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Topic: Getting off lorazepam
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posted August 13, 2006 04:34 PM
Ativan is a difficult drug to get off of. Depends on the dose for example if a person is taking 3mg of this drug you would have to go from three to two a day for three days to one for four days. Your gonna feel like a drunk since this drug makes you feel like an alocolic. I have gotton off of it after three years for stree I feel as though a cloud has been lifeted i feel better my vison if clearer and i am glad i got off them I m still feeling the affects but there not as as bad Go to your dr get him/her to help you thru this you will feel like crap for awhile but in the end you will feel much better I hope this provides some insight for all of us who suffere from this addicitve drug Just remember there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel i know i have been there God bless -------------------- tom jones
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Zoie
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posted September 21, 2007 03:04 PM
i have been taking .5mg 2xday for about 3 months. I want to stop taking it but am afraid I will suffer withdrawls. I have never been additicted to anything before so I don't know what to expect. Any advice would be helpful, How could I wean slowly if I had to. I take one in the am and one at around noontime. Thanks
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mazer34
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posted April 06, 2008 07:54 AM
my mum has been taken this over 25 years now and cant come off although her GP is trying to get her off it. -------------------- stop this world I want off
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Anone
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posted July 05, 2008 12:33 PM
I'd just like to point out that not everybody gets addicted to benzodiazapines. I've been taking Lorazepam as needed for about four years, and that varies from 0.5 mg about once a week to 1mg or more for a few weeks straight. I have no problem going from the higher dose to no dose at all. Everybody's different. One person's poison (which so many people on these kind of boards are quick to call a drug that they personally had a problem with) is another person's miracle drug. Please don't be so quick to slam a dru that didn't work for you, but may work wonderfully for someone else.
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