Anyone had issues while tapering off of 1mg clonazepam (Klonopin)?

I am 80 years old. My psychiatrist would like me to taper off Clonazepam 0.5 MG (Klonopin). I take it daily, and have been about 6-years. What is the safest way to taper?

That’s a question for your psychiatrist if you have one. Medical doctors don’t seem to understand what Clonazapan can do to a person.

Given the low dosage your taking I don’t even know if they make a dose smaller than 0.5 mg but only your doctor knows
I’m on 0.5 every morning and a 1 mg dose at 4 PM. I’m not sure why I take a 1 mg dose at 4:00. I don’t have much anxiety anymore but that maybe attributable to the klonopin.

But I also take 300 mg of Wellbutrin in the morning and 200 mg of seroquel at bedtime plus 150 mg of lamictal at bedtime too. I sleep like a baby though

Hi – I have tapered way down on clonazepam and basically cut my daily dose in half. It has taken a couple years going very slowly, but it has worked really well. Do you mind sharing how many milligrams you take every other day? What were you taking originally? And how many years have you been on it? It is totally possible to not only taper but discontinue this medication for some people but just needs to be done very very slowly. Others have a much harder time; everyone’s body and brain is different obviously. Almost 1/16 of a milligram at a time seems to work best. I wish you the best of luck. Happy to continue sharing if you need to.

I was on 0.5 tablets x 3 daily since 2002

My old Neurosurgeon put me on it and told me I had epilepsy but my new Neurosurgeon done all the testing to tell me I don’t and should not have been taking it

I began tapering off 1 mg clonazepam in September. I have been doing well. My symptoms were manageable. I am now completely off. I have begun having withdrawal symptoms. Shaking and jerking movements, horrible tinitis, blurred vision. I feel like I’m in a funhouse. Vertigo, it feels like the ground is tilting, flu like symptoms. I went to the ER a week ago because I convinced myself I was dying. Was tested for flu and covid. Both negative. Has anyone else experienced this and if so, how long did this last?

Has anyone successfully tapered off of Clonazepam?

I have tapered off of Clonazepam, 2mg a day for 6 years and it took about 4 months to do it safely

@firefly70
I was taking almost the maximum dose of Klonopin (18mg for seizures.) The maximum dose is 20 mg.
I took a little over 2 years to discontinue it. The only withdrawal effects I had were very mild and only when I got to the end of my taper. To stop the effects I chipped off a tiny piece that stopped any withdrawal effects but tapering so slowly, at least for me prevented any uncomfortable effects.
Best of luck on your tape.
Take care,
Jake

Yes. Under my primary care provider and my neurologist. Begin in late summer of 2017. Completed in January 2018. No problems. I was afraid. I had a seizure risk from the withdrawal and a craniotomy done in 2014. I have never gone back to this class of drugs.