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Looking for help to taper off Ativan (lorazepam)

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Mar 20 8:37pm | Replies (68)

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I am on 0.5 in the evening for 1 year. During this time i also took 0.5 in the morning 2 times for a few months and successfully tapered that 2 times. Now i just finish tapering the morning 0.5 for 10 days and things are kinda strange. I don't even know what or how bad withdrawal gets with these doses. My doc says it's all fine and nothing bad will happen, but so many horror stories on the Internet makes me questions everything.

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Can you or someone share experience or suggest tapering from .5m Ativan. A family member has been on for about a year, starting with 1m and just .5 for past few months and wants to suggest a schedule to Dr, perhaps 25% less every week or two (.5 to .375 to .25 to .125). Would that be reasonable, or would you suggest the staggered and longer taper schedule shared by Kawanhee above? So much info out there is for tapering from much higher doses. Looking for some guidance and experience. Family member also takes melatonin, sometimes valerian spray, and ramelteon for sleep. She used to just take melatonin, and I believe other stressors contributed to insomnia so they started to take (too) many meds/supplements. Any advise on stoping or weaning from the others first or ok to taper Ativan. They'd like to just get back to the melatonin and some camomile/lavender tea;) Thanks for sharing.