Posted by bark23 on September 6, 2002, at 17:20:31
Well, I just registered though Ive read posts here for quite a while. Usually this has been for my own benefit, but I have a question that is pretty important to me that has to do with my mom. She is currently on 3mg of klonopin and has been on it for about a month. Before that she took ativan pretty much as needed but her new doc wanted her stable on a medication, preferably a long acting one like klonopin. She has been experiencing confusion and memory problems that have not improved yet and has asked me to find out if there are benzos out there that would be less likely to cause these problems. She doesnt remember if ativan really did this stuff to her or not, so thats not ruled out, though a longer acting med might be best. These meds seem to help her a lot, so I would like to have suggestions for alternative ones. She has tried the other main classes of meds for anxiety without much success. So if anyone has experience they could share or point me to comparisons (the more well controlled, etc. the better, but anything would be appreciated) between the benzodiazepines regarding cognitive impairment that would help a lot as I can find nothing myself. I dont think it is necessarily a function of age (she is 53), which she is worried might be it though she is not that old, as klonopin does have a high rate of cognitive impairment from what Ive read in comparison to other benzos, but I just havent seen anything more specific than that. I know this is probably very variable from person to person, but Im hoping there is some info that could help her and give her something to suggest to her doc, who is open to suggestions, but does not really have a strong opinion on this matter herself. Its ok if any links are simply pharmacological studies or anything like that, I have a decent enough backround to most likely understand them. Anyway, thanks for any help.
poster:bark23
thread:119082
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