Hi, does anyone have experience of ativan and fibro.

[onnie]

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Not of Ativan but it belongs to the family which includes clonezapam and I have taken 0.5 mg of this at night for 18 months now .. I don't feel the need to up the dose and combined with my 75mg of dosulepin at night helps with muscle spasms and I get a good nights sleep

Hope that helps a little

VG x

[VonnyM]

Lorazapam. No haven't heard of its use for fibromyalgia. My son was given this for a diagnosis of schizophrenia

[LindseyMid]

Not personally, but I know that Dr Holman uses it with some patients instead of clonazepam.

I used 0.5 mg clonazepam daily for some months when starting a new treatment program and then as needed for a few years and never had any issues. It was very effective for my myofascial pain, flares related to my neck (suspected PC3) and sleep quality.

HTH!

[onnie]

many thanks for all your answers.

[Fibrofoggiest]

I may be wrong but alarm bells went off in my head when I saw Ativan, I have a feeling there was controversy about it in the US, I could well be complete wrong,, Foggy by name, Foggy by nature. I will do a bit more searching and come back to you. In the meantime I'm sending gentle hugs, Foggy x

[Fibrofoggiest]

See....I should look first and type later......I was on the wrong drug.....sorry lorazepam is used widely with no probs.....,sorry

Foggy departs with her head held down in contrition.

X

[LindseyMid in reply to Fibrofoggiest]

Lol Foggy. I thought the same thing before I realised it was Lorazepam!

[Fibrofoggiest in reply to LindseyMid]

Oh Lindsey, thank you so much, I really think I am the dimmest of dim dim things..........opening my mouth before even looking for the blank space where my brain had once abided !!

Very very foggily Foggy x

[Jjudith]

This is one of the drugs in the Benzodiazapines group that UK GPs don't like to prescribe, but I take Diazepam also in this group. They are addictive and I did try to do without it but my quality of life is so poor without it because I have paradoxical effects and horrible side effects to almost everything else. On the other hand, in Dubai it is prescribed regularly and also in other countries such as USA and South Africa, and when I was nursing many years ago it was regularly prescribed in UK and most people didn't get that serious side effects. I think they got worried because they were sued by people who were addicted. The Benzodiazapines soothe the cervical cord which is often compressed, causing dysautonomia, or dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, which is thought to be associated with the symptoms of fibroymalgia. No other drugs have this effect. So it does really have a reason for working. Prof Holman's work is controversial in UK and not accepted by many UK doctors, but I went to have an MRI scan in Dubai and found I did have cervical cord compression. I return to UK next month and I really don't know what my GP's reaction is going to be to my Diazepam medication although I am on a really low dose and I am really worried about it.

[onnie]

May thanks for the information and good luck upon your return to the U.K.