I can't understand why doctors always want to mess with a persons medications and instead of making things better, get it all screwed up? Why mess with things when everything is working well? I have a long history of having to take benzodiazepines starting when I was in HS. I started out with librium, then valium, and finally lorazepam. I have taken lorazepam for many years and now my present PCP wants me off of it. I have tried a lot of the newer meds for depression and anxiety and none of them worked well enough to stay on them. Now I feel I am being used as a guinea pig again.
I have no quality of life, and nothing to live for, but I am supposed to try new meds again and for what? Ativan is the only medicine that worked well for me and now I have to start trying out new drugs? I am seventy seven years old so I probably don't have many years left anyway. I just want to live out my life without a lot of needless obstacles.