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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATIVAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | ATIVAN | Never take this drug.......Drug from hell...Only 3 weeks of taking this shit and I dont know what the f* happen, started waking up trembling, vibrating, sweating, lose of breath, higher anxiety, dizzy, light headed, very very blurred vision, all dam day ever since I took this med. It hasnt stopped yet.....Dont wanna go any where, stressing out people around me its jus pure hell........CAN SOME BODY TELL ME HOW TO GET OFF THIS MED ALIVE.... | M | 33 | 3 weeks 1mg | 5/26/2013 | 1 | Anxiety/Stress | Extreme side effects. Stomach, cognitive, panic attacks, seizure | I am convinced that this class of drugs is the most significant addiction problem facing America and perhaps the world today. If you are taking any Benzodiazapine (Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin etc) you must do your research on side effects and withdrawal. I'm convinced that the suicide problem for returning veterans can be directly attributed to these drugs and the health care professionals are convinced that they are helping. There should be a major investigation into this. | M | 50 | 8 months 1mg 1X day | 3/19/2013 | 1 | sleep | Over 50 side effects both mental and physical. Too numerous to list here. | This stuff nearly destroyed my life. It has been just over 1 year since I took it and I am still as sick as a dog 24/7. I had just over 50 side effects and am now down to 20. Avoid this drug and all benzodiazepines like the plague. You have no idea what a horror story this has been. | M | 63 | 11 days 1 mg 1X day | 11/3/2012 | 1 | Anxiety | Within in minutes of taking it felt a surge of rage then a floating feeling. Real groggy. After that racing heart rate, fear, anxiety, vertigo, horrible thoughts, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, and the list goes on and on | I actually posted my experience on this drug from hell two years ago but got an email this morning asking me about how I got off of this roller coaster called Ativan. I will say this again... This drug for me was the drug from hell. My situation did not call for medicating any form of anxiety but it was the Doctors that opted for this method. What I got was a boat load of horrifying symptoms that this little pill is suppose to fight against. I begged the Doctors to do research on why I was falling a part after starting this pill but they refused. Within a day I was experiencing severe interdosal withdrawals. In two months time I had lost nearly 40lbs and was a mess. Since the very community that is suppose to help me wouldn't I decided I'd get off that pill myself and did the following... keep in mind although my side effects were severe I'd only been on this for 2 months. I tapered a 1/4 every three days. But I found that 10 mg of inderal once a day just as the withdrawals would get too severe would help me edge off that horror for a few hours. After the final 3 days on the last 1/4 I stopped. For about 7 days the intense withdrawals slowly got less and less. After one week I felt a bit more like myself. I continued to take only 10 mg of inderal in the evening for one additional week and then stopped taking it and there were no continued problems. | M | 37 | 2 months .25 3X day | 2/23/2013 | 1 | Panic attacks and agoraphobia | Serious addiction, a weird sense of reality, muscle pain when withdrawing, insomnia. | This drug is **HIGHLY ADDICTIVE** much more so than Diazepam (Valium). A few years ago I gave this drug a 5 rating but what I didn’t realise then is how addicted I was. 1mg of Lorazepam is the equivalent of 10mg Diazepam. | M | 18 | 12 months | 1/12/2006 | 1 | Initially air travel anxiety | Feelings of chronic heart problems. Twice went for heart problem diagnosis. Eventually figured out through the web, benzos.org.uk and this page that Ativan was the problem. This is a very scary drug. Forewarned is forearmed! | I would take 1 mg on a casual basis for travel and anxiety etc. Over the past couple of years I found I would take it for just about every malady - anxiety, insomnia, hangovers etc. I was using about thirty pills every two months. A few months ago one of the doctors at the clinic warned me and said that Ativan is a "bullshit drug" and I should exercise extreme caution. Of course, I thought he was being overly cautious and ignored his advice. Over the past few months I have been plagued by problems associated with heart disease, such as severe left side pain, shortness of breath although I work out regularly and consider myself somewhat fit. Ativan would always restore my sense of well being. This past couple of weeks, I tended to over indulge (to my way of thinking). Took a pill almost every day in the week leading to Christmas, two on Christmeas Eve, two on Christmas Day and because I only had four left and did not wish to be be rebuffed by my doctor, decided to leav | M | 52 | 17 years | 1/3/2006 | 1 | Sleeplessness | Drowsiness, a 'high' feeling. | Extremely addictive drug. DO NOT take for more than one week. If you don't think it's bad, and you've been taking it for more than 3 months or so, just try to stop! You will have life threatening reactions. Check benzo.org.uk if you don't believe me. | M | 54 | 11 months | 8/31/2005 | 1 | anxiety & depression | Sweating, palpitations, tremors, feeling of withdrawing from society... curling up and doing nothing. | I had no idea it was so addictive and dangerous. I was prescribed 30, take 1mg at bedtime from a doc in Thailand to help anxiety and sleep, after being diagnosed HIV+. Knocked me out for 12 hours... then I continued taking it for 2 months before I realized that the symptoms (on the left) were from Ativan, not HIV. Now I'm trying to taper off. I'm at 0.5mg, but for how long..? | M | 54 | 2 months | 8/23/2006 | 1 | anxiety | The side effects from Ativan, (a benzodiazepine) are horrific sometimes producing paradoxical effects from the symptoms they are designed to treat. I suffered panic attacks, rapid heart beat with arrythmic irregularites, electrical and vibratory sensations, heightened allery, and sinus symptoms, GI disturbance, severe memory and cognitive impairment, extremely impaired judgement, emotinal flatness and many more. See benzoisland.org or benzo.org.uk for a complete list of symptoms, withdrawal schedule and support. | Anyone needing help, information or support due to benzodiazepines, please feel free to email me. I'll be glad to support you, and may be able to direct you to proper care. [email protected] | M | 47 | 29 days | 1/15/2007 | 1 | anxiety/sleeplessness | when i tried to get off of it i found it to be impossible | ativan is wrecking my marriage. my wife states that she feels like she is trying to communicate with a person whos head is full of air. she says i have an inability to relate to her what is truly in side of my heart. she is so sad. i feel nothing is wrong. she cries all the time. she says she feels so alone even though we are together all the time. i've tried to get off the ativan but i can't. | M | 53 | 25 years | 1/21/2007 | 1 | extreme emotions, suicidal impulses | VERY agressive behavior. additionally, i was given it to prevent siezures during a week in the icu after an attempted suicide. i would rip out my IVs and was verbally and physically violent to the point i had to be restrained. (i have no memory of any of this.) | apparently this is a very rare side-effect. my psychiatrist tells me that she's only seen a handful of patients react in this manner — and she has been practicing for decades and has previously held a prominent position at one of the most prestigious medical schools in the country.
