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 |
| 5 | To stop seizures | Food taste different | M | 62 | 1 days 20mg | 1/14/2016 | 2 | Anxiety | Swollen throat vomit and pain | F | 23 | 10 years 10 | 1/12/2016 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Dizzy, memory loss, lack of feelings, depression, clumsy | It's a horrible, addictive drug | F | 56 | 7 years 3x a day | 10/20/2015 | 1 | Anxiety / fear of flying | Having seen immediate benefits helping with my fear of flying (I fly a lot for work x2 a week), I let Ativan into other stressful parts of my life (work). Now I take 2 Ativan a day. I am always close to tears, I can't deal with any form of stressful situation (home with the kids or at work), always desperately sad, feel guilty, can't sleep, hate more than I did, foggy thinking, difficulty in recalling the right words to describe the simplest idea and generally want to run away from my once perfect life. | M | 43 | 6 months 2mg | 10/13/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | Just made me relax from nights of anxiety due to cirtisone | M | 50 | 7 days 1mg | 10/9/2015 | 2 | PANIC DISORDER & SEVERE ANXIETY | NONE | IT DOESN'T HELP MY SEVERE ANXIETY OR PANIC ATTACKS | M | 36 | 2 years 8mg a day | 10/9/2015 | 3 | Severe Anxiety | Ativan worked great until I became addicted to it. I lost 2 years of my life to this drug. I can't even recall most of that 2 year period. I really needed to go to rehab but my husband along with my dr supervised my weaning off of it. Even weaning off was HORRIBLE. Worst anxiety that lasted a LONG A TIME. Even worse than what I EVER experienced before I took it. | Please do NOT let your doctor prescribe this to you on a long term basis. Almost ruined my marriage and life with my children | F | 40 | 3 days 2 mg 3x | 9/27/2015 | 5 | Anxiety/ Depression | None | Amazing. Ativan helped me through a really tough emotional time when I felt like I couldn't take on basic day to day tasks like showering. 30 mins after taking I was calm and able to focus on work like a normal person. Only downside is that it is addictive otherwise I would take it everyday for as long as I needed. So so helpful. | F | 29 | 4 weeks 1X day | 9/9/2015 | 5 | Chronic GAD | None to speak of | Without out it I'd not be here today. I've tried so many ssri's ssni's mood stablelizers I had suicidal ideations, horrible side effects, no help whatsoever. | M | 70 | 4 years 1 mg 1X day | 8/29/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | None | Ativan is great to help with anxiety but I can't say it enough.....don't take it for long periods of time!! I was on it for 2 years when I found out I was pregnant they made me stop taking it immediately and the withdrawal was terrible. I swore I would never take it again but my anxiety got the best of me, I tried weaning off of it recently and the anxiety was HORRIBLE so I started taking my normal dosage again. I will prob be on this medication for the rest of my life, please do yourself a favor and don't take it daily (as my doctor prescribed) it is very addictive and very hard to get off of. That being said it does its job so I am satisfied as far as my anxiety is concerned. | F | 26 | 2 years 2mg 1x day | 8/17/2015 | 5 | Sleep | Meds react differently for everyone but for me this is an excellent med. Worked as needed, no side effects, no tolerance issues even after years of use and an easy taper when quitting it. Highly recommend. | M | 46 | 3 years 1 MG / day | 8/15/2015 | 4 | Anxiety due to severe PTSD | Just a bit if grogginess, no other side effect | Ativin has heloed me tremendously to control PTSD, Panic attacks, social axiety duexto a extremely serious Motor vehicle accident. | F | 52 | 9 years 1mg | 7/7/2015 | 2 | Recreational | Slept, next two days couldn't keep food down, vomited, extreme anxiety. It's been two weeks and I still feel headaches constantly, some brain fog. | Do not recommend, even one dose can be harmful. | M | 21 | 1 days 7.5 MG 1X day | 7/7/2015 | 1 | Anxiety due to health issue | Initially helped but this was very short lived. Blacked out trying to get off this-was not told how addicting it was. Literally the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life and it lasted months. Had to switch to Klonopin in order to wean off benzos. I would never take this again. Please be very cautious when using this drug on any regular schedule. | M | 24 | 3 months 2-6 mg day | 7/3/2015 |