can a person take antivan for panic attacks along with either soma for muscle relaxation or ambien for sleep?
when i was in the hospital they gave me my ambien for sleep and then gave me my avtivan a little later.
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WOW! Thats alot of relaxants! You should definately consult with your doctor or pharmacist. I personally would try to take the muscle relaxant first to see if it helped the panic at all. If not then I would try the ativan. I dont know why you would need ambien after the other 2, but wait to take that about 30 minutes before bedtime. With CNS depressants you have to worry about your respiratory rate. Sometimes people are just so relaxed that they dont breath. Be Careful! Its one thing when they do this in the hospital as you are hooked up to monitors and you have people checking on you throughout the night. Its totally different when you are at home and you are not being monitored or checked on. Just use caution.
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WOW! Thats alot of relaxants! You should definately consult with your doctor or pharmacist. I personally would try to take the muscle relaxant first to see if it helped the panic at all. If not then I would try the ativan. I dont know why you would need ambien after the other 2, but wait to take that about 30 minutes before bedtime. With CNS depressants you have to worry about your respiratory rate. Sometimes people are just so relaxed that they dont breath. Be Careful! Its one thing when they do this in the hospital as you are hooked up to monitors and you have people checking on you throughout the night. Its totally different when you are at home and you are not being monitored or checked on. Just use caution.
You can but it is not wise to combine them. How many mg of Ativan are you taking?
I wouldn’t recommend taking ativan with soma, because they both depress your nervous system, and combing both could cause unwanted side effects such as labored breathing
Combining ativan and ambien is less likely to inhibit these effects.
Call your doctor though and ask, because i am not considered a doctor till the end of this year.
I started having panic attacks almost 10 years ago. The Doc’s gave me different meds to try to “fix” this problem. They sent me to a shrink and a counselor. They put me on Effexor- the worst thing I’ve ever allowed to be done to me. They were all just band-aids for the problem. Nothing ever fixed it. I Got the Lucinda Basset tapes for panic attacks- did tons of research and finally met a doctor who had a brain!!! She gave me a saliva test for adrenal fatigue. Turns out panic attacks are caused by certain deficiencies in the body such as low Epinephrine, high Cortisol, Doapamine, Serotonin. Tell your doctor to order this test for you. It is the only real way to find out what’s actually wrong so that they can fix it. I swear I think doctors must be taking kick backs from the drug companies so they just keep us medicated instead of trying to fix the real problem and help us.
Test info:
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The test consists of 3 small tubes for saliva collection and opne small vial for urine. You take the test from home and then mail back to the lab with the pre-paid postage. They send the results to your doctor, who then should give you a copy. Good luck!! And help spread the word.