5pm, its effect goes away and I become hypomanic: so either I am not taking enough or taking too much? It's been the most debilitating time in my life; a very active, mom of 2, the zombie the Seroqel seems to turn me into is horribly dysfunctional. My husband does all the work - plus, on its own, it's not enough to make me sleep. I take ambien with it because just the 300mg leaves me manic enough to be awake all night. I have an appt in a week to sort this out with my doc . I think the med is just not good for my body. In the meantime, I am non functioning. Took leave from work and am "absent" most of the time. I am tempted to go to the hospital and announce suicidal thoughts (which I am having during the day when I am groggy and zombie like) and see if they'd take me in sooner. Most days, I cannot even get out of bed until 10am, which is about 12 hours after i took the Seroquel. I figured I'd take it at 7 and that may work.

i was prescribed seroquel a few weeks ago for anxiety alongside BP2 and i just cannot take it. it's great for the first 20 minutes or so but then i just cannot stay awake for the life of me. i took it at night the first couple times and my sleep was horrible and i felt awful the next morning. i took half a pill a couple days later at work and kept falling asleep at my computer. it's not for me, i can't function properly. i have an appointment wednesday to see if we can try something else.

best of luck to you. hope you find something that works for you.

I think it really varies from person to person. I usually complain that almost all sleeping meds still allow me to wake up in 2 hours. (bipolar NOS) I've taken up to 400/day without ill effects. My friend, a woman of about my age with Parkinson's was given 25 mg. once and woke up 1 1/2 days later.
I used to take melatonin many years ago but it didnt do what I had hoped it would do at that time. Apparently its maximum effect (according to my neurologist) occurs after 2-4 hours (who knows?), so he advised the following: since I was taking Trazodone 100 mg., two pills at bedtime already (prescribed by the shrink for insomnia (falling asleep)) he said to just take one, but WITH a melatonin. That was fine with me since tha Trazodone was making me virtually comatose within 30 minutes. This way with half the dose I'd get early onet help with sleep and then the melatonin would kick in---longer time asleep. With Trazodone alone, though, I was wide awake in 2 hours. Ahem...er...I havent actually tried the melatonin this way, but I'm getting a bottle today and will let you know.

Ask about Trazadone.It is and antidepressant but you take it at night.I took it for years and it helped me sleep w/o the groggy effects.

I take 275 mgs a day, (3)25mgs. during the day, and 200 mgs. at night. Nothing I have found has helped me.

Take 100 mgs every night.If I have a manic/mixed episode I take smaller doses in the daytime.Seroquel works for me but does make it hard to get up and function in am.
It also makes you fat at higher doses.

I am on seroquel 25 mg as well and at night to help me sleep along with helping the voices and hallucinations. I do not feel groggy with it at all, no matter what time I take it.

Sorry it is making you groggy. Are you using it as a sleeping pill? It is an anti-psychotic and mood stabilizer.

Melatonin is a chemical we already have in our brains. It doesn't produce as much as we get older. I tried it and it did not work for me. My doc said it will either work for you or it won't. If you try it, make sure you talk with your doc. You also need to be consistent with it. It may take a month or so to work.
Good Luck

I have been taking Serequel3X daily. 25mg-25mg-75mg for sleep. I sleep the whole night...but yes hard to get up in the morning.

im on 400 mgs and I know for sure im dependent on it for sleep. I was recently in a position where i did not have my meds with me and ended up spending the night at a friends house. I stayed up all night watching tv. not a yawn, no drowsiness, nothing. so i no to keep my meds in my purse or i wont sleep.