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Getting off lorazepam (Ativan). What was your taper schedule?
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I’m new to this website so I really don’t know what I’m doing so please help I have been on Ativan for about Six months and on Xanax for about six months, I was taking 1 mg Ativan a day I told my doctor I want to get off of this because it messing with my cognitive and I think I’m having side effects from it. He put me on 0.5 in the morning and 0.5 at night as needed he did not give me really instructions and how to slowly come off of the Ativan. so I cut about 25% off and for the last three days it’s been really rough. Today’s a little better and I’m on gabapentin 100 mg at two and 100 mg at night. It does help me sleep at night can help with your suggestions.
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I have cut back 25% for seven days the One day, I may not have too much of withdraws and then the next day the withdraws are a little stronger is this normal don’t want to start cutting back anymore until the withdraws has subsided
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You’re going to have to taper the gabapentin at some point. It will cause dependency issues also. The only think I can suggest is to speak to your doctor about switching to Valium and tapering off. It shouldn’t be bad as you were on a low dose for a relatively short amount time. The folks on high doses for years have the hardest time getting off these meds.