Ativan (lorazepam) -Poll-

[bzamp]

I used to rate Ativan #1 for its anxyolitic properties...but hallucinate?....

 

[Pillthrill]

Ativan is about the only this I can get enough of. They won't give me any more Xanax. I know grapefruit can work with Xanax, will it work with Ativan too? How much with I need to take to get it to be comparable?

 

[Psych0naut]

My experiences with lorazepam were among the most peculiar I had with benzo's. I took 5mg back when I had no tolerance, and I live in a blur for the following one and a halve day, of which I had almost no recollection. I got generic 2,5mg Temesta's which packed quite an unexpected punch, it does little these days though, certainly not make me hallucinate.

 

[Where Wolf?]

I had a couple of hallucinatory episodes using ativan (a relative had 1000s stockpiled, a few may have gone missing, here and there), on speed comedowns. In the two most extreme cases, tiny people swarmed all over my bedroom wall, and I unfortunately tried to explain this to my dad. Sometime later, I again dropped several wyeth lorazepam tablets after a long day and night on amphetamine sulphate, and a golden ancient figure in a loin cloth manifested in the room in front of me, laughing hysterically and pointing at my brother as we took turns on a bong.

I finally gave up on benzos other than valium, xanax and temazepam (or other downers), when I yet again gulped ativan on the way down from speed, but mixed with weird hash and a barbiturate, not, as I recall, one of the more potent ones. This time I saw eerie faceless bald women, and had a long, paranoid session of skulking in the basement till sleep FINALLY arrived.

Also abused them, free of stimulants, in my teens with booze, and had a few blackouts in which friends said I seemed to have been hallucinating, and extremely confused as to what the fuck was going on, but I remembered nothing whatsoever.

I always found them sickly, with a weird, not-quite-right feeling to the anxiolytic effect: they calm you down, no question, but always left me with a creepy sense that there was something VERY BAD I couldn't quite remember.

I feel a little sick just thinking about the fucking things. Thankfully, I haven't taken speed, and thus needed benzos, in couple of years.

 

[LightTrailz]

For me when i had my script they did alright for relieving tempory anxiety but even when i took 2 or 3 it still didnt compare to say valium or kpins which id say are more recreational . but thats just me i found it a little to weak for my liking.

 

[VolkeBobruysk]

For me when i had my script they did alright for relieving tempory anxiety but even when i took 2 or 3 it still didnt compare to say valium or kpins which id say are more recreational . but thats just me i found it a little to weak for my liking.

I've heard so many people having hallucinatory experiences on lorazepam but I never did, even with doses up to 15-20mg.

By itself, I find it on the weak side for anxiety and PD prevention, but taken with clonazepam or to a lesser extent, alprazolam, the combination is effective for my body.

For me, I'd have to take over 10-12mg of clonazepam for a recreational buzz. It would take about the same for alprazolam but I have a very high tolerance to BZD's (and opiates, even though I've never done them to any big degree).

When used intravenously for pre-operation it does put a patient into la-la land, though (lorazepam).

 

[DemonXstreeM]

atii just makes me feel like a zombie after a while... I much prefer XanB

 

[VolkeBobruysk]

atii just makes me feel like a zombie after a while... I much prefer XanB

Yeah, it sure "nuf does do that, especially after you get a steady plasma state, administer IV (like they do for pre-op) or have a high dose in ya. It"s also an amnesiac via IV or HIGH dose oral. I personally find some negative respiratory side effects ("heavy chest feeling" when I stop abruptly. I would expect that more from stopping diaz.

Nitrazepam and Flunitrazepam"s zombie effects are a LOT higher but that is digressing from the thread.Zan don"t mKe me a zombie.

ZAN just gives me a nice pleasant mellowness and no dope hangover. Loraz is okay for me above 10-15mg but over 25-35 (oral) you could do minor surgery on me while awake and watch. I still never got hallucinogenic effects....I wish though

 

[eon_blue]

Just got my Ativan script upped to 2mg/per pill instead of just 1mg.

