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Ativan tolerance

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Feb 6 9:41pm | Replies (16)

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@gmamrj

That is wonderful. I need off this too. Have been taking .5 mg of Ativan for 5 years. I know I have developed a tolerance for it.
My main issue is not sleeping.
Wonder what the worse thing would happen if I just quit cold turkey?

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Yes, I nearly always took Ativan at night and actually took just .25 mg in the middle of the night several nights before I decided to stop. Over the years, I tried cold Turkey from .5 mg a few times and always had a terrible time and failed, but this time I actually didn’t care how terrible I might feel, I wanted off the stuff, period. Maybe that determined mindset is what has worked for me. On such a low dose of .5 and .25 mgs, I wasn’t concerned about having a seizure (though don’t know if that’s true for everybody), so going cold Turkey FOR ME hasn’t been a problem but rather an unexpected relief. I wake up a few times at night because of prostate issues, but I feel I sleep a lot better between wake ups than I did while taking the drug all those years.