Posted by CaptC on April 18, 2007, at 12:18:53
In reply to Re: Have Life Altering Effect from CELEXA/Ativan?, posted by kathyy on July 14, 2001, at 9:21:31
> I'm not sure. I've been taking Ativan for about 2 years now for chronic neck pain and jaw spasms. It helps a little but I still have daily pain. Recently, I've noticed that I shake alot when lifting heavy objects. Never had that problem before. Its extremely noticable when I workout with freeweights. Side effect of prolonged use of ativan maybe. Oh and another very important factor. I'm extremely cautious when taking it in the evening. Lets just say if the wife is in a good mood and I've taken the ativan...lets just say she'll be in a bad mood later if you catch my drift. I'm serious thinking about having the Dr ween me off of it and see how things go. I know taking drugs (especially this one) for long periods of time
is a bad idea. However, when your life is getting completely hosed up cause you're in so much pain...what other option do you have?
Pls don't say physical therapy, trigger point therapy, yoga, meditation, stretching, boxtox, tens units, traction, heat therapy, massage, rest/relaxation, bio-feedback cause I've tried them all. My final diagnosis was a trigger point
in my semi-splenis captis muscle. The darn thing is probably sitting on a nerve thats causing the jaw spasms. We confirm the problem 3 times when we injected it with a steroid. All symptoms went away for 24hrs then came right back. It blows but I'll live.
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