I have to admit I've grown a little fonder of it lately, but only when it comes to "de-stressing" before bed or in the evening.

 

[theworks]

i used lorazepam to help me quit benzos...so i really looked forward to every single ativan i took.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

i'd take ativan over xanax or k-pins any day, no hesitation.

 

[psychedelicious]

Lorazepam is my favorite benzo. I don't hallucinate on lorazepam, even when taking high doses, though I do feel a great euphoria which is absent from other benzos' FX.

 

[gorgoroth]

It's definitely the weakest benzo i've ever used.

 

[Deleted member 81238]

Blah...!

 

[VolkeBobruysk]

It's probably the weakest for those who find it that way because it takes 3-6 hours for peak plasma and taken orally its effect is gradual. It's an anesthetic for pre-surgery but it's IV for that, usually. It never did much for me until my doctor put me on a combination with clonazepam (I was only on clon)

If you drink on top of lorazepam, it is MUCH different than oral w/o ETO because it's ETO soluble and kicks right in and you will feel it (even me).

There really isn't any benzo that I find a 'favorite' although the very short acting ones (temazepam, midazolam, etc.) and flunitrazepam will get me euphoric. I could take several roofies (flunitrazepam) and be very chill.

I don't get off on them, probably because I've been on and off of them for over 25 years. Right now the best benzo for me is a combination of 6-8mg clonazepam a day with 6mg lorazepam. 6mg clon + 2mg lorazepam before work, then 2mg clon + 4mg lorazepam right before bed.

That's me though--everyone's different. I have GAD and PD....people who use them recreationally I'm jealous of I'd need some serious short acting phenobarbs or a couple Quaaludes (yeah, next time I'm in Switzerland) LOL.

 

[VolkeBobruysk]

Ativan is about the only this I can get enough of. They won't give me any more Xanax. I know grapefruit can work with Xanax, will it work with Ativan too? How much with I need to take to get it to be comparable?

Grapefruit juice will slow down metabolism of lorazepam too. Lorazepam was one of the drugs found in Anna Nicole Smith post-mortem. Grapefruit works with lorazepam, diazepam, alprazolam and a couple others in this fashion, inhibiting the cytochrome break-down of these drugs, therefore increasing amounts of the drugs in your system.

 

[IVXLCDM]

Took 10mg Ativan yesterday + 20mg Valium + 30mg temazepam + 400mg codeine 'sizzurp' + all usual potentiators (diphenhydramine, hydroxyzine, cimetidine, and promethazine) +1 tallboy draught, all of this over a period of one evening last night (2~3 hrs).

I expected way more from that combo than the 'buzz' it actually produced. It was more like: mainly lethargy with some sleepiness; just basically being slightly out of it, but still pretty much fully functional (both easy and strange to comprenhend when you look at that cocktail ). To be fair, there were some brief, very brief, intermittent periods when I could feel a decent high of sorts, but they were unfairly too few and far between.

Strange thing is... I couldn't fall alseep tonight , so I'm still technically on the very tale end of that combo. I do take Adderall XR though, and that most likely may have influenced the experience negatively. Since I'm still up, I won't take today's dose of my Addys and consume another 50mg lorazepam with some brew again. Nothing like benzos + booze + and sleep deprevation, huh? 8). I'm not expecting anything much, because my benzo tolerance is probably currently higher than it has been in my whole life. But whatever, I'll report back %).

 

[johanneschimpo]

^ %)Cool Sounds good 8( 8)

 

[DemonXstreeM]

the liquid is the best. take 2mg /two ml of the liquid with some tea or juice and it kicks in nice.

it is still too weak though really for it to be a good buzz but liquid is better than the pills. truly it makes me feel like a zombie of I take too many days in a row and you after a couple of days you don't feel the initial buzz at all.

 

[VolkeBobruysk]

^ %)Cool Sounds good 8( 8)

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