Drug Ratings for ATIVANAverage Rating: 3.3 (677 Ratings)
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| 1 | Reaction to another medication | I had severe withdrawal coming off these drugs after 4 weeks then even worse when I tried again after 4 months. I wasn't aware of benzo withdrawal neither where my doctors. I had burning skin on my legs and arms, dizziness, sickness, no concentration, severe 24/7 anxiety, 1 hour sleep a night for months, vibrating sensation in legs, frequent urination (every 30 mins) muscle twitches, muscle cramps, tinnitus, muscle pain and nerve pain. | It took me 4 years to safely taper off this drug it ruined my life. I've been off them 73 days and am still severely sick. | F | 28 | 5 years 2mg | 7/12/2017 | 1 | For pain after surgery | I am experiencing severe withdrawal effects, despite tapering very slowly off this medication for over a year now. Withdrawal effects are severe insomnia (1-4 hours sleep per night), digestive issues, stomach pain, constant diarrhea, cognitive issues, memory problems and increased pain. If I had known that protracted withdrawal can happen with this medication, I would have never taken it. | F | 52 | 3 months 2 MG | 7/10/2017 | 5 | Panic Disorder/Anxiety | Drowsiness, euphoria, memory lapses | When I was 19 years old I went to the ER because I was having panic attacks daily. They gave me 1mg Ativan and it was the best feeling I had, not because the drug got me high, but because it did relieve the anxiety I was having. I've used it as needed for weeks at a time to months at a time. If you were are sensitive to drugs, Ativan is better than the other Benzos as far as being easier to go on...I rate it a 5, the only real issue with benzos is you have to go off them very slowly. | M | 34 | 15 years .5 - 1mg 1X AN | 2/8/2017 | 2 | Anxiety can't rest in the hospital | N/A | N/A | F | 32 | 1 days | 2/7/2017 | 3 | For my anxiety and depression | I get the shakes, overwhelm,upset. Can't be around people who upset me. I hate it.thx | F | 58 | 1 years 1 mg | 1/29/2017 | 1 | Too much alcohol | I am just now experiencing anxiety, dizziness, weak legs, feels like someone numbed my brain. My stomach not okay, I am afraid how long it will take to get out of my system. | Ativan is poison. I will never take it again. | F | 63 | 3 days unsure in | 1/20/2017 | 4 | Panic attack | I felt kind of spacey and loopy at first when the nurse put the Ativan into my IV but there were no significant adverse effects. It got rid of my intense anxiety so i could breathe. | Ativan and other medicines like it can have a potential to make you addicted so don't take more than your doctor tells you to. | F | 18 | 1 days 1 mg IV | 11/24/2016 | 2 | 1 days | 10/1/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | Worked wonderful at first for anxiety and sleep. No bad side effects in the beginning, but I became an addict after being on it for 10 years. My doctor upped my dose over the years. I went into tolerance withdrawal and ended up in a treatment center. They tried to take me off the drug too fast. I got a second opinion and was put back on the drug to get out of withdrawal. The I was crossed over to librium over a 5 month period. After that I had to taper 5 mg librium every 3rd week. It took me 2 years to be free of that drug. | Benzodiazapines should be outlawed. The withdrawal is miserable! | F | 49 | 10 years 1mg | 9/12/2016 | 1 | a liquid replacement for Valium | Replaced Valium 10mg to a liquid form. Given 4 x day and my husband turned into a mean hateful man who could not speak due to shakiness garbled talking. He is a hospice patient who must have someone with him when gets out of bed or chair. What little walking capacity he has requires assistance. The Ativan made his ability a challenge, especially when he is irritable and in pain. I stopped Ativan and returned him to Valium and now i have my kind considerate loving Tommy nack. | M | 72 | 4 days 60 | 8/18/2016 | 5 | Anxiety due to alcohol and cocaine | Side effects were minor or almost non existant. It's when you try to stop taking this benzodiazepine that the real problem begins, because your CNS depends on it, in order to function. | Take Ativan only for a short period of time if necesarry. It is a drug (OPIOID) just like what you find on the streets, only legal because it is prescribed by a Dr. Don't let any Dr. tell you that this is a maintenance drug for you, it is not. It is a powerful drug that start