Hello, newby here with med questions.
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Hello, newby here with med questions.
| Fri, 12-15-2006 - 5:43pm |
Recently my meds were changed and now i'm wondering if what i am going through is due to one of them. Right now i am taking 50mg Seroquel at night for sleep and then i take 30mg of Adderall and 300mg of Wellbutrin in the morning. I have been taking Seroquel for the last week. Everyday when i wake up i have maybe 1 good hour then it's downhill from there. I feel so drugged. I am shakey and tired. I startle real easy. I have a hard time talking. I can't think straight. I feel real dizzy too. Is this all side affects of Seroquel? Oh, and my body aches. To top it all off, i am real jumpy too. When i am relaxed, such as when going to sleep at night, my arms or legs jump. This has been going on for awhile now. I know when i'm going to sleep cuz my legs or my arm will twitch. It just jumps out of the blue. But, lately, since I've been taking Seroquel, it's all the time. I'll be on the pc with my hand on the mouse and my arm will jump up. It scares me. I don't expect it and can't control it. It's so frustrating.
The meds I was on that i'm no longer taking, was zoloft,klonopin and ambiem. I stopped taking those meds cold turkey, about two weeks ago. Now i take the seroquel instead of the ambiem and klonopin for sleep.
The meds I was on that i'm no longer taking, was zoloft,klonopin and ambiem. I stopped taking those meds cold turkey, about two weeks ago. Now i take the seroquel instead of the ambiem and klonopin for sleep.

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it's highly possible that the seroquel caused the tremors. if you get a chance, google seroquel side effects. if the "jumpiness" was happening before, it's possible the seroquel increased them. i know i had symptoms like that with lithium. so it's definitely worth looking into. hang in there.
traci
Tremors and uncontrollable movements are among the more common side effects of Seroquel.
hi formygrls. Im new also but your post caught my eye. I also take Seroquel for sleep. I had to back down on my dose for those same side affects.
But the most important thing is to never make a change in any meds without your pdocs ok. So let your doc know whats happening.
We all need to never assume just because our doc.has prescribed a certain dosage that it's written in stone. Sometimes it takes a while to get the right combination of meds to work for us. Especially for bipolars.
I can't speak for most of your meds because I haven't been on them. The Seroquel I was on for a whole day before I found out I was pregnant and had to stop. However, I saw that you switched from Zoloft and can say that I had a problem with that back in the spring. I went from a high dose (I can't remember what it was exactly) to a high dose of Effexor pretty rapidly and I was a mess. My pdoc kept telling me that I shouldn't be having the problems I was having (aggitation, irritability, memory problems, anxiety, sleepiness...blah blah blah) because I'd switched from an ssri to another med that was acting like an ssri in part. I honestly think he was wrong.
Mary
Hello and Welcome !
I can't say anything about the seroquel, I haven't taken it before.
God could not be everywhere, so
I think if a person is at the bottom of a depressive episode, something needs to happen fast to help lift the mood. What I've seen is prescribing mood stabilizer along side the anti-depressant.
At least for myself, it's not been the wise decision to try to stabilize first. Depression is too much of an emergency. I was i/p for suicidal depression and was started on Lithium, Wellbutrin, Remeron, & Risperdal. The Remeron seems to be a fast acting anti-depressant. Wellbutrin seems to be a more long-term anti-depressant.
I have seen all of these go through very rapid cycling when ONLY anti-depressants have been used. What I ment was that an anti-depressant prescribed without a mood stabalizer of some kind is dangerous in a BP person.
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