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Re: valium vs klonopin? » Ritch

Posted by Chloe on June 15, 2003, at 22:05:19

In reply to Re: valium vs klonopin? » Chloe, posted by Ritch on June 15, 2003, at 9:39:23

> Hi Chloe, when you had your "paradoxical reaction" to Ativan-what exactly happened? Did you get hypo on it? Just wondering because I might ask my pdoc at some point about switching from Klon to Ativan. I was just given a few tabs of Ativan as samples for panic related to flying. It worked really well, but I took my baggage to an obviously wrong place (to MOST people) at the airport and the baggage dudes all laughed at me-it WAS pretty funny.

Hi Mitch,
That airport story is funny! Maybe your next trial could be in a less stressful environment.
My Ativan trial (I looked it up) was in 1990. I wrote that I had severe anxiety and activation. I couldn't be still, pacing, etc. It does have a shorter half life than klonopin. So you might notice when it's wearing off if you don't take it regularly.

> I think you are right about Klonopin "putting the brakes on a mixed-state episode". If I get like that usually 1.0mg/day (up from .5mg/day) for a couple of days will take care of it-just feel a little tired. You might just ask your pdoc for a trial script of clonazepam (and try to get the dose equivalence to your valium right) and swap it out for a while and see how it goes-if it gets worse-switch back. Let us know what happens---take care--- Mitch

Thanks-I have an appointment this thursday. So we will see how it goes. I am impressed though, that upping my Valium by 5mgs/day has had little effect on anxiety and mixed states. I am not sedated at all, like I have feared if I am at work, and I still feel so keyed up, like my heart is racing a bit. I wonder if that is related to the thyroid stuff that I can't seem to get an endo appt for! Hopefully thursday I can get a slip to get labs drawn too.
Chloe


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