View Full Version : Experiences - Lorazepam Experiences
powerkoala
08-06-2007, 01:32
Took one, felt depressed, don't feel like moving for an hour. Prescribed drug of course. My thoughts became maudlin, though I'm like that when I get insufficient sleep.
Please post experiences with Lorazepam here
Orchid_Suspiria
09-07-2007, 09:50
One of swims earlier drug experiences was with ativan(lorazepam).This was his senior year of highschool.Swim had been getting acid alot and one of the guys he was getting it from had some little stop sign shaped pills.He told swim to try them.They were three bucks a piece swim bought four of them.So right afterwards in lunch swim takes two of them.Ten minutes later swim is feeling sort of tired,oh how he wants to go home.An hour later swim keeps nodding off at his desk,luckily this was the last class of the day.
The bell rings and swim finds it hard to stand up,outside it's a rather warm and sunny spring day.Swim finds walking difficult and he is slurring his speech.This is not good cause swim has to walk home.Slowly but surely he plods on.Then swim experienced his first case of lorazepam double vision.For some strange reason when swim uses ativan(lorazepam)sometimes things at a distance will appear in twos.For example he would see a person walking and see double of them.Swim was like"Wow everyone has a twin today."Things were getting very blurry and swim was starting to wonder if he were going to make it home.Yah swim has made it to his front door.He walks in,says hello to his mother,goes to his room and turns some music on.He then laid in his bed and immediately fell asleep.Swim didn't wake up again til late that night.He wondered why he had went to bed so early as he actually forgot about taking the ativan(lorazepam).
Swim went on to use ativan(lorazepam)many other times over the years.It is the easiest benzodiazepine to get where he lives second to xanax(alprazolam).It seems to knock him out abit quicker than the other benzodiazepines he has tried.
Swim tried Lorazepam back when he was at school. He got it from a friend who occasionally worked at a doctor's pharmacy cleaning the store room. It didn't really have much effect except make his walking a little less coordinated (like on codeine) and give him double vision, it wasn't very good but it wasn't bad either. It just seemed a bit pointless.
When posting experiences, can flamingos please state dosage, any tolerance, any other drugs/alcohol taken (although I'd like to keep these threads specific to benzo only experiences).
Ideally things like time to onset of noticable effects, time of peak effects, duration of any comedown/hangover should also be included
Cheers Dears!
Swim can't really remember how much, probably 2mg, they were 1mg tablets I think.
csharpprogrammer
17-07-2007, 16:06
SWIM is prescribed 0.5 mg Ativan tablets twice daily. The other night, SWIM was drinking a few beers, and that is pretty much all he remembers. The next day he found out that he had dumped 10 of the 0.5 lorazepam pills, and drank at least 10 beers. He also found out that he had stolen one of his friends cars and was spotted driving VERY fast at 3:00am. SWIM has no recollection of any of these events, and is worried about what else he may have done that night! Use caution when mixing beer and benzos! SWIM thought he could handle himself, considering he could take 4 mg of alprazolam and drink some beer, and not do ANYTHING that crazy. Stay Safe!
SWIM is prescribed 0.5 mg Ativan tablets twice daily. The other night, SWIM was drinking a few beers, and that is pretty much all he remembers. The next day he found out that he had dumped 10 of the 0.5 lorazepam pills, and drank at least 10 beers. He also found out that he had stolen one of his friends cars and was spotted driving VERY fast at 3:00am. SWIM has no recollection of any of these events, and is worried about what else he may have done that night! Use caution when mixing beer and benzos! SWIM thought he could handle himself, considering he could take 4 mg of alprazolam and drink some beer, and not do ANYTHING that crazy. Stay Safe!
SWIY is describing exactly SWIM's behaviour under Zopiclone influence, and exactly those effects never came to SWIM no matter how much lorazepam (max dosage was 5mg once, SWIM's prescribed on 1mg Lorazepam Dura tablets) he takes.
it's really interesting how differently the same stuff affects different people.
Underorbit
19-07-2007, 22:58
SWIM was prescribed 1mg (as needed) up to three times a day for anxiety, but taken at normal dosage for both anxiety and insomnia, SWIM disliked lorazepam with great intensity, thus rarely used it. So, one day, he decided to attempt to push it to a recreational level, with the help of a fight with his fiancee. He took his normal 2mg in midst of a panic, waited ten-fifteen minutes, took 2mg more, waited what seemed like ten or so more minutes, took 2mg more. With little tolerance and forgetting that the onset of lorazepam on SWIM is an hour, when it finally hit, it was one big black-out. SWIM woke the next morning groggy, an alcohol-esque headache, and tons of messages of his cell phone from worried friends, who apparently called poison control, but they never got to SWIM.
