seroquel sleep aid

I am not sure how long Seroquel would work as a sleep aid. I found it sedating when I first started using it, but now I take 700mg each day and it doesn't make me sleepy at all.

I'm an recovering addict whose been clean and sober since '99. as is my husband. (although he relapsed from "our" clean date and went into a 90 day Relapse Prevention Program) but whose counting. It feels like we've been sober forever. We both take Seroquel every night. No groggyness. No nothing. Otherwise we would never have been able to sleep. Too many years of having to drink to sleep. No adverse side effects of the Seroquel to date. (15 years and counting).

The first six weeks on the seroquel as sleep aid, i was in a fantastic mood, it has this effect, but after that I went down a bit. So I realized that I had depression, i had thought my bad feelings were caused by the lack of sleep, but it was the depression causing the lack of sleep best of luck Any thing is better than lying there awake hey ! Then you see the morning coming and you are exhausted.

Hi - I too have bi-polar with serious sleep problems... I'm currently on Seroquel 200mg/day at night and that puts me to sleep.... I used to have to take OTC medications (quite a bit) or prescribed sleep aids like Ambien.... What medications are you currently taking?

I was given Seroquel as a sleep aide in last Dec. I immediately started to gain weight. And stopped the Seroquel immediately (mid Dec). I know this is one of the side effects. I gained about 5lbs. Being 5'9" and weighing 135, I felt the 5 extra pounds would come off with eating better and a few more yoga classes . But the weight kept coming. I got down to a dietary intake of about 1000 cals. But that mad no difference.

I hear 25mg is really not high enough to be effective for GAD or anything else other than a sleeping aid (why anyone would take a anti-psych for a sleep aid is beyond me). I hear that 200-300 mg is the dose for treating GAD, BP, and depression. I will be seeing my doc tomorrow to discuss increasing the dosage. Any input from anyone on the "front lines" would be awesome! Cheers!

Hello, I would like to know if it is safe to fly and be taking medical treatment for a year with Seroquel 300 and Fluoxetine (Prozac). I have to take a plane in a few days and let me know if it is safe to take this treatment ((people taking Seroquel and flew by plane more than 6 hours) I would also like to know the flight experiences in other patients taking Seroquel. Thanks, Anthony.

Hi, just wanted to add that my 80 yr old mother-in-law was prescribed seroquel as a sleep aid and although it seemed to sedate her, it made her go out of her mind. She would not acknowledge anyone around her but she would call out names of people who had passed away, mainly close family members, and she would talk to them and she was just not herself while under the influence of this drug. So I would be very careful using it for this purpose.

I take seroquel specifically and only for sleep. However, I haven't been able to find another sleep aid that works better than seroquel. This is my dilemma.

For instance, you could be lacking in iodine (I was), or you could have high cortisol. For a natural sleep aid try ashwagandha (Indian genseng). It is an herb that serves to relax you and help you sleep. Also, if the problem be high cortisol, it will help normalize it.

seroquel(the chemical name-quetipine) is an atypical anti-psychotic, so in layman terms its a drug mainly used for ppl with schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, manic episodes, and other mental disorders, but sometimes used off-label as a sleep aid.

I have been prescribed seroquel "off-label" for sleep for a long time, but I dont like being on it because it really is powerful like being hit with a jackhammer and is hard to shake off the next day. It has a hangover effect. But it is the only thing that has worked for me with my sleep problems thus i have stayed on it. Also the side effects of weight gain and some other negative side effects are the reason I would love to get off of it.

Hi. I've been on Seroquel and then Seroquel XR for about two years now. I was initially prescribed it for bipolar mania, and the resultant insomnia. I have had panic attacks before prior to taking Seroquel, however never constantly, and never for no reason at all. I would have a panic attack after a traumatic event, or when I smoked pot as a teenager, but otherwise I never had them.

So people have really high mood swings and then really severe depression and seroquel can help regulate the extremes in your brain, but for your situation it can just be used while you may not be feeling your best due to some WDs or lingering wds as a good sleep aid, which sleep is extremely important in order for your body to function properly and to also combat wds.

A good natural sleep aid is camomile tea. In some stores (like Walmart) it is even called sleepy time tea, Im 12w6d and it really helped me on those restless nights and its all natural.

I just switched to 3rd shift and I'm finding it difficult to sleep enough during the day. Is there a sleep aid that I can safely take while pregnant. I'm currently 14 weeks if that makes any difference.

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