The doctor is wrong, I mentioned previously that your dosage and mine are very low but some people still had to withdraw slowly to avoid symptoms, sleep problems are very prevalent with this medication when you try to stop. Also I wanted to add that I had two major surgeries in the past five years and no one warned me about the Ativan causing a problem with anesthesia, in fact I was told to take one the morning of my surgery to keep me calm. I think that some doctors are just very uninformed about these medications and they often cause some people a lot of trouble by pressuring, my doctor was really bad for doing this to me and I went through so much stress and suffering, he even reduced my dosage in large amounts without even talking about it with me.