Have you tried to get help from another source, someone who has experience in helping you to withdraw slowly and safely, it’s totally beyond my comprehension that they just abandoned you, it could have been fatal if you weren’t strong enough to handle this, I know very little about benzodiazepines with opioids except that it can cause overdose and death, now they are forcing innocent people to go into forced or rapid withdrawal causing even worse outcomes. Everything is totally screwed up, the government wants us off the drugs and doctors are being pressured to do so. I’ve researched about this disaster and there are places that will try to help you with other medications to help alleviate some symptoms or even help you go through a proper withdrawal that you can cope with. I wish that I can offer you more information but I believe you’re in the right place to start getting the help you deserve, you can set up an appointment with the Mayo clinic for information on where to go. I sincerely hope that you will find your way back with the right help.

I am sorry that they did that to you. I also have gone through the same as you except I was on 3mg a day of clonazepam for 30 years. I also was and still am on a fentanyl patch for severe pain from neck surgery that failed. I never had a problem with my prescription until they started lumping us together with drug addicts. I was taken off suddenly also and was visiting my granddaughter and my great grandson in Kansas. The withdrawal started quickly and was awful. Somehow in the middle of the night I am on a feeding tube and pump fed into my small intestine. I remember taking off my tube from the pump and going to take my medication. The next thing I remember is my granddaughter waking me up because we were going to a festival and she looked at me and said grandma what happened to you. I was like what are you talking about. She said you have a black eye. I said no I don't, I was still on my feeding pump and thought she was kidding. Then my great grandson comes in he was only 2. He started crying and saying grandma is hurt. I got concerned and tried to pull myself up and I got excruciating pain in my left arm. Somehow when I was up I must have fallen and hurt myself yet got myself back to bed and hooked myself back on my feeding pump and had no idea what happened. I still don't know. I ended up with 2 broken bones in my left arm and a shattered elbow and big black eye and a large lump on my head and bruises around my neck! I ended up in icu. A week later I had to fly home with my arm still broken. I went from the airport to the hospital and they had to do a 4 hour surgery on my arm and elbow and had to put a plate in to hold everything together. I was immediately put back on clonazepam. I felt so much better back on the clonazepam. Then my doctor retired and I was put through the same hell. I have bad PTSD from year's of abuse. I am also chronically ill. I was having horrible panic attacks and like you my head was all messed up I kept forgetting thing's and my vision got blurred and I was very dizzy. I finally had a psychiatrist that put me back on clonazepam but only 1.5 mg a day. I did better on it and eventually I was back to feeding like myself again. Then after 2 year's my insurance forced my psychiatrist out because they don't want anyone with my insurance company to prescribe benzodiazepams at all. Turns out my Medicare plan was the one's making them stop. I am disabled and have been for 12 years. I am still not old enough to be on Medicare but I am due to being totally disabled. I don't understand why if something works and has for 30 plus years that suddenly its a problem? My quality of life should mean more than anything. But when they got tough on drugs they lumped us all together and doctors are afraid to prescribe it for fear of getting into trouble. It's not right. Personally I do alot better on the clonazepam than without it. I hope you can get someone to listen and do what's right for your quality of life. Let me know if you find someone to help you because I also now need someone to treat me as a person not a statistic. Good luck to you. I know it sucks. Hang in there 🙏