As for a conscious experience and not brought on by a fight, when SWIM first got his prescription, being prescribed .5mg twice a day, he took 3mg. SWIM recalls it being like alcohol, without the fun part. Basically, think of drinking as a few different stages: drinking, buzz, drunk, grogginess as the drinking wears one down, sleep, hangover. SWIM took the lorazepam, skipped the buzz/drunk part, went straight to the grogginess, tried to go for a walk in the middle of the night, go about two blocks down from SWIM's choice of boarding, turned around, came back, and went to sleep. The next morning wasn't much better either, maybe a little less groggy?
I just got a perscription, and can anyone post some experiences of it with alcohol but actually used at reasonable and responsible doses? I have used Xanax a few times with alcohol, and I just took 1 mg and sipped on a nice 6-pack of beer throughout the night and it was blissful, not one adverse effect I can think of. Any experiences similar to this with Lorazepam?
Laudaphun
12-12-2007, 00:28
SWIM has gotten a prescription for ativan(lorazepam). Lorazepam is a particular benzo that SWIM has not taken in years. SWIM will report when she has need to take it and definitely will not be combining it with alcohol. SWIM will be taking normal doses and will report (if there is anything to report).
BTW, SWIM has done a lot of crazy things in her day but nothing caused more problems/got her into more trouble than mixing alcohol with benzos. It's probably one of the most dangerous combinations of the commonly combined substances... perhaps not from toxicity, but because of the very wreckless behavior it can induce. It's very easy to find yourself in a total blackout with a flash memory of slamming your car into something. I know you've all heard it 100 times but, please be very careful with this combo.
Ontherooftops
08-08-2008, 09:16
Swim's monkey has been prescribed some lorazepam 0.5mg tablets. He finds lorazepam to be the most euphoric benzodiazepine he's tried. His experiences in terms of potency do not correlate to the equivalent dosage charts posted in this forum. He has taken 4mg clonazepam sublingually and while it perhaps produced a greater level of intoxication, it just simply was not as effective an axiolytic for him as even 0.5mg lorazepam SL.
Its effects seem to appear within about 15-30mins following administration. It peaks at around an hour and a half to an hour, but swim always finds himself unusually giddy for a benzodiazepine at around the 30minute point. At around 6 hours he begins to feel the effects decrease and at about 8h he feels slightly adgitated.
It seems a little more habit forming than other benzos he's tried. Alprazolam was always worthless for him, making him irritable and confused instead of calm. Clonazepam is a nice time but is much feels much more evenly distributed throughout the day, and he nearly always falls asleep before its effects subside. Lorazepam tends to be enjoyable enough and short acting enough to really have some unpleasant draw.
Politicalchalk
18-08-2008, 01:57
So, to start, Swim would like to note his psychiatric/neurological issues. Other meds he's on include Depakote (divalproex), lithium, Sonata (zaleplon), metoprolol (beta blocker, high blood pressure), and certainly enjoys his morning cup of coffee. He's got a general tolerance to medication, and has been on this, that, and the other thing over time.
Originally Swim was prescribed clonazepam, but switched to lorazepam due to side effects. His dose has progressively gone up, and is currently on 2mg, 3 a day (not PRN). The first time he was given lorazepam was several years ago, and experienced significantly more intense effects, he remembers hallucinating on 1 or 2 2mg tabs. Tolerance built fast. It's quite useful for helping to control symptoms of mania, which swim is constantly in a moderate state of. It's also much easier to feel comfortable around friends and family, and swim thinks it's safe to say everyone agrees he should be quasi-sedated all of the time.
He's on a fairly high dose, and would not recommend it for inexperienced users at this dose. FINALLY stabilized on that dose though, and seems to be quite effective. Many users have found it to be fairly sedating, though swim does not pass out, and usually
has to take a sleeping pill (a good chunk of time after his last lorazepam dose) if he wants more than 2 hours of sleep. However, taking around 6mg lorazepam at bed will indeed help the sleep process.
Over the years, he's become quite stoic about hangovers and tends to not notice them, sans excessive alcohol consumption. If drinking that evening, he will lower his dose.
