> First of all, your doc's trying to taper you off of the Ativan, so don't experiment and try quitting it cold turkey!

Quitting psychiatric drugs ... never stop taking psychiatric drugs abruptly -- going "cold turkey" can lead to serious withdrawal symptoms and can be life-threatening

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ativan is a safe and reliable valium type med, dont believe all you hear, the only chance of siezures is from quitting a very high dose cold turkey

But she has a weakened brain from a long term chronic illness and stopped her ativan cold turkey. So technically she'd have contributed to that forty percent;

Quitting cold turkey can be fatal! Ativan/Lorazepam will ruin your life, no ands, ifs, or buts about it.

3)cold turkey, which is hell, and very unadvisable if you are taking a high dosage of any benzo(xanex, valium, klonopin, ativan etc..), because cold turkey withdrawal from those at high doses...

I too have an oxy prob and have detoxed cold turkey many times. ... I WAS SCARED OF THE SICKNESS BUT THE MENTAL PART OF QUITTING IS HARDER. ... Ask him to prescribe clonidine, (not klonopin), and ativan.

This is only successful in less than 5% of the people who quit opioids “cold turkey”. One of the symptoms of withdrawal is "goose flesh" (horripilation) and looks like a Cold turkey...