lorazepam side effects

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Has anyone else had really bad side effects with lorazepam? I was prescribed it a few weeks ago (for relatively mild anxiety) but I flushed it down the toilet last night because it makes me feel horrible. I get periods where I feel completely out of it and I've also been going into rage mode a lot and I've started several fights in the past few weeks. I'm also getting this thing where I think I'm evil and asking my friends to kill me because I'm scared I'll be the next Hitler. Thing is... I've been taking the smallest recommended dose and I haven't taken any since Sunday night. How is this still affecting me?

I don't know, I take 0.5 mg of lorazepam four times a day and don't really feel any side effects from it. In fact if I even miss one dose I become hyper and sweaty and have trouble focusing on anything. I just sit on the couch talking to myself endlessly until my voice starts giving out. People are affected differently by the same meds and maybe this is more than just your having side effects. Also you should never go off a medication without seeing your doctor first. I've been tempted to many, many times from the horrible side effects I got from all these other pills like Paxil and Prozac and even Lithium. And that was all in one summer!

A lot of autistic people react very sensitive to medications, espessially psychiatric ones.

Different meds have different side effects,I can take lorazepam but Xanax makes me feel like I want to die.Tell your doctor if you haven't done so.

I don't think I need to make an appointment because it seems like the side effects are gone now, but yeah, I think I do tend to react strongly to meds. It sucks.

When a friend gave me a few I only took it when my heart was skipping beats. It would make the skipping stop and it made me feel like what I'd imagine normal people felt like most of the time. I don't know what dose the pills were but I only took half of one at a time and not on a regular basis.

I was surprised when my grandmother was prescribed and took a couple for something and it put her to sleep for hours.

I tried it for a few days & was taking .5mg. About an hour or so after taking it my body would kind of jerk rapidly for a bit. I took it when I went to bed & for a few hours after being up I had problems focusing & was kind of out of it mentally. I saved the pills incase I have a panic attack; I started feeling the mental affects of being tired & kind of out of it shorty after taking it.