Why does doctor changes medicine?

[piroo]

I used to take seroquel xr 600. Life was smooth, work was going fine. But doctor told me to reduce medicine, I reduced but i was fine till 200 mg, Later doctor started to say seroquel is not good take another and the new one made me hard to work i left work, hard to do anything. But everything was smooth before. If doctor has told me this is a life time medicine you have to take it 400 mg forever i wont be missing anything. But everywhere doctor says to change the mediicne. Patients hopes that he is getting well and happy when reducing medicine but later realises that changing medcine only makes suffer. Can anybody tell me why doctor changes medicine?

[adel_ezz]

don't take it as if they know exactly what they are doing. Perhaps at 600 you told him you suffer from something so he concluded without telling you to lower the dose until 200 then to complement it by adding something else.

in my view patients are better than pdocs in evaluating their case only they fear to decide on their own, yet i began not to see my ignorant one for months now because he knows nothing. He once confessed that it's all trial and error.

Don't regret it. go back to 200 and see what will happen  

[lilymoon]

I think you should ask your doctor that.

[ILADVOCATE]

   It would depend on the specific medication and situation as to what the reason was. If a medication is working generally a doctor will leave it at the dose it is and not reduce it unless they have specific concerns. It would be essential to speak to your doctor and ask them why they lowered the dose of the Seroquel and explain that it was working for you at the level that it was at before and express your concerns and see how they can follow up to address them.