Low doses of Seroquel for what? Sleeping?

Antonia already mentioned here that she made a mistake typing that name--Seroquel. ( I think she meant Sinequan).

The truth about Seroquel is that Astra Zeneca has deceived physicians in the US about the safety of this drug. They reaped big bucks by hiding the diabetes risk, for years. This prompted
misleading information to doctors that this drug was "safer" than its competitors Risperdal and Zyprexa. And it is not. So many patients were switched to it, when the "truth" about the other two became common knowledge.

Small doses of this for sleeping...? Seroquel is going off patent soon, and their sales force is pushing this drug to internal medicine doctors for patients with "sleeping" trouble. This drug is an antipsychotic. I can remember small doses of Stelazine being pushed on OBGYNs for their menopausal patients to calm the nerves. This lead to huge side effects and damage to the dopamine system. Do doctors give patients in pain with sleeping problems a little bit of Haldol? Time has shown that both the older drugs like Haldol and the newer atypicals, are the SAME....No we don't see a little bit of Haldol, and we shouldn't be fooled into a little bit of Seroquel either! IMO.

Seroquel should remain for psychiatric use only, by trained professionals, who hopefully keep up with the negative studies that come out about the risks of this drug. It should not be used for situations that can be handled with drugs that have less risk.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142864.php

http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000...ctor-perfector

One can search Google and find tons of revealing information about how this drug was and is being marketed.

I just checked and the brand name for doxepin is sinequan, not seroquel.

Doxepin is great for sleeping...too bad the sx were so annoying.

I had sciatica for years and years. 36 years ago, during labor with my 2nd child, the disk @ L5, S1 splattered all over the nerve so I wound up having a laminectomy which worked beautifully. BUT, here's the crazy part: 3 yrs after surgery, sciatica reared its ugly head. A friend recommended I see Dr. John Sarno whose approach back then seemed radical. He believed sciatica was caused by the release of the same chemicals which produce migraines, asthma, etc. and not by any structural cause.

He cured me. I know when I feel sciatica coming on, it's because I'm ****** off at someone or something and I derail a full blown attack by remembering back to what or who set me off. He's written a few books on the subject and 36 years later, he's kind of a medical rock star.

I will only take Seroquel for short periods of time (3-7 days).
I know this is not generally a good therapeutic time, but it helps me.

I'm not bi-polar, I have mood disorder NOS, and a personality disorder known as borderline personality disorder (BPD).

*not things I'm particularly proud of, but I have a feeling its genetic since my mother and sister are both a few crayons short of a box*

I won't stay on Seroquel due to its nasty side effect of weight gain.

Can't say I've had any side effects you've mentioned though.

And I've tried both aformentioned medications.

I think Dr. Sarno is fascinating. I have read one of his books.

You know what is happening with my leg pain and back pain?
I started arginine/citrulline to help my blood pressure and cold feet, and it is improving circulation to my old injuries, and the nagging problems I have had since my leg injury have gone away.

Dr. Sarno believes that emotions trigger vasoconstriction in places --I have to wonder if that is reversed by these two amino acids which raise nitric oxide? It has been about 2 months into my
experiment with them. So far I only have some heartburn to show for them, as negative. The positives have been really nice so far.

This just posted on our Healthnews headlines forum:

http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/12...meds/9888.html

In addition to hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia are these findings: