![[dr. bob]](/dr-bob-sm.gif)
Dr. Bob is Robert Hsiung, MD,
bob@dr-bob.orgShown: posts 1 to 7 of 7. This is the beginning of the thread.
Posted by woolav on September 26, 2004, at 11:57:21
I have been taking ativan for a week now. Its not helping anxiety, prob. bc of the low dose I have been given. I am wondering if say, 0.5mg of klonopin would be equar to .5mg of xanax. Pdoc took me off xanax. which i have been on for years. i was taking 3 mg of klonopin daily, but that mad me sort of depressed. Maybe I was taking too high a dose? Anyone?
Sandy--thanks!!!
Posted by SLS on September 26, 2004, at 13:18:14
In reply to 1 more time......., posted by woolav on September 26, 2004, at 11:57:21
> I have been taking ativan for a week now. Its not helping anxiety, prob. bc of the low dose I have been given. I am wondering if say, 0.5mg of klonopin would be equar to .5mg of xanax. Pdoc took me off xanax. which i have been on for years. i was taking 3 mg of klonopin daily, but that mad me sort of depressed. Maybe I was taking too high a dose? Anyone?
> Sandy--thanks!!!
Is it possible that the depression would pass? How long were you taking it that it made you feel more depressed?
- Scott
Posted by SLS on September 26, 2004, at 14:52:55
In reply to Re: 1 more time......., posted by SLS on September 26, 2004, at 13:18:14
> > I have been taking ativan for a week now. Its not helping anxiety, prob. bc of the low dose I have been given. I am wondering if say, 0.5mg of klonopin would be equar to .5mg of xanax. Pdoc took me off xanax. which i have been on for years. i was taking 3 mg of klonopin daily, but that mad me sort of depressed. Maybe I was taking too high a dose? Anyone?
> > Sandy--thanks!!!
>
>
> Is it possible that the depression would pass? How long were you taking it that it made you feel more depressed?The last time I initiated Ativan as a treatment for insomnia, I was taking Nardil. Strangely enough, it made me more depressed for the first day or two. It was a somewhat different feeling than my usual depression, so I'm pretty sure that it was due to the Ativan. However, this effect dissipated and I was able to continue with it.
- Scott
Posted by mcp on September 26, 2004, at 19:18:38
In reply to Re: 1 more time......., posted by SLS on September 26, 2004, at 14:52:55
If memory serves you went from 3mg of Klon to 1.5 of Ativan. The conversion rate, I believe, is .5 of Klon to 1 mg of Ativan. No wonder you are having anxiety. They just cut your dose 150%. THere is a conversion rate somewhere on this site. Hunt it down and show your doc, although they should know anyways. At 3 mg of Klon, you should be on 6mg of Ativan. Sometimes doctors amaze me.
Posted by yznhymer on September 26, 2004, at 20:00:15
In reply to Re: 1 more time......., posted by mcp on September 26, 2004, at 19:18:38
> If memory serves you went from 3mg of Klon to 1.5 of Ativan. The conversion rate, I believe, is .5 of Klon to 1 mg of Ativan. No wonder you are having anxiety. They just cut your dose 150%. THere is a conversion rate somewhere on this site. Hunt it down and show your doc, although they should know anyways. At 3 mg of Klon, you should be on 6mg of Ativan. Sometimes doctors amaze me.
Hi there...Don't quote me on this, but I don't think you can cut a dose by 150%. I rarely foray into numbers, but I'm almost certain that if you cut someone's dose by 100%, you've cut it all. Am I missing something here?
Mark
Posted by Fred23 on September 26, 2004, at 20:14:55
In reply to Re: 1 more time......., posted by mcp on September 26, 2004, at 19:18:38
> If memory serves you went from 3mg of Klon to 1.5 of Ativan. The conversion rate, I believe, is .5 of Klon to 1 mg of Ativan. No wonder you are having anxiety. They just cut your dose 150%. THere is a conversion rate somewhere on this site. Hunt it down and show your doc, although they should know anyways. At 3 mg of Klon, you should be on 6mg of Ativan. Sometimes doctors amaze me.
Elsewhere on here, I suggested something similar, but with the personal opinion that it may take 2 mg of Ativan to equal 0.5 mg of Xanax. Ativan leaves the body much quicker than Xanax, so more frequent dosing is needed.
Posted by woolav on September 27, 2004, at 13:14:30
In reply to Re: 1 more time....... » mcp, posted by yznhymer on September 26, 2004, at 20:00:15
This is the end of the thread.
Psycho-Babble Medication | Extras | FAQ
Dr. Bob is Robert Hsiung, MD,
bob@dr-bob.org
Script revised: February 4, 2008
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/pb/mget.pl
Copyright 2006-17 Robert Hsiung.
Owned and operated by Dr. Bob LLC and not the University of Chicago.