Qutipin 50mg Tablet SR Health Feed

Dear Djeapriya,
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong disorder. Your daughter needs to be on lithium and/or lamotrigine for a long time. Right now, she is in a manic phase. You have experienced it before. Definitely with serum lithium 0.8 mE/l, it will be mild. By your earlier experience, you must be knowing how long it takes for her to come to normal mood. This episode also will take the same number of days. With quetiapine 300 mg it will be milder also. Please remember that lamotrigine 200 mg/day...more

Dear lybrate-user, welcome to lybrate. Clinical depression or depressive disorder is a neurochemical disorder. Clinical depression is usually treated with a combination of psychiatric medicines, psychotherapy, life style changes, meditation and exercise. I hope you are undergoing psychiatric treatment, otherwise, please approach a psychiatrist. Once you make the necessary amendments in your life with the help of the above said therapies and life style changes, learn how to manage the depressive ...more

Quetiapine, marketed as Seroquel among other names, is an atypical antipsychotic used for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Dear Devaraj. Depressive disorder or depression is a neuro chemical disorder. Suicidal tendency is one main symptom of depression. You must be able to distinguish between mental disease and mental disorder. Your problem is a mental disorder. Not a mental disease. These mental disorders are usually treated with a combination of ...more

Quetiapine, marketed as Seroquel among other names, is an atypical antipsychotic used for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Depressive disorder or depression is a neuro chemical disorder. Suicidal tendency is one main symptom of depression. You must be able to distinguish between mental disease and mental disorder. Your problem is a mental disorder. Not a mental disease. These mental disorders are usually treated with a combination of medicines and ...more

Dear Devaraj,
If you want to taper it, please discuss it with your doctor. You may not get any withdrawal symptom. But you may get your original symptoms for which it was prescribed.

Recovery with complete change id diet and lifestyle which may not possible with your Dr. in CBE or India because it needs advice from a lifestyle and wellness trained physician like me otherwise you will land up with your earlier problem and again medication dependence so take a consult if you r serious about your health.

Dear Satish,
Bipolar Affective Disorder is a life long illness needing life long treatment with Quetiapine or some other mood stabilizer.
Only the dose may be changed according to the effectiveness and side effects.

Dear Devaraj,
Unless you inform me about your disorder diagnosis, i can not advise you to taper completely.
For many disorders Quetiapine is prescribed from 25 mg to 600 mg dose. Some are only for short term. For some other disorders, it is long term.

Quitiepine has anti depressant properties but at a higher dose than what you are taking. Quitiepine is an anti psychotic which are often given as augmentingbanti depressant activity. Nonharm taking them together.

First, we need to be sure of diagnosis before commenting on medications. But, at the outset. Does'nt make sense giving antipsychotics and antidepressants considering the doses in which they have been prescribed.