Starting Taper from Ativan - Once Daily - need direction

[[Buddie]]

Ok thanks for that. Just wondering if I go to the two doses and I don’t improve the symptoms (weakness and so on) then am I stuck staying with two doses? Would that set me back?

[[Buddie]]

Anytime we make a change to our schedule it can have an effect so there is some short term risk to switching it up.  I guess the same would apply if you decided its not beneficial.  I don’t know if you would call it a setback, you might have to hold your dose for a few days until things settle. 

Honestly, most members on short acting drugs like Ativan need the multiple doses during the day but we’re all different of course.

[[Buddie]]

Hi [...],
I am also dry cut tapering from Lorazepam (Ativan) and before I started tapering I was having a lot of symptoms from interdose withdrawal.  I now take my doses 4x/day (one of those doses is when I wake up during the night, usually around 1:30am).  Everyone's different, but it really helped me to split up my doses.  I was having extreme anxiety as well as some weird lip quivering. 
Good luck,
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[[Buddie]]

Hi [...],

Asking for a friend… how did you split into 4 doses? Did you gradually do this or make change all at once? This friend is taking .5mg at afternoon and 2mg at night and is having pretty tough symptoms so thinks she might be having interdose wd and wants to maybe split doses but not sure how to make that transition. Anyone else have suggestions on how splitting up if already very symptomatic?

Thanks and best wishes to everyone!!

[[Buddie]]

Hi [...],
I was on 1.5mg and I did it all at once.  I didn't have any adverse reactions.  In fact, I remember feeling like it helped right away.  But like [...] said, we're all different.  As you know Ativan has a short half-life so like you said, there's a good chance your friend is experiencing interdose withdrawal.  If it were me, I might try taking, say, .5mg out of the 2mg night dose & take that .5mg in the morning to see if it would help the symptoms.
I hope this is helpful,
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[[Buddie]]

[...]--To clarify how I made my dose change: I switched from taking 3 doses to 4 doses and I basically just made the change one day & stuck with it.  It helped me noticeably. 
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[[Buddie]]

This is similiar to my question. I was taking only 0.5mg once around 6pm.  I cut the does to .25mg becaus they are tablets and figured half was good. But I am having terrible withdrawl.  Do you think it wise to take the 0.5mg I was taking and split to .25mg in the am and .25mg in the evening and get leveled out. Once I feel leveled then start to cut a little off each dose at a time?

[[Buddie]]

Thanks y’all!

And JKDuke hope things are going better with splitting out! Good luck to you