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 | Anxiety, insomnia | Nausea, general malaise, insomnia, addictive (withdrawal symptoms even after short-term use). | I took 1 mg of Ativan per day at nighttime for 19 days total. It did not seem to help my insomnia or anxiety at all. Instead I started feeling nauseated for several hours every morning. Once I stopped taking it, the insomnia and nausea got even worse. The third day after stopping it I spent most of the day in bed. On the fourth day it appeared to have cleared my system and the nausea is gone and sleep was slightly improved. | F | 37 | 19 days | 3/31/2007 | 5 | pain | slightly slower and drowsy | relaxes my muscular pain without making me seem inebriated. | M | 43 | 20 days | 2/11/2009 | 5 | Anxiety, Panic Attacks | None! Yippee! | AMAZING! Gave me 2mg in hospital and had best sleep ever. Now I carry the 0.5mg subligual for panic attacks and they work perfectly. Just knowing I have some with me stops more attacks than the drug itself! Honestly folks, this is the perfect drug. | M | 42 | 20 days | 7/14/2008 | 4 | anxiety | sleepiness, hangover, slight personality change | This drug is great at reducing the anxiety i feel, i was taking this drug for 20 days, once a night, in 1mg tablets. I often take it with tea, but the rest of the night you are completely 'zoned' out. Have been off for over a week now, no real side effects, apart from crazy feelings 2 days after going off it. Felt real out of it, like couldnt even focus on conversations with people. It is a great drug, as mentioned, for treating slight anxiety problems, as in my case, and i think I will take this for a little bit longer as it really helped me, although this may be an addicted user talking, my body may be telling me to go back on it due to addiction?? The craziest experience while on it was with sleeping. Dreams were crazy, very alive and very real. In one dream i felt myself dying, and when i woke up, i was still in dream world trying to get up off a floor!! Weird as experience believe me!! When first taking Ativan, you feel extremely 'numb' to the world. | M | 19 | 20 days | 4/18/2007 | 4 | anxiety | sleepiness, hangover, slight personality change | U kind of get used to it, and your normal outgoing personality starts to come through, which is good. Dont take this and try and play sport soon after!!!!!!! U might as well not play, as it basicaly makes u useless with a complete lack of motivation! I took one before sport one night, and i might as well have skipped training, loss of coordination when on this drug is crazy, so if you can just take Ativan at night this might be a good move!! Anyway, just some things i thought i would share, hope i dont bore anyon | M | 19 | 20 days | 4/18/2007 | 1 | anxiety | Was very relaxing when I took it, but 12 hours later anxiety was very extreme.....I have to definitely add that the anxiety was far worse than what I'd ever come close to experiencing prior to ever taking the drug. Then I realized this was in fact withdrawal. And this was after only 20 days on a low dosage...........Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry additictive. | I went off of it cold turkey. Should have tapered.......First month was terrible......Four months later it was still tough. 1 year later it was pretty good....Take heart. Time and the Grace of God can heal you......Now it's been 20 months.........And everything's back entirely to normal. Entirely, 100% back......My advice, Pray, taper off slowly, stick with it, you won't feel better in a month, but you will in a year, absolutely. | M | 56 | 20 days 1X day | 6/10/2011 | 5 | Panic Attacks | None - not even sleepy | I thought I was having a heart attack... tremors in my legs... felt like I was having an out of body experience, dying, stroke, faint..legs trembling... face numb... and after Ativan ... it was a miracle drug. I have only been on it for three weeks and it has helped me tremendously through these attacks... I highly recommend it. | F | 43 | 21 days | 9/10/2007 | 5 | Hiatal Hernia, Panic Disorder | Mild depression, muscle fatigue, heartburn. | I've tried just about every drug out there for panic disorder and Ativan is the only one that really works for me without any significant side effects. So what if it is addictive, the benefits are outstanding. I can live a normal life without the fear of having a panic attack