What are your experiences with Seroquel and Lexapro?

Hi!

Medication is a learning process and very unique to the individual.  While it helps to learn others experience, remember that each experience is as unique as the mind itself and may not be the same for you.

I have been on Seroquel for years.  Not your combination and a much much higher dose. It does more than help me sleep.  It lasts throughout the next day helping to stabilize my moods.  Like I said, everyone is different; some people would never wake up in the morning on the amount of Seroquel I take.   

Make sure you monitor your moods closely and discuss the effects with your doctor.   It may take some time, but Bipolar Disorder is very treatable. 

Best of luck to you. 

I was put on serequal for a period of time and it was upped to 750mg.  Could not take it, it was so bad that I had to slowly take myself off of it before my next doctors appointment.  I still have a whole bottle of it made me hallucinate and have trouble walking and my stomach swelled so much I looked pregnant.  It didn't work with smaller amounts, so he kept increasing the dose and then it became destructive.

Hi unquiet,

I have been taking Seroquel for at least six months now and at first all I really noticed was it was making me sleep better. I started on 25mg a day and now I take 200mg in the morning and 250mg at night. It still helps me sleep but like mom interrupted said it also helps keep my moods more stable through the day as well. I was prescribed it because I was hearing voices which is a symptom of psychosis and Seroquel has made that stop; but I have found that every so often I feel the need to ask the psychiatrist to increase my dose slightly. You get to know what is working for you and what isn't.

Some doctors don't like to prescribe an anti-depressant for people with Bipolar as it can induce mania. However I have never found that to be the case for me and have been taking Celexa (citalopram) for several years now. I feel I am on a good set of meds just now - Lamictal and Seroquel both help keep my moods stable and the Celexa helps with general anxiety and panic.

The only side effects I have noticed is increased drowsiness when I've had a Seroquel increase, some weight gain and a dry mouth. But the sleepy side effect of it has always passed very quickly hence why my dose has gone from 25mg to 450mg in around 6 months. It takes some time to come to terms with suddenly having this label/diagnosis made about you but the more you learn both about the disorder and how it affects you as an individual the more manageable it can be.

All the best and take care :) 

I too am Bipolar 2 and I was on 200mg of Seroquel for about a year and a half. I slept like a rock, literally, the house could have caved in and I'd have probably slept through it. The last several months my depression worsened so for about 4 weeks now, my Dr. increased my Seroquel to 300mg. I can't stand it. All I do is sleep all day and very rarely do crafts or write in my journal or anything else that gave me joy. About 2 hours after I wake up, I am so tired that it feels like I haven't slept at all. I'm not sure if this is OK or not but I can't stand it anymore so I am cutting a little bit off of the 300mg pill so it's approx 200mg and going back on that. I may have been a bit more depressed but at least I was awake enough to actually do things during the day.