06-13-2018, 01:42 AM
Personally I have found this particular benzodiazepine to be quite underwhelming, it works, if you take enough, but this could be said of any sedative. To put my experience in context though, I am more accustomed to higher potency, benzos like clonazepam, lorazepam, and nitrazepam (I also have very severe baseline anxiety)
If there is one truth I have learned from conversing with other psychiatric patients in waiting rooms
and the like, it’s that no two individuals respond the same way to any benzo. My ex-girlfriend used to swear that diazepam put her into a stupor (and from what I observed, it did), whereas she could
take large doses of bromazepam and feel almost no fatigue, simply anxiety relief. To me this is fascinating, because I respond in exactly the opposite way in the cases of both examples. But from what I understand her reaction was more common - it is said to be less sedating than some of the more commonly prescribed varieties, but it is also one of the older benzos, which I have heard is associated with possible Leukopenia or liver damage, to the extent that the dispensing guidelines reccomemd regular blood analyses for safety.
If there is one truth I have learned from conversing with other psychiatric patients in waiting rooms
and the like, it’s that no two individuals respond the same way to any benzo. My ex-girlfriend used to swear that diazepam put her into a stupor (and from what I observed, it did), whereas she could
take large doses of bromazepam and feel almost no fatigue, simply anxiety relief. To me this is fascinating, because I respond in exactly the opposite way in the cases of both examples. But from what I understand her reaction was more common - it is said to be less sedating than some of the more commonly prescribed varieties, but it is also one of the older benzos, which I have heard is associated with possible Leukopenia or liver damage, to the extent that the dispensing guidelines reccomemd regular blood analyses for safety.