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Hi All looking for advice,
On the 6th of Jan2020 i was prescribed 25mg seroquel for very mild insomnia. I took this dose for the next month and it worked a charm.
Now come 6th of Feb2020 i stopped seroquel due to lapse of my prescription, the next few days my sleep started to worsen from 6hours for two days then no sleep at all on the 9th.
I went back to my doctor about this the next day, he gave me no instructions or warnings and just prescribed the same dose of seroquel and 15mg of mirtazapine as i requested.
My sleep timeline then follows:
10th: tried to sleep with no medication whatsoever i caved at 2am and took 7.5mg of mirtazapine and was able to sleep.
11th: I slept surprisingly well for 8 hours with no medication.
12th: Slept for a maximum of 1 hour
I really do no want to be on sleep drugs anymore. But should i try and start retaking seroquel then taper off to ease the withdrawals or is it too late for that?
Im quite frighten that i have permanently ruined myself by taking seroquel after doing research on it.
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This is the same thing I'm going through. I'll sleep good one night then none at all the next. This has been happening for almost a week now. How are you coming along?
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I don't think you permanently ruined anything. I took Seroquel in large doses for 15 years and was able to get off it with no problems. The sleep will come eventually. They said that to me but I didn't believe it. Looks like you are alternating sleep and wake days, which is normal. It seems unwise to suddenly stop Seroquel but perhaps you were on a low dosage? ( 25 mg).