Posted by SLS on July 18, 2013, at 21:01:45
In reply to Re: Has anyone combined Ambien and Ativan?, posted by chumbawumba on July 18, 2013, at 20:41:03
> They both bind to the same receptor site don't they? Why not take more of one or the other. I've taken ambien and xanax and yeah it knocked me out but a double dose of xanax would have done about the same thing. The heck with ambien. People do wierd stuff in their sleep on ambien. My friend's wife went to walk out the front door of their condo buck naked in the middle of the night after taking it.
Benzodiazepines are not all created equal. Some are better hypnotics than others. The strategy I describe takes advantage of the differences in knock-out punch and half lives. Halcion will initiate sleep much more potently than Ativan, but has a 1 - 2 hour half life. It will not maintain sleep throughout the night. In fact, rebound awakenings are common. Ativan smooths this out and allows someone to sleep throughout the night. To have the same knock-out punch, one would have to take enough Ativan to remain drugged all day long. I haven't researched the use of Ambien and Ativan in combination. They do not bind to the same BZD receptor subtypes.
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