Question for the people who have taken lorazepam long term: did the rebound anxiety ever settle, or is that just the price of admission?
Withdrawal symptoms are not the same as side effects, and conflating them wasted a year of my life.
The rebound is worse than the original problem for about a fortnight and then it eases.
Rebound anxiety at the end can outlast the taper itself, which is why the last bit takes as long as the first.
Mostly wanting to compare notes rather than be told what to do.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Print the page.
Print the page.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers. Not on lorazepam but the pattern is familiar.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Same here.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it. Not on lorazepam but the pattern is familiar.
Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the start. It changes the appointment.