ativan/lorazepam/wellbutrin
#174466 - 04/27/05 01:48 PM
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MT
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I went to the doctor last month and let all my frustrations out. Currently I take Librax,lomotil, and Pepto Mismol, every morning. She wanted me to try Wellbutrin 150 mg to see if it would help my symptoms. I have taken it for a month and feel nothing. I went back today and asked if I could try an anti-anxiety medication, so she is letting me try .5 of Ativan or 1/2 of one if I would like to start at that. She is also having me go up to 300 mg with the Wellbutrin. Does anyone have experience with Ativan and what doseages are you taking? Any information about these and them helping you would be appreciated.
Edited by MT (04/27/05 01:52 PM)
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Ativan
#174470 - 04/27/05 01:55 PM
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I take ativan on occasion...it helps me sleep when I can't and on the occasion in which unexpected stress occurs and I need to calm down I take one as well. It can be addicting so I am very careful with it. It does work wonders though...
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I've taken both ativan and lorazepam. Note: they can be additive. They both made me feel "stoned" and alleviated a lot of the anxiety. However, continual increase was required in order to maintain the level of stress-ease/anxiety inawareness. Is this what you're after re: info. /experience?
I think they're great short-term, or result specific, i.e. vacation, travel, emergency. Long-term? I'd look into other options.
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I have had IBS for 20 years and I am 39 yrs old. I am worn out. I feel like a big stress ball because of it. I have to deal with countless hours on the toilet daily, and have to follow so many rules in my life like always driving my car places so I can leave if I have to, never going to dinner then a movie it has to be movie and then a dinner. I won't go place with people for fear of stomack attacks, My insides feel like knots most of the times and I have started to have anxiety attacks in connection with the IBS. I just want peace. I am naturally high strung and I am sure that doesn't help my IBS. I told my doctor I just wanted a break from myself. I know long term use is not supposed to be the way to go. But you know what, I took my first 1/2 of a pill today at work, and I feel such a calmness and I love that feeling for a change. Even if the doctor will not let me stay on it, this break from myself will be well worth it. I did try this diet and the acacia and I drink peppermint tea. But Carbs bloat me and give me extreme gas, and many of the items are not safe foods for me. I don't think there are any. After taken Acacia the first night, I woke up with this rumbling inside and I already have extreme trapped gas problems. It did not feel good. I know I am going on, but I was just letting you know some things. Thanks for your concerns.
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I take both wellbutrin and ativan for anxiety. I'm on I think 100 mg of wellbutrin and ativan as needed. I find it makes me drowsy which is great when I can't sleep. I just pop an ativan and I'm off to dreamland. I'm sure your Doc cautioned you about the fact that the Ativan can be habit forming. Take it exactly as your Doc says to. Don't mess around with it. .5 is a very low dose. People can take up to 4 or 5 mg a day.
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IMHO you need to give the diet and SFSs more of a chance. They work. Sounds like you needed to start off on a lower dosae of Acacia. And if bread and pasta make you bloated, have you considered the possibility of a wheat por gluten intolerance?
Also, with a-d's you'd typically only just be seeing proper results after a month, so that isn't very long to say "doesn't work".
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I take Xanax when I travel. I have an rx for 0.5mg of the XR, which is a once-a-day time-released formula. Even though it's got a much lower risk of addiction at that dose, I'm still careful with it. For instance, I'll take one a day for the three days we'll be out of town this weekeknd,then come off it once I am home and "safe". I wish it wasn't addictive, because I am a totally different person when I'm on it. Almost normal. 
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what is the difference between a wheat and gluten intolerance?
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I know it takes time for it to get into your system, but I felt completely nothing at a months time. The doctor thought I should have noticed something. It could have been a sugar pill and I wouldn't have been surprised. Regardless, I am still taking it to give it a chance, but at a higher dose. I know that I should've given the fiber a chance, but when you are so miserably gassy and bloated every second of the day, it is hard to continue on something that make you feel even worse. It sounds good in a world where you don't have to go to work and you can deal with this at home. But when you have to get to work, get your kid to school, etc. It is hard enough with what I have let alone adding logs to the fire. I will try again, probably one more time, but I do believe that not everyone always benefits from it. Everyone with IBS knows that each person can be drastically different and what works for one will work for the other. But like I said I will try again, I just have to come up with the right time so I can still go about my usual routines in life.
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FYI lorazepam is the generic form of ativan. MT, I have "C" so our issues are entirely opposite.
I used to be very high-strung at with having more peace in my marriage and life in general I have calmed down quite a bit. As I said in my previous post on this thread I have ativan to help me deal with unexpected emotional stress which has been know to cause me to hyperventilate a bit. Thank God those days are few and far between.
I wouldn't recommend going over 1 mg or whatever the dose is as ativan is addictive. Just be careful.
Prayer helps as well! It's what has seen me through the rough days.
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I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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