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Anyone had issues while tapering off of 1mg clonazepam (Klonopin)?
I am coming off Clonazepam since July this year I am down to half a tablet every 2nd day I feel weird I see my doctor every week has anyone had the same problem with reducing
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How did you taper off. My dr. is recommending a water taper disolving a .5 mg tablet in 200 mg water. I read that it doesn't disolve well so the doses would be inconsistent? Have you tried it or know of any one who had and how it worked for them?
20+ years on klon. I became very anxious lately and I am not willing to go higher on benzos, so I will be buying a scale and start tapering slowly 10% at a time for as long as it takes.
I am on the same medication. Have not stopped taking it because I only take it once a day. But I applaud you, I don't know what you mean by weird?
@gunshy I started off with cutting them in half and cutting that half. so if it was when 1 mg I would cut that in half then cut that half and half so I would take .75 mg for 2 weeks then go to .50 for 2 weeks then go to .25 for 2 weeks or more if you have to and then get off it.
@lisalucier Clonaz does not work for me any longer when I take it for sleep. It helps me with panic attacks 0.5 and extreme periods of high anxiety.
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Are you going to get off it and how will you do it?
Have you found SafeTaper with Nataniel Lepp,
I am in Maine and am trying to find out if he is licensed there,
I saw a number of state in which he is but not Maine,
He is very pricey and offer DIY water tapers, but cloz does't disolve well in water so doses are even and I do not trust it as I think concentration of the drug will vary if taken twice a day, and there are other problems with it as I read the particles stick to the oral slyringe.
I am not in US and I will be doing it on my own. Poverty and no money for docs. I think that 1mg/day of klnzpm is not a big deal to be tapered and stopped completely regardless of how I take it, ones a day or whatever ways. I just have to be consistent. The half time is 50-60 hours and this is why I made this conclusion.
I bought a scale 0.000g and I will be tapering it 10% at a time by shaving the pill. I have not established how long will it take me to go to the next step. If I feel stable I will move to the next step, but not for less then 3 weeks.
This is the plan. I am 100% sure that whatever I feel as "side effects" can not be worse than I full blown panic attack and I had hundreds of them and multi visits to the ER. Do not forget that doctors put us on this meds and most of them they do not even care to tell you what is the way back.
*** I went checked the person you are referring. to. Helping me "reclaim your life" ? What a BS.
@synthiame wayyyyyy too fast
@gunshy I will never go to these people. They can not work for me. It is well established practice to taper 5-10% at a time and to move to the next stage when ready. Some people have symptoms and they very a lot. Just a few people do not have.
Most of us have been on bezos due to medical reasons, anxiety, PSSD etc. These problems may not go away and I will have to find another way to deal with them.
@rosebookay 8 weeks too fast? I'm 2 weeks off Seroquel and I'm finally sleeping it may be only 5 hours of sleep because my nervous system is still not calm down but I have general anxiety disorder so my nervous system is never going to calm down completely. So I'll never get 8 hours of sleep So far so good I'm so glad I'm off it