Seroquel

Hello,

My psychiatrist and I are debating adding Seroquel to help get my anxiety/agoraphobia under control. I was wondering if anyone here has taken Seroquel for the express purpose of anxiety, panic or agoraphobia and what your experiences have been?

Thanks for any feedback,

DW

My psychiatrist put me on Seroquel today as well for panic disorder with agoraphobia.  I took in the past and hope it works.

Thank you for your replies, they allay some of my fears.

Hi TF/PT, I recall both pseudonyms and was very happy to hear from you here:) The dosage I would be looking at would be significantly smaller (25 or 50 mg) which would hopefully mitigate some of the adverse side-effects. I hope you and your g/f are doing well.

Hi JasonCPhT, I hope the Seroquel works for you. I would be interested to know how it sits with you after you have been on it for a little while. I am curious as to what your dosage is?

Hi Hibee, I would take sleepy any day! I suffer from insomnia so something that would make me sleepy sounds like a dream. And if it took care of any weird thoughts that swim around in my brain, then so much the better.

Best of luck to you all,

DW

Hey DW. I was rx'd Seroquel years back for my anxiety and panic. I think my original dose (and USUALLY I start with very low doses first as I tend to be sensitive) was 250mg? 2 and 1/2 100 mg tabs me thinks. OR maybe the Dr REALLY wanted to sedate me. :)

As I said, I've been on the lower dose of 100mgs for years now because of the side effects I mentioned earlier and that has helped a great deal with minimizing them. I'm not a Dr, but the dosage you're talking about sounds good to me based on my own experiences, but everyone's different. I take Seroquel at bedtime as it does tend to make you very sleepy! Since you're suffering from insomnia, Seroquel may very well help you with this - it has definitely helped me to fall asleep. I agree with Hibee about taking this med at night.

As far as experiences go... I've done well while on the Seroquel, but life has gotten harder in the last 3 - 4 years due to other physical illnesses that we're both contending with. Thanks for asking about my g/f, I showed her your response :)... we still have each others backs and are advocates for each other always.

Also, I should mention that I have tried and stopped MANY medications for anxiety and depression due to side effects OR when the medicines are just not accomplishing what they were rx'd to help. The fact that I'm still taking Sero gives you some idea of how it's helped vs any side effects I have had to contend with. When I'm really stressed I have taken 1/2 of a 100 tab during the day if I was experiencing really bad anxiety and panic. It makes you sleepy and if you just roll with it you can relax a bit.

Anyway, shoot me an email if you feel like talking; my email is in my profile.

TroubleFree aka TF aka PT

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Hey DW. Was just wondering how you were doing and if you had tried the seroquel.

Hope you are doing better in any case.

TF aka PT

Hey DW. That's me... super sweet. Had an idea I wanted to run past ya, thus the email. Would feel better talking about it on there.

The Seroquel is definitely a med that has helped with sleep, as Shoeman referred to. I think it's definitely better than taking a sleep aid med, but I haven't tried those.. I just know that seroquel does the trick!

On the whole anxiety/panic/agoraphobia front, I know I feel better if I've gotten a better night's sleep. I tend to get real panicky when I'm very tired as I feel out of control. I'm not really sure how much the Sero has helped with targeting anxiety and panic on its own. Before more recent physical health stuff on this end, I was doing better all around. I cannot say that Sero was the thing that really helped with my successes during this period as there were other things in my life that were positive and gave me more confidence, thus more success with my anxiety/panic/agoraphobia.

25mg is a small dose. That's good that you started there - especially if you're able to get the benefit from it at such a dose. You're on 1/10th the dose I was originally on pfft! Sorry, just had to tout my Sero tolerance. At that dose it sounds like something you could take during the day for when you're dealing with anxiety. The side effect of course with this drug is sleepiness.. soooo you have to keep this in mind when taking it and get a feel as to how you function while taking the Sero.

Veggie's surgery helped in dealing with a situation that was an imminent danger, but I think it did less than we were hoping for overall. It's not like it put the condition into remission or anything. That being said, she has been able to eat more and at least doesn't have to worry about what was operated on being there.

TF aka PT