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Looking for help to taper off Ativan (lorazepam)
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Mar 20 8:37pm | Replies (68)Comment receiving replies
This drug is terrible......I have taken it for about a year now and find that .5 is hardly making a diffference any longer. I was taking .5 in the morning and .5 in the late afternoon but recently had to go up to .5 three times a day. I want to taper off and get this out of my system but it is so hard. Everything just starts to feel like it is shaking inside. Has anyone tried Buspar as an alternative? My psych doc is suggesting it.
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I tried Buspar while in the hospital and Reba. I didn’t find it helpful. It’s not an Atavan weaning med.
For me Buspar was worse than Adavan. Thinking
it was the answer to my twice a day doses of .5 in the morning and another at 2 pm. Still made me a zombie. Adavan was too strong for me anyway and at one point after 14 days (the recommended dose time). I was cut off suddenly with no weaning off (in other words, cold turkey). Was a nightmare. I was in rehab and had to beg for another one in the morning and at 2pm.
When I finally came home I called my psychiatrist and he switched me to Clonazapan (Klonopin) and it was half the dose of Adavan and it worked. After a couple to three days I stopped taking it completely after and Klonopin took over but it wasn’t as bad as Adavan. Klonopin was a bit less addictive and fairly easy to take. Not as strong as Adavan but just enough to take the edge off.
Some people can’t take Klonopin but it was better than the zombie causing Adavan.
No way was I able to quit Adavan cold turkey. I am however no longer sleeping all day after I got rid of the Adavan. There is a path to free yourself from Adavan it just takes a few days. Good Luck
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I did know a woman that needed to get off of Xanax and she was in a facility to get off of it. They administered Buspar for her and she made the jump off of Xanax and did very well with the Buspar. She told me that you can go off of Buspar, whenever you are comfortable to do that. Keep in mind that you will be taking Buspar every day and it will take a month to see results. Maybe your doctor will have you take both of them together for a month? That would be something I would ask, since the withdrawals are so awful.