Prescribed Seroquel - Crying/Anger/Yelling Expletives

MCaretaker30

My mom was just prescribed Seroquel by her neurologist (she is in her late 50s with EO). This was after several weeks of crying every single day, increased anger and yelling out expletives. The other day it was almost 10 hours of crying, yelling, swearing, etc. She is uncooperative with everything. Weeps/yells when we take her to the bathroom, getting a bath, etc. She may be hallucinating but we can't really tell because she speaks very little anymore. She had a UTI earlier this month and the urine culture this week came back negative for any infection.

She is planning on taking one 25mg in the morning and one 25mg at night. So far, she's only done this once and we haven't noticed many changes other than a small decrease in the yelling/swearing. 

Wondering if others have had success with this medication for agitation, yelling, crying, uncooperativeness? Did it take a little while to "kick in"? The doctor also said that it could be increased if needed without it being an issue (he said some people are on 400mg a day). Thanks. 

jfkoc

Sedative effects happen almost immediately; however, it may take up to two to three weeks to see some improvement in other symptoms and up to six weeks for the full effects to be seen.

This is from drugs.com

JaymeCare

We did the same thing, however, our Neurologist put my mother-in-law, who lives with us on 50mg at bedtime. It does take a while to help, and there are occasional outbursts, but it also seems to help with getting her sleepy and into bed at a decent hour. We're wanting to avoid sundowner syndrome. She is also on Lexepro and Cymbalta during the day. She speaks and seems relatively normal, but the anger-ball events were too much for us in terms of stress and marital harmony.

jfkoc

Jayme...please check interactions of those meds. There are some major interactions according to drugs.com that warrant close monitoring.