My nuerologist has prescribed Lorazepam to help me to sleep.
Has anyone else used this and with what results?
My nuerologist has prescribed Lorazepam to help me to sleep.
Has anyone else used this and with what results?
Like all benzodiazepines, Lorazepam is a seditive that can be habit forming. Check the half life. A long one such as 15-20 or so hours or more can affect your balance, etc., during your waking hours. The info that comes with this drug should be taken seriously:
Can cause paranoid or suicidal ideation and impair memory, judgment, and coordination. Combining with other substances, particularly alcohol, can slow breathing and possibly lead to death.
A recent summary of research on benzos states people taking them, even as few as 20 times in a year, are associated with higher mortality, heart disease, and cancer.
Take the smallest dose that helps you sleep and skip a couple night a week.
I take it on occasion but only after all else fails.
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Do you find that the Hyland's PM works for you? I am on the Neupro Patch and find that I have been having symptoms after falling asleep. I am looking for something that may help with bridgeing between the two. I don't think that I would be able to stop using the patch. So I"m looking for something that would help out
It helps me sleep but I kept falling in the night when I would have to get up
Here is what Dr. Buchfuhrer says abt Lorazepam (check rlshelp.org for the doctor's recommendations on other more appropriate benzos for RLS):
Ativan (Lorazepam) is a tranquilizer that is used for stress rather than sleep. It is a very common benzodiazepine drug which is used during the daytime to help patients control anxiety. Like all the benzodiazepines, this drug will have some usefulness when taken at bedtime for sleep.
This drug comes in 0.5 mg, 1 mg and 2 mg tablets. It has a half life of 12 hours, so there is a very significant concern about daytime sleepiness the morning after the medication is taken. The long half life is more useful when Ativan is used for anxiety disorders, but may cause too much drowsiness when used for nighttime RLS/PLMD and as a sleeping pill.