or insomnia. It is a real life saver!!! Anti-depressents were horrible in treating my panic disorder. I hate those type of medications. | M | 45 | 21 days | 6/13/2005 | 5 | anxirty | none | M | 34 | 22 days | 1/25/2009 | 2 | Anxiety Disorder(s) | Headaches that I attribute to the new medication because I did not get them until I started taking the Ativan and get a headache each time I take it | I was taking Xanax for ten years. It worked like a charm. Then about 6 months ago it stopped working for me. Shrink said I may have become "sensitized" to the Xanax - he says that can happen with benzos. The Ativan is doing absolutely nothing for me. | M | 61 | 28 days 2MG 2X day | 3/24/2010 | 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 | 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 | 5 | panic/ high anxiety | sleepy 1st few times | wonderful | M | 25 | 30 days | 12/29/2005 | 3 | F | 30 | 30 days | 2/28/2006 | 1 | Went to ER for PVC's | Tachycardia, Panic attacks, Horrific thoughts, Agoraphobia, crawling out of skin, severe weight loss. | For me this became the drug from hell. What started out as a trip to the Dr's to deal with some harmless PVC's became a living nightmare. For some stupid reason instead of just letting me see a cardiologist to ease my mind he decided it was likely these premature ventricular contractions of the heart were caused by anxiety so he prescribed Ativan. Within 24 hours I was experiencing a racing heart along with a feeling of doom and gloom. In 48 hours I was experiencing horrible thoughts, vertigo and claustrophobia. In three days time I had become so agoraphobic I was hiding in my home and had to call friends to drive me back to the E.R. because I couldn't even drive. I felt like I could burst out of my skin. When I explained to the Dr what was going on all he said was to stay calm and just take my new little med. When I started researching this stuff on line I found that for some they can have an odd adverse reaction and actually acquire all the symptoms it's suppose to fight against. I told the Dr this and he said stop looking on the internet and just keeping taking the med. He could see my heart was racing at 132 resting and did nothing. So for an entire month I begged for help. By then I had lost 35 lbs. I looked like I was dying and felt like I was dying and had begun making out my will. I was scared to death to give it a try but I weened myself off breaking it down a 1/4 of a tab every three days. The withdrawal is so vile I wouldn't wish it on anyone. | M | 35 | 30 days 3X day | 5/3/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Kept me awake; agitation. | Didn't help one bit. Dose was .5 mg three times daily. | F | 40 | 30 days | 4/19/2009 | 1 | Muscle spasms | I'm no longer taking this medication. | F | 70 | 30 days 4 mg 1X day | 3/21/2024 Patient History | 2 | Anxiety/Insomnia | Terrible rebound insomnia. | Started taking 1 mg a day at night and felt great. Relieved anxiety and helped me go right to sleep. After about twenty days I noticed a dramatic reduction in effectiveness. Increased does to 2 mg. After 40 days on this drug it stopped working. Quit cold turkey and had night sweats. Rebound insomnia has been unbearable, after 7 days off this drug, I need Ambien to go to sleep. Stay away from this addictive drug. | M | 40 | 32 days | 4/14/2008 | 5 | panic disorder | drowsiness, mild sedating feeling | I initially felt really tired and sleepy for about a week-and-a-half (I was also taking Ativan with an anti-depressant). Overall, it was a great short term, fast acting medication that helped alleviate my many panic attacks :) | F | 20 | 40 days | 6/2/2002 | 4 | Anxiety | The side effects described below are very minimal, in my case: Vision problems; trouble focusing my eyes. Dull Headaches. Lack of energy; sleepy | I started taking Lorazepam prescribed to me for (slight) anxiety. I was prescribed 1 mg but I cut it in half and only took prior to bedtime. I ended up using it for sleep instead as my anxiety wasn't really a problem during the day; only in the evenings so it made it hard for me to get to sleep. I actually didn't have any problem with it, but I can understand how one could get hooked easily. Just the .5 mg made me feel so relaxed and at peace which was nice. This is the very first prescription drug I've ever had in my life, btw. | F | 37 | 40 days .5 mg 1X day | 5/10/2013 |