Nothing has happened, life goes on. I�m managing to stay in work (do I have a choice?) but at home housework is getting on top of me and I can�t keep up. Last week I decided, unilaterally (I�m not...
Nothing has happened, life goes on. I�m managing to stay in work (do I have a choice?) but at home housework is getting on top of me and I can�t keep up.
Last week I decided, unilaterally (I�m not in touch with my GP or Secondary Care), to reduce my daily dosage of quetiapine (anti-psychotic, for bipolar / depression / obsession-compulsion). I was on 600mg which I took in the late evening so it didn�t mess with my day. That was the thinking, anyhow.
(I�ve kept the fluoxetine at 20mg a day and the Epilim at a gram.)
So I dropped ot to 400mg a day and for a few days all was fine. Then the side effects of withdrawal kicked in: extreme tiredness and fatigue; sweats; dizziness / feeling faint; increase in anxiety; some � manageable � suicidal ideation.
The ideal would be to reduce the quetiapine down to 200mg a day but that depends of course on whether or not I can weather the storm of this current reduction in dosage. I�d also like to reduce the Epilim to 500mg.
The best time to do this would be at the start of the long summer break. Watch this space.
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