Side Effect

[Thomas29]

Every time I use like 6-8 mg of Lorazepam or more. Sometime I will start to see like the words on a post I am reading or something.... slowly just shift away and apart from each other holy fucking shit the words on the screen are actually starting to do it kind of breathing in and out a bit.

Well I am just wondering if this is common side effect with a lot of people who use Lorazepam or not. Oh FYI if you (i) stare long enough you can see the letters change places with other letters so slowly and words become different words?

Very nice and awesome and trippy lol.

 

[Cane2theLeft]

Sounds like diplopia but I can't diagnose your symptom over the internet.




--->BDD

 

[Lord]

I get this with sleep deprivation, benadryl, zopiclone, even seroquel, but its very rare that I get it from lorazepam alone. Its just not trippy beyond the MILDEST level to me. But yes, its not completely abnormal to get a few basic visuals at high doses.

 

[karen1234]

I took 8mg Xanax, 4mg Klonopin and 30mg Temezapam every day for 2 years and 4 months. It amazes me that all this was by prescription and I hear people here that do some of the hardest drugs on earth and they freak out about benzos. They are right to, becasue those pills destroyed my brain and my body, probably forever. Towards the end I could barely walk because of painful nerve damage and I was hearing voices. I cold turkied around September 2007 and my life has been a living hell ever since - unbearable pain that never ends - the withdrawals that never end. Benzos are so addictive - I lost my soul; I felt more like a benzo than a human being. My cells vibrated and screamed for more Xanax. I convulsed in a ball on the floor - over and over and over. When I shut my eyes I saw strange things... I still do. I looked behind the doors for monsters. The monsters are gone, but I still feel like shit 24/7. These pills just don't take their teeth out.

When I first took benzos I didn't even know they were addictive - just some little "chill pills".

 

[curlygurl1980]

^^^^wow thats really scary i am an opiate addict (now on methadone maitenence) and i had a bout with meth for a couple of years but i have never been into the benzo thing other than occasionaly for sleep thank goodness. i have heard that benzo withdrawel was horrific but i had no idea they could give u nerve damage and make u not walk and screw with your brain so bad u hear voices. thats terrible. u have not taken any in 3 years and u still feel like shit? Man thats awful...best wishes i hope things get better for u

 

[Lord]

I took 8mg Xanax, 4mg Klonopin and 30mg Temezapam every day for 2 years and 4 months. It amazes me that all this was by prescription and I hear people here that do some of the hardest drugs on earth and they freak out about benzos. They are right to, becasue those pills destroyed my brain and my body, probably forever. Towards the end I could barely walk because of painful nerve damage and I was hearing voices. I cold turkied around September 2007 and my life has been a living hell ever since - unbearable pain that never ends - the withdrawals that never end. Benzos are so addictive - I lost my soul; I felt more like a benzo than a human being. My cells vibrated and screamed for more Xanax. I convulsed in a ball on the floor - over and over and over. When I shut my eyes I saw strange things... I still do. I looked behind the doors for monsters. The monsters are gone, but I still feel like shit 24/7. These pills just don't take their teeth out.

When I first took benzos I didn't even know they were addictive - just some little "chill pills".

I had 2-5(mg) lorazepam and 3-10 zopiclone tablets a night for close to a year, ended up adding bowls of weed, something like 6-18 benadryl, alcohol, fuck. And I can relate to some of what you experienced.

First of all, it dulled me quite a bit, my emotions and my cognition. Made my face look completely retarded, and I became so depressed that one day I just decided to burn the house with a lighter and aerosol can which I didnt complete, I was on the verge of murdering (including my parents), and suicide, and it didnt matter much at all to me. We cornered it to the overuse of downers (lorazepam, zopiclone, benadryl, particularly the last two). I still have a fear that an assassin is nearby, right behind the door usually, or behind everything and Im in a tiny electrified grey prison cell with aliens or monsters surrounding me in my small room (the objects). Theres nothing worse than that. A severe alcohol hangover would be preferable to a minute of this feeling when it really acts up. At the time it provided relief. However I will admit I scattered my brain by taking many drugs simultaneously and I cant always know what caused what. And I hear voices too, and sirens, but they are mild right now. All of this shit is mild right now, thank you seroquel and drug-reduction. Sometimes I feel like this assassin is a reflection of me, something like my subconscious keeping me frightened of myself in that state so that I realize how crazy I was. But that could just be more craziness.

 

[Thomas29]

I am severely sleep deprived do you think that this might have some to do with it?

 

[sekio]

Yeah. Sleep deprivation can play all sorts of havoc with your brain.

 

[stirfry]

Hallucinations are a rare, but recognized, side effect of lorazepam. Anecdotally, it's said to resemble zolpidem's hallucinatory state by those who get this side effect. If you do a search, you will find other threads on this very topic.

I am severely sleep deprived do you think that this might have some to do with it?

Yes, sleep deprivation is known to cause of hallucinations. Also, 6-8mg is a pretty large dose of lorazepam. You can expect the side effects to be more pronounced on such a high dose.

 

[Thomas29]

Okay thank you for the information. Now I do not have to worry as much.