Posted by yxibow on October 9, 2006, at 18:34:02
In reply to Re: QoL: Old versus atypical antipsychotics » yxibow, posted by ed_uk on October 9, 2006, at 14:09:19
> Hi Jay,
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> I thought you said Seroquel makes you very tired? It doesn't sound particularly tolerable.
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> EdIt does, but I'm used to it. And it wouldn't if I could take caffeine, but my particular sticky situation means that enough of it raises my visual problems. For others, and when I didn't have this, I'd just carry a thermos.
Despite the fatigue, which can be alleviated by taking the medicine earlier in the evening instead of late night, it is far more tolerable than the sheer hell of akathisia from horrible phenothiazine and other related compounds. Not to mention the aggregate data on all of the newer atypicals is less than 5% TD per year, with Seroquel in the noise level. Can't say that about haloperidol.
-- Jay
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