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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATIVAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 day | 12/29/2015 | 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 | 2 | Anxiety | Swollen throat vomit and pain | F | 23 | 10 years 10 | 1/12/2016 | 5 | To stop seizures | Food taste different | M | 62 | 1 days 20mg | 1/14/2016 | 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 | 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 | None it's fantastic | Great med. No Siberia affect whatsoever............ | M | 53 | 6 weeks | 1/31/2016 | 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 | 4 | Panic and anxiety disorder | None they just keep me calm and no anxiety | F | 60 | 10 years 1mg | 2/14/2016 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 day | 5/22/2016 |