Seroquel Medication Review

I have been on Seroquel, which is an anti-pschotic used for many things other than schizophrenia, for about ten years now.  Initially I was put on a low dose of this medication to help with my anxiety, which worked relitively well.  After a few years, my doctor increased my dosage to 400 mgs a day to help with my bipolar and my borderline personality disorders.  Seroquel has done so much for me.  It helps me sleep well at night.  It has helped control my mania from the bipolar disoder.  And it has also assisted in helping me stop my self-distructive behaviors, such as cutting.  After becoming stabilized on this along with other medications and pschotherapy, my doctor decided to lower my dosage down to 100mgs at bedtime as a maintenance dosage.  I have been on this maintenance dosage now for about 2 years and am doing very well.  The only thing that I do not like about Seroquel is some of the side effects that I have had, which have included weight gain (although on the lower dose I have lost a lot of the weight that I had gained), twitching (also gone on the lower dosage), drowsiness, the severity depends on the dosage, and something that I would discribe much like restless leg syndrome.  Overall, I would recomend Seroquel to someone suffering from problems similar to mine.