at low doses and your body and mind want more..this is why it is a controlled substance. SHORT TERM USE 7 DAYS MAX AND YOU SHOULD BE OK...SAY NO TO BENZOS!!! | M | 44 | 1 years 2 mg a day | 8/12/2016 | 1 | Severe anxiety and panic attacks | Worked well in the beginning. Then began to have rebound anxiety, Felt worse than ever and now trying to withdraw which is Hell | Outlaw this drug | F | 68 | 3 months 3 mg | 8/1/2016 | 1 | anxiety take as needed | Add on to last message I took it first time and felt hot flash and internal like shaking. It felt like coffee jitters and I can not drink coffee or have stimulants due to my heart Tacacrdia. The second time hot flash again. | I hate it hate it hate it. Makes my anxiety more intense and threw the roof. Not every body is the the same my body hates it makes me feel worse. | F | 35 | 2 days .05 | 6/25/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | At first it was great, made everything better. Eventually the honeymoon is over and you need more. I decided to quit not knowing about the dangers of cold turkey. Everything was fine for about two weeks, than my life fell apart. No sleep, headaches, extreme panic, pains. I'm trying to taper now and it's not easy, still experiencing hell. This pill gets a hold of you and doesn't want to let go. Poison. | M | 50 | 7 months 1.5 MG | 6/11/2016 | 5 | Anxiety | None other then the physiological urge to take the Ativan. | Due to some health issues, I was having a high level of anxiety daily which also led to some depression. Ativan was fast acting and helped calm me down when the anxiety felt unbearable. It did not really help me sleep. I started taking Melatonin for sleep and then I was able to stop taking the Ativan. I'm glad I never started taking the antidepressants the doctors had prescribed. | M | 62 | 2 months .5mg 1X D | 6/6/2016 | 3 | Poststroke insomnia and anxiety | Not effective for insomnia,OK for anxiety.Taken in the evening, morning anxiety and depression.At 1,5MG confusion,brain fog. | F | 68 | 3 months 1-1,5 MG | 5/25/2016 | 4 | Ativan works really great for my anxiety. I'm leaving my house more. I'm working part time again. | The only problem that I have ran into has been my regular Pharmacy all of a sudden decided they would not fill the prescription even after calling the psychiatrist. My regular psychiatrist decided to move away and I started seeing another psychiatrist but with the same group. The pharmacist called this doctor shopping. | F | 61 | 7 months 0.5 3X D | 5/22/2016 | 5 | Panic attack | I experienced panic attacks severe at about 30. Worked very well. I am now 68. So I have taken this med for over 35 years. I have over 500 scuba dives, jumped out of air planes, made over 200 speeches and worked on ambulance for two years. No side effects at all. I take 1 mg x day. The only problem is getting off fast. I was on 3 Mg a day now 1 mg. it caused my heart to skip withdrawing. My cardio Doc said "why quit". Really. I have probably been on this med as long as anyone. No ill effects. It does have a bad effect I have seen in about 1 in 10 people I know. They became very agitated. Also I don't use this for sleep. I have no other illness and take no other meds. If you can't sleep try over the counter Unisom. This is an over the counter med and works very well. Give it a chance. | M | 68 | 10 years 2 | 4/19/2016 | 3 | panic Attacks. | For the last 24 years it worked great. Then this year it just stopped working. It causes like a hot flash and brief ill feeling, then a mild depression. | Been taking it for 25 years for panic attacks as needed. Worked well until last 6 months or so. The manufacturer changed and now it simply quit working. My doctor gave me 10 Xanax to try to see if I like that better. | F | 45 | 10 years 2mg/3x/day | 4/19/2016 | 5 | Cancer anxiety | None to think of. | 2 treatments for cancer... Anxiety was brutal. Panic attacks, lack of sleep, fear of cancer return, unable to enjoy my life. Took various ssnri, ssri, off label 8 different ones, only did they do nothing for anxiety but had numerous siicidal ideations, thought I wax crazy, stomachs problems, nausea created more anxiety 4 different psychiatrists 3 of which were not helpful at all except for CBT did help somewhat with aid from Ativan. Without it I'd be gone by now. | M | 71 | 4 years 2 mg | 4/8/2016 | 1 | Insomnia | For several years Ativan worked well in helping me get to sleep (2mg), then getting me back to sleep when I woke up at 4 am.