Interestingly, he has not noticed any withdrawal effects if he runs out, at least to the same degree opiates cause withdrawal effects. He's been on lorazepam at least 6 months, likely several more. His memory has gone to shit. Same with time perception. Pads, post it notes, reminder calls, the whole gamut. Today is Aug 18, he thought it was the end of July! Swim would not say "he's out of it" but just stopped caring about time, and only seems to remember specific things he takes interest in (Like DF) these days. He's decided to go back to school and will be starting, jeez, if it's already 18th, tomorrow! Wondering if chronic benzodiazepine exposure will affect his intellectual function in general, he can still philosophize like a motherfucker, and has really been watchin' this thing between Russia and Georgia, so he assumes he'll be alright. But it is certainly something he's concerned about.
Swim's friends have a rating system for psychoactives. It's based on Alexander Shulgin's trip intensity scale. Their system is: +1 (maybe kinda something), +2 (clearly tripping), +3 (glorified religious experience). This can be universally applied for easy reference, and would rate the drug between about +1.5 on a single dose in the morning, and stays more or less stable as he takes through the day.
He prefers it to diazepam or alprazolam. "Final fusion: APPROVED!"
tryptamaster
18-08-2008, 03:10
Swim took 4 mg and got mld euphoria and very chatty. it came on quick 10-15min.
fiveleggedrat
18-09-2008, 03:13
Swim plays with lorazepam on a decent basis. Commonly available, not a first choice. It is not Swim's benzo of choice. Too many blackouts.
Anywho, Swim decides to consume some.
2mg sublingual. Not feeling much. A bit calm, loose feeling.
3mg becomes more more recreational. Skin feels nice, calmer, almost minor euphoria. Very mild, minor, of course. Not the first time taking Alprazolam type.
Swim decides to toke a little. Very high tolerance at the moment, so he only gets a little high from the pot. Feels like what alcohol and marijuana should.
Swim enjoys talking, falling over, and watching tv. Standing is almost difficult, Swim is very wobbly.
Adding another 1mg to total at 4mg is unknown. After dropping the fourth mg, Swim blacked out. Swim remembers things getting fuzzy very quick, and no idea of what happened after the 4th mg kicked in. Swim was locked in his room. Swim started taking the benzo around 9pm. He finished dosing by 12. After 12, he has no idea what happened.
He woke up at 7:30am, time to go to school. Swim was, to himself, obviously still rather intoxicated. Swim decides to miss, it is a bad idea to try and drive an hour this messed up. He would not be able to drive, much less find the school. Things are still very blurry by this point. Swim remembers his door was locked, his room lights were on all night, and his TV was on. Swim's family told him they tried to cut his lights off but his room was locked, and he was asleep they assumed, as he did not respond to anything. Swim returns to sleep.
Around noon to 1pm, Swim wakes. Still lightly intoxicated (like 1-2mg), but functioning. Swim decides to rest off the effects and just take it easy for the rest of the day. All effects were gone by 5pm.
It was active for a minimum of 14 hours in Swim's body. How odd is that?
To note, Swim will attempt mixing caffeine or some other mild mental stimulant with the 4mg next time to prevent him from falling asleep/blacking out, whichever is happening. Swim starting to think it is mostly sleep.
randomorwhat
30-09-2008, 23:35
Took one, felt depressed, don't feel like moving for an hour. Prescribed drug of course. My thoughts became maudlin, though I'm like that when I get insufficient sleep.
This user truely hated Lorazepam. Took a few too many while drunk, felt similar to a high dos of Midazolam...highly stumbly etc etc.
The next day, this user felt a hangover akin to very high doses of alcohol, with a similar MDMA 'comedown' feeling. Very unpleasant.
lorzapmail
05-11-2008, 12:52
Swim likes 2 beers then 4mg lorazepam. Good for the day. Any more alcohol and your asking for blackouts and things you wish you had not done. Lorazepam has a short half life so taper down or you may get panic attacks.
^^^ As always, mixing drugs with sedative properties is inadvisable. Think oversedation, amnesia, possible failure to protect the airway and then choking on ones own vomit
4mg of Lorazepam would knock the flamingo flat on her arse and cannot be recommended
Please be careful when bandying numbers about. What works for your marmoset may be too much/potentially damaging for others.
Above all this site is about harm reduction. Please bear this in mind
lorzapmail
05-11-2008, 22:31
Understood..........lor