Good afternoon.  Thank you for sharing the post to the sleep disorder area.  I look forward to reading the threads you have shared with me.  I am at work and yes, I did call my doctor office.  She is still out until Thursday but I told a nurse that I trust to pass the info to her when she calls in.  I don't know what can be done to ease the entire body numbness; from what I've read, absolutely nothing can be done and you pray for time to heal.  Had I really done my homework on this stuff, I NEVER would have started on it.  
Thank you for checking in on me.
Cheryl

@tooncinator

Hi, Cheryl. I have sleep apnea, and used a CPAP machine for over 15 years, and just recently changed to a BIPAP. In 2006, after I had attempted suicide several times, I started seeing a psychiatrist, who diagnosed me with, among other things, anxiety disorder, and prescribed Clonazepam (Klonopin). I thought a couple of years ago about tapering off it - it's another benzodiazapine - and I think I cut the pill into quarters. I went down from 1mg to .75mg. Not a big deal, I thought. I couldn't sleep, even going down by only 25%. I had to get back up to the 1mg. I've taken it for almost 12 years now, and I really don't think I suffer any ill effects. A side effect that makes my wife happy is that I don't act out my dreams. As in kicking and punching, etc.

All that to say the obvious: never stop a medication without first talking with your doctor or pharmacist! I think you've probably figured that one out by now. I hope you've been able to get a refill, even just a 3 day emergency refill.

Now, I'm