(1mg), until I went into tolerance withdrawal, a truly hellish experience. Have not been able to sleep more than a few hours each night, and now have debilitating anxiety attacks during the day. Each morning I wake up on the Cortisol Express and cannot calm down. Only higher doses can stop it, and now that I'm trying to taper off this terrible drug, the withdrawal has been horrific, with worse insomnia and panic than what caused me to take it in the first place. | Don't even start benzodiazepines, because getting off them is worse than anyone could possibly imagine. Once you develop tolerance withdrawal it will be too late to prevent this hell. | F | 60 | 4 years 3 mg | 4/2/2016 | 1 | Anxiety and major recurrent depression | Poor pulmonary health. Rebound anxiety. Withdrawal at home was hell. | It was needed at the start of my depression but psychiatrist kept me on for too long. | F | 58 | 10 years 6mg | 3/13/2016 | 4 | Panic and anxiety disorder | None they just keep me calm and no anxiety | F | 60 | 10 years 1mg | 2/14/2016 | 1 | MRI sedation | Vomiting dizzy loss of motor skills | Took the pill 1 hr before MRI threw up before I went in the tube of doom and 20 mins in I needed to stop and throw up again. When the MRI was complete I needed to sit with a cold cloth and kidney pan. Made it home to my couch continued to throw up then slept. It has been over 24 hrs since I took the 1 mg dose and I am still dizzy and light headed. I will never take this med again I would rather fight through the panic and anxiety during the MRI then ever feel like this again. | F | 45 | 1 days 1 mg | 2/13/2016 | 5 | None it's fantastic | Great med. No Siberia affect whatsoever............ | M | 53 | 6 weeks | 1/31/2016 | 5 | Anxiety, PTSD | Mostly I take it at night to sleep to avoid nightmares. Works great. Makes me sweat a lot. Have to remember to drink water and eat bananas. I do get a little irritated the next day. | F | 54 | 7 years 1 mg | 1/18/2016 | 5 | PTSD/ constant anxiety& panic attac | Dont feel like myself. No desire to eat,now i just want to barrel through work, go straight home and hide under my covers in bed. (which is impossible. I have two small children) Although i get relief from the discomfort of constant severe anxiety, im now terrified being without my meds. Ive ran out 3 times thinking i could be fine. WRONG. the withdrawls are worse than the anxiety and are far more severe. I become dizzy, weakness in arms and legs, tunnel vision, panic attacks that last longer and are HELL, cant sleep because of anxiety, vivid crazy nightmares! I get more anxiety when im running low because i dread what happens when i run out. Because im waiting for my insurance plan to freaking start, i've been to the ER three times for refills this last month 1/2! I never imagined i could be this dependant on medication. The E.R sure likes to send you home with them then expect you to just, BAM! stop taking them knowing how addictive they are, then they question you about why you're back for a refill. It makes no sense! Hello! Yes, im back because i think im dying and ativan is what takes the horrible withdrawls away. Duh! WELL I GUESS I AM AN ADDICT THEN. I need Ativan to literally function and go to work now. Benzo's are the worst to ween off of. And stopping cold turkey could cause seizures. | F | 31 | 2 months 2 mg daily | 1/17/2016 | 5 | To stop seizures | Food taste different | M | 62 | 1 days 20mg | 1/14/2016 | 2 | Anxiety | Swollen throat vomit and pain | F | 23 | 10 years 10 | 1/12/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | No sex drive, forgetting things, car accidents, falling, loss of pleasure, dull, bored, tired, depression, thoughts of suicide, stopped working out | Ativan is horrible !!!ADDICTIVE!!! Do not take it! | F | 56 | 7 years 3 MG a day | 1/3/2016 | 5 | Panic Disorder, GAD | A bit of sleepiness | I f***ing LOVE Ativan. I've been on EVERYTHING for my panic disorder... all the SSRIs, Effexor, trileptal, gabapentin, buspar, propranolol, lamictal, betaxtol, prazosin with no luck but this medication works. No side effects except some sleepiness. When I took Ativan it was the most normal I'd felt in a long time, and it lasts for a good 8-12 hours too. I was only given it for exams though, and as if now I'm stuck with buspar again which does nothing for me but make me sick to my stomach. My doctor refuses to give to me again because of the risk of addiction, but I've