Posted by Vincent_QC on November 29, 2008, at 12:11:16
In reply to Re: Lorazepam dosage titration, posted by desolationrower on November 22, 2008, at 18:04:56
> That can be very dangerous. I'm not sure what teh law is as far as bringing medication with you when you enter, that would be one thing to research. You might also try to call and find a her a doctor to see so she has an appointment when she arrives so she can get care right away.
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> -d/rThe Ashton Doctor give good advises on the dose reduction in her book...
http://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/index.htm
I think your mom will not have any custom problem with the Diazepam, if the bottle have the sticker with her name on it...
The Professor Ashton give tons of informations on benzo's drugs. It's a bible for me, since I had so many problems with that "sh*tty" drugs.
One advise from my own experience, tell your mom to follow the dose reduction programm write by the Ashton Professor. If seh take 20 mg/day of valium(diazepam), she need to reduce to a maximum of 1 mg/week her intake of Diazepam. So she will be able to be free of it after only 20 weeks. Sometimes it can take 2 weeks to reduce of 1 mg, especially at the end. The Ashton Professor also give a good substitution charts between all the benzo's drugs that exist... Since the newer benzo drugs are much more powerfull than the older ones, you will be able to see that a simple 4 mg/day of Clonazepam (Rivotril) is the same as 80 mg /day of Diazepam (Valium) !!!
In that book, you can also see by yourself what kind of dammages a drug like this can do on a person. That's a lot interresting.
I use a lot the charts substitution of the Doctor Ashton to switch from Clonazepam to Diazepam, or Xanax to Diazepam, or Lorazepam to Diazepam...The Doctor recommend to always switch to Diazepam to stop a benzo drug, since it's one of the more long acting benzo drug that exist...stay more than 20 hours in the blood as Diazepam, and have a lot of active metabolites that stay more than 300 hours in the blood also, so with the Diazepam, you don't feel the need to take again and again your pills after only 2 hours, like it always happen with the Xanax or Ativan drugs...REmember than the less time the benzo drug take to enter into your blood stream and the less time he act on the gaba receptors, the more addictive it will be...So change to a long acting benzo drug is the best option in my opinion.
A lot of people say that Diazepam do nothing on them...I know what you are atlking about...like I write before, it's less powerfull so a 10 mg pill of Diazepam will act like a 0.5 mg pill of Clonazepam...that simple like this, so yes it's less effective on anxiety...and remember that Diazepam is more sedative and give more headache at the begining...but this 2 side eccefts fade away after 2 weeks or less normally. In fact, since i'm stable again at 20 mg of Diazepam /day, I have a insomnia problem, even if I take 15 mg at bed time...and only 5 mg in the day.
Regular Doctor recommend to stop benzo drugs on 3 or 4 weeks, or a reduction of 10 % of the dose by week but that's not a good way...if you want to have terrible cognotives impairements like I had in the past, do it more fast (not able to speak, not able to write with a pencil, hands shake, muscles spams, panic attacks, sweating, vertigo...and the list go on...). I don'T wish this to my worst ennemy.
That only my advise...maybe i'm out of subject again...i'm sorry...but I wish good luck to your mom, i'm sure she will be able to do it ;-)
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