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lxe • yesterday at 11:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I was on low-dose Ativan for a few weeks casually prescribed for anxiety. What followed is an absolute year of hell. The most unimaginably difficult time in my life. Usually they tell you that short-term low dose poses lower risk or protracted withdrawal, but it's not a purely statistical risk. There are potentially pharmacological, physiological, and other factors that govern how these drugs affect each individual and those are largely unknowable.


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dannyw • today at 12:48 AM

On the other hand I took Valium 5mg daily for 2 weeks, and had no issues getting off them.

There’s definitely a lot of factors

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