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I have not had any problems with it like balance issues but, when I was in the hospital for a surgery that went horribly wrong...my doctor and staff had to figure out how to give me medication as to not cause me to go into respiratory distress and after that experience it got me thinking that I need to get my life back. It is a personal decision as I feel that it has placed a veil over my eyes and I want to be in control of myself as I am tired of being dependent on this medication. When my doctor retires here which will be in the next couple of years I will be hard pressed to find someone that will take me on as a patient. A lot of doctors in my town are running scared and not prescribing any type of benzo. So, for me it's personal and I want to get ahead of the situation before this happens. I don't want to know what a seizure feels like or a painful withdrawal.
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You don’t mention how old you are and I am sorry the surgery went horribly wrong.
I don’t feel the medication has put a veil over my eyes and I have had conversations with my PCP. Unlike so many PCP’s that are running away from prescribing it she actually encouraged me to stay on it. After 30 years and at my age I don’t want to go through a painful withdrawal. One post said it took him or her six years to get off it. That would make me 80 years old.
Do you know of any way to get off it without suffering terrible withdrawals? If so I am all ears.
Do you think the opioid epidemic has all the doctors running scared? I have never heard of anyone overdosing on Klonopin. Have you? Also why does everyone on this site focus on Klonopin when there are so many other benzo’s out there?
Like I said my PCP for the last 20 years has a practice comprised of only senior citizens and she is careful not to prescribe it to anyone with a drinking problem.
Just looking for answers.