I think I forgot to clarify yesterday that Seroquel XR was FDA-approved about two weeks ago to treat bipolar disorder.
AstraZeneca’s Seroquel XR Gets FDA Clearance for Bipolar Disorder
Oh wait. I just said that. But click the link for more.
liz | 7:08 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
That’s OK Liz.
Right now you got the Phils on your mind.
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Astro-Zeneca’s patent must have been up for regular Seroquel. I used to take 100mg in the am and 200mg at night. I no longer need the morning dose.
I wonder what will happen if my night time knock out becomes extended. I’m not so savvy in the mornings as it is. Or anytime, now that I mention it!
I bet you a month’s worth of, hmmm, Ishkabbible’s cheese fries that this is patent related.
I am thankful as it works for me, others did not, though I have nothing against them as they work for others.
I am always disturbed by those who rail against a drug that did not work for them as if it were a conspiracy. What about those it does work for? Do they count?
Should it be cheaper, should drug companies give the stuff away?
Should it rain on pavement when it does not need it, like plants do?
They are companies, they do what they do to make money, it fuels research. One is responsible to one’s self to find what works, and not take what does not. No one said it was easy. It has taken me many years to find a cocktail that works, and some of what I take is off label, and some is off off label. I am thankful to have the option.
I take the XR and am a little sleepy in the morning, and did not fall asleep as well as with the regular that gave high levels at bed time. I take a couple of grams of l-glutamine and l-glycine to help me sleep, and l-tyrosine in the morning to increase dopamine and neorepinephrine’s.
I is hard, not enough dopamine, I get restless leg really bad, too much and I am mean. And it depends how they are increased or decreased as to how they work. It is complicated.
Do I get bored sometimes at how many pills I take 4 times a day? Sure, but being sick is much worse.
At least I have Dr.s who listen to me, only judge a little and are willing to trade me telling them EVERYTHING I take, for being able to augment what they give me with things that are not recommended, but work for me. Not a lot of Dr.s will do that. We check my blood, I look for results in how I am able to be in the world around me, not if I feel good. As we all know one can be very sick and feel great.
I use Seroquel as a mood stabilizer and anti-anxiety med for bipolar, but that’s just me. I’m on a low enough dose that there is no zonking involved (25mil in the morning, 100mil at night).
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