username Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 I've been on quitiapine, olanzapine, chorpromazine, haloperidol, resperidone and sulpride. The typicals were besically just to calm me down. I didn't find any of them all that sedating, though most left me with a slight hangover (I wasn't taking low doses either). Seroquel helped me to stay asleep. Which is the most sedating AP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unipolarbear Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I've found that zyprexa worked best for me. I take 10 mg. When I took 20mg once it made me sloppy like I was drunk. I've heard that seroquel has the same sedating effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 I've found that zyprexa worked best for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatsgoingon Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Zyprexa does nothing sedation wise for me. Seroquel would only sedate me if I took 400+mg on rare occasions. Chlorpromazine helps calm me so that I can sleep but I can also stay awake if I choose. Nothing seems to really kick my ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkybee Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Amisulpride - no sedation. Seroquel is sedating for me.....more so as the dose increases. I've been on Zyprexa before and also found it to be sedating. With both, i have no choice in staying awake.....they'll each put me down eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 An hour and a half after I take 10mg zyprexa, and it's like someone threw a switch - completely unable to stay awake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batou Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Seroquel for me at 100mg I am just as sedated as I was at 400mg. I can handle up to 20mg of Zyprexa fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trg247 Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 I am on 20mg of Zyprexa daily and it does not help with sedation take care trg247 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 I don't find Zyprexa sedating in the slightest but Risperdal knocked me for six, seroquel too. No sedation from Amisulpride or Abilify. There are a tonne of sedating old school antipsychotics like Zuclopenthixol/Clopixol (mostly used as a depot injection) and good old Largactil/Chlorpromazine. I don't get any sedation from Haldol and Stelazine/Trifluoperazine is more activating as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Seroquel at lower doses, less so at higher ones. If you're wanting it to help sleep, seroquel should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loon-A-TiK Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Seroquel at doses under 200mg made me into a slobbering idiot. Zyprexa makes me sleep for 10 hours a night. I'll take my 20mg Z any day (right now it is on 15mg but will be raised soon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grousemouse Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 with seroquel at 50 mg there was just one hit - me on the floor. it worked, and still works, very well for this. at 25 mg i was the professed slobbering idiot that loon described. daytime, nighttime, it made no difference cos i was horizontal. i'm at 75 mg now and it works very well for sleep. but its main benefit to me is as an atypical anti-depressant, and for reducing obsessive thoughts. it's my magic pill so far. good luck, grouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Seroquel is my magic pill, too. I take anywhere from 125 mg to 250 mg on a regular basis--I take it all in one dose at night, it knocks me out, I sleep from 8-11 hours like a baby and I used to be a horrible insomniac, but I am not sedated during the day. It stops racing/obsessive thoughts and is a general mood stabilizer for me. Should add that it was a great anti-manic when I was totally out of my mind manic, but I had to take a really high dose for that, up to 600-800 mg for several days. Then I was really out... ~Cat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilie Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Seroquel does okay (off and on not every single day) at 100 mgs. I also take ambien though. Even though sometimes that won't work if my mind is on overdrive. Zyprexa does zero for me in terms of sleep. My trick is to take klonopin to relax me(two hours before bed), seroquel to quit the noise in my head(one and a half hours before bed), then ambien(one hour before bed) to finish me off. it's a crapshoot but a lot of times it works. My zyprexa is for emergencies only. Lilie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpmaster Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 clozapine is probably the most sedating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Tara Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 I also think lower doses of Seroquel are a total knockout drug. Then again I can only compare it to Risperdal and Abilify, which aren't sedating at all (for me, anyway). Seriously, though, Seroquel knocked me out every time; and I was only on 100mg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loon-A-TiK Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Forgot to add- Seroquel was the MOST sedating at lower doses, and at higher doses, i could function but looked like i was high on drugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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