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Paradoxical Reaction to Lorazepam

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I've been taking adderall for a little over a year now. My doc prescribes me the adderall but won't give me anything to bring it down at the end of the night, or even during the day if it gets to be too intense.

I usually get klonopin from a friend on the really long days that ive been up for a while. It does a fantastic job of winding me down into a well needed rest.

The other day, i couldn't get ahold of my friend who has the klonopin, so instead i got my hands on a 1mg lorazepam . - - Fast forward - -

30 min later, I'm convinced I'm going to die and am literally going crazy. I'm hallucinating, hearing things that aren't there and talking to a reflection of a light bulb, in a glass.

I even was on the computer trying to figure out what kind of fucked up medicine I had taken and started falling asleep. Once my head hit my laptop, I awoke but starting convulsing violently for about 8 seconds as i tried to regain my consiance.

Needless to say, I will never take this pill again in my life. Klonopin is the benzo for me.

Now - Does anyone know why this happened? Anyone have a trip like this off only 1mg?

Thanks
 
Lorazepam can do that, it's a strange benzo in that regard. Or maybe it was an adverse reaction.
 
that actually happened to a friend of mine, he took to many diet pills went to the ER they gave him that stuff then boom he started hallucinating. they have no idea why it happened but it did
 
It sounds like you had an adverse reaction to lorazepam (Ativan). It happens with some people with some benzodiazepines (in fact, it happens to some people with clonazepam!).

I use lorazepam and I've never had a problem with it, it is very similar to clonazepam for me. However, because you had an adverse reaction (sometimes called a "Paradoxical Reaction") to lorazepam I recommend not taking it any longer and using a benzodiazepine that you know works, in your case, clonazepam.

For more information about these reactions, check out this wikipedia article and this overview from benzo.org.uk.

OP, I'm changing the title of your thread for easier searching, if you have any questions, feel free to PM me or another member of the BDD staff.
 
It was a paradoxical effect to lorazepam. Paradoxical effect are not common and, in fact, as NeighborhoodThreat already mentioned clonazepam is notorious for causing this. With lorazepam it's rare. It can happen with just about any benzo, but it's very, very rare and the worst perpetrator is usually clonazepam .
 
I was prescribed lorazepam for the first time a couple days ago and it seems to work like a charm, and the pharmacist told me adverse reactions are rare. If you check out our benzo conversion chart conveniently located at the moment in the posts kokaino and NeighborhoodThreat have made, 1mg of lorazepam is only about .5mg xanax/klonopin, so a very small dose. I'm with everyone else on this, and saying you just happened to have a paradoxical reaction. However, it does seem somewhat odd to me that one benzo caused it and not another, although I have a paradoxical reaction to the z-drugs (zolpidem, aka Ambien for one) but can take benzos just fine.
 
I got naked at my in-laws after taking .5mg. Thought I was in a castle. Very pleasurable experience for me. It was for an MRI I was having so I took half to try it out a couple nights before. WOW. Don't know If anyone saw me besides my wife..lol
 
Hi. Please do not bump old threads, especially if it's to say inane things... Closed.
 
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