On seroquel, feel different and scared.
I'm 15 and was put on seroquel a few days ago. They plan to raise it to 800mg and I'm at 300mg right now. It makes me feel different. Like this isn't how reality is. I already have problems with this being reality or not, but its worse because I'm scared sometimes because I get really happy when I shouldn't be and it feels like people are really different. I don't want to take it but if I don't, they'll have to give me shots against My will. I get depressed as well and still think of suicide and am still afraid that the voices will come back. I don't know what to do.
Have you informed your doctors of this?
Perhaps if they know they won't put you on a higher dose until your body is adjusted to the dose you're taking now.
I don't like my doctor,,I've been wanting a different one because he calls me a liar. But I never got to it. But ill try talking to him about it. Thanks.
You said that they put you onSeroquela few days ago. Did they start out your dosage at 300 mg? If you are on a medication likeSeroquel, it's usually recommended that you start the dosage out at 50 mg and then increase it by 50 mg every two days. You didn't clarify what they started your dosage at, but if your healthcare professional started your dosage out at such a high level then it's no wonder why you feel a bit odd.
Psychiatric medication usually does make people feel a bitdifferent at first. Psychiatric medication regulates your brain chemistry andit can take 2 to 3 weeks for psychiatric medication to really kick in and start working at a level where you actually notice a decrease in severity of your symptoms,and medicationcan make you feel weird at first. Obviously I'm not a professional, but that's as much as I've learned from researching psychiatric medication.
You mentioned that you don't want to take it. I would definitely recommend not to stop taking it, as that can be dangerous because it's usuallysuggested to NEVER abruptly stop taking an anti-psychotic. If you want to stop taking it, you should definitely speak to a healthcare professional because usually you have to slowly wean yourself off of it so you don't experience any dangerous side effects. If the medication is still making you feel horrible after a few weeks, then you can always suggest to your doctor that you'd like to switch to a different anti-psychotic, because psychiatric medication is intended to help you feel better, not worse. There are some newer anti-psychotics that may work better for you than Seroquel, so I'd definitely suggest speaking to your healthcare professional about different medications that you can try if you feel like Seroquel is really making you worse. A lot of people have trouble with Seroquel and the side effects associated with it.
They started me at 150 mg, stopped my resperidone, and raised me up to 200 mg the next day and the same with 300mg.