Ativan (lorazepam) -Poll-

[spun420 v. 2.0]

I love all benzos, this one is kinda boring but I'll take it if its around. I like it more than oral midozolam. What kind of doses are people reorting hallucinations from? I have a good friend and he just suffered from a stroke, the doc gave a choice between ativan and xanax. I sure am glad he opted for the Xanax he's loopy enough right now w/o any halucinations.

 

[Boiling in Acid]

I picked choice 2: Meh alright, a little too weak for me, still fun

I think ativan is great for theraputic usage, but it just isn't very recreational for me. It makes me relaxed and takes away all my anxiety, but I don't get the euphoria on ativan that I get while on valium, klonopin, or xanax. I also feel much less affected by lorazepam in comparison to the other benzos. I've never hallucinated on ativan, but I have hallucinated on xanax a couple times. It wasn't exactly fun for me. Nothing like a real psychedelic experience of course.

sonic just said it 4 me, except the xanax part, never hallucinated on a benzo.
tnx sonic

 

[silentscience]

Ativan kind of dulled the then-fading panic sensations I was feeling at the hospital, but then again it was only 1mg......
not much of a buzz at all really.
diazepam seems to be growing on me...but I keep it to once a week.

 

[staypuft]

it's slightly recrational for me...

i've never halucinated off of it though (even after taking high doses)

 

[jpgrdnr]

I'm going to try and up a dose of Ativan that I had taken earlier. Maybe somewhere in the 4mg to 6mg range. See what happens. It usually just really really relaxes me out.
Never hallucinated on Ativan. My motor control seems pretty well shot though...standing and walking about is a bizarre experience. I'm just sitting around listening to tunes. Smoking a spliff would probably be choice right now.

 

[drunken_etard]

Didn't like it at all, not recreational

 

[ChemicalSmiles]

I dont like it recreational it all..... its close to valium..... if I get 60 mgas of valium or more I get a good buzz but it takes godly amounts of ativan for me to feel different at all.

 

[SpunkySkunk347]

I have only had lorazepam twice, one day after the other. So the second time I tried it I felt nothing, but the first time was meh, ok. Weak opiates like codeine feel better than lorazepam.

It was also the very first benzo I tried, so I had no tolerance. The first time I took .5mg, the second time I took 1mg.

No hallucinations for me, and it wasn't till after my lorazepam experience that I learned you can hallucinate on it.

 

[majinbijiita]

I only had it once, when they gave me it in the hospital after a Wellbutrin OD.

It was my first experience with the benzos, thus I loved it, and still love it today.

 

[The Candy Man]

I have noticed some 'hallucinations' on Ativan, but to be more accurate, they are not really hallucinations at all. What you see is stuff you normally see, you just don't pay attention t them, but when you're high/stoned/chilled (Whatever you want to call it...) you notice these things. Same thing happens when you are sleep deprived.

Then another reason that may explain this occurence could be the chemical changes within the brain. (Before and after.) The theory is that when get an anxiety attack, you have too much oxygen in your bloodstream. (That's why you get a paper bag and breath into it... to increase CO2 levels in the blood.)
So my thinking is that if you are tanked on benzos and getting a buzz from the CO2 then you might just be experiencing tingles in your field of vision. (More so in the preriffrial field of vision.)

 

[dionysus]

i find it to be alright, but best when mixed with other drugs

 

[MrMoss]

Not the highest on my list by any margin ... I doubt I could give em away!

 

[FractalStructure]

I hallucinate, in a manner very similar to zolpidem, on even 1.5 mg. however this doesnt always happen. and i know this makes no sense, but it has only happened with generic lorazepam. Ativan itself never made me hallucinate and actually feels more like a benzo than generic versions (i KNOW this doesnt seem logical. but its true. and im not one of those people who doesnt know shit about these drugs)

the experience i remember most is looking at my fridge, which has those magnetic letters stuck to it. they were very vividly moving around, while everything else was still... very weird. also i sometimes get the wavy vision, and people's faces look strange, which i also get on ambien. Also i noticed that people that hallucinate on low doses of ambien/zolpidem are more likely to hallucinate with lorazepam (does loraze. have any structural similarity to ambien and sonata, etc? i mean, any more so than any benzo does to these chemicals, i know they all affect gaba in similar ways)

 

[johanneschimpo]

I'd call ativan my 2nd, or more likely, 3rd favorite benzo

 

[Hellbilly]

I've used it five times by prescription.

Twice at 0.5mg I didn't really feel anything. Not even sure if it helped with anxiety, because I don't know if I'd have had issues anyway.

Twice at 1mg, I took it each time about 1-1.5 hours before job interviews and I think it helped. The second time I came home and slept for a couple of hours.

One time I took 1mg a couple of hours before bed because I wanted to get to bed early. It didn't seem to help so I took an additional 0.5mg sublingual a few hours later and slept well.

I am a 230lb caucasian male.

 

[burn out]

i took 4 mg and had a great time, i loved the way it disolved under my tongue.

 

[BENSONHURST]

it is the least recreational out of the 'common' benzo's
that are out there, ie xanax, valium, clonazepam

 

[MissMojoRisin]

They jacked me up on Ativan while I was on the 4th floor, cold turkey-ing from a bad Perc addiction. It sucked ass unless they IMd me with the shit, then I'd be out cold within 2 minutes.

 

[kapow]

if your hallucinating on a benzo you should probably cease all drug taking immediately!! lol

 

[indelibleface]

if your hallucinating on a benzo you should probably cease all drug taking immediately!! lol

Actually, in more than a few people, including me, lorazepam produces hallucinations that are like a mild Ambien trip. Stationary objects will actually be moving around to a degree that there's no question it's a hallucination caused by the drug. A lot of people will vehemently deny that a benzodiazepine can make you hallucinate, but like Erowid says, you cannot always discount the experiences of others. Lorazepam seems to be unique in this regard.