Lorazepam Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Ativan, APO-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 | 108 |
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22 | ||
| Other | 35 |
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9 | |
| Difficulty sleeping through night | 25 |
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6 | ||
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 20 |
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5 | ||
| Insomnia | 14 |
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4 | ||
| Anxiety and frustration | 10 |
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See all 201 patients currently taking Lorazepam
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Lorazepam. See all 29 dosages ►
| 0.05mg as needed | 0.5 mg as needed | 0.5mg as needed | 1000mg as needed | 100 mg all the time (24/7) | 10mg as needed | 1 mg all the time (24/7) | 1mg as needed | 2 2mg as needed | 2 2mg/mL as needed | 2mg as needed | 2mg/mL as needed | 30 0.5mg as needed | 5mg as needed | 6 2mg/mL as needed | daily | mg as needed | 2 mg every other week | 0.25 mg daily | 0.5 mg daily | 0.5 mg one time | 1 mg daily | 1.5 mg daily | 2 mg daily | 3 mg daily | 4 mg daily | 6 mg daily | 8 mg daily | 10 mg daily | ||
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40
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30
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2
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1
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4
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1
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3
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1
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2
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1
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1
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18
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1
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28
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7
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20
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13
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3
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4
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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18 | 41% |
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Course of treatment ended
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10 | 23% |
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Doctor's advice
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9 | 20% |
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Did not seem to work
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6 | 14% |
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Side effects too severe
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3 | 7% |
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Personal research
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2 | 5% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 39 patient evaluations
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- gardener
- Sex: F
- Sensation: None
- Overall: None
- Cognition: none
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: none
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- gardener
- 0.5 1mg as needed
- since Aug 25, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Hannah Rose
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: mild
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- Hannah Rose
- 2 mg daily
- since Aug 30, 2008
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Efficacy
Slight
for Other
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Side Effects
None
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- social worker with MS
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: None
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: mild
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- social worker with MS
- 1mg as needed
- since Sep 04, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 39 patient evaluations
Report created on November 20, 2009.