ATIVAN Reviews (LORAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.3 (709 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ATIVAN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATIVAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Muscle spasms | I'm no longer taking this medication. | F | 70 | 30 days 4 mg 1X day | 3/21/2024 Patient History | 1 | sexual harassment | Horribly addicting. Caused depression, horrible anxiety, panic attacks, neediness, severe chest pain, neck and back pain, headaches, vomited 2-6 times per day including anytime I brushed my teeth, suicidal, and caused crazy insomnia. Herbal tea works much better for me. CAUSED RAGE! | This company should be sued for pushing this on people for every little problem. Has been linked to alzheimers too! | F | 59 | 6 months 1 3X day | 5/9/2022 | 1 | Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia | Worsening anxiety, depression, panic attacks, severe addiction, weight gain, fatigued, slept all the time, stupor, brain fog, severe memory and concentration problems. Had neuro psychological testing and now have permanent brain damage. | Started Ativan 20 yrs ago. Takes several months before you get the full effect. So bad changes take hold of you overtime & you don't even realize it. I explained my problems to the Dr. She stated I was in need of higher doses & added an antidepressant. I'd go back saying I was having side effects but she kept increasing doses. The meds were not helping. They caused more anxiety and depression. I tried weaning off on my own After a year I was down to 1/2 the original dose. That day my world spun out of control! I went through 11 days of severe withdrawal. Pop ups would appear in my head telling me everything I walked past had to be taken out, washed & organized. I had nightmares all night of being gang raped or sticking my grandchildren in ovens. I went to the Dr. & she insisted my body telling me I still needed to take it because it showed how anxious I was. She wanted me to go back up to the original dose. I refused. 2 yrs later I tried weaning down .25 mg, but that is very problematic. If I don't get the med within 24 hrs, I start to go into withdrawal. I still get horrible nightmares. To top it off, the Dr. wants me NOW to go off the Ativan completely. The side effects I have complained about for years, have now been found to be real. NOW they say the Standard of Care is to take this med no longer than 4 months! Lot of good that does me after I have been taking it for 20 years & suffered damage you can't reverse. | F | 61 | 20 years 2 mg 3X day | 4/6/2022 | 1 | Anxiety during a hard time | Took only once a month or less, then consecutively for 2 weeks as per doctor, because of panic. I now know all my symptoms were from Ativan. PLEASE don’t take this drug. It will ruin your life. Took me 3 months to taper, and I am now 5 months off and still feel disabled. If you aren’t sure of my account, peruse the BenzoBuddies website and see how tens of thousands of people are impacted by benzodiazepines! | This drug should only be used as a one-off treatment! This class of drug is EVIL | F | 42 | 4 months 0.5mg | 3/12/2021 | 1 | Insomnia | Acute panic attacks, heart palpitations, tremors in body, electric shock feeling, anxiety, depression, extreme fatigue, agoraphobia , bad tinnitus | Worse drug ever taken. It is poison and should be taken off the market. Stay away! Still having acute withdrawal symptoms after 3 months. | F | 68 | 60 days .5 1X day | 11/29/2019 | 1 | Anxiety | This stuff provided me with no major positive effectts at all. plus, the side effects were so bad, till one day of use was all that I could possibly stand. I got all day nausea from it, it had me feeling very fatigued and weak. It also gave me indigestion, everytime I took it,it made me feel dizzy and off balance, I experienced loss of appetite, and just feeling like total crap. In no way, shape, or form does this pill act as potent as Xanax does. If you have anxiety, the best pill for that, I don't care what nobody else says is Xanax. | Total waste of time trying this stuff. | F | 1 days 1mg 2X day | 9/19/2019 | 1 | Anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia | Depression, suicidal thoughts, weakness, burning skin and organs, nerve pain, muscle twitches und muscle, joint and tendon pain, severe Insomnia, Tinnitus, dizziness, headpressure, heartracing, shortness of breath, airhunger, constipation, stabbing stomach pain, bodywide vibrations, bone pain, numbness, Intolerance of Food, supplements and medications, Weight loss, hypoglycemia symptoms, overstimulation by any kind of stimuli like light, Sounds, people, warm weather, scents. Adrenalin rushes, nightmares. No Life. | After 8 months on ativan my boyfriend committed suicide because of ativan side effects. | M | 37 | 8 months | 2/13/2019 | 1 | Insomnia | I decided to stop Ativan for insomnia after 89 days and four days later I could barely stand. Had to hold onto the walls and furniture to walk. My heart was beating so fast that I was sure I was dying of a heart attack. While still on this drug from the depths of hell, I had what turned out to be an unnecessary sigmoidoscopy and diagnostic mammogram because of the anal pain and breast tenderness that I can only attribute to Ativan. I have had lupus for ten years; but now I am finding out what true medical hell is withdrawing from a drug that the FDA states can be harder to kick than heroin after just two weeks of taking it. I'll never take another one of these horrific pills because I was so scared they were going to take my life. It is now 14 days later and I am still petrified. No amount of sleep is worth this nightmare! | RUN AWAY FROM ATIVAN. RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN. | F | 61 | 89 days .5 1X day | 8/22/2017 | 1 | no | My husband committed suicide while taking Ativan. It made him have body tremors, withdrawals, and horrible paranoia. He was a healthy man - 38 years old. Three months in ...took his own life. | Do not mix Ativan with Welbutrin. This horrible combination made my husband commit suicide. Ativan provokes suicidal thoughts and paranoia. What a horrible drug company. | F | 51 | 3 months .5mg 2X day | 8/7/2017 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
ATIVAN (LORAZEPAM): This medication is used to treat anxiety. Lorazepam belongs to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines which act on the brain and nerves (central nervous system) to produce a calming effect. This drug works by enhancing the effects of a certain natural chemical in the body (GABA). (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)