Tim Dusty Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Just realised I was going through clonaz withdrawal. I felt sick, and my body ached all over, head ache, just feeling like complete shit. I was putting it down to starting Abilify yesterday, and taking it in the morning, which I don't think is a good idea in itself as it is sedating in my case. I thought I wouldn't have any more clonaz because I would just get more drowsy, but I looked up the relationship between clonaz and pain and there is a reported link as some sort of pain killer or adjunct at least. So I asked the nurse for a PRN and got the clonaz... at this stage i really thought I was going to chuck... but got it down and gee I feel so much better. Fuck it's hard to work out what's what with meds when you are changing them. But, it makes sense seeing I didn't have much yesterday, and only 0.5mg this morning. I can take up to 3 x 1mg a day. Now I'm hungry again... time to anyone else had this before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loon-A-TiK Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 actually, not klonopin withdrawl, but adderall withdrawl. i quit klonopin from time to time when i can't afford it. i've never had *much* trouble with quitting. sometimes i get headaches and more shaking than usual, but that's kind of par for the course. as for the adderall, i don't feel it in my system, except that i can focus better than usual. however, when i ran out and my patient assistance was denied, i was in cold sweats, shaking, with a headache and muscleaches from hell. i felt like i was going to throw up any second. it went away in a couple of days. now i have adderall back, and i'm really watching that i don't run out, so i won't have to go through withdrawl. believe me, i feel your pain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensky Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Can't speak to adderrall withdrawal--I didn't see it mentioned in the OP's post either, but perhaps s/he mentioned it somewhere else?--but with regard to clonazepam, it sure can cause very bad withdrawal if you've been taking a significant dose (which 3mgs per day certainly is) for a significant amount of time. Several years ago I was taking 2mgs per day, along with some Ativan PRN for anxiety attacks (can't remember the dose). I was, for all intents and purposes, completely uninformed about the nature of the types of drugs I was taking, even that they were addictive. After getting rather shoddy care from one doctor and getting different advice from another (who was also on another continent incidentally)--that is, no clear direct instructions from anyone, and I knew nuthin--I managed to decide to quit clonazepam cold turkey, and well, the next week was a shaky, sweaty, swervy, most likely dangerous affair. Miraculously this was all relieved when I finally (I didn't even associate the weirdness with withdrawal, such was my level of ignorance) went to the doctor he told me to resume taking a smaller dose. So yeah--it can be bad. I now take it PRN at a smaller dose, sometimes for a couple of weeks at a time, and don't have a hard time quitting, but it is a small dose and a couple, and three weeks ain't that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dusty Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Yeah my doc reckons after all the years of benzo abuse my GABA receptors have changed, and that ain't helping. I've been taking it a bit more regularly the last couple of days. But, boy, was I in pain. Was terrible. I think it was also a combinatin of zeldox withdrawal as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dusty Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 actually, not klonopin withdrawl, but adderall withdrawl. i quit klonopin from time to time when i can't afford it. i've never had *much* trouble with quitting. sometimes i get headaches and more shaking than usual, but that's kind of par for the course. as for the adderall, i don't feel it in my system, except that i can focus better than usual. however, when i ran out and my patient assistance was denied, i was in cold sweats, shaking, with a headache and muscleaches from hell. i felt like i was going to throw up any second. it went away in a couple of days. now i have adderall back, and i'm really watching that i don't run out, so i won't have to go through withdrawl. believe me, i feel your pain! fuck loon though you really need to keep up your stash! I've been lucky I've never run out of anything, but been close. Especially with seroquel as it's on an authority script and I can only get that from my shrink. Sometimes I imagine if I was in a place where I lost all my meds and couldn't get anymore..... how bad would that be. eeew... too scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melli Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Just realised I was going through clonaz withdrawal. I felt sick, and my body ached all over, head ache, just feeling like complete shit. ...... Now I'm hungry again... time to anyone else had this before? Yep. I tried to switch over to Valium from Clo, but apparently it didn't go well...had to take some Clonazepam to bring me back from the brink. I have now moved to a very quiet place, which seems to make all the difference in the world. Still, every reduction in Clo brings me down. I'd look at Dr Ashton's site should you want to quit a benzo. My pdoc says, slow, then slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dusty Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 I found this on youtube: Dr Ashton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiaB Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 excellent vid Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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