Author: B Real
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:50 pm
Brian_TX…Got your message and responded before i read this…as far as seroquel goes, i am taking it because i took it a few years ago when i went to rehab for ocs. I will however, tell you that i was originally give Trazedone for a night, but was told about a few side effects, mainly priopism (or however you spell it), which i actually ended up with that one night…not too mention it did nothing for me to help me sleep…luckily i didn’t have to go to the hospital, by morning i was fine…needless to say i wasn’t taking that again, so they switched me to seroquel (which also didn’t work right away..although at the point when they switched my meds, i was still a week or so into wd’s and eventually get to sleep on night 22) which i gues goes to show you that your body will sleep when its ready to sleep…I do know that seroquel’s intended use is not for sleep, however for those people who do not need to take it for its intended use (which i believe an anti psychotic or something like that) it knocks them out pretty good in even smaller doses. I take anywhere from 25-50 mg’s a night about an hour before bed, and although i don’t sleep for 8 solid hours, yet, i do fall asleep quite well. I get around 5-6 hours a night, and wake up early feeling wide awake and find it quite hard to go back to sleep. Although i’m not complaining as getting any amount of sleep is a great thing. Keep trying to exercise as much as you can…the treadmill is a great thing if you can’t get out and take a walk…For me, at least today, i had a lot of physical work to do at my job, and then played golf and walked the course…so i am expecting to sleep a bit better than usual tonight. Keep pushing your mind forward, as for me that was the most difficult thing do, but the more i was able to keep my mind off of what i was going through, the better i started to feel physically. Keep up the good work.
