seroquel maximum dose

seroquel 600mg/day olanzapine 20mg/day risperidone 6mg/day ______________ this makes 1mg risperidone=100 seroquel. The above chart is right because I know well that olanzapine dose is 5-20mg so 20 is max therapeutic dose. Also for seroquel max is 600 (and never exceed 900). Which also means don't exceed 6 for risperidione. So i concluded that my dose can be considered either 2mg of risperidone or 200mg seroquel so in fact it isn't huge i suppose. Hope i was clear this time.

what is the base dose for seroquel to treat bi polar disorder. 50 mg knocks me out.

I have been taking seroquel for years. my dose fluctuates between 50 and 300. I noticed that below 100 I get into depression. my question: is it true that one has to to take at least 100 mg for depression?

Actually Seroquel works on serotonin receptors as well. "Quetiapine (seroquel) is an antagonist at serotonin 5-HT2A receptors. It is also a low potency dopamine D2 receptor inverse agonist" This has noted in standard clinical journals but they are just finding out more about it. Its not a matter of energy.

My father has just hang off from a phone conversation with a pdoc (we know a bloody herd of them) the guy said according to the British school of psychiatry we give a high dose then seeing that the pt is improving we reduce the dose until we reach a prophilactic dose (maintenace dose). Yet i think Bernie40 our community leader mentioned that one can start on 200mg to reach say 0.3 blood level in lithium then increase it say to 0.5-0.6 subtoxic level.

I did end up on Seroquel, which worked mostly at maximum beneficial dose. . Quite a few people I know had tremors from the Seroquel, besides falling asleep on 50 mg, and as you know, that is low dose. They were slurring words because they were falling asleep as they were talking, amd would nod off. I was either too sensitive or too resistant to most of the medications. Luckily, there was a happy few I could count on.

t be sure, though at high dose you feel lethargic indeed. seroquel has been for me a God send preventing mixed states. It also makes you sleep well. But my dose is small 50mg maximum and most of the time 25mg. I can't dispense of it it's my main drug.

I take 200 mg of seroquel to help me sleep if i cut it in half will it still help me fall asleep!! I only have 12 days left of seroquel and i can't see the doctor until the 8th of next month so i'm freaking out about not being able to sleep!! Please help!!

It is good to question how a med makes you feel. I started with a low dose of seroquel @ bedtime and worked up to 100mgs.I won't go over the 100 dose ( issues with a lot of meds, my issues) If I had only taken one 50mg of seroquel then I would actually not take anymore til you see the podc. another option is to split the dose in half until you see the podc. I felt a little loopy at first but that quickly went away.

Maybe I want to rephrase the question as Is it OK to have low dose seroquel as a sleeping aid.

It depends on the specific person but Seroquel does have strong mood stabilization effects. It was complex for myself as a person with schizoaffective disorder or people I knew with bipolar with psychotic features as there a mood stabilizer and an antipsychotic was neccessary. With straight bipolar Seroquel being an FDA approved mood stabilizer should work at a therapeutic dose. You can see if at a proper dose you can tolerate the akathesia.

I don't think that would work. I need the Seroquel at bedtime to put me to sleep. I don't sleep if I just take a small dose, and if I don't sleep I get manic, and when if I get manic I can get delusional. I primarily take it for its antipsychotic properties, and the fact that it puts me to sleep at night is a bonus. Sometimes, when I am even just a little manic, my dose of immediate release 450mg isn't enough to put me to sleep. Then I have to use Xanax.

DO YOU THINK I SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THIS DOSE. of course some take 800 i know but i mean with seroquel especially i see no limits.

I was on tegretol alone for about 4 years and had to increase the dose repeatedly until I was on the maximum. Even then I eventually had a manic episode and Seroquel was added which stabilised things somewhat. I have been advvised to add an AD to the mix but have a fear of it making matters worse. Adding medications make me nervous because I worry that I will not ever be able to go off them once I start and fear ending up on loads of different meds.

I do know that for me Seroquel did not work until it reached 300 mg. and I believe that is the lowest effective dose but you could ask your psychiatrist about that. If they approved you discontinuing an anti-depressent you will probably get some withdrawal symptoms regardless that will go away in time but like with anything its best to inform them.

I also tried to come off Seroquel because I thought it was making me sleep all the time, so I tried another but it would wake me up every morning at 3am on the dot. I couldn't stand that at all. I'm back on Seroquel 300 mg and they do start back at low dose but it if I didn't take it my mind would never rest. I would keep thinking of things I had to do or should do, so it helped my mind from racing.

I am no Dr. but if that's what your doc said to do...it is probably fine. If you don't feel comfortable you can always ask him/her to ween you off of the olazapine slowly. But, seroquel is a strong drug..so, I think you will be fine. But, again, I am no dr.

If Seroquel is being prescribed as a sleep aid yes, within a psychiatrist's discretion. If its being used as a mood stabilizer then it would have to be taken every day though the timing could vary. If someone can't tolerate it at all as regards any sedation then other available options could be discussed with a psychiatrist.

What dose are you at? When did you get placed on Seroquel? They start you at a small dose and move it up as required. Just be a bit patient, and it will help you. I was seriously anxious and hypomanic at the same time, basically what they call mixed states. I started at 25 mgs 3x a day. They moved up my dose though about 6 weeks time to 50mgs morning, 100mgs at dinner, and 100 at night. I just had my dinner dose upped because I was still a bit hypomanic.

I am at the maximum daily dose of Welbutrin (450mg XL). It's helping somewhat, but I feel I need something more. Is there a medication that compliments Welbutrin?

I still feel the electric shocks and muscle aches from the withdrawal of my previous antidepressant (paroxetine) and I started getting a pounding heartfrom the seroquel. I went to see my gp who reduced my seroquel to seroquel xl 50 mg and I am to go back in a week to her, while I do not see the psychiatrist again for 5 weeks. My palpitations have stopped but the mood swings and depression have returned to just how they were before I reduced the dose. I do not know what to do..

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