Posted by nuala on September 24, 2008, at 18:44:08
In reply to Re: Best SSRI for post-steroid HPA(nuala), posted by Roslynn on September 24, 2008, at 17:46:11
When I was doing my taper ages ago, I was able to cut down from 50 to 25mg Seroquel. I did not have a problem really, and just halved it at the time.
I had tried to reduce the 25 a few times as well. Once I got some 25mg sample pils from my pdoc and tried halving it. Did not work.
This attempt I decided to do it slowly. I had an integrative medicine physician tell me that she got one of her clients off it, who incidentally also had thyroid/adrenal issues. She recommended I taper VERY SLOWLY as she said. Her words have stayed with me.
At this point I have so many things going on, that I can't tell where the anxiety comes from. So, it became a bad tme to taper. But, spending a few weeks at a 2.5 mg drop seemed to work.
I had to speed it up when the adrenal suppression issue made it a necessity. I am afraid at each step of increasing my anxiety from the taper....but at the same time I know the Seroqeul is causing more anxiety from its anti cortisol property.
When I feel like this, I begin to doubt that I am dealing with psychiatric manifestations of a physical illness, and am convinced that I am regressing to some height of "mental illness". I can't wait till I get stable again.
Good luck!
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