I recently had a life threatening accident which I believe is the fault of my doctor. He diagnosed me as bipolar based on the fact that my father had been. During my twenties I had taken Prozac for depression. I told the doctor when he first put me on Seroquel 400 that I did not feel that I had the symptoms associated with bipolar. He insisted. I told him that it gave me tremors and made me feel weird. I started on it in 2013. He once increased it to 500 milligrams but I complained of hallucinations where I was calling police every night because I thought someone was in my home. He decreased it back to 400. I continued to complain about the rx and then at the beginning of 2015 things got worse. In January the tremors got worse and by the first of June I was falling constantly and having what I thought was seizures. I was hospitalized and an MRI, EEG and ct scan were done. They said the tests showed no seizure activity. Then I was sent to a neurologist in September 2015. The first thing he said was that I was on too many medications. I have heart and vascular disease and take blood thinners, blood pressure meds, etc. The psychiatrist had also added on 400 mg of Lamictal.
The neurosurgeon prescribed Topamax 200 mg and Klonopin and Ativan. He told me to go to my psychiatrist and tell him that he should reduce the meds he was giving me and to show him what meds he was giving me. The psychiatrist refused and said that he should not give me Ativan. The neurologist was going to schedule me to see a specialist on vertigo in Pittsburgh PA. During September things got much worse. The seizure like symptoms were becoming extremely violent. I spent most of my time on the floor dragging myself around and convulsing. One day I called the neurologist that I had been convulsing for over 4 hours that morning. His instructions were not to take my evening dose of topomax.
I kept telling both doctors that I felt it was the medications (seroquel, lamictal, klonopin and topomax) that was causing my problems. They said it was not and I was not having seizures. My legs jerked so violently that I kicked my living room furniture acrosss the room.
On Nov 7 I fell out in front of my house and hit my head. I ended up in ICU with brain bleeding for 7 days. My family was told that I would not make it. They gave me enough platelets that finally I stabilized. I was then sent to a nursing home for physical therapy. I ws paralyzed on my left side and could not walk. I am rehabilitated and at home doing well.
I read on one site for side effects of seroquel that if you have jerking movements to report it to doctor immediately and get to hospital. Also that it should not be taken with some antidepressants.
I was tortured and suffered horribly and came very close to death because of their neglect and not listening to what I was telling the. They pointed their finger at each other and said "quit giving her that medicine and you should reduce dosage." I was stuck in the middle and nearly died.
Your thoughts??? Do you feel that it could be a severe side effect of the meds?