Posted by Emme on July 6, 2003, at 11:33:28
In reply to Re: Seroquel weight gain and other evils, posted by Jay Beck on July 6, 2003, at 10:19:33
My experience (and my experience only):
I find tiny doses of two of the newer antipsychotics, seroquel and abilify, *much* easier to tolerate in terms of side effects than antidepressants and most mood stabilizers - lamictal excepted. Not perfect, but far easier to tolerate. This may be because I only need very small doses.... But they happen to be "good" or at least "decent" drugs for me, especially used to some degree on an as-needed basis.
ADs don't work well for me, and we were running out of mood stabilizing options. So....
seroquel calms agitation. abilify has helped with depression. dx: somewhere in the grey zone between unipolar and BPII.
YMMV of course. Just wanted to throw in my personal, and therefore anecdotal experience.
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