SpartanForce Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 So long story short, I have been taking Clonazepam 1mg since july of this year, but in the beginning of September I ask my doc to change to 0,25mg to begin to wear off of this drug, and strange enough this dosage hit me way hard that 1mg. Anyway, I begin to cut 0,25mg on two (0,125mg) about 1 weak ago and was getting sick of the side-effects of this drug, so I just throw of this shitty med in the garbage. One day passed I begun to feeling really strange and rush to cut 1mg of my mother's clonazepam in like a lot of pieces to be 0,125mg again, and I'm gonna travel in one day and need to be okay. I'm gonna call my doc today later but this is getting awful. The side effects I feel when taking or not taking this shitty med are the follow: Blured vision, high blood pressure, anxiety, freaking out moments reading about benzo withdrawl symptoms and something similar to akathisia but is a feeling of crawling of my skin, I don't know how to put this. What do I do? This is the worst medication I ever been and I have been in almost all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlamelessCandle Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Well,it does sound like withdrawal. I don;t blame you for trying to get off. Perrhaps you should reinstate .....*start over* .... at the lower dose and work down from there, going very slowly. With the length of time you;ve been on the medicarion and the slower taper (aftter talking to your p-dox) it's my opinion that you will have a better chance of getting through this time with much lasss disxomfurt, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 I agree, starting over would be a good idea. Less drastic changes. More time between reductions. Benzo's are a bitch to get off of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartanForce Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 So since day 21, I was taking the usual 0,25mg and hating every moment of it. Once again, on day 24 I started to take only 0,075mg until day 26, when I just didn't want this poison on my life anymore. So this is my third day without clonazepam, and I can say for sure that those were the worst three days of my life. It's not depression - that is gone together with the poison drug. What I get is extreme anxiety, sweating hands ALL day, pain on my back and neck, constant paranoia and fobia to go outside. That diminished at night when I take Seroquel and one drug that helped me other times, Akineton, for the sweating hands. It's hell on earth and I have to go back to college today, 29/10/2012. Am I gonna get some seizure or panic attack? Well, maybe. But you know what... I'm not gonna give up now. If I holded three days I can hold three weeks or three months. Is gonna be terrible? For sure. But I don't give a fuck, because I'm not taking this pill no more as longer as I live. One advice I can give - benzo's are killers. Is up to you if have the will to surpass this poison and have a clean life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notfred Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Stopping any antiseizure med abruptly carries the risk of seizure. It is also stupid. Clonazepam has a primary indication for seizures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartanForce Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 I'm aware of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werehorse Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I got myself addicted to benzos I bought from the internet (and, yes, I am fully aware of just how STUPID that was, but I was desperate at the time) When I came off them, the withdrawal was AWFUL, I think it is the worst I have ever felt physically. But it DID pass within a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertolobat Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Perhaps you should have tried a slower taper and so avoided all this suffering, as most people here are advising. Jumping from 1mg to 0.25 can be extremely hard, and even dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartanForce Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 Perhaps you should have tried a slower taper and so avoided all this suffering, as most people here are advising. Jumping from 1mg to 0.25 can be extremely hard, and even dangerous. That was a month ago. I was taking for a month only 0,25mg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldorado Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 So since day 21, I was taking the usual 0,25mg and hating every moment of it. Once again, on day 24 I started to take only 0,075mg until day 26, when I just didn't want this poison on my life anymore. So this is my third day without clonazepam, and I can say for sure that those were the worst three days of my life. It's not depression - that is gone together with the poison drug. What I get is extreme anxiety, sweating hands ALL day, pain on my back and neck, constant paranoia and fobia to go outside. That diminished at night when I take Seroquel and one drug that helped me other times, Akineton, for the sweating hands. It's hell on earth and I have to go back to college today, 29/10/2012. Am I gonna get some seizure or panic attack? Well, maybe. But you know what... I'm not gonna give up now. If I holded three days I can hold three weeks or three months. Is gonna be terrible? For sure. But I don't give a fuck, because I'm not taking this pill no more as longer as I live. One advice I can give - benzo's are killers. Is up to you if have the will to surpass this poison and have a clean life. I'm no doctor or medical health professional and every other disclaimer your are suppose to say, despite your vast experience with a certain subject..... But I really do like that quality in a person, someone who makes up their mind, takes action and lives with the consciousnesses and doesn't bitch about them. The whole thing smacks of personal responsibly. Bravo to you sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaw72 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 To get off 2 mg/klonopin a day (1 AM, 1 PM): first month decreased by 0.25 AM and 0.25 PM (so it was 0.75 at night and 0.75 in morning). Second month decreased more to 0.5 mg in AM and to 0.5 mg on PM (so 0.5 in AM and 0.5 PM). I actually did this for an extra round of a month, so it was actually 2 months. Fourth month was 0.25 in AM, 0.5 in PM (total decrease by 0.25 in the AM ONLY). Fifth month was .25 in PM, so my new dose was 0.25 in AM, and 0.25 PM. I am just starting to eliminate the 0.25 from the AM, so I am taking 0.25 in AM alternating days with 0 klonopin in AM, and 0.25 in PM. I'll do this for at least a month. YES, it has taken me this long to wean off only 2 mg of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crtclms Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Do you mind cutting the hysteria? It isn't "poison," and you are responsible in part of for the intensity of the withdrawal, because you didn't follow instructions on how to taper. So it is obnoxious of you to blame it all on the medication. You don't like it. I get that. But the carrying on about the horrors of benzos is ridiculous, as you very well know. Like *all* meds, ymmv. Did you think that would be different with benzos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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