tried everything else and some of the other meds he's put me on have had some dangerous side effects that have almost killed me. Go figure. | F | 20 | 2 days 0.5 1X D | 12/29/2015 | 1 | MRI sedation | Nausea, dry mouth, vomiting, side cramping, increased anxiety over fully enclosed MRI, uncontrollable shaking. | I had high hopes that this medication would take away my anxiety of going into the tube of doom. It did the opposite while making me sick and shaky. I took the first pill, and after the terrible side effects, I flushed the other one down the toilet and was driven home. After about 2 hrs of taking it I was able to eat again, was sleepy, and had a bad headache. I will never take this again!! | M | 39 | 1 times 1mg | 12/28/2015 | 5 | Panic Disorder, GAD | Dry mouth, some fatigue | If I feel a panic attack coming on, that's when I take an additional 1mg. Otherwise 3mg daily spaced throughout day I take. | F | 27 | 10 months 1mg 3X AN | 12/25/2015 | 1 | anxiety | Hair loss, memory loss, no interest in sex, anxiety, anxious, nervous, panic attacks ... | I feel like it gives you the same problems you started with before you started taking The medicine I am truly worse now then I was before I started the medicine I just want off of it and not sure how to and also I am scared to | F | 41 | 6 years 0.5 | 11/9/2015 | 5 | whole body ached burned everyday | None | I have been in so much pain everyday all day.Until I was given ativan.It was like a miracle.No more painful wake ups in middle of night.I could actually wake up in morning unafraid of Pain I usually had deal with.Im hoping I can stay on them until.I figure out whats causing me so much pain Daily. | F | 42 | 5 days 1mg | 10/29/2015 | 1 | Anxiety | Dizzy, memory loss, lack of feelings, depression, clumsy | It's a horrible, addictive drug | F | 56 | 7 years 3x a day | 10/20/2015 | 1 | Anxiety / fear of flying | Having seen immediate benefits helping with my fear of flying (I fly a lot for work x2 a week), I let Ativan into other stressful parts of my life (work). Now I take 2 Ativan a day. I am always close to tears, I can't deal with any form of stressful situation (home with the kids or at work), always desperately sad, feel guilty, can't sleep, hate more than I did, foggy thinking, difficulty in recalling the right words to describe the simplest idea and generally want to run away from my once perfect life. | M | 43 | 6 months 2mg | 10/13/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | Just made me relax from nights of anxiety due to cirtisone | M | 50 | 7 days 1mg | 10/9/2015 | 2 | PANIC DISORDER & SEVERE ANXIETY | NONE | IT DOESN'T HELP MY SEVERE ANXIETY OR PANIC ATTACKS | M | 36 | 2 years 8mg a day | 10/9/2015 | 3 | Severe Anxiety | Ativan worked great until I became addicted to it. I lost 2 years of my life to this drug. I can't even recall most of that 2 year period. I really needed to go to rehab but my husband along with my dr supervised my weaning off of it. Even weaning off was HORRIBLE. Worst anxiety that lasted a LONG A TIME. Even worse than what I EVER experienced before I took it. | Please do NOT let your doctor prescribe this to you on a long term basis. Almost ruined my marriage and life with my children | F | 40 | 3 days 2 mg 3x | 9/27/2015 | 5 | Anxiety/ Depression | None | Amazing. Ativan helped me through a really tough emotional time when I felt like I couldn't take on basic day to day tasks like showering. 30 mins after taking I was calm and able to focus on work like a normal person. Only downside is that it is addictive otherwise I would take it everyday for as long as I needed. So so helpful. | F | 29 | 4 weeks 1X D | 9/9/2015 | 5 | Chronic GAD | None to speak of | Without out it I'd not be here today. I've tried so many ssri's ssni's mood stablelizers I had suicidal ideations, horrible side effects, no help whatsoever. | M | 70 | 4 years 1 mg 1X D | 8/29/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | None | Ativan is great to help with anxiety but I can't say it enough.....don't take it for long periods of time!! I was on it for 2 years when I found out I was pregnant they made me stop taking it immediately and the withdrawal was terrible. I swore I would never take it again but my anxiety got the best of me, I tried weaning off of it recently and the anxiety was HORRIBLE so I started taking my normal dosage again. I will prob be on this medication for the rest of my life, please do yourself a favor and