Help quietipane reviews please thank you

[LittleJem]

Any good or bad reviews please

 

[GuessWhosBack]

I took Quetiapine for a few months and remember nothing particularly positive or negative about it.

 

[astr4]

garbage it gave me diabetes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5279094/

 

[Trying To Live]

I take Quetiapine or Seroquel for years. Together with other medications of course.

Different dosages.

I tried 25mg for daytime (up to 4 times) and 100 - 200 mg for going to sleep.

Today I took 400 mg. Sometimes I take more.

I even snorted it a couple of times together with benzodiazepines.

It's a very safe medication. Recommended.

Downside can be a lot of weightgain!!!!!

I went from 72kg to 105kg. But during that time I did nothing. Sleeping and eating. I was so depressed. Always in my bed at the psych ward.

I'm 87 kg now and going to the gym. I also eat better.

 

[Abandoned Character]

Made me tired, so if you're struggling to sleep it's a good drug. Made me feel like shit the following days, but it's hard to say if that was the drugs fault,

 

[FlufflesAway]

Gave me scary heart palpitations and made me tired all the time. Not sleepy tired, just fucking tired. Did not continue with it.

 

[PinballWizard39]

It helps in that it mutes your thoughts - not completely, but enough that it becomes more bearable. However, I only take 100mg a day and that's still enough to increase my appetite and make me gain weight. That with lithium has triggered my anorexic thinking again. Sucks.

 

[LunarLight]

Took 400mg for a while, it didn't do shit (but I'm particularly insensitive to meds).

 

[Soupster]

Honestly, it's a first line treatment given by a lot of GPs, but it's not super great in my experience.

Did nothing for the psychotic features of my manic episodes. Did nothing for my sleep. Did nothing for my mood regulation.

It did cause weight gain and other metabolic side effects like raising my blood sugar, etc.

From personal experience I could not recommend it. That said, everyone reacts to medications differently. Your results may vary greatly.

 

[Tarrasque]

When I was fully flying off the rails, quetiapine is the drug that quieted me down, where antidepressants made me worse. What it did however was suppress my thoughts. It didn't cure me, it just made me not feel as much. Eventually gave it up to try and recover properly and find happiness, but my doc still prescribes me some low dose single pills that I can take when things are getting all screwy in my brain. Taken that way it's pretty much a sleeping pill, it's very sedative!

 

[pilotviolin]

as a low dose user in the past, it worked for me when really emotionally unstable in the short term but when it came to taking it daily bc i couldnt cope with life or didnt know any better, the sedation turned into anhedonia, i was always fatigued as well despite the low dose. withdrawals were shit. i have come to a conclusion that anticholinergics dont gel well with my general mental health.

 

[MBiopic]

I've been taking it for a few weeks/a month now an hour before sleep and I don't see any negatives. Helps me sleep better, or at least makes me more sleepy and tired closer to sleep, which in return helps me go to bed.

 

[Gangrel]

makes me sleepy and less anxious, great to sleep

 

[amnesia999]

I got prescribed Quetiapine in order to help me sleep. At first it was great at knocking me out at 200mg, then stopped working. So I went up to 400mg and that worked great for a while, until it didn't. My psychiatrist didn't want to prescribe me more because it makes you gain and hold on to weight. So I'm on a maintenance dose of 400mg and take 10-20mg of doxepin to supplement it.

(The problem with sleep meds in general is that they all stop working after some period of time. I just want something that will make the wheels in my brain stop turning and reliably knock me out. Maybe a brick would work...)

 

[Tommen Baratheon]

My psychiatrist prescribed it after my second psychosis. I was already on lithium. The dose was built up from to 300 to 600 to 900mg. At first it literally knocked me out. The guy had me at 900mg/day for years. Then I got another psychiatrist and he helped me get it down too 300mg/day.

I know it's used to help people sleep, but that horrifies me. Quetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic, used in case of schizophrenia and bipolar type I. It's supposed to block certain neurotransmitters from connecting to receptors in your brain. As in: it messes with your brain.

The falling asleep is actually a side-effect and AstraZeneca (as in that COVID vaccine) saw profit in it and they had Seroquel (quetiapine) approved so it could be prescribed as a sleeping aid.

I would never advise quetiapine to someone looking for a sleeping aid.

 

[Trying To Live]

I think Quetiapine is justified as a sleeping aid.

I take it everyday with Dominal. Sometimes it doesn't even work. Usually it does.

Before this I took Nozinan and Etumine.

All these medications are antipsychotics and I have no psychoses.

These drugs are not addictive.

In the past I have also tried benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and Nustasium (antihistamine).

Quetiapine is not that bad.