After a bad relapse caused by trying to self medicate myself with olanzipine,
I found myself being discharged to a halfway house type place.
I was on 800mgs of quetiapine + 25mg of chlorpomazine.
I found that after the first 6 months the morning dose(400mg)was completely
knocking me out and i would spend most of my days going back to bed till around 3pm,were then id try and make something of the day.
After about 8 months i started to cut down
the morning dose an eventualy did with out it in the morning.
A few months later i had a substancial back pay in benefit which gave me the chance to make the jump to my own flat.
This was nearly eight yrs ago now and ive since been in a healthy relationship
for the past 5yrs.
Id been slowly weaning myself off of quetiapine over the past eight yrs.
To the point were 3 yrs ago i had whittled it down to(roughly)75mgs but stil
taking 25mg of chlorpromazine.
2yrs ago my partner and i decided to try for a child.
A yr and one miscarriage later(which broke my heart)we looked at why nothing was happening.
I spoke to my gp aswell as my phychiatric dr and said that i suspected the medication i was on an had planned to cut it out all together.
My Gp gave a perscription for 25mg of quetiapine and said to keep in close contact while i tried to come off of it.
I did thankfully with out falling ill again.
About 4 months later my partner fell pregnant and one yr on we have a beutiful baby boy.
There could of been lots of other factors tho,
and as far as im aware it is one of the safest phychotropics currently given to ppl.
Dont get me wrong i was extremely ill @ points and it scares the hell out of me thinking that i could relapse again,espeacialy now.
But personaly,in my case,it did seem to be an effective drug.
I do think it effects fertility tho(male perspective)
an i also think its an easy hand out to sedate certain ppl.
Rather than effectively treat them for their problems.
Just imo tho
