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I've been taking Ativan on an as needed basis since August, usually I would only take a half of .5 pill a day, .25 usually around dinner. But I stopped taking any last Wednesday and yesterday I felt kinda weird, anxiety was coming in and I was shaky. I wanna stop taking it but don't want withdrawal issues. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
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Mike2008 dawn0904
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Hi Dawn
I was taking 1mg a day for around 3 months, I stopped taking it and had it replaced with a longer acting benzo as Adivan has a very short half life. My advise would be to discuss this with your Dr., but If your being honest about how much your taking and how long, I don't think you will have to much trouble coming off it. Your on a very low does and at only a month or so you should be fine. You might get a bit of rebound anxiety but it will subside less and less over 7 days. That being said, everyone reacts differently. If your worried about the Withdrawal, go see your GP. But I personally don't think you have anything to worry about; for the next few days eat healthy, drink lots of water and when you feel that anxiety come on, go for a run and get in some exercise.
What ever you do, please DONT google benzo withdrawal as I did. Nothing but negative responses of users who have been on them for years using way more than your currently taking.
Good luck and take care
dawn0904 Mike2008
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Thanks for your reply and advice. Yes I'm serious about how much I took. I'm scared to death of taking any medication at all and I know what this stuff does to ppl. Til this spring when I was hit with anxiety from my birth control I have never been on any medication my entire life and I'm 45. I hate medicine. I seen what it has done to my mother and I refuse to be a experimental person for doctors to play with. No thanks. I'm on Zoloft as well and it's been three months on it and I took the Ativan til it kicked in and I'm looking on getting off it as well by the first of the year. If I can get this Ativan cut back to using it only as needed, like every couple days or something like that til I'm done with the Zoloft then that's what I want to do. Just doing it right and without problems is where I'm stuck at. My doctor says I shouldn't have withdrawal either but I was stuck on buspar for 22 hellish days and I stopped it cold turkey and had bad withdrawal from it and they claim it doesn't have withdrawal. I call bs on that. I've never been right since that crap