don't take it daily (as my doctor prescribed) it is very addictive and very hard to get off of. That being said it does its job so I am satisfied as far as my anxiety is concerned. | F | 26 | 2 years 2mg 1x day | 8/17/2015 | 5 | Sleep | Meds react differently for everyone but for me this is an excellent med. Worked as needed, no side effects, no tolerance issues even after years of use and an easy taper when quitting it. Highly recommend. | M | 46 | 3 years 1 MG / day | 8/15/2015 | 4 | Anxiety due to severe PTSD | Just a bit if grogginess, no other side effect | Ativin has heloed me tremendously to control PTSD, Panic attacks, social axiety duexto a extremely serious Motor vehicle accident. | F | 52 | 9 years 1mg | 7/7/2015 | 2 | Recreational | Slept, next two days couldn't keep food down, vomited, extreme anxiety. It's been two weeks and I still feel headaches constantly, some brain fog. | Do not recommend, even one dose can be harmful. | M | 21 | 1 days 7.5 MG 1X D | 7/7/2015 | 1 | Anxiety due to health issue | Initially helped but this was very short lived. Blacked out trying to get off this-was not told how addicting it was. Literally the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life and it lasted months. Had to switch to Klonopin in order to wean off benzos. I would never take this again. Please be very cautious when using this drug on any regular schedule. | M | 24 | 3 months 2-6 mg day | 7/3/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | Drug is highly addictive especially if you have an addictive personality. After slowly removing myself off the drug with a gradual decrease of a period of 4weeks mentally I feel fine,physically not so much. I have been getting abdominal cramps and given that I already have issues with my stomach it adds to it. When I thought back when I first started taking it I remembered my bowel movements started to increase significantly, now being off the drug I notice they have decreased quite a bit. Make sure when coming off this drug you have a solid support system as you don't know how you may react. | F | 35 | 10 months 1-2mg | 6/17/2015 | 1 | insomnia | Vision disturbances, dependence, between dose withdrawal symptoms, burning skin, chest pain, shallow breathing | do not take this medicine for any reason. It's evil and creates dependency. Luckily I jumped off after not having been told by doctors just how dependent one could become. | M | 44 | 2 months 3-4 | 5/9/2015 | 2 | anxiety and panic disorder | Diarrhea and brain foggy then depression | In the long ryn it made my anxiety way way worse. | F | 35 | 1 years 1-2mg a da | 5/7/2015 | 1 | Anxiety/Stress | As I built tolerance I became more agitated earlier each day. I didn't realize what was happening to me. I decided to quit cold turkey which was a huge mistake. I was with a customer at lunch and blacked out an had seizures. Was taken to ER where they gave me Ativan and everything was fine. Obviously I was addicted but had NO clue until that day. It took me months to get "off" this drug with the help of the Ashton manual and a forum which has since been closed. This experience was one of the worst of my life but I'm one of the lucky ones. | I kicked my doctor prescribed addiction several years ago. I follow this web site occasionally to see how others are faring. I believe this drug class, including Ativan, Xanax, Valium and so on is one of the most serious drug problems in America (and maybe the world). These drugs are being prescribed to millions of people, many of whom have very bad experiences as they build tolerance and become addicted. Do a Google search and read the stories for yourself. MANY lives have been devastated by this drug and others. Some people can take these drugs without problems but through my own experience and communications with others many cannot. | M | 62 | 8 months 1 mg 1X D | 4/3/2015 | 1 | generalize anxiety disorder | Aches and pains everywhere I'm began to start to taper off dropped 50percent for two to 3weeks then went to1mg going on second week hell | Please if someone reads this I need help with taper feels like I'm dying woke up this morning hardly could walk | M | 42 | 4 months 3mg | 3/30/2015 | 4 | stress | Getting agitated day after I take a dose. | I take Ativan 1mg. maybe once a week, maybe 2 times in a week. I was prescribed it for stress, but I found it to be great in the evening to help me ease in to a nice sleep, which is has. I was taking Ambien