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Old 10-25-2007, 06:55 PM   #6 (permalink)
Impurrfect
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You're right....sorry about that.

She was also on fioricet and lortabs for pain from fibromyalgia and migraines. She used to only take it when she absolutely needed it, used mainly imitrex for migraines. Apparently, though, when she went overboard on the Klonopin, she would be so out of it, she would take too much of everything, including fioricet and lortabs.

Now, they have taken her off everything except her heart medicine, lexapro for depression, the subs, and ativan 0.5 mg once a day. She knows the dangers of ativan and is only going to be on it for maybe another week and is not abusing it. She was actually prescribed ativan years ago for 3 times a day, and realized that she couldn't remember what she had done the day before, so stopped it and is scared of it now. They told her it was for seizure precautions and she told them she didn't want to take them any longer than she had to.

exjunky - I told her what you said about 24mg being a high dose of subs and reminded her that she doesn't need to just stop them. She was going to take one of the pills tonight and will call her Dr. first thing in the a.m. (he was already gone for the day) and see about tapering down.

Sorry I forgot to tell you WHY she was on the subs. Hopefully, they will find a way to treat her legit pain. I warned her about tramadol, too, thanks to everything I've read here.

Amy
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