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Klonopin & Gabapentin for sleep

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@arthur57
Klonopin is a very beneficial medication and helps a lot of people with seizures and other problems. Perhaps not the drug of choice for you but if you decrease your dose EXTREMELY SLOWLY you probably won't have any trouble. As long as you have withdrawal symptoms take it in even smaller doses. Perhaps using a bridge would help you but I'd try the smaller doses first. You wouldn't want to get hooked on a second drug.
Best of luck to you,
Jake

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Jake, maybe it's fine for folks who have seizure issues, I have no idea, but if it keeps them from having these episodes, I'm happy for them. For me, it was an idiot sleep doc who thought I needed klonopin to help with a sleep disruption issue, that to this day, nobody can explain. No, I don't have sleep apnea, but 3 other sleep docs failed to understand giving me klonopin? That said it only took 4 to 6 weeks for me to begin developing body tremors, body buzzing, eye twiching etc. It was obviously messing with my CNS but idiot doc said it couldn't possibly be the blame. After 7 months I stopped it cold turkey as I couldn't take the issues anymore and why not stop it cold turkey, it was already screwing me over. Yes, it took months but my body buzzing stopped, my eye twitching stopped within days, but I still deal with very minor tremors only at night but they are slowly improving. Saw a neurolgist just to make sure and he found nothing wrong with me but also failed to understand the klonopin? Talked to a retired pharmacist friend of my brothers who basically called klonopin crap. Said he couldn't believe they were dishing that stuff out, said it was a treatment from decades gone by - his words. It is only to be dispensed for short term, (maybe seizure patients are an outlier) not long term as you definitely become dependent, thus the withdrawal issues that it creates. Best to you as well!