hi, so i suffer from panic disorder. it’s not horrible, but i do feel panic attacks coming from time to time. the most i can get them is usually once a week, and the most i’ve gone without one is a few months. normally i have a panic attack once a month. sometimes i do get panic attack symptoms that are milder but i try to not let the turn into an attack. ive gotten relatively decent at managing them but it’s also been four years and i realized i got tired of fighting them by myself. when i get a bad one, they’re extremely debilitating ever for days after. i just realized i wanted help after doing it alone for so long. 

since i dont get them often, i got prescribed lorazepam 0.5mg as a rescue med by my psych back when i was in college a few months ago but i really feel like it doesn’t do much for me. i’ve even doubled my dose before and nothing. i’ll have other symptoms like drowsiness and even dry mouth (only happened the day i took 2 at once) but still will feel anxious. i possibly feel the effects hours later, but i just feel like that is too long for me to feel a relief. i want to go to the doctor and tell them it’s not working but i can’t go to my last doctor because i graduated and i can’t see him anymore. so i would have to go see a new one, which i plan on doing anyway, but i know that doctors tend to not like prescribing benzos so i’m not sure if they will ask to put me on an ssri, which i don’t want bc i don’t get panic attacks that often. i just want a good rescue pill that will act quickly when i do have an episode. 

my friend’s mom gave her a pack of diazepam 5mg that she got from her doctor in cuba (we’re cuban) and i’m thinking of trying one to see if it works better. 

does anyone have any experience or know if diazepam works better than lorazepam?

tl;dr— i have panic disorder. got prescribed lorazepam as a rescue pill. it takes too long to act, if at all. thinking of trying diazepam. does anyone know if diazepam works better?