ativan

i think the ativan is too strong for me so my dr said take a half 4 times a day has anyone else had this problem im very ill tonight and i took a depokote as i decided to taper off instead of just stopping it as my dr said any thoughts...i was only on depokote since the 8 of aug and also the ativan stopped my klonopin and was put on ativan and i was doing good till today yesterday i took 4 ativans instead of 3 maaybe thats why 1 mg pills ot yesterdat is when i cut back to 250 mg of depokote instead of 500 mg i could use some ideas

[CMSliwa]

Well, ativan can feel strong at first.  you should be using the smallest effective dose as possible.  I started taking .25 MG as needed.  Later on though I built up a tolerance and had to up the dose to .5.  Now I'm on my way to 1.  But you should definately use the smallest dose possible.

[Evon1212]

I've been taking ativan for over seven years. I started out with .5 Mg 3 times a day.  Over the years My doctor has increased the dosage to 2 Mg 3 times a day. If I take it on an empty stomach it tends to make me sleepy, so I always take it with a meal. I lost a month's worth of pills one time on vacation and had to wait 2 weeks to get more. I did not feel any real withdral symptoms over the two week other than difficulty sleeping for the first couple of days.  What I did feel was anxiety, irratability, and a complete lack of enthusiasm for anything.  These feelings vanished the day I got home and contacted my dr. for a refill.
  People can say what they want about addiction, I just know that when I take the pills I don't scream at my kids, I don't have anxiety attacks at the grocery store, and I can deal with the daily stress much better. It also controls my OCD tendencies which get worse when I'm stressed out. The drug has been overall,for myself, a good, workable, long solution for something that had adversly affected my life for years.