im having serequel withdrawls and having bad anxiety from it.

[neek224]

i was taking serequel for about 2 or 2 1/2 years
..i was dealing with anxiety/panic attacks before i quit taking serequol
and now my anoexty has been worse i quit taking the serequel cold turkey about 3 mabye 4 months ago.
at first i was ok no signs of withdrawls but not long after they have gotten worse
i was taking 400 mg serequel and since i have quit my mom told me i should take a little piece of the serequel
and ween myself down from that to stop the withdrawls.
i have been doing that and it has help i still get withdrawls here and there.
im just afirad that something with happen to me from this cause im always worrying and stuff its my aniexty that does that.
and how long do you think untill im full back to normal and down woth the withdralws?
withdralws im mainly getting it...feeling like bugs are crawling on me..itchness on my head arms n legs..
depressed alot..cant sleep..
my withdrawls arent as bad bow but im still getting them

[Paxiled]

The proper way to stop taking these types of meds is to taper off them as slowly as you need to.  The time period will vary from person to person -- some have an easy time, some a hard time, some an impossible time.  You sound like you're so far having a moderately difficult time.  Your Mom is right -- when a withdrawal is more than you want to handle, you go back on the last dose at which you felt fine and taper off more slowly.  Quitting cold turkey is the worse way to do it and with some meds can be dangerous.  The question is, of course, did you ever tell your psychiatrist you were stopping?  So here's what your options are now:  stick it out and hope it goes away.  Go back on it and taper off as slowly as you need to under the care of your psychiatrist.  

[AnxiousNoMore]

Also likely the anxiety is back now that you aren't on the med. Itchiness, feeling of something on your skin, difficulty sleeping and depression are all common to anxiety sufferers because anxiety makes you over-analyze yourself - If these things occurred when you were on the med you would have ignored them but not when people are anxious so the circle just continues.
I think that is a lot higher chance of being the issue. I can note all of these things if I care to take some time to do it, but since I don't have anxiety I just ignore it.

[Paxiled]

Actually, people with anxiety have incredibly varying physiological symptoms, while withdrawal causes more uniform problems.  Insomnia, for example, is an almost universal problem of withdrawal but is not for anxiety.  The way I look at it, if emotional problems are different after quitting a med than they were before starting it and the only thing that happened was different is stopping the med, the most logical answer is the med.  Seroquel is a bit harder to analyze, though, because it was never intended to be used for the treatment of anxiety and was never studied for that.  It's a more powerful drug in that it's an anti-psychotic than most of the anti-depressants that were approved really for moderate to mild depression and then later might have done some small studies to get approved to treat anxiety.  Seroquel has not a unique status among brain drugs but not a common one -- it was so illegally marketed and sold for unapproved purposes by the manufacturer that it got busted by the gov't and sued successfully.  It's often used by doctors for its side effects on people who don't suffer from psychosis, which includes being very sedating.  That, of course, helps many to sleep, but with the cost of possibly increasing insomnia more than less sedating drugs when you stop taking it.  The one thing I can say for sure is, if you think you're suffering from withdrawal and not from your original problem, it needs to be acted on quickly before it becomes a protracted withdrawal, and because most doctors don't care much about the withdrawal problem (or even acknowledge it), you have to be your own doctor too often in this area.  Makes it very hard to decide what's up and what to do about it.  Been there.

[AnxiousNoMore]

Interesting comments, especially that Seroquel helps with sleep. The problem with anxiety is there is no way to meter it so the poor victim is left to try and figure out what is happening to him but by its nature anxiety symptoms can be misleading. Then throw in the problem of insomnia and it gets really tough to deal with, since there are so many potential causes, and also no way to meter which is the culprit.