prior, but found the ativan much more pleasant to take than Ambien.. The issue I'm having with this drug is that I have noticed a pattern whereby, the very next day after taking the drug the night before, I get agitated, and I end up provoking an absolute fight with my husband on things I wouldn't ordinarily even pay attention to. It happens every time. I wonder if anyone else has had this experience. It makes me afraid to take ativan at night knowing I'm going to be irritable the next day. Otherwise, I love this drug for sleep. I would never take this drug every day, and certainly never take more than 1mg. Is this a side effect other people have experienced? | F | 54 | 2 months 1 1X W | 3/25/2015 | 1 | For anxiety | Shakes, muscle aches, insomnia, nauseousness, extreme anxiety, depression, buzzing in my ears, heart palps, shortness of breath. | I would not recommend taking this drug. I was on .5mg for only 2 weeks for my anxiety attacks. Yes, it worked at night so I could sleep peacefully, but once I stopped taking it, the withdrawals began horrifically and that's just from 2 WEEKS!!! I wish my doctor never would have prescribed this to me. She did tell me that it was highly addictive and for that reason she was just going to give me enough for a couple weeks to calm my nerves. She did not explain to me what could happen to you if you just stop taking it cold turkey. I understand that everybody is different and some may not even experience withdrawals from ativan only after a few weeks, but like I said... everybody is different and she still should have explained to me what could happen. My body reacted very badly to this drug. I'm now just starting to feel a little better. The last few days were excruciating for me. The anxiety attacks came on so intense. I could not sit still from the shakes, I constantly felt nauseous, I was having digestive problems, I could not sleep at all! I was awake for 24 hours and being awake that long is just going to feed into your anxiety. I was so restless, I had absolutely no appetite. If I even tried to put food to my mouth, I felt like I was automatically going to vomit. I had a racing heart, and I cried uncontrollably, I also had buzzing in my ears. My muscles started to ache so bad from constantly shaking and being so tense. The worst part was definitely the anxiety that came on | F | 25 | 2 weeks .5 mg | 2/12/2015 | 5 | Help the withdraw affects of opioid | I can't stop going to the bathroom,my rectum is raw. I go 5 times a day.. | They help with the withdraw affects but should I stop the Ativan. | M | 39 | 1 weeks 2mg a day | 1/31/2015 | 5 | ptsd anxiety deppresion | A bit of a chemically feeling | I started taking ativan 3 months ago and it gave me energy i havnt had in a long time and confidence wich i deffianatly didnt have before taking this i take 2 2.5mg a day. I still need a couple of valium before bed. I dont understand why my pharmasist said ativan is the worst medication and hes seen people really fuck up on them. Iam an x addict for pills believe it or not but over the last 3 years have taken them properly. I can feel a kind of chemical feeling and sometimes i feel scetchy like ive been up for two nights. but it gets me through the days quiet well. But ive heard that they are very addictive i hope i can come off them wIth no withdrawals | F | 1 days 2.5mg | 1/20/2015 | 1 | Panic/insomnia | Intradose withdrawals began within days, experienced somnolence, crying off and on all day, depression, suicidal thoughts, no motivation for anything, wanted to hide away from the world. | I was given Ativan after an ER visit for heart palpitations, told the physician I could use something to get some sleep and get back on track since I was having anxiety and difficulty coping with events in my life. Big mistake! I began taking .5 mg to sleep. First three nights it worked great. Then in the morning I felt a bit "off" and felt like it would be okay if I took a quarter of one (.25 mg). I did this for several days in a row (.50 at night, .25 in the morning) and quickly began having crying spells during the day. I know what it is to be depressed but this was a very deep depression that just came up so quickly out of nowhere. I ended up acting psycho with an ex boyfriend and also drank at a party and raged on some people there (granted they WERE real jerks but still, not my style). I was afraid to cut back because I felt like I didn't want to live as it was, but I am now