DrugBuyers.Com: Benzo Dosing Patterns Causing Withdrawl?

Well that makes sense. I'm experimenting with Ativan dosages preparing for infrequent use for business air travel. I purchased some from an International Online Pharmacy to try out. Little pink pills in foil packet, 1mg lorazepam.

I too 2mg a was expecting to feel all relaxed and 'jello like'. I felt a very mild relaxing effect. Not an effect I would expect would really offset severe flying anxiety. I don't have panic attacks and run back up the walkway when trying to board, but I do start to sweat a little.

So I'm reading the dosage recommendations and 2mg 3 times a day is like suppose to be the max recommened dosay or 10mg total per day (which is actually 3.3mg 3 times a day - gee that makes sense).

I'm a 185 lb male. Was I just expecting too much from 2mg dose of lorazepam because I'm not sure this will get me through the flight without still having significant anxiety.

I read somewhere else that the dosage prior to an operation is 50mcg/kg which works out to 4mg which by the way was also the max recommended dose for pre-op.

I think I'm answering my own question here and obviously I just need to find what works right for me but I want to make sure people aren't saying, 2mg of Ativan should be PLENTY, you must have bogus tablets.

Also, one day I took 2mg. The next day I took 2 2mg doses about 3 hours apart. Again, only a very mild relaxed feeling. I did not experience any kind of withdrawl except for a very very mild tension headache which I get quite often. I didn't take any for the next two days and feel quite fine. So it goes back to my question of why it takes so long to taper off when you've been taking these drugs for a long time, when you can take significant doses over very short periods (2-3 days) and really not feel much withdrawal at all? The average half life is like 10 hours so you could say like 90% of the drug is out of your system in 4 days or so.

AHH, I see now, if you are taking it 3 times a day for more than 4 days straight, you could have quite an accumulation. So the withdrawls would be from having so much accumulated, but then why doesn't the taper process only take 4 days rather than weeks? My guess is that there is a significant psycholigical component to the withdrawl in addition to the physilogical withdrawl from the drug leaving your system. This makes sense and exlpains why one could take a couple good size doses two days in a row, then take none and not really feel any withdrawl.

Can anyone confirm on if my perceived effect of this drug is about on par with what others have experienced and if my hypothesis regarding being able to safely take significant amounts for short periods (1-3 days) and then not take it at all, without experiencing serious withdrawl? (There will be times I will need to do 4 flights in a day for maybe 1 or 2 days in a week and then not take it at all for a week. I really don't want to be taking this stuff in low doses constantly to avoid withdrawls - it's sounds like I don't need to do that.)