What is the best way to taper off Klonopin?

@synthiame I have GAD with panic attacks so I can related somehow. 5 hours of sleep is plenty + 2-3 more hours of rest. So far so good and you will be able to sleep even longer, just do not worry about it and appreciate your 5 hours sleep you have.

@rosebookay
How did you drop your doses, like how much over how much time? At what mg did you start.
I am on .5 mg, divided in to two does of .25 a day.
DId you use the Safe Taper program?
How did you even does as there is sediment on the bottom?

@yoshimo
It doesn't work well for me either, shaky and nauseous in the am and wake up night several times feeling bad. Please keep me posted on yow your dry weight taper goes. Do you plan to go down 5 percent a month using a hyperbolic curve for the next dose>

Has anyone on here had any respiratory slowing with clonazepam. I have had two sleep studies that show a slight decrease in oxygen saturation but only for a couple of seconds for a few periods. Usually when supine. Does not happen on my side. I know it slows your breathing.

How long were you on it? 8 weeks is generally far too fast for ANY benzo withdrawal.

I know one size does not fit all, but what to you is the best way to taper off kolopin

@gunshy
Slowly, very slowly. I took
18 mg for seizures (almost the max recommended daily amt.)
It took me 2 years but only had very slight symptoms at the very end of my taper that were easily resolved.
Jake

@jakedduck1
Dear Jake,
Thank you for your reply. What method did you you to decrease and get off it.? Did you use a micro taper or the cut and hold. Were you on Klonopin like I am? I am nervous about the water taper because of getting uneven doses, the liquid method because of the need to cross over from tablet to liquid and then to measure very , very carefully, the Ashton method because I might not tolerate the Valium and that many I read about think her cuts are much too extreme, GP who want me to go down way too fast like in 6 to 8 weeks, using dry cuts and a scale that may be hard to use and unreliabe, a doctor that wasn't even licensed in the state I live in it turned out after I started with him. Now, my GP, who is retiring in 4 months as turned me over to a psychiatric NP and I have to wait to see if my insurance will cover it, etc. My expericne with them as connected with the medical gragantium we have in this state is that they are young and experienced, do not listen, and have no compassion as well as not being available when you are in crisis. An at my wits end and need to get off this stuff as it has taken over my life and is making me sick.

@lacy2
Hi Lacy,
Thank you for your reply. What benzo were you on and how did you do your taper.
I applaud your courage and persistence. So glad to hear you are off them. I know what break through withdrawal is like when I was on lorzapam and they were excruciating. Now I am on kolonpin and feel nausous and weak most of the time.

@rosebookay agree