It’ll be happy time in 30 minutes when it kicks in.
I’m going through hell at the moment.
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I take ativan but not often, don’t want to get hooked on them
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Me niether. I was given a few of them to get me over christmas and I now have 3.5 left.
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I had a headache for a few days after tapering off of Klonopin.
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What I’m going through right now, I don’t wish on anyone.
If you can just enter my mind right now, you’ll never want to take a benzo ever again.
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yeah sometimes I really crave a benzo but I know I would build up a tolerance to them if I ever had a prescription for a benzo.
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It’s literally the legal cocaine.
“Oh you have anxiety ? Here have some ■■■■■■■ coke to help you out”
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Just how addictive are they? Makes me worried to read all this, my pdoc has me on .5mg of Ativan twice a day for severe anxiety and panic attacks
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My advice to you is get off of them while you still can.
They’re habit forming.
You may use them a couple times and say to yourself “Oh, these are pretty good. They work quite well.”
Next thing you know you develop tolerance to them and you’re having withdrawals between each dosage.
Then you don’t know if you should stop them or go higher on the dosage.
Just quit them. While you still can, and find something else to help with your panic attacks.
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I’ll definitely take that into consideration, I’ll bring that up with my pdoc in my next appointment in a couple weeks. Last thing I need is forming a dependence to something, I have enough problems with my mental health without adding a dependency into the mix.
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If you take it as prescribed, don’t constantly up your dose, and don’t take it for years on end, you’ll be fine.
I took 1 mg of Ativan nightly for a year, quit cold turkey and had no issues whatsoever.
However I think it also may depend on the benzo?? Because for klonopin I only took .5 mg (sometimes 1 mg) nightly for 2 months straight, and I did experience mild withdrawal from quitting that. Despite it supposedly being the least likely to cause withdrawal 
I take klonopin. I had terrible withdrawal symptoms when I was taken off it before but I had other issues going on at the time so I don’t know what caused what. I did have the dose upped at one point before then which may have helped lead to it. I have kept the dose the same this time no matter how I feel and deal with my anxiety in other ways. I am afraid though that I have gotten too much into food to deal with it though and need to change the criteria. I no longer have trouble with the main problems that plagued me then with anxiety however which was lack of sleep and a heightened awareness of myself and my surroundings due to recent additions to my scripts…