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i am just about 20, i have extreme anxiety/instrusive thoughts. im manic-depressive, tho my manic highs
are not pleasure anymore, just irritation or extreme stress.

i have past scripts to klonpin 1 mg a night, maybe 4 months worth of these with 2 months of xanax in my
life.

this is my first time on them after a month break, im prescirbed atvian 2 mg a day but i cant seem to stop my racing thoughts without doubling the dose to 4mg. 3mg is 2x better than 2mg, and 4mg is what i
feel i need. i dont want to be on these if im still going to be getting anxiety attack throughout the dosages, thats more harm i feel than raising the dose.

Is 4mg taken once at night un-heard of for an extremely manic-depressive person?
 
Hi, 4mg of lorazepam at night isn't a massive dose. However, I find lorazepam to be the weakest of the benzo family, but YMMV ;)
 
^Me too. Many doctors believe lorazepam and clonazepam are equipotent, but I do not find that to be true. I have been on clonazepam for the majority of the last 6 years, currently I take 2mg/day. 10 months ago I decided to see the psychiatrist at the methadone clinic since it is free, just to see how she was compared to my regular doctor. Well she decided to switch me to ativan at 2mg a day to see how that worked; and it only felt half as strong and I was getting withdrawals after switching. I needed to take 2mg twice a day instead of 1mg twice a day to be normal. It seems to be only about half as potent as clonazepam. I promptly went back to clonazepam.

4mg is a decent sized dose, but certainly not unheard of. If your prescribed dose isn't holding you, that is osmething you need to discuss with your doctor.
 
Different people have different affinities and preferences to different benzos. I found lorazepam to be much more euphoric and effective than aprazolam. Others might not.

Take it from somebody who was on benzos for years, they do not cure your anxiety. At best, they relieve it temporarily. But the longer you take them, the more you will tolerate them and the more you will have to take to get relief. Over time the anxiety from benzo withdrawal becomes far worse than the original anxiety you began taking the benzos for.

Don't let yourself get caught in that trap. If you're going to use benzos, plan on it being TEMPORARY short term relief that will allow you to pursue psychological therapy like CBT so you can learn to eventually deal with the anxiety without benzos. If you think you're suffering now, wait until you have to go through severe benzo withdrawal.

Good luck to you
 
My personal experience has led me to consider diazepam the weakest benzo, although the subjective effects are very nice.
 
4 mg lorazepam is not unheard of for a bedtime dose. Some doctors, nurses, even patients, will tell you that is a lot, others will say it isn't that much. IMO it isn't that much.
 
clonazepam and valium resemble "true benzo" effects IMO. i like them both of them over xanax/ativan.
 
^^^

I was kind of hoping the original poster would respond but hey your opinion is interesting but I was more interested in how he rated Diazepam so low
 
zolazepam - isn't that only ever used to knock out large animals?
 
atm23 said:
Interesting...so what do you think is the strongest Benzo?
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Xanax I guess, although I don't think lorazepam is as weak as some others do. The reason I say valium is the "weakest" is because less than 5 mg has pretty much no effect on me, which is a high(ish) dose in my version of benzoland.

Once you cross that threshold though, it's probably one of the most "fun" ones.
 
DroneLore said:
Xanax I guess, although I don't think lorazepam is as weak as some others do. The reason I say valium is the "weakest" is because less than 5 mg has pretty much no effect on me, which is a high(ish) dose in my version of benzoland.

Once you cross that threshold though, it's probably one of the most "fun" ones.
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5Mgs of Diaz is never going to give anyone a real benzo feeing that's a proper therapeutic dose, not a "recreational" dose by quite some margin IMO Xanax has a much shorter half life as well
 
it's not too high of a dose OP, your dose is going to keep going up and up if you stay at this pace, though.

Dependence is not a joke with benzos and absolutely hell on earth when you get deep enough into the hole (especially if you already have anxiety issues.)

Two words: rebound anxiety.

closing this now, though.
 
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