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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATIVAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Job stress/anxiety. | Minor erectile dysfunction, poor judgment/decision making, coordination loss, emotional blunting. | DO NOT TAKE ATIVAN OR ANY OTHER BENZODIAZEPINE LIKE KLONOPIN, XANAX OR VALIUM DAILY!!! Daily use is what eventually hooks approx. 60% of us, and the majority of doctors are clueless in this particular area of medicine. Though great in the beginning, I underwent a series of spinal surgeries requiring detoxing from the pain meds as well as benzos, and any detox center that says they can get you off of them in a matter of weeks doesn't know their neurochemistry about benzos. I began the Benzodiazepine (Benzo) Withdrawal Support Group on Facebook three years ago, and of the 500+ members which include doctors, psychiatry professors, lawyers, stock brokers, teachers, and we plain old mom's & dad's, none of us have gotten off without significant symptoms, and usually after only 4 months daily use. As happy as the newbies who just started taking them are, they have no clue what's in store if they ever try to quit. Magellan Behavioral Health Blue Cross/Shield in North Carolina's study states, "A large number (40%-80%) of patients treated with these medications for 4 months or more develop tolerance and can have a discontinuation or withdrawal syndrome. Patients may experience rebound or withdrawal symptoms, which include tremor, anxiety, agitation, and dysphoria." That's not a small risk to benefit ratio, but a huge one!!! My daughter takes a Xanax or two once every few months for long drives due to a panic attack on the road years ago, but it's the daily use that wi | M | 57 | 4 years 8mg daily 2X day | 9/6/2013 | 3 | Sleep | People on this site get surprised when they take this drug for 10 years straight and then try and come off cold turkey and get withdrawals.... Do not take more than twice a week and you will be fine. Take it every day and you will obviously screw yourself up. Works great though for sleep. Just be very careful and take as little as possible as infrequently as possible. ANDDDDDD yeahhh. | M | 16 | 1X day | 10/5/2013 | 5 | Insomnia | I had no side effects and no withdrawal effects either even after 2 1/2 months of continuous use. This medicine provided me with a good 7 hours of sleep at least. I also abruptly quit taking it since I wanted to know if I could fall sleep without it with no withdrawal effects except for rebound insomnia, but that's normal expectation that only lasted about 3 days. I only have insomnia when my anxiety is too much that I can't turn off my brain at night. I think I am in the category that benzodiazepines don't affect me as far as tolerance/dependence/addiction. | M | 30 | 2 months 1 | 10/17/2013 | 1 | anxiety, panic attacks, nausea | This medication made me feel very dizzy, caused stomach upset, and all around unbalanced. This pill actually made me feel worse than better. It did nothing to make my body feel less nervous and anxious at all. | I do not recommend using this pill to treat anxiety at all. The only thing it will do is make you feel worse due to the bad side effects it has. | F | 1 days 2mg 2X day | 10/31/2013 | 3 | sedative | This drug is NOT for more than a WEEK or 2. it is a HORRIBLE drug if used long term with many strange side effects | To get off this successfully try the following which worked 1-1-1 one month 0.5-1-1 2nd month, 0.5-0.5-1 3rd month, 0.5-0.5-0.5 4th month, 0.25-0.5-0.5 5th , 0.25-0.25-0.25, 0.125-0.125-0.125, 0-0.125-0.125, then 0-0-trace. then one day 0.5 withn the week....slow...coming off this drug works well if done SLOWLY....any abrupt come off and you may DIE..this is a very dangerous cold turkey drug. S L O W please. Good luck | M | 35 | 12 months 2.5 mg 1X day | 11/26/2013 | 5 | anxiety | flushing in my face | I have never had to increase my dose | M | 44 | 7 years 1 mg 1X day | 11/29/2013 | 1 | social anxiety disorder/agoraphobia | I specifically told my dr.I have alchohol issues. He prescribed me Klonopin. Which I abused. Next visit I said they werent helping so he would stop giving me them. Instead he gave me Ativan and that is a messed up drug. Don't remember three whole days. Had to piece together things by credit card statements. Bought drugs from india and don't even remember. Wouldn't suggest this drug. No criminal record........ but this drug could lead to one. | M | 40 | 6 days 4mg | 11/29/2013 | 1 | anxiety | Ugly side effects withdrawing. | F | 36 | 1 days .5 | 12/3/2013 | 5 | i am in anxiety ...... | 1 days 1 | 12/4/2013 | 1 | anxiety over medical procedure | nausea; dizziness; drugged, woozy feeling (lasted about 5 hours) | only took it one day. Would not take it again. | F | 43 | 1 days 0.5 1X day | 12/15/2013 | 4 | anxiety | Sleepy sometimes but not tearful | F | 39 | 10 days 1mg | 12/25/2013 | 2 | extreme anxiety/panic | memory loss, increased somnolence, and increased sex drive | While the aforementioned side effects were tolerable, Ativan just is not an effective benzo/anti-anxiety drug. Not because it doesn't work, it will sedate you and calm you down, however, it is probably the most addictive for me, as well, the withdrawal is drawn out and miserable. Memory loss is unpleasant, and the ultimate problem with Ativan is that it doesn't kick in right away like Xanax or Valium, and doesn't last nearly as long as Klonopin, Xanax XR, or even Valium. My dosage, as you would read, got way out of control, and I had to shelve the Ativan after less than a year. Look to its competitors for longer-term, more effective relief. | M | 25 | 1 years 6 mg 3X day | 12/27/2013 | 1 | Anxiety | Extreme fatigue, dizziness, off balance, trouble concentrating, short term memory loss, chest pain, piercing burning tingling throughout body. I sincerely wish I never would have taken this. This drug has consumed my every thought And I'm fearful of coming off of it. The Interdose withdrawl are hORRIFIC! Feel like crying all the time and in so much pain. I just want off of this alive!!!! | F | 29 | 2 months .5 | 12/27/2013 | 5 | anxiety ans sevear panick attacks | I've never had a problem with addiction or withdrawal from them and I've been on them for a long time there are times when my script rus out and can't get to my dr for weeks I take 4 mg a day . what's weird tho is If I take 2 at once the way I'm supposed to they don't work at all if I take them one at a time it stops my panick attacks :) | F | 31 | 8 years 2 mg 2xday | 1/1/2014 | 4 | Hi heart rate from reflex sympathetic dystrophy | None | M | 53 | 10 years 6mg | 1/12/2014 | 4 | High heart rate from reflex sympathetic dystrophy | None | M | 53 | 10 years 6mg | 1/12/2014 | 4 | anxiety | None | F | 38 | 4 months 0.5 | 1/17/2014 | 4 | anxiety | Dry mouth | F | 24 | 10 days 3,,mg a da | 2/15/2014 | 5 | anxiety | none | wonderful med | M | 44 | 7 years 2 1X day | 3/3/2014 | 1 | anxiety due to PTSD issues | I was never told by anyone about the side effects of Ativan and blindly followed my doctor's orders. It worked wonderfully at first, but then I started experiencing interdose withdrawal symptoms pretty quickly, which I thought were just continuing anxieties about my medical situation. I was taking it "as needed," which I know now to be another path to addiction even though I didn't take it every day. 10 months later, I was out walking and experienced extreme dizziness. I thought I was having a stroke. This happened twice, and searching online, I realized I was addicted. This drug was very difficult for me due to its short half-life and the anxiety it caused (much more than the original anxiety I had), and I chose to go through an online tapering program, Point of Return, rather than up the dose. Best choice I could have ever made even though it was still very difficult on a slow taper, as I switched to Klonopin with its longer half-life. Klonopin caused extreme dp/dr issues. | F | 61 | 10 months .5-1mg. 2X day | 3/14/2014 |