Posted by SLS on December 18, 2012, at 0:02:33
In reply to Re: xanax, posted by jono_in_adelaide on December 17, 2012, at 22:21:11
> If Xanax continues to make you feel groggy, it would be well worth trying Ativan and or Frisium...
I am not familiar with Frisium.
I find Ativan to be a very "clean" drug with respect to sedation and cognitive impairment. As I recall, Xanax produced some cognitive changes that I was uncomfortable with. I felt too "layed back" and groggy.
I believe that Xanax is more likely to produce paradoxical activation than is Ativan due to disinhibition.
Ativan had been very helpful to my 99 year old grandmother when she was in the hospital. Against my protests, they switched her to Xanax. I went so far as to lecture the charge nurse about behavioral disinhibition. The nurse said that she could only follow the orders left by the doctor. My grandmother became very agitatated after being given the first dose of Xanax. The nurse subsequently gave her more. My grandmother reacted to this second dose by becoming violent. It became necessary to attempt to place her in restraints. However, before they were able to do this, she ripped out her IV catheter and died. In the end, I believe she got what she wanted. In her mind, I am sure that she had chosen to die rather than to suffer more infirmity and hospitalizations. It was a suicide. I just wish it would have been a peaceful death.
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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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