Can I taper my Ativan SL in a water titration?

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Can I taper my Ativan SL in a water titration?

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What is SL?

[[Ch...]]

SL means sub lingual. You take the Ativan pill under your tongue. I have tried to get info from the link but my computer will not open it. I am stuggling to fiqure out the math to convert to how much liquid to drink once. I want to water titrate all my Ativan & take it 3 times a day. I thought I could mix 1.25 mg Ativan SL with 25 ml water and titrate less 5-10% every week or two but how do I do the math to know how much to take? Thx for any help

[[an...]]

Ativan is not soluble in water, but if you are very careful making sure the particles stay suspended in water it can be done.  Some use a few ml of vodka to dissolve the medication first and then add water.

 

You could put the 1.25 ml tablet into a container and add  a few ml of vodka (maybe 4 ml) and add to that 246  ml of water for a total of 250 ml.  This would be 1.25mg/250 ml = 0.005 mg /ml.  If you removed 1.5 ml each day for two weeks, you will cut by about 8%.  So, on day one you remove 1.5 ml, day two, 3 mL, day four 4.5 ml and so on.  If removing 1 mL each day, this would be a 5.6% cut at the end of two weeks.  I hope this helps.

 

Anne