Posted by yxibow on January 31, 2008, at 0:31:51
In reply to Re: Seroquel - does it really help anxiety..?, posted by bleauberry on January 30, 2008, at 18:40:38
> I think your med changes have a lot to do with it all. There is no way you can just stop remeron and not expect to have a fierce anxiety situation that even a low dose of seroquel is useless against, or maybe even a high dose for that matter.
>
> Maybe a higher dose can work. I personally think it is foolish, risky, and begging for new problems that never previously existed, to prescribe an anitpsychotic for anxiety when something safer, simpler, and faster, and with decades of time in track records, and dirt cheap, could have been used. Like lorazepam, diazepam, alprazolam, or clonazepam.
>
> Just my opinion, but I think antipsychotics should be reserved for cases where benzos are not manageable to do the trick. Benzos first. Antipsychotics last. Not vica versa.
>
> Whatever. My doc prescribed seroquel for me during my intense anxiety period when withdrawing from prozac and zyprexa and switching over to lexapro. It was a scary time. Seroquel was of little help unless I took 50mg every 3 hours. But even then, it wasn't really antianxiety, it was more just drugged into a stupor.
Coming from someone who is trying to get off of an inordinate dose of Valium and eventually lower a Seroquel level for a somatoform disorder that I have yet to find someone else even come close to, long term benzodiazepine use, especially at a higher dose will eventually develop tolerance, its only a matter of time.
100mg of Seroquel is not a typically high dose and I would be the last person to advocate antipsychotics because I'm medication sensitive but it really cuts anxiety that no other drug does and is the safest alternative among atypicals other than clozaril with its caveats when benzodiazepines have not worked short term and SSRIs/SNRIs/etc have not either.
poster:yxibow
thread:809600
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20080124/msgs/809861.html