LORAZEPAM Reviews (LORAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.2 (188 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LORAZEPAM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LORAZEPAM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Depression | All good everybody reacts deferentially to all meds. | 35 | 1 days .5 | 1/17/2014 | 5 | anxiety | No side effects yet but people have bad eceriences need to realize that you must lower you dose slowly to avoid unpleasant symptoms. This is safe effective medicaton for those who ate not just using them like fools to get hi. Come off the medication slow and you'll be fine. Hope this helps. | M | 32 | 4 months 1 to 3 mg | 11/18/2013 | 1 | Insomnia | I was prescribed this because I was having trouble sleeping around age 41. Many other meds were tried and my dr finally put me on this. Gradually I had to increase the dosage and got up to 1 mg a day. This went on for years. I realized the side effect were so bad but I could not get off of it. I tried and tried but would get so sick and could not sleep. Finally I was going to church and got baptized by emersion. I decided to try again for the umpteenth time. I had scary nightmares which were demonic! I could not sleep and only slept about 3 hours a night for a year!! It has been around 18 months now and I am doing so much better. I actually sleep between 5-6 hours a night I still have side effects. When I came off it I thought I would die of a heart attack. PLEASE PLEASE don't take this drug unless its only for a VERY short time. Definitely not over 3 days. THE WITHDRAWALS are so so brutal. I would not wish this on my worst enemy!! | F | 58 | 10 years 1 mg | 9/10/2013 | 4 | anxiety | cant say that i have any specific side effects, but i know if i dont take it i feel ill , nausia and all over not well | you have to be carefull taking it with antidepressants or alcohol | F | 73 | 4 years 0.5 mg 1X day | 7/28/2013 | 1 | anxiety panic attacks | Helped the attack in general but the side effects of getting off this med is evil that is the only word that can expain how bad it is to get off these thingd still struggle four months off. Consider a differeny approach may be worth it. It is pure hell to get off these. | F | 33 | 3 days | 7/17/2013 | 1 | Panic Attacks and general anxiety | I needed to keep increasing the dose because I was building up a tolerance. But it made me feel slow, stupid, and sad. I couldn't remember things anymore. I always felt tired. | Getting off of this was one of the hardest things I've ever done. The withdrawals are TERRIBLE. confusion, headaches, body aches, weakness, exhaustion, loss of emotion, memory loss, dizziness, vision problems, etc. The withdrawals were bad for 6 months and are still present a year after stopping this medication. | F | 23 | 7 years 5 1X day | 6/18/2013 | 5 | Anxiety & sleep | I have taken lorazepam for a while. I take 1mg at bedtime & have had no problems at all. If you take as your psych Dr prescribed you will have no issues. It's important to skip nights to keep from building a tolerance. Taken correctly it will make your life easier to cope these days. Problems start when one sways away from prescribed amount & schedule. If you take it responsibly you should have no problems. I know people who take 6-8mg a day. That's asking for trouble. It's great for anxiety used correctly. If you have allergic reaction it's not the medication going bad, it's your body not accepting it so can't really rate it bad. Good luck & calm wishes... | F | 60 | 4 years 1 mg | 5/30/2013 | 5 | Anxiety | None | Helps relieve anxiety and some symptoms of IBS. It is hard to withdrawal from, but not if kept at lower dosages. | M | 45 | 6 months 1MG 2X day | 5/28/2013 | 1 | once before bed insomnia | do not do this or when u try to get off u will be screwed up. major panic attacks cant breathe no sleep anymore and if u stop cold turkey good chance of seizure and death. i beg u dont take this. im so sorry i did ruined my life in less than four months | F | 50 | 4 months 2.0 | 5/14/2013 | 4 | Anxiety | F | 36 | 1 days 0.5 | 4/17/2013 | 1 | anxiety/ panic attacks | Cant sleep. Bad insomnia. Very itchy at. Night...cant stay asleep for more than 45 min at a time. Stinks. Miserable | F | 26 | 3 weeks 2mg | 3/21/2013 | 2 | Anxiety and Panic attacks | It has given me horrible insomnia. It takes forever to fall asleep and to stay asleep. I wake up between 2AM and 5 AM drenched in sweat every morning. It is also making me itch A LOT!! It is irritating. | I'm still on the fence about how it has helped my anxiety. I think the other side effects are more bothersome to really be able to measure it's effectivness. | F | 27 | 2 weeks 1 MG 3X day | 3/13/2013 | 5 | Panic/anxiety | Not too many side effects occasionally sleepy feeling | Saved my life during panic occurances. Great drug for anxiety issues | M | 35 | 10 years 4mg 1X day | 3/12/2013 | 3 | Anxiety | foggy brain, headache, crying when it starts to ware off, something going on such as inflamation or numbness of my brain which feels like whats causing my memory loss. Don't feel like doing much. weeknes,.bad and scary feelings about myself and things. | At first I felt so much better only taking one a night but then it seemed to no longer work the same so I started taking 2 at night now i feel strange when i wake up and it stay's that way for most of the day. I take it for sleeping and Anxiety which it does help but hate the side effects. Trying to tapper off this drug as I feel its ruining my life the more i'm on it. My doctor does not like it either and is trying to get me off it. If u dont need this drug please don't start taking it. You will regret it sooner or later!!! | F | 51 | 6 months 0.5 ml 3X day | 2/28/2013 | 1 | Depression | Didn't work for me. | F | 40 | 3 months 50mg 1X day | 2/16/2013 | 5 | Anxiety PTSD Anger Depressio. | 1X day | 12/13/2012 | 2 | severe insomnia | None.imy dr says it will help me sleep.i have been on alit of meds and still sleep horrible.up all night .once sfter i have falling asleep for three hrs i wake.dr swesrs this will help.I'm scared to tske this.so before I'm going to tske.I'm judt trying to find mire about ativans.please someone tell me if. You have ever tried and will it help me.thanks .for your imput could save my life.thank you. | F | 48 | 1 weeks 0.5 | 11/1/2012 | 4 | Anxiety | Withdrawal is hell. Your body become rxtremly additive. Cant be stopped immediately. Don't start any kind of Benzo's if at all possible. It will effect your body for years. | Don't take this medicine. | F | 48 | 6 years .5 mg 4X day | 10/27/2012 | 4 | anxiety | if i dnt take it. i get very sick. Feel like my mind is on fast forward.Feel nausea and headache. | F | 34 | 3 years 2 mg | 10/17/2012 | 2 | Psychosis/anxiety | A strange feeling that I am going to fall down and collapse...this made me try to stop it, however withdrawal sidefects are a nasty INSOMNIA - scary! | I ve been on this drug for 12 months. While initially it was great but I decided to get off the drug because i was getting better and my life was improving........I tried to stop it in a week slowly however I got horrible insomnia and was scared i would die. I was so scared i started taking it again and thank god i got my sleep back however, I am STUCK. If i try to stop it i get side effects and I cant deal with the insomnia. I am going to try to half the dose for a month however i am also scared that even halfing the dose will kickstart the insomnia. So I wonder if i have to take this drug for the rest of my life, its a pretty scary thought because it makes me feel that I will fall down...dont know if that is a feeling or a real tendency...whatever it is, I am damned if i stop it and damned if I dont. DONT TAKE THIS DRUG.....its better to suffer naturally..... the side effects are worst!.....I will try to reduce to 0.5mgs a day and I pray that my body can handle it and dont get insomnia. | M | 37 | 12 months 1.2mg 2X day | 9/24/2012 |