i took the drug as needed. it took a while before i made the connection of taking it and the affect on my mood. | M | 26 | | 4/24/2006 | 1 | Anxiety | Chest pain, weird feeling like I am dying, confusion,short term memory loss | This drug worked wonders in the beginning when I went to my doctor complaining for chest pains. She said it might be anxiety and gave me Ativan. It was wonderful, no more chest pain, calming effect. Later on when she told me 20 days later that it is addictive, I wanted to only use it on needed basis. This is when nightmare began. The chest pain and cunfusion became so bad that I called ER. I concluded finally that it was withdrawal symptoms. When I took it I was fine. It took me exactly 9 months to come off of .5 mg twice a day. I broke the pills in 2 piece , then 4 and basically tapered myself. It was the scariest feeling I had im my life. I felt like I was dying from heart attack. Never again I would take this. It works wonders but not worth it. Withdrawal is nightmare. I wanted to use it only on needed basis | M | 40 | 9 months | 6/30/2005 | 1 | Anxiety | Confusion, loss of memory, headache, hangover, fatigue, feelings of depression. It took about three days to get this toxic drug out of my system. | This helped calm the anxious thoughts but the pain from the side effects do not make it worth taking. | M | 49 | 10 days | 2/26/2007 | 1 | depression | Hghly addictive. My doctor kept increasing dosage, mistaking Adivan withdrawal for panic attacks. Got worse and worse. Two months in hospital. | Never use this drug under any circumstances. | M | 70 | 2 years | 10/14/2007 | 1 | M | 66 | 13 years | 4/11/2005 | 1 | anxiety | quickly develops tolerance even as you take it; flu like sympthoms, anxiety, chills, flushing, wrist pain, finfeg bone pain, agorafobia, anger... | really a bullshit drug, should be banned; if not, then legalize heroin, you might as well | M | 45 | 50 days | 11/6/2007 | 1 | Bipolar II | Ativan helped me relax and sleep. Problem is I built a huge tolerance to it and needed higher and higher doses for it to work properly. | Withdrawal when I decided to quit was a nitemare. Anxiety x10! Doctors should warn patients that this drug is highly addictive. I will never take one of those again. | M | 26 | 4 months | 2/13/2005 | 1 | sleeplessness | Stopped working well after 2-3 weeks (developed tolerance). Developed chest pains, painful breathing, fatigued during day. After going off terrible withdrawal symptoms (did not know to taper off) -- still ongoing 3-1/2 weeks later --(ringing in ears, jerking movements, insomnia, painful breathing, anxiety & panic attacks). See www.benzo.org.uk for more details on this drug. | This drug is highly addictive. Not worth the short-term benefit. Do not take it beyond a couple of days, if at all. | M | 44 | 28 days | 9/30/2006 | 1 | anxiety | Ativan feels like alcohol, with fewer side effects and less sleepiness. I'm immune to it - can take 10mg and will just feel somewhat, relaxed. | ADDICTIVE, big time. | M | 25 | 6 months | 5/25/2004 | 1 | Insomnia, anxiety | Severe depression, muscle weaknesses. | Confirm this is very insidious, addictive stuff. First used about 4 years ago for anxiety, but quit and did not use again until past summer. More recently started taking 0.5 mg at night prior to bed off and on for about 2 months for insomnia with no notable side effects. Started taking more frequently in Sept, and moved up to taking 1mg during day and 0.5 mg at night. Took about 2 weeks to realize I was getting hooked. Started having very high levels of anxiety when I did NOT take it. Stopped taking it completely and had about the worst week ever with horrible depression and what I think was probably borderline panic state. This absolutely was the scariest thing I have ever experienced and there is no way I would take this stuff again. | M | 54 | 2 months | 10/23/2008 |