Posted by soulkiss on May 16, 2005, at 19:16:18
I have been taking Ativan 1mg x daily for almost 10 years and find that I can maintain on that dose...I have tried Prozac (the side effects were too much)...Celexa (thought I was going to climb the walls)in the past...now I have a GP who wants me to try Effexor XR and I am having anxiety over that...all of my health is fine otherwise...and although there is alot of contraversy with the benzos...Ativan is considered one of the least to be concerned about:
"The controversy surrounding benzodiazepine administration and potential abuse or addiction in routine patient use is generally not supported by the available scientific evidence. In a large community study of long-term alprazolam users, Romach and colleagues (1992) found that dosage did not escalate over prolonged use and that most patients used the benzodiazepines as prescribed. In fact, if deviations occured, it was generally that a patient took less than the prescribed dosage." from: "The American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychopharmacology" by Schatzberg and Nemeroff, 2nd Edition (1998)
...anyone have any comments? Thanks
poster:soulkiss
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