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what to do about ativan

Posted by disidente on December 15, 2003 at 07:19:48:

I've been trying to give up all sleep drugs but i find this hard to do
in the case of ativan. I've been taking it maybe once every 5 days
or so. i've apparently gained more of a tolerance for it since it
now takes 1.5 mg to do anything for me, up from 1 mg before.

i find that as each day passes after the night i took ativan,
i sleep less and less. I'm doing SRT and go to bed
aound midnite. i have two alarms, one set for 6:30 and
one at 6:45. I get up with the second alarm. so it's about
6 hours and 45 minutes in bed. last nite i only got
2 or 3 hours of low-level sleep, intermittent dozing,
tho with some dreams. the night after the night with
ativan i sleep approximately from 1 to 5, so four hours.
so it seems that the sleep diminishes each night
after the night i took the ativan. what happens is
that my circulatory system becomes more agitated, it seems.
i can feel my blood pounding. and by the third night
i can feel sort of low level tremoring or tension.
i try to do breathing exercizes but it becomes less
effective as this blood pounding and tension
becomes more pronounced, presumably due to
accumulated lack of sleep.

so i'm not sure what i should do here. keep taking
the ativan? as long as i'm in this cycle i make
no progress. i've been trying the SR technique
but no sign of improvement yet. should i just
stop taking the ativan and see if i can make
improvement without it? try to break the
cycle that way?

disidente



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