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Getting off of Seroquel

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Hi, I think conventional wisdom is to titrate off one med at a time and allow your brain and body to stabilize before moving onto other titrations. Usually withdrawal symptoms like anxiety, etc. become unmanageable if the titration is too fast, and too high. If you've found a titration dose that is manageable, then stay "there" awhile. It's even o.k. to back up a little to a smaller, higher dose, stabilize, and then proceed on with very small, incremental titrations. When I started titrating various meds - I just wanted off all of them as fast as possible and that was a mistake. Here is a link with a lot of information about titration. The "brassmonkey" method is a little involved for me right now. (I'm still a little muddled from lack of sleep.) but the general rules are excellent. https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/17671-the-brassmonkey-slide-method-of-micro-tapering/?tab=comments#comment-347786 - best of luck hang in there - it does get better. I slept last night - yay - I took 25 mg of organic, high-absorbancy magnesium, drank 2 cups of Sleepytime herbal tea, and took my .25 mg (1/2 of .5) of lorazepam. (I've already titrated off lamotrigine, lexapro, seroquel and am now down to .25 lorazepam and less than 5 mg trintellix.) I'm currently looking into using tart cherry concentrate as a natural "melatonin." Will post with the results if they prove encouraging.

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Thank you! I was worried going back on a higher dose was some sort of failure, but you're right, rather safe than sorry... It is encouraging to hear that you have come as far as you have. It doesn't help that anxiety makes it difficult to think straight, panic mode can easily send me back to my original dose. I'm supposed to go from 150mg to 75mg tonight but I think by your logic, wait until the 150mg levels out before going further, would be the best thing to do while my doctor is unavailable.
I also started weaning off wanting to come off all as fast as possible, so holding back on going down further, or going back on the previous increment, is also a frustrating thought. But I want to get it right, so I'll hold off on reducing further (for now) and try and remind myself that this is temporary. And hopefully it will level out, and only after that, l think about reducing further...

How did you get off Seroquel 😭.
This medicine is to strong for me and side effects are so unbearable but coming off is hard. I was on 50mg for 2 weeks and Went down to 25mg and now I'm 3 days completely off and I feel weird and unsure about if I should take it or now.