Questions about medication and sanity :(

[Lorelei]

Urgggh, i'm soooo tired right now, it looks like another night without sleep. ... For roughly the last four weeks i've been hearing a man whisper in my ear, have a man in my head talking and a woman spoke to me in the kitchen... i've been seeing all sorts of crazy stuff and believe /believed (not sure still) wholeheartedly the government was spying on me. This all happened after a wonderful high which i'd love to have back.

I've had stuff go on since being a child but the intensity of it all really started in August (when i had a similar bad patch) and was waiting for a mh assessment... this finally came in Dec 11 and they said they couldn't do anything for me as i was too ill and put me on another waiting list, a week ago I finallly saw somebody who said they couldn't help me and sent me to outpatients! The systems a joke!

Please bare with me my tired brain isn't working too well!

Yep so then there came a big crunch point (too triggery to say) and i saw two mh nurses who were brilliant at outpatients but all they could do was ring my old psych who increased my queitipine from 200 mg to 400mg split four times a day.

Now the for the questions...

Shouldn't the queitipine have got rid of me seeing and hearing things completly? It's not anything like as bad but its still not good.

Is it normal for queitipine to make someone very suicidal, i know it says it in the side effects list but i've been on them for 7 years? I've got to see my GP on Wed and scared if i tell her the truth of whats going on right now she'll make me go to A+E for another assessment and i might get locked up, i don't know if it's the drugs making me very depressed or my mood.

Shouldn't queitipine make people sleepy... i asked them for pills to make me sleep and for some reason i'm wide awake and can't sleep?!?

Last of all (sorry ), i have absolutely no idea whether the community mental health team is going to do anything with me or just leave me with an increase of pills. Should i talk to the gp or woman from inpatient assessment or what? Btw i was diagnosed with BPD 10 years ago, but most people including an old CPN have said i'm bi-polar, how does anyone get re-assessed?

Thanks for reading the waffling, and any answers etc will be very very welcome , sorry for it being a long post xxx

[inblack]

Quetiapine has the potential to get rid of everything you are hearing and seeing, but it may not do so. You may need to add on additional medication or try something new altogether if it isn't doing its job well enough for you right now.

It is possible that Quetiapine can make someone feel suicidal. I'd say thats definitely something to talk to your doctor about. Its okay to say you have urges as long as you are in control and not going to act on them.

Quetiapine works differently for everyone. When I was on it I was exhausted and I think that typically it does make people sleepy, however there will be times it has the opposite effect or just no effect at all on sleep. Its also possible your body has adjusted to the medication over time.

I would talk to your gp and see what they suggest you do in regards to both your medication and the community mental health team. Let them know about things that are going on with you and the reasons you think you should be reassessed and I think your GP can put in referrals for you to be re-assessed.

*hugs*