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My doctor prescirbed Ativan for my panic attacks. And I've been having them every day, right during bedtime. Crying, hyperventalating, anxious, rocking in stress. So, I've been taking ativan nightly. It's prescribed to me as, "take as needed," and I need it at bedtime...

But it's supposed to be a once in a while thing. You're supposed to take it less than once a week.

Anything that calms you down, your body will be picking you up. And once you're too far up, you'll crash back down.

Too high before sleep, medicated down, wired up 4 hours later, crash down into depression all day, wind back up before bed.

I think I've found my culprit. And not only that: side effects.

I've read Ativan can cause water retention.

Could this be my Bingo? The stress started with my former friends and this move, making my panic attacks natural. You just saw the cycle I entered. Could it be that my now almost daily use of Ativan causes my ankels to swell and the scale to continue to gain?

I've gone days without it in the past few weeks before. I'm going to go all week without it, and see if I reboot into my former lovable self. And see if my ankels quit looking like they belong to the Michilian Man.