Thread: Seroquel And No Monitor

I have been mentally ill since a young age. I am 35 now. i have been in many hospitals for group therapy, counseling, diagnosis and have been an impatient many times for overdoses and suicide attempts. My last hospital visit was about five years ago. I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality disorder. Prescribed 80 mg of a drug called parnate and a 800 mg of a drug called Seroquel. During my stay I also had six treatments of electro shock therapy. The doctor I worked with was still who I saw regularly when i was discharged. I have have fallen through the cracks in th system many times and he assured me that this would not happen. He left a little less then a year after my hospital stay. He told me he had referred me to a few doctors that might take me on. They refused to take me on. Basically I was once again forgotten.With much anguish and hardship I did however end up in a program for people with my diagnosis. When I left after s x months I was told that there would be no follow up and to ask my GP for a ref feral to a psychiatrist. three referrals were sent and no one wanted to take me on. I am fine. I have a job and function better then most of my friends .....The problem is that I have been on the seroquel 800mg (now 600 that I lowered slowly myself cause no one was helping me) and 80 (60 now which i lowered myself...)............I have been on these drugs without having a psychiatrist to monitor them and their effects on me as well as my progress. Several general practitioners have voiced worry and concern over the amount I am taking of these drugs and tell me I need to get a Psychiatrist. I am worried for my health. I am obese now due to the carb craving symptoms of seroquel as well as eating for what I am sure are psychological reasons. I have insomnia now and feel sicker these days. My headaches are common as well as anxiety and irritability. I do not sleep well. Over all I am functioning well but I need to find a psychiatrist. I was told by me last psychiatrist that finding someone to do follow up would be hard if even at all a possibility. I do not know what to do................I need someone to help me with these drugs. I cannot take seeping pills or allergy's or coughs and cold meds. No one will take me on and I cannot afford a personal shrink......What do I do.........my health is on the line and several doctors have told me that there is a problem with the drugs I am on........................the do not understand why I am on them and in such heavy doses..I do not know what to do that I have not already.....I have been left stranded for the last four or five years with these meds and no one knows how to help me.................I need some guidance and tried to get help...................Once again I am stranded without any clue as to wast I should do.................any suggestions would be great and I would be very greatfull.......................I am not sick like I was before.I am happily married, have a job, own a house and have invited the Lord Jesus Christ into my life...................but I cannot stay on these major drugs forever.......as things seem to be getting worse...................help please.......anyone..........have anything to share?

I am so sorry to hear you are going through this. I have been on lower doses of seroquel in the past and coming off of it is hard. I also found that in the area where I live it is commonly prescribed in high doses in the psychiatric hospitals. They like to keep the patients over medicated in my opinion. However, I also feel like it is a good drug and works wonders for many people. I am thinking that maybe if there is a community counseling place or something where you live or a social services place, they may be able to help you. It is absolutely horrible to hear what you are going through. I also found that most of the psych dr's in my area that are connected with the psych hospitals are the ones used in the community counseling centers...and they would take those patients on to regulate their meds. I really don't know what to tell you. Maybe a desperate trip to the ER and they would have to help you or refer you to someone. I feel for you. I recently was on 200mg for about 40days and I stopped cold turkey. That was nothing and I felt a wreck for a week, physically and emotionally. Please let us know how this all plays out. Seroquel withdrawal is serious.