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Adult daughter (27) home with severe panic/anxiety disorder
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 4 3:27pm | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
@cinrose
I really identify with what you wrote. I'm on .25 clonazepam am and pm and have gradually been having more anxiety. Would you be willing to share what meds you were on, what strength and how you weaned yourself off. I've gotten a number of tappering programs for clonazepam, but they seem rather rapid. Now I wake up two times a night in great anxiety, shaking and feeling sick to my stomach and when I get out of bed in the morning I feel about the same. This did not happen to me before I got on clon. I don't know whether I developed a tolerance -- I feel no different after I have taken it. I don't know whether it is rebound and the medication is making me sick. It is making me miserable. The latest addition is Effexor which I really don't want to take but was told it would ease the difficulty I am having af night. I'm 81 and very sensitive to adding additional meds. I have not tried it yet.
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@gunshy I’m pretty sure I took the .125 mg. It was a few years ago. He had me at first on 3 a day, then 2, and then 1. I believe the whole process took a couple of months and like I said, not easy as I was pretty anxious through all of it but I am so thankful I was able to power through. I just wanted to be like my old self so badly!! Good luck to you.
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@gunshy Oh my gosh! You poor thing!! This is exactly what happened to me! I wouldn’t wish this for anyone. It’s so awful. I was initially taking Xanax as needed, about one pill a week for about a year, but then I started getting really bad insomnia and terrible anxiety. Then my doctor put me on clonazapam and that really ramped the anxiety up. She recommended going to a psychiatrist who then tried about 10 different types of psychotropic drugs which all just added to the anxiety. I finally demanded to go off all the meds, and he tapered me down with a very tiny dose of clonazapam. It was a dissolve under your tongue tablet in a very small dose, but I can’t remember the mg. It was still very rough for me for about a month but I tried to take walks and meditate. I am also very sensitive to drugs, and there is also something called the paradoxical effect which means you react the opposite to these drugs. For me it was an awful ordeal. I was so grateful when it ended. I still have a little bit of anxiety but nothing like when I was on those meds. I hope you can get some relief❣️