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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 2, 2023 | Replies (547)

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@lizaa
I'd like to ask you a question if I may. Okay, maybe a few 😄.
What type of Myoclonus do you have? Is it an epilepsy syndrome? Did the Klonopin control the movement? I hope your taper is going as uneventful as mine did.
Jake

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Sure Leonard. I have "myoclonic seizures" from a medication called Reglan, that I took 10 years ago. Unfortunately one of the side effects of that medication is permanent or long term movement disorders. We are lowering my dose to see if it has improved or hopefully gone away completely. Although they are called seizures, they are not full blown, and happen only when I fall asleep or waking up, causing jerks that feel like electric shocks going through my body. I rarely notice them much anymore, so that's when I decided to ask my neurologist to start my taper to see what's still there. That, and I started seeing news coverage about benzo's, and that 30-40% of users have problems getting off. Thank goodness I researched about slow tapering, and Dr. Heather Ashton, because all of my doctors think you can just half the dose for a few weeks, then half again for a few weeks, then discontinue. At least they were willing to let me go down slowly to how I am comfortable with and I have been doing well.