Hi,

I will never take a benzo chronically again.

I have cognitive issues from a traumatic brain injury and was taking ativan one time a day for sleep. Not a lot, right? It was enough.

When I ran out, and at the same time, I realized it had been causing some of the mental health and worsened cognitive issues (affected my work performance), I elected to discontinue the drug. As I withdrew from it, the anxiety was horrible, and though I gor through it, I never want to feel like thar again!!! I do on rare occassions take 0.5mg for nausea (I have severe gastroparesis and have begun running out of options for treating it-most ot he drugs typically used for nausea have quit working), but I am working with GI in Rochester to come up with other options).

Benzo withdraw is miserable.