Seroquel | ADHD Information

Has anyone had any experience with Seroquel.  My son's doctor just prescribed this to help with the rebound from Metadate.  She said it will help with the extreme moodiness and anxiety he is feeling.  Any comments would be appreciated.  ThanksSeroquel is an atypical (second generation) antispychotic used in schitzophrenia. It, Zyprexa and Risperdal are all of this class of med. They are used at low dose for mood issues and anxiety. My youngest is on risperdal and we have not seen any side effects and are still titrating the med up.

I think when they started using this med for bipolar, they realized it might be useful for other mood issues (since they seem to stem from similar brain chemisty). Seroquel is supposed to reach steady blood levels in 2 days. You should be able to slpit the dose or just give it all at once to keep the blood level up. Talk to the doc about all of this so you can dose within the guidelines the doc gives you. Here is more info than you probably want:

http://www.astrazeneca-us.com/pi/seroquel.pdf

With the risperdal, once we are at a dose for a few days, we can split the dose or give it all at bedtime, as long as the same amount is given each day. This keeps the blood level stable. While increasing it, we split the dose to reduce side effects until the body adjusts to the med. These are the guidelines my daughter's doc gave us for risperdal.

Thank you so much for your help.  We tried 12.5 mg last night and it put him to sleep within 1 hour -  I can not say that this is a bad thing considering the day we had.  Today I will try it for the first time during the day to see of it helps with the Metadate rebound.  I will keep you posted!