Wonderful.Cheese Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I sent an email to my new psych NP today. I told her I needed a refill of klonopin and I take 1 mg, three times daily. She emailed back saying she called in the prescription as such: “it will say 1 tab 2x/day as needed for anxiety”. AS NEEDED?! So I’m going from 3 mg daily to 2 times PRN only, cold turkey? Wow! I knew she was anti-benzo but I thought she’d taper me. I hope I don’t have a seizure. Or become housebound again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancesintherain Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I'm afraid I can't speak to it, but hopefully someone here can. In theory, you're going from 3mg a day to 2mg a day (that's assuming you take all of it, but I think that's fair to do when you're getting started). So it seems possible, but I can understand the concern. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notloki Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 How many tabs did you get ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyRedhead Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) On 1/22/2021 at 7:52 PM, Wonderful.Cheese said: I sent an email to my new psych NP today. I told her I needed a refill of klonopin and I take 1 mg, three times daily. She emailed back saying she called in the prescription as such: “it will say 1 tab 2x/day as needed for anxiety”. AS NEEDED?! So I’m going from 3 mg daily to 2 times PRN only, cold turkey? Wow! I knew she was anti-benzo but I thought she’d taper me. I hope I don’t have a seizure. Or become housebound again. Did she tell you ahead of time that she was going to reduce your dose?....Or was this a "surprise"..?. Edited January 24, 2021 by CrazyRedhead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderful.Cheese Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 Thanks guys. She did mention wanting to get me off klonopin and go to just PRN at my first appointment. But I didn’t know it was going to happen this fast. I have 60 tablets in the bottle because I am still working on the bottle from my old pdoc. I have been taking 0.5 mg AM and 0.5 mg bedtime. So just 1 mg total daily. I don’t know if she wants me to be taking it daily still but.....eeek. It’s been somewhat rough at times with anxiety/falling asleep but nothing I haven’t been able to handle as of yet. I hope at our next appointment she will consider adding gabapentin as was discussed and was the plan (or so I was told before). Maybe she wants to see how I do without klonopin to see if I really need gabapentin? Not sure. She did say I can have a sooner than mid February appointment if needed because of all these med changes. I’m not sure. Should I take her up on that? I don’t know what to do. I don’t want her to think I’m a “trouble patient” and to start things off on the wrong foot with her. Eeeek. 23 hours ago, CrazyRedhead said: Did she tell you ahead of time that she was going to reduce your dose?....Or was this a "surprise"..?. On 1/23/2021 at 7:50 PM, notloki said: How many tabs did you get ? On 1/23/2021 at 12:12 PM, dancesintherain said: I'm afraid I can't speak to it, but hopefully someone here can. In theory, you're going from 3mg a day to 2mg a day (that's assuming you take all of it, but I think that's fair to do when you're getting started). So it seems possible, but I can understand the concern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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