I guess when my doctor said “Ativan” he meant “Valium” I have no idea how that works in comparison to Ativan and Xanax. Can anyone tell me? I thought I read somewhere that Valium works the longest of the 3. He prescribed me 5mil 3 times a day. Which seems like a lot. He gave me a 3 month supply. That may not be a good idea either. I do not plan on taking 3 a day. Hopefully. I took a Xanax this morning. So I’m hoping it will be an easy switch like he says it will.

Did it affect your appetite at all?

I just took one 10 minutes ago. I’m kind of drowsy but it’s not too bad. My anxiety is decent. I don’t feel the need to take a Xanax.

He also raised my lamictal to 225. So hopefully these both work like magic. With little side effects.

Valium always freaked me out. I think because of Stephen King books. It was mentioned in one of them or something.

Edit: Now my anxiety is super low, the lowest it’s been in days, and I’m in this good mood. I don’t know if that’s a side effect or if I’m just happy for some relief from this major anxiety I’ve been having.

Edit again: I’m still doing ok with just the one. I have absolutely no desire to eat though despite not eating much today. It took me an hour to get through a bag of frozen strawberries. I was reading horror stories of people losing drastic amounts of weight on Valium. I only need to lose 30 pounds to get to where I want. But so far I’ve just been lying in bed all afternoon with my music on feeling pretty good for once.