If you take ativan during the day can you take a z-drugs in the evening for sleep or could they dangerous potentiate each other? In the leaflet it says you shouldn't mix them. This sucks. I have anxiety AND cant sleep. Do I now have to decide wether to sleep or be anxious?! ------------ Ativan does NOT make me sleepy at all. I assume other benzos don't work for me either. For sleep I need a z-drug. --------------- Question 2) If you take z-drugs regularly do they make you less sensitive to normal benzos and cause tolerance? This would REALLY suck! I take z-drugs quite often. But I never took normal benzos in the past cause I worried about tolerance and also dementia cause benzos supposedly are linked to dementia. But my anxiety also sucks. -------- SORRY PARAGRAPHS DONT WORK