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How did you successfully taper off of 0.5 lorazepam (Ativan)?
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@berekann I was taking it for about two years. My pcp put me on a similar weaning schedule but it was too fast. My sleep doctor suggested the plan I sent and I dragged it out longer as you can see. I had tried getting off it before, but this schedule worked for me. If you haven’t been on it as long as I was, you could just do it faster
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@kawanhee thanks - I’ve only been on it for 6 weeks with a 5-day break in the middle - different doctor in the same office (my pcp was on vacation) said to taper 1/2 dose for 2 nights, then 1/4 dose one night then start Doxepin. Which, when I read about it, opted not to, and went back to Ambien to use up my 5 tablets. That didn’t work well, so my pcp put me back on lorazepam - .5 mg with an extra .5mg if needed. But after 3 weeks of very erratic sleep & lethargic days, he put me on that taper schedule. Just talked with my local pharmacist, who knows me, and she agrees that his plan is a good one. 🤞