Lorazepam Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Ativan, Tavor, APO-Lorazepam
Generic Name: Lorazepam
What is Lorazepam?
Lorazepam is a benzodiazepine used in the treatment of anxiety disorders. It is used intravenously for status epilepticus. Off label it is used for alcohol detoxification; insomnia; partial complex seizures; agitation; and as an adjunct in antiemetic treatment.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Anxiety | 58 |
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4 | ||
| Other | 17 | 0 | |||||
| Insomnia | 9 | 0 | |||||
| disease-related symptoms | 3 | 0 | |||||
| periods of shortness of breath or breathing hard after almost no activiity | 3 | 0 | |||||
| General health | 2 | 0 |
See all 107 patients currently taking Lorazepam
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Lorazepam. See all 26 dosages ►
| 0.01mg as needed | 0.25mg as needed | 0.5 mg as needed | 0.5mg as needed | 0mg as needed | 1mg as needed | 20mg as needed | 2 mg all the time (24/7) | 2mg as needed | 2mg/mL as needed | 4 1mg as needed | 5mg as needed | daily | mg as needed | 0.25 mg daily | 0.5 mg daily | 1 mg daily | 1.5 mg daily | 2 mg daily | 3 mg daily | 4 mg daily | 8 mg daily | 12 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 25 mg daily | ||
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1
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3
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16
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1
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9
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1
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1
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1
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3
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1
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2
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3
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1
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1
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9
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17
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7
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7
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3
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7
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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3 | 27% |
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Other
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3 | 27% |
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Course of treatment ended
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3 | 27% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 18% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- slicky
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: moderate
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- slicky
- 15 mg daily
- since Oct 12, 2009
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Efficacy
Slight
for Anxiety
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Side Effects
None
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Report created on November 22, 2009.