Very high benzo tolerance except to Lorazepam?

[delphinen]

I would like someone help me here,
I have a strong tolerance to benzos, I usually take 10mg Clonazepam to sleep for example, so I'm used to take high doses of Alprazolam, Bromazepam, etc.
Tonight I wasn't feeling well so I stayed at home and decided to open the 25 1mg Lorazepam box. I remember reading it wasn't very potent, so I put 3mg under my tongue, after some minutes 3mg more, and after 10' I felt better for the first time in the day, more "ventilated", with less anxious, so I mixed those Lorazepam with 2mg Clonazepam.
25' after I am yawning and sleepy as if I could go to bed and get a sleep, no euphoria like a big dose Clonazepam/Alprazolam, but it doesn't matter, how comes this benzodiazepine makes me more sleepy so fast? lack of tolerance?
Last but not least, could these help me on an Adderall comedown after work?

Thanks in advance

 

[RodJonse]

That's odd. Lorazepam was the only benzo I could take without feeling sleepy.

No idea why you might be feeling that way. I doubt it's a tolerance thing because most people get cross tolerance with benzos.

 

[Crashing]

Different benzos have different effect complexes. The reasons why are hardly understood, I guess you just react that way to lorazepam. I can say though, in my opinion your benzo tolerance is very high. Usually 1mg of lorazepam or 1mg of clonazepam is enough to make the average person fall into snooze land. 10mg is a lot! They definitely will help with adderall comedowns. Also, aplrazolam is most known for having the most euphoric property out of all the benzos.

 

[Swimmingdancer]

For most people lorazepam is more sedating than clonazepam. So it makes sense that you would need less of it to get to sleep than an "equivalent" dose of clonazepam.

So while the conversion chart says 1mg clonazepam is supposed to equal roughly around 2mg of lorazepam, I think that is more measuring the anxiolytic/anti-convulsant effects, not the sedation. Plus there isn't complete cross-tolerance between different benzos, I'm not sure if the conversion charts take that into account or not.

 

[delphinen]

For most people lorazepam is more sedating than clonazepam. So it makes sense that you would need less of it to get to sleep than an "equivalent" dose of clonazepam.

So while the conversion chart says 1mg clonazepam is supposed to equal roughly around 2mg of lorazepam, I think that is more measuring the anxiolytic/anti-convulsant effects, not the sedation. Plus there isn't complete cross-tolerance between different benzos, I'm not sure if the conversion charts take that into account or not.

That is very interesting. So I could reduce my intake of benzos perhaps mixing some Clonazepam and Lorazepam to sleep right?

 

[RobotRipping]

yeah probably but not a good idea to use benzos to sleep. They mess up your sleep architecture really badly. That being said, i sometimes use lorazepam to sleep and it works quite well. Valium is a bit more sedating but lorazepam does the job.

 

[ro4eva]

Could it be that your liver has something to do with this? Lorazepam - afaik - is one of only a few benzos which are eliminated from the body via conjugation instead of hepatic P450 enzyme reduction.