Lorazepam Other Names. Lorazepam and possibly other benzodiazepines should be used cautiously in patients receiving loxapine. This leads to an increase in chloride channel opening events a.
Use of benzodiazepines including lorazepam both used alone and in combination with other CNS depressants may lead to potentially fatal respiratory. Lorazepam is a benzodiazepine with anxiolytic anti-anxiety anticonvulsant anti-emetic and sedative properties. It is most commonly used in short-term management of anxiety disorders specifically panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder GAD.
Alprazolam sold under the brand name Xanax among others is a short-acting tranquilizer of the triazolobenzodiazepine TBZD class which are benzodiazepines BZDs fused with a triazole ring.
Common side effects are weakness dizziness unsteadiness and headache. Lorazepam is used to treat anxiety disorders. Studies have shown that older adults with dementia a brain disorder that affects the ability to remember think clearly communicate and perform daily activities and that may cause changes in mood and personality who take antipsychotics medications for mental illness such as loxapine have an increased chance. Testosterone can be used as a gel or patch that is applied to.