Posted by yxibow on December 12, 2008, at 23:23:24
In reply to Re: luvox INSOMINA! fluvoximine » yxibow, posted by Phillipa on December 11, 2008, at 19:12:10
> Jay extremely high doses for me were 6mg of extended release xanax 3mg twice a day and then he switched it to 8mg of ativan never took more than 6mg though. I also wanted to thank-you about another thread. So what do you feel? Love Jan
> Jay extremely high doses for me were 6mg of extended release xanax 3mg twice a day and then he switched it to 8mg of ativan never took more than 6mg though. I also wanted to thank-you about another thread. So what do you feel? Love Jan
Well going by the tables, the first one, that's only about 60mg of Valium a day, the other about 40mg, so if you only took 6mg of Ativan, about half of the Xanax, except its XR so I can't really say exactly what the equivalency would be, probably about the same.
But Xanax is a little activating, which is why some people say it has an "anti-depressant" effect, so maybe you had some idiosyncratic / paradoxical reaction.I think it depends on how your body is processing things too because you have been taking rather low doses of Luvox that normally wouldn't be considered terribly psychoactive -- still Luvox is sedating so there is so many variables going on here, withdrawal from Luvox, possibly a reaction to the benzodiazepines at the same time until the Ativan, that's a real tossup I must say.
But since you went back on Luvox, and you were able to sleep then maybe you did withdraw from even that small amount, although after 2 weeks is a long time.
I'm not sure where ending up in the ER occurred though, since not sleeping by itself is not life threatening in the very short run, eventually it happens, 2 weeks is a bit long, it usually straightens out before then, I'm surprised they didn't suggest something like Lunesta, but then you have been used to Valium so I don't know how well it works.
I mean I'm glad you got the advice you needed at the hospital about this, that's about what I can sort out from it not knowing really other variables that they may have figured.
-- tidings
Jay
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