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I have been in Clonazepam 0.5mg TID for 18 years
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No question about it, you can become dependent (which is a form of addiction, but the legal kind) on klonopin after use of only a few weeks. This drug was only intended for short term usage, around 2 weeks but just like proton pump inhibitors docs kept prescribing it for those it helped. Thats why its so hard to ever get off of this drug if one wants to, it's because your body becomes dependent on it. No different than nicotine etc., hard to break that habit as well. But for those it works for, it seems to be good for them. Wasn't for me. Old docs never understood this, younger ones are taught this!
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it seems like such a low dosage, I cannot imagine it helping anxiety problems very much.
i was on 6 mg. lorazepam ( 2mg. 3 x per day) for 20 years. my psychiatrist retired 1.5 years ago and I was assigned to a nurse practitioner. seems that her main goal is getting me off lorazepam. I'm now down to 4 mg. per day split 3 days. i am petrified everytime I have to meet with her. i have definitely felt some major anxiety. i have been tried on all the ssris also cymbolta, trazodone and cannot even remember the rest, so many. none of them work for me. i have explained this to her but
she is hell bent on tapering lorazepam. the only drug that has helped me with serious anxiety and panic disorder. i have no idea what to do except suffer through .
my former psychiatrist put me on this medication . it was not something I ever took before or requested specifically.
I'm 71 years old and feel that she should leave well enough alone. i do not have any balance problems or falling.
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The new grad providers don’t have the experience, the empathy and the time to really gather a history and understanding of their clients’s issues. My first provider retired a year ago and he had experience and a great knowledge of which medications would work with my diagnosis. And we had a rapport unlike any other I’d had in my 40 years of depression and anxiety. The two young nurse practitioners I have met and been refused to do anything but taper the Clonazepam are business like and are following theFDA suggestions. I hope the one I see on Tuesday is more understanding.