Misunderstood Medication Directions

When we took Caroline to see the CNP at her psychiatrist's office last week, she gave us Seroquel samples in 150 and 50 mg. We thought she told us to start with the 50s and then go up higher as needed. When we didn't see big change happening with the 450mg dose, I called her to ask her what to do, and she said we were supposed to bump it up to 550mg to control mania and then slowly go back down. Oops. So we immediately bumped up her dosage by 150, and saw significant change within 24 hours. She is calmer, more controlled, not laughing hysterically, not looking "wild" in the eyes. Thank goodness. We are feeling better too. I just hope that nothing happened that we don't know about. Sometimes we find out about "incidents" several weeks later. We are also giving her the once a month Amantadine holiday. Now she needs it again, we can tell when she pops off for nothing, extremely irritable. Oh, the balancing act!!!