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Hello again everybody. My update:
I recently bought the 25mg pill pack and I've been cutting them into halves and trying to sleep on those halves for three nights.
So far, it seems to be working well. And last night I was able to fall asleep with less effort than the previous two nights.
Still, I'm going to bed very late these days and waking up very late too because I currently have no schedule to maintain.
I'll try to impose a more rigid and early pattern from now on just to see if I can with only 12.5mg. Also because it's healthier. So will probably post if I'll have success or not with that.
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A new update:
Starting about 3-4 weeks ago, I've been skipping on the med altogether.
It's not that I successfully got off Seroquel, but simply 12.5mg felt no different than nothing at all.
Now off Seroquel (and any meds in general), I've got back to suffering anxiety and insomnia like prior to when I was put on medication.
I don't know if I'll have to second guess this decision but the reason I'm so reluctant to do so is that now I'm more aware of the problems in my life and of the urgency of a fix.
I mean that in the last years I've been accepting my situation through a good dose of denial, because I was too young and being given bad advice by my family.
Perhaps I'm at a stage where I'm demonizing meds and I shouldn't, but I can't help but think that meds have made me acceptant of a situation that should have been dealt with promptly rather than disregarded.
As for withdrawal symptoms, I don't have anything significant to report. My dose, 25mg, was pretty low to begin with. I don't even feel a noticeable change in libido.
Like I mentioned, now I'm having troubles falling asleep, and the amount of sleep I get at night is reduced to 4-5 hours, but this is just a problem I was struggling with before being on meds (also what made me look for meds back then).