New meds

[glassrose777]

Went to dr yesterday. He put me on 20mg celexa and .5mg of Ativan twice a day. Anyone have good or bad experiences with either?

[aegirl23]

I'm on .5 mg of Ativan once a day and no problems for me. I just started taking it a week ago I'm also on lexapro 10mg and I was nauseous like all week I'm finally starting to get better, and I was alittle dizzy too.

[bhamlaxy]

I've had great experience with ativan.

You don't need to take it twice daily- really just take it as needed. Twice a day is fine, but if you aren't feeling panicky there is no need to take it.

I was taking .5mg whenever I felt bad anxiety, usually every morning.

The ideal goal is that as the Celexa kicks in, you will need the ativan less and less. In my experience, .5mg of ativan would eliminate anxiety and end a panic attack in 15-20 minutes. Only real side effect was a little sleepiness sometimes.

[jester336]

Ativan does work great. I took it only as needed For a few years and didn't have any problems. Until one vacation for some reason, we don't know why I never had any drug problems before, I took between 10 and 45 mg of it in a day. Yep that's a lot. I lost a total of five days in a row that I will probably never recall.

Then went thru withdraw symptoms a few days after that. Extremely unpleasant to put it lightly. I went thru everything fom severe flu like symptoms, feeling worms under my skin, to talking to halusinations.

So. Yes it does work great, but becareful. Don't keep a lot on you. And if/when you go off it. Do it very slowly!