Quitiapine for anxiety - can a small dose help?

[Treetops12]

Has anyone had success for anxiety/calming down the nervous system with a tiny 12.5 or 25mg dose of quitiapine?

I'm super sensitive to meds and also heard higher doses can pile on the weight. Bit scared of the serious side effects of this one too but not doing well with antidepressants.

It made me completely unconscious. Like, I didn’t even wake when my baby was screaming. My husband had to latch him onto my breast during the night. I only took it twice. Never again. And that was the lowest dose.

@RibNSaucyArseCrack I have trouble sleeping so part of the reason it's been prescribed. That must have been awful with a small baby to wake up for. Were you taking it for anxiety / depression? Did you find an alternative? X

I have bipolar but because I’m breastfeeding I can’t take my lithium so we tried quetiapine. Now just unmedicated and trying to cope.

I started on 25mg quetiapine and it really knocked me out at first. I now take 200mg every day and whilst the immediate release makes me feel tires after I take it, I take that before bed so it's helpful. I take 100mg slow release in the morning. I go to work, I function fine, it's so much better than it was and I haven't gained weight either.

When I started taking it I didn't have a bipolar diagnosis, which I now do, but when I started taking it, it was prescribed not for anxiety at first, but it did help me to feel more settled and less anxious.

I had no side effects, and it works well for me.