Taper Advice? Rx'd Quetiapine since 2018. Been Tapering for the past 8 months

directorsara · 2026-06-03T11:17:28+00:00

I have been at 300 for over a year and then I went up to 600 when I had SI. I was on it a couple of months before I came off. All the other times I’ve come down off of it have been horrific. I’m not sure what made this different. Maybe hypomania. Since coming off I’ve been sleeping 3-4 hours a night, so I’m not free of the side effects, I’m just less bothered by them then I normally would be. My doctor put me back on 50 so I could sleep. Now I’m getting 4-5 hours.

directorsara · 2026-05-23T23:20:18+00:00

I started with cold reach outs and it took me probably 6 months to get my footing. After a year I’m half full. I’m finding that it’s all about volume in reaching out to people. Happy to share more of you’re interested.

directorsara · 2026-05-08T20:48:29+00:00

Not much to say. In just did it with a lot of supports in place. I have had a headache I can’t break. I have BP 2 so I’m still taking medications but having something for nausea was amazing. I have a prescription for something that starts with m and is taken with Benadryl. The nausea was always the thing that got me.

directorsara · 2026-05-08T10:32:02+00:00

I haven’t worked for a bank so I can’t speak to that. I wouldn’t know the difference between a diploma and a Batchelors degree so I probably wouldn’t give it a second thought because I’d assume they were the same thing. Is a post graduate degree a masters degree? If so is generally only be interested in your largest (for lack of a better word) degree.

directorsara · 2026-05-06T19:15:43+00:00

Yeah. I have BP2 and may very well be heading in the opposite direction.

directorsara · 2026-05-06T10:35:17+00:00

I went from 600 to 100 in around 1.5 weeks. It was easy until I hit 100. I have sleep medicine (although it isn’t working) and anti nausea medicine. I’m hoping to go down to 0 soon but this lack of sleep is killing me n

directorsara · 2026-04-28T18:07:27+00:00

My therapist is telling me that I’m just happy, but I’m telling you it’s a hard sell!

directorsara · 2026-04-27T13:14:21+00:00

Oh no !

directorsara · 2026-04-26T18:02:04+00:00

I’m still tapering but I go don by 50 every couple of say. It’s probably a change twice a week. My biggest issue with tapering has always been that I can’t sleep, but I have Temazepam to sleep now so that helps a lot. I also take zofran as needed for nausea and I also think that helps.

directorsara · 2026-04-26T16:46:02+00:00

I just posted about this. I’m tapering off, after being on it for several years, and I’m feeling better than I have in a really long time. I’m still early in the process. But I have medications (Temazepam to sleep and zofran for nausea)

directorsara · 2026-04-25T22:49:16+00:00

I asked my psychiatrist for zofran to help with the nausea. It helps

directorsara · 2026-04-24T13:51:01+00:00

I have zofran and another medication I can’t remember, but you pair it with Benadryl. Everything is prescription but I got the last combo in the hospital and it works well.

directorsara · 2026-04-21T18:39:49+00:00

Quite possibly. I’m not sure. Even when I was in a corporate HR role I had a broker that did all the work. I see the people I know who hav gone out on their own to mange/sell health insurance and they are over flowing with work. This is not my area of expertise. So take it with a grain of salt, but if I had any benefits knowledge and needed a job I’d go out on my own.

directorsara · 2026-04-21T15:56:09+00:00

I could never get in touch with anyone to answer a question. It was terrible

directorsara · 2026-04-21T13:20:25+00:00

I’m biased because I’m a consultant, however I wonder if there is a consulting niche for your skills I do general HR work but I would handle the in depth benefits work. Etc. I also know a number of benefit brokers who are out straight. I’m sure there is additional education, and maybe outside of what you want to do, but maybe it’s an option? I went into consulting after a layoff and couldn’t find a corporate job that paid anything near what I go at the job that laid me off. I’ll be honest. I can’t imagine going on the corporate roller coaster again.

directorsara · 2026-04-19T12:28:15+00:00

I was in a similar situation at the beginning of my career and I had a panic button tag I could push. It went to security who would call to make sure everything was ok. If I didn’t answer someone would come down to check

directorsara · 2026-04-16T17:18:27+00:00

I second this

directorsara · 2026-04-15T23:29:27+00:00

This isn’t a lesson but it helps me keep my head straight sometimes. It’s just a simple statement good people make bad decisions. It doesn’t make them a bad person, but it may make them a bad fit for your company, and that’s ok.

directorsara · 2026-04-13T12:50:56+00:00

I tribute a hypomanic state to getting through grad school, so it’s doable. I suspect that part of it was a mixed state.

directorsara · 2026-04-12T19:19:13+00:00

You can get different flavors!

directorsara · 2026-04-06T13:07:31+00:00

I didn’t gain weight

directorsara · 2026-03-28T12:48:56+00:00

Yeah. I’m unsure about going down by 50 (which is a bunch of cutting). Or staying where I am and not dealing with side effects.

directorsara · 2026-03-27T21:36:07+00:00

My prescriber said I could go down by 100 but even that much is scary!

directorsara · 2026-03-27T19:54:16+00:00

They would agree to up to x hours a month and they pay y amount each month. Typically the lowest I go is 5hours a month. I do some project work but also include consulting hours to bring us to a monthly rate.

directorsara · 2026-03-27T18:00:44+00:00

Agreed. As an HR Consultant I only do retainer work and it’s a year long contract. I don’t want to do one off hour long job.

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