I totally agree with your doctors. If it's not broken don't fix it. Mine was that way also. He started seeing me after my surgery from being taken off the klonopin. He said these new young doctors are schmucks. He said they always want to change thing's. He put me back on the 1mg 3x a day. I was doing great again but a year later he was retiring. I panicked. He said he would make sure everything was in my file and instructed all further doctors to leave the klonopin dose alone. Well that didn't help. Even the doctor who replaced him agreed with him when he introduced me to him..well when my doctor retired this new neurologist still decided that it wasn't good for me. I was like I have been on this same dose for 25+ years and it helps me. He still didn't care..so I have been thru many doctors trying to get help. I have a psychiatrist that only agreed to .5mg 3xday. Then my insurance company fired him and the new one told me that they, my insurance wants everyone off of benzos. He left after a year because he couldn't practice the way he needed to. Now I have another one and he said I need to try to cut back further but he wasn't concerned and said we would leave it alone unless they get after him. I have bad PTSD from year's of physical abuse. I now have many gastro diseases and live on a feeding tube and have been disabled since I turned 50. So I have all this pain and fear and they want to take me off what I need. I don't understand why. Maybe it's my state. Florida is really cracking down on alot because of the abusers and addicts. But I am just a person that need's the medication just to function. But I am glad you never had to go through this. It was awful getting hurt so bad and not having any memory of what happens. Good luck to you!
Good luck to you. My Doctor is only in her forties but it is still something to discuss with her the next time I see her.
If there was a way to get off it without the terrible side effects I would certainly do it but at 73 I would prefer to just keep my current dose which has been the same for 35 years.
I welcome other posts regarding possible ways to taper off Klonopin.