on day 2 of having cut out the morning dose, and tonight I'm going to cut the .50 in half. I've been taking loads of niacin (NOT the non-flushing kind), I'm taking about 6 100mg pills a day spaced out with food, this has had a calming effect on me so I'm not taking anything out on anyone. I'm just keeping to myself, unable to get out of bed really, crying up a storm over silly things, worst than when I was pregnant. Feeling that life has no meaning. I've always been sensitive to pills but never like this! I got off Vicodins with so much less trauma! Trust me, do not take these for more tha | F | 41 | 12 days .5 1X D | 1/20/2015 | 5 | PMS Anxiety | I have taken Ativan sporadically over the years as needed, during times of intense anxiety (usually when my PMS clashes with difficult relationships). I just started taking it again after about 7 years off and I'm noticing some fatigue, lack of ambition...but I think my adrenals and nervous system are already really depleted and Ativan's anxiety reduction is just putting me in touch with how tired I really am. | I absolutely LOVE Ativan. Life can be really hard sometimes. I am an advanced meditator, yogi, and holistiic healing professional, and I know that there are many ways to deal with stress...but sometimes life gets the best of me and when PMS stacks up against PTSD with a big heaping dose of relationship drama or family drama, I have a really hard time keeping my cool. I have had such bad anxiety attacks that I feel like I can't breathe and that I'm having heart palpitations. When I feel the ice cold hit of cortisol hitting my bloodstream in an intense relationship argument or situation, I know that it's all over for the day and I'll be just trying to hang on by my fingernails to be able to cope with the day. Ativan changes all of this for me. I only take a half dose, as needed. My prescription says to take 2 a day, but I only take about 2 or 3 a week during even the worst stretches of anxiety. One half dose just stops the physiological stress reaction in it's tracks, and allows me to process the situation with a calm, cool and collected mind. The heart palpitations and overwhelm vanish, and I can see the problem clearly and deal with it rationally. Lately I've noticed that I seem to be feeling pretty tired after taking a full dose, but it's not any more tired than I would have been had I been dealing with an anxiety attack all day and night. I love Ativan and I like to have it available to me when I need it. I've never been inclined to abuse substances, so for me, it's a wonde | F | 40 | 10 years 1/2 dose 3X W | 12/20/2014 | 5 | Panic Disorder | None | I was on this short-term until my SSRI kicked in. It prevented panic attacks and stopped one that was already occurring in its tracks. If taken before bedtime, it also helped ease me to sleep. | M | 29 | 2 months 0.5MG 3X D | 12/17/2014 | 4 | insomnia, panic attacks, anxiety | rebound sleepiness in day, loss of energy, increased appetite, gained weight, dependence, sometimes insomnia if on it for so long, and eye blurriness once in awhile, after 8 months panic attack came back. | I have been on lorazepam almost a year for panic attacks since January or March of 2014! I also was on it for insomnia, and social anxiety. I had on and off times where I tended to struggle with more depression when got on it and didn't realize it cause more depression and not heal that but it did help some panic attacks for awhile until now. It stopped working sometimes and I think it has me tolerant or dependance on it that gets me overwhelmed so slowy getting off of it since now on clonazepam see too if that helps or not. But these are very dangerous and must be cautious at all times. Lorazepam made me gained more weight too and increased appetite, and sometimes made me cry more even when it help me sometimes sleep. I just hate struggle with panic attacks. I tried antidepressants like Paxil and Prozac but not good either. I felt very sad and hopeless since I have not many to talk to. I also have no friends too so this makes me even more worse. I am trying to withdrawal lorazepam nice and slowly hope it goes well and clonazepam. I started 4 days ago hope it helps cause it slowly process one. I know known of these are long term use but they are just only thing that can try to help me. I have mild aspergers, and have phobia of large crowds, and bright lights, and hate loud shouting. | F | 26 | 1 years 5 2X D | 12/12/2014 |