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Posted by torturedbypsychiatry on August 9, 2009, at 3:40:43
being involuntary commited to a mental hospital i was prescribed SEROQUEL becaues i was (wrongly) diagsnosed with "schizoaffective disorder" (i have since been relieved of this "charge"). i was supposed to take a single dose nightly. about an hour after my first dose, i noticed that there was something terribly wrong with the way my heart was beating. it was so frightening that i really thought i was GOING TO DIE. i had to lie down because it felt like i was "going out" any minute. then the BAD TRIP started. extreme depression/dysphoria, total confusion and HALLUCINATIONS. i wanted to get up from my bed so i could talk to somebody. but i COULDN'T MOVE. after about half an hour of this HELL, i finally managed to force myself up from the bed. i tried to talk to some people but i just couldn't find any words to make people UNDERSTAND what was going on. i also was so tired that i could barely keep my eyes open but was too frightened to go to sleep. i felt trapped. eventually, after about an hour of COMPLETE TORMENT i went to bed again and managed to fall asleep. the next morning i felt more or less normal.
in my country it's ridicilously easy for someone to get involuntary commited and subsequently put on "forced medication". if i refused to take a neuroleptic in pill form i would be put on forced "depot" injections. i'd previously tried every atypical and a few typicals, all with intolerable adverse effects. so seroquel was the only neuroleptic left. because of this and also because I had trouble remembering my agonizing experience the previous night, i decided to continue taking seroquel just to see if i reacted differently this time. surely enough, i experienced the same kind of reaction, although less intense this time. for some reason i thought i only had myself to blame for my bad reaction and stupidly thought i could get used to it, so i took seroquel for a couple of weeks until i just couldn't handle any more of these experiences. i finally managed to convince my psychiatrist to give me zopiclone together with the seroquel so i could fall asleep before the seroquel would fully kick in. luckily that worked.
i continued taking seroquel with zopiclone for about half a year, but sometimes the zopiclone didn't work and also out of curiosity i tried not taking the zoplclone a few times, each time resulting in the same kind of hellish reaction as before. i discontinued seroquel more than half a year ago, and to this day i've often experienced FLASHBACKS from my severely dysphoric seroquel "trips". it was no less traumatizing than that.
so "thanks" to everyone involved and i sincerely hope you all b*** in H*** for this.
Posted by morganpmiller on August 9, 2009, at 4:11:29
In reply to SEROQUEL the BAD TRIP inducer, posted by torturedbypsychiatry on August 9, 2009, at 3:40:43
Wow...I had the same reaction, granted, in the midst of a major mixed episoed(which might be more like what you were experiencing), but almost the same reaction.
Posted by manic666 on August 9, 2009, at 5:00:25
In reply to Re: SEROQUEL the BAD TRIP inducer, posted by morganpmiller on August 9, 2009, at 4:11:29
me to in hospital with the 10 loz stopped dead an 225 effexor that hates my body i was the one burning in hell an for a f***ing long time . i was damaged an still am, thats why i take no crap now, kill me in fight ok, but mental torcher thats the not a fare fight
Posted by Phillipa on August 9, 2009, at 10:50:00
In reply to Re: SEROQUEL the BAD TRIP inducer, posted by manic666 on August 9, 2009, at 5:00:25
Once was given seroquel 50mg twice in a night for sleep and woke with the same problem could thing but couldn't form words to talk and almost fainted. The charge nurse brought coffee to the floor and gave it to me in bed the pdoc immediatedly took me off it. Was horrible. And then back on the benzos. All for a reaction to wellbutrin . Phillipa
Posted by Rdragon on August 9, 2009, at 20:41:15
In reply to Re: SEROQUEL the BAD TRIP inducer, posted by Phillipa on August 9, 2009, at 10:50:00
OMG, Seroquel was a TERRIBLE med for me. Literally everytime I would breathe through my nose, my brain would experience this HUGE electric convulsion/shiver, I guess you could literally call it seizures. I also felt DA** terrible on it.
I think this is all due to Seroquel's serotonin blocking pharmacology.
Posted by Jeroen on August 11, 2009, at 5:37:14
In reply to SEROQUEL the BAD TRIP inducer, posted by torturedbypsychiatry on August 9, 2009, at 3:40:43
same experience here HELL HEART BEATS on Seroquel dosage Abobe 225 mg, many people experience tachardia, i took it 6 months, Extreme pannick induced attacks, fake heart attack lasting 1 hour
indeed it should be removed from the market, even if it works and then poops out after 2 months
shame on people who make this
Posted by Jeroen on August 11, 2009, at 5:45:01
In reply to Re: SEROQUEL the BAD TRIP inducer, posted by Rdragon on August 9, 2009, at 20:41:15
but can you believe this??? only med that worked for 2 months and cured me was Seroquel 100 mg PM
then it pooped out completelly on me, never worked again
was a magic bullet --> ended a 7 year psychosis in 10 days for me
Posted by yxibow on August 11, 2009, at 6:06:16
In reply to same experience here HELL HEART BEATS, posted by Jeroen on August 11, 2009, at 5:37:14
> same experience here HELL HEART BEATS on Seroquel dosage Abobe 225 mg, many people experience tachardia, i took it 6 months, Extreme pannick induced attacks, fake heart attack lasting 1 hour
>
> indeed it should be removed from the market, even if it works and then poops out after 2 months
>
> shame on people who make this
Well Jeroen, despite some really unpleasant things that Seroquel has done to me over the years, its the only (off-label) atypical AP that I can stand to take because most everything else has a) more potential for long term effects or b) similarly, lots of EPS.
Seroquel could induce tachycardia theoretically at its onset as blood pressure (low with Seroquel usually) is -sometimes- inverse to pulse... but this is a transient effect.Perhaps it isn't or wasn't the right thing for you but there isn't a lot out there for me to be functional at the moment so while I dont have great options, it is one right now.
-- Jay
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