Coming off the quetiapine.

[Colin76]

Seen my g.p this morning (nothing's wrong, just a routine meds check) and am taken off the quetiapine and started on a nother medication called Aricept (Donepezil) in two weeks time. My g.p told me the reason i am being taken off the quetiapine is because it is known to affect the thyroid and tryglicride levels. As before, with switching from fluoxetine to citalopram i will be keeping a close eye on my moods over the next two weeks.

 

[ms_P]

Seen my g.p this morning (nothing's wrong, just a routine meds check) and am taken off the quetiapine and started on a nother medication called Aricept (Donepezil) in two weeks time. My g.p told me the reason i am being taken off the quetiapine is because it is known to affect the thyroid and tryglicride levels. As before, with switching from fluoxetine to citalopram i will be keeping a close eye on my moods over the next two weeks.

"it is known to affect the thyroid and tryglicride levels"

Hi Colin, where is this info written?

 

[jax]

Yes, I would be interested in where the info is too as I have an under-active thyroid. In the summer I became severely under active after 2 years of being stable on only 50 mcg of thyroxine. They checked my levels for 6 weeks. The first 4 weeks my thyroid became more and more under active despite thyroxine being increased. In the end I think I was something like 40 times more under-active than I was meant to be. I'm not on 200 mcg.

I wonder if the seroquel could have caused the thyroid problems in the summer or maybe since I became under-active in 2006. I assumed that it was my lithium that caused me to develop an under-active thyroid. Maybe then the seroquel has something to do with it too?

 

[jax]

I meant to say that I am 'now' on 200 mcg - not - I am 'not' on 200 mcg.

 

[lucid scream]

good luck, Colin, i hope you have better luck than i did when i tried to switch from seroquel to abilify then geodon. i was a mess and now im back on the seroquel.

 

[Twylight]

Yes, keep us posted

I have a sister on Seroquel and hates it, i'd be interested in Aricept as an alternative to Seroquel

Good Luck

 

[Colin76]

Hi all,

I have started the gradual reduction in the quetiapine, 50mg reduction this week and 50 mg reduction next week. It was my pdoc who said that the quetiapine is known to affect the trygliceride levels (he wrote to my g.p explaining this) and carbamazepine can cause thyroid problems (my last blood test came back showing abnormal thyroid levels), if this is true then why has my pdoc not either changed or adjusted the carbamazepine. I am going to look into this to try and see if what he has said is true, i'll let you all know what i find.

 

[Colin76]

Hi all, i have found some info on quetiapine about the affects it has on tryglicerides / cholesterol and thyroid levels. I hope you find these usefull

http://http://www.fda.gov/CDER/drug/InfoSheets/patient/quetiapinePIS.htm

http://http://www.fda.gov/CDER/drug/InfoSheets/patient/quetiapinePIS.htm

http://http://www.medhelp.org/drugs/quetiapine/show/4765