prescribed 3 atavan and 2 .25mg valium
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EmptyWords
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well to tell you the truth, taking ativan could end up being your biggest regret in life if you take it for awhile. i have been taking it for about 8 years and have been trying to get off of it for 2. imo ativan is one of the most addictive pills out there and the withdrawl of coming off of it is completely unbearable. i am struggling hard with withdrawling and i only take 2mg a day at the max these days and i just cant stop taking it. i am constantly dizzy and if im walking somewhere for more than 10 minutes i usually have to use a cane and i get unbelievably dizzy and wake up sick feeling everyday. i also hallucinate and have problems with bright lights, i cannot go out in the sun without sun glasses and its still bad. i would have never taken ativan to begin with if i would have known this stuff. want to look into it more? go to this forum www.benzobuddies.org and look at the thousands of people that are now struggling with this medication. any class of benzodiazepines are highly addictive and make your life hell so if i was you i would not take them, especially if you plan on taking them long term. these pills are not suppost to be taken for more than 2 weeks and even after 2 weeks people experience withdrawl symptons.
here is some good reading if you are interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ativan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_dependence
if you have any questions about this stuff, feel free to ask, i know quite alot about it from all my research due to my own struggles with this medication.
here is some good reading if you are interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ativan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_dependence
if you have any questions about this stuff, feel free to ask, i know quite alot about it from all my research due to my own struggles with this medication.
Total Head
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i agree. i have a friend who just had a bout with ativan. she had to take it upon herself to have the doc put her on something else because it was to the point where she was eating them when her dog would bark, and this was after just 2 weeks (i don't know what the dosage was). i would look into a nice indica and maybe some edibles to help with spasms. the med forum should have a lot of info on this. recreational use of pills is bad enough but most of us do it. becoming dependent on them to function can be a real problem and having a prescription can give a false sense of security imo. if your spasms are really bad you gotta do what you gotta do, but prescription pills for things like stress/mental/neuro type issues are best reserved for last resort if you ask me.
EmptyWords
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i agree, pills should always be the last result unless it is for severely debilitating or life threatening problems. It pisses me off that a doctor turned me into a pill junkie when that is something i would have never done. another thing about benzos is that in some cases they can kill you if you dont taper off of them correctly or cause siezures etc. very scary shit. after doing a little math i have discovered in the past 8 years i have taken over 18,000 of these pills and now have irreversible brain damage, and yes i said 18 "THOUSAND". even knowing this makes me want to stop even more but its pretty hopeless at times and im taking it one step at a time, it can be done but its a war you can never imagine unless you have fought it. this stuff also robbed me of basically all my short term memory and im starting to forget all parts of my childhood and teen years, when this started i thought i was having strokes because the loss of memory and scary shit that was going on was unreal but all the docs say that im not having strokes. I have gone through all this and i still have a several year battle to go and i only just turned 24 recently... even after im off the pills it will take a year or 2 or more to find out if any of the problems these pills caused will go away. so i suggest you steer clear of these pills if you can. learn from others mistakes, there are lots more people like me that regret ever taking these pills everyday.
EmptyWords
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also if you start taking ativan and it says take 3 times a day and you believe that, i dont know what to tell you lol. it may start with 3 a day but just watch as it gradually consumes you and you start taking more and more thinking, oh one extra pill for just today wont hurt anything. thats where things start to go down hill. the pills will make you feel so shitty that you have to take more to feel better.
Johnny Retro
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.25mg vicodin does not make sence
EmptyWords
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isnt vicodin, hydros? i too did not think .25 mg made sense.
Johnny Retro
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Yea they got 5/500 7.5/500 and 10/325 The first number is the opiate the second number is asprin. 10's are the best
EmptyWords
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yeah the 10's are the best. but this is what made me wonder about .25 mg because hydros dont come in mg like that they are labeled 5/500 etc like you posted. maybe this person is talking about something else.
Total Head
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valium not vicodin. i don't really have any first hand experience with valium except for one time i was prescibed 2 for before having an MRI. it must have been pretty weak stuff because all it did was make me feel slightly serene. i am somewhat easily agitated and it stopped that for the couple hours it worked. it didn't calm me much better than some dank imo. and one other time where i took one with a pain killer (i think it might have actually been a vicodin) and smoked a blunt with a friend and it was pretty nice. i later heard that mixing those two is a really bad idea for some reason but i don't remember why. i still say pills are usually a bad idea.
EmptyWords
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you must have had a small dose of Valium because I have been given 20mg of it several times and it made me feel like a noodle and "too" relaxed, among other things like hearing crazy shit lol. the main reason that i know of that the pills can be bad with other things is a higher risk of respiratory failure.
mrbunny
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There is a 2.5/500 flavor of vicodin too, maybe that's what it is.
and yes, 10's rock