We first weened her from lorazepam to diazepam, and then tapered her down and completely off diazepam. It took about a year. I have nothing good to say about psychiatrists at all. Money grubbing pill pusher.
Find a doctor who will work with you. The Ashton Method will work, you need to be patient, and be able to get access to xanax and then diazepam. Best of luck.
What a relief. She prescribed me Clonidine and Lorazepam to help relieve some of the left over of the detox symtoms that I've been having. Has anyone ever taken these meds before. I know that Lorazepam is kinda like a valium. I'm just a bit scared of taking more meds at this time. I know this is supposed to help me, but it's a bit scary for me right now. I am going to therapy on Thursday so I know that will help with my mental state. Help anyone?
hey buddy they are both the same medicine its usually prescribed in low dosage and for mult use through the day and usually combined with clonidine for people going through opiate wd's or mild depression
I was incredibly tired and dizzy after taking the vistaril about 8 p.m., and then the Clonidine and 25 mg trazadone closer to bedtime. I had some strange sensations and lay awake all night.I have been only averaging 3-5 hrs, a night for over 2 months. It's awful. I also can't stop trying to figure out a solution to this mess, so my mind races & I worry about it a lot. I don't see a good way out of this situation. Can't nap either, just can't sleep.
Klonopin is the brand name for a drug with the generic name clonazepam, and is a benzodiazepine that has actions similar to diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), and lorazepam (Ativan). Clonazepam and other benzos are sometimes given to people to help tolerate withdrawal, but they are addictive as well, and so some people would recommend avoiding them.
I would tell you to leave the Lorazepam alone and not even get mixed up with that. The Clonidine can help a lot, but I have no idea how much or little you should take. Same with the Trazadone.
And ultimately, like IBKleen said once your through the w/drawal you will need to learn how to STAY clean. Much harder than getting clean. Aftercare is key. The merry-go-round will never stop until you (we as addicts) figure out why we use in the first place.
Best of luck and many blessings.
Bentyl and clonidine is a mix of safe medications to help ease opiate withdrawal symptoms. I have been on methadone for 8.5 years and today is my 12th day without it and my family doctor prescribed me those to meds to ease my withdrawal symptoms. Still have symptoms but they are a lot more manageable with those meds. They are 100% safe.
I've been taking 20 to 30 mgs ( 3- 10-325's) for two months now. I'm going to quit, but I can't miss work with all the bad side effects. I've been listening quietly to all the remedies, any advice? And what's this stuff Clonidine? I tried to quit a week ago but caved in after two days, with most of the symptoms everyone else talks about. Never thought I'd let myself get in this situation, I actually have a prescription, but I don't want to take 'em anymore.
So on top of the suboxone daily I was on 4 mgs of klonopin(clonazepam, very potent, long lasting benzo), and Ativan(Lorazepam-also very potent anti-anxiety benzo). the klonopins was taken during the day and the lorazepam at night. I never noticed any breathing problems or ever came close to death, but everyone is different and I cant stress that enough.
I have been taking as much as 150mg and as little as 20mg of lortab per day for months now, I had a bad addiction to them 5yrs ago and managed to get off of them but low and behold I ended back on the same road. I know that it'll only last for about a week but I am a full time student and can't afford to stay home and in bed because of the cold sweats, diarreah, and just aching from head to toe all day. Does anyone have any advise?
i am taking lorazepam 2.5 mg and fluvoxamine 50 mg since 3 years ago. My doctor told me to taper lorazepam using water titration withdrawal method. i´m trying to do that. so I started: during the first week I removed each day only 2.5ml, and i was feeling myself positive. on the second week I removed 5ml each day (I was removing 5ml and taking 95ml every 7 days of these 2ª week), and I was sucessefull. Now, i´m on the 3ª week removing daily 7.5 ml (I was removing 7.5ml and taking 92.
I've been on Zoloft just 1 week so far. Today, I started feeling a little better. I read it can take up to a month to work. I cut my dose of Lorazepam in half to see how I would feel and so far so good. I've been to counseling for years. I think the Lorazepam caught up to me as I'm not getting the benefits I used to out of it. Hopefully, the Zoloft alone will work eventually. Thanks for responding!
16 day after taking the medications my father suddenly refuse to take his medication and refuse to eat and his condition had worsened, As if he has lost his will to live. He is now in a psych unit and now taking clonidine and lorazepam, we hope that this combination will work for him coz, we, the family, are already suffering from his condition. Does the benefit outweighs the risk in trying prozac for an elderly patient? and does clonidine better in teating deppression?
Oxazepam is a benzodiazapine, same classification of drugs as Xanax (alprazolam), Ativan (Lorazepam), and Klonopin (Clonazepam). It's a Schedule IV drug. All benzos can be addictive, so be careful with it, and it should be tapered before stopping. Your doc is right about the Clonidine, but it should be noted that your blood pressure does make a difference here, so be careful with it as well. The oxazepam is an anti-anxiety/sedative hypnotic agent by the way.
For example, in natural medicine the thing to add would be passionflower and hops or kava or something like that, which if they work will do what lorazepam does without the addiction problem. There would also be dietary and exercise and meditation changes involved, a whole body approach as opposed to a one remedy cures all approach.
I just took one of those home drug tests and it is positive for benzo which I have a prescription for in the form of Lorazepam and oxy which I have not taken in months and then only a few. The opiate was negative and everything else what is up with the false positive on the oxycontin??
Help I may be getting a test this week. I am only taking sub's, prevacid, and tylenol pm. I did have a clonidine patch on for a couple of days.
If there is no contraindication for taking depakote and lorazepam, they may tell you to go ahead and take your normal dose of lorazepam but to contact your doctor ASAP.
Make some calls and you'll soon be back in control.......you'll be fine.
And either find a new doctor or let this one know that when it comes to medications, anytime they add something or change something......
I decided it was time to get off this crap, even though otc meds do nothing for my back pain and sciatica and I hurt a lot each day now. My doc gave me 120 Clonidine .01mg (too be take every 6 hours) and then 30 Temazepam 15mg. The Temazepam is gone b/c I used it to sleep as much as possible day 2 & 3 and would take 2 each time. So, I know screwed the pooch w/ that one.
I used it during my hospital detox for my oxy and heroin addiction which was huge. they gave me .1 mgs of clonidine every five hours, .5 mgs of lorazepam every half an hour(def. not enough), ambien 10 mgs for sleep, and an injection i dont remember for the nausea and vomiting I experienced. the clonidine def. helped but it was still terrible. Then after three long and horrid days I saw the suboxone doctor and i was put on 8 mgs a day and then by the end of month one I was on 32 mgs a day.
Dear Doctor:
For the past ten years I've been taking both Oxycontin and OxyIR. My dosage has increased over the past five years and currently I am taking 340mg day. I've noticed, especially these past for years that I have absolutely no interesin anythig whatsoever. I shut myself away and don't want to talk to people, especiallly my husband.
Since I was 17 years old, I've made my own way in life and quite successfully too.
try slowly tapering your daily intake of hydros and then when its low enough you should only have very minor withdrawals,but for that i would recommend if you have a doctor or go to a clinic and explain the sitaution they will give you clonidine, which will help with the chills, sweats, and blood pressure spikes. a benzo, usually valium or lorazepam, used for a short period for extreme anxiety, cravings, and the muscle cramps/sapsms.
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