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Does ativan always cause rebound anxiety? even if taken for only a week and dose being as small as 0.5 and no more than 1mg, it was prescribed to be taken as needed and so far ive had to take it 5 days in a row and stopped and started for panic attk?

Q: does ativan always cause rebound anxiety? even if taken for only a week and dose being as small as 0.5 and no more than 1mg, it was prescribed to be taken as needed and so far ive had to take it 5 days in a row and stopped and started for panic attk?

: It is probably your underlying problem than the symptoms caused by stopping Ativan at that low dose in just 5 days.

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It is probably your underlying problem than the symptoms caused by stopping Ativan at that low dose in just 5 days.

Answered 2/10/2022

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A member asked:

Does ativan always cause rebound anxiety? even if taken for only a week and dose being as small as 0.5 and no more than 1mg, it was prescribed to be taken as needed and so far ive had to take it 5 days in a row and stopped and started for panic attk?

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