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My personal journey with sleep meds - I think it's a success
- staying up all the time my sleep schedule keeps changing
- start taking Seroquel
- buy ear plugs and an eyemask
- staying up all the time my sleep schedule keeps changing with weird side minor effects
- get off of Seroquel
- staying up all the time my sleep schedule keeps changing
- more structured life and better habits
- staying up sometimes and my sleep schedule changes sometimes and it's rough when it does
- try melatonin - feels like it hardly does anything
- covid lockdown hits - my PCP tells me about a study where ppl who took massive doses of melatonin had better immune systems
- take massive amounts of melatonin
- sleep schedule does better than ever!
- do well on this for about 3 years
- learn that melatonin likely effects your reproductive system
- get off it and replace it with eating pistachios at night (which have an insanely high melatonin amount)
- sleep schedule better than ever!
- ween off of needing it every night
- now I only need it on certain occasions, sleep schedule better than ever
Who told you to take Seroquel as a sleeping aid? I take it for mental illness reasons. Sure it knocks you out, but holy shit. I gave one to my partner who was having trouble sleeping one night, she woke me up to get me to ”make the clown go away”.
Definitely not to be used as a sleep aid.
Who told you to take Seroquel as a sleeping aid? I take it for mental illness reasons.
I've had two psychiatrists prescribe it as a sleep aid. I'm bi-polar. It had no effect when I was in my mid-20s. Many years later, it now knocks me out hard enough that I have a second script (halcyon generic) for when I need to drive in the morning because the seroquel leaves me hazy.
I used to need halcyon to sleep, and a lot more of it. Bi-polar, as I understand it, becomes less-intense post 30s. I also take an antidepressant. I was off that for a few years before 2020 went to fucking shit and I'm still better off having it again.
I don't know about seroquel specifically but low doses of multiple psiatric drugs do get used for sleep aids
Same, I took seroquel cuz it happened to be prescribed to another family member, awesome sleep but fucked up all the natural dopamine and serotonin. Plus acid and mdma didn't work anymore
Yeah, man, I took seroquel cuz it happened to just be around, great sleep, but completely blocks your natural dopamine and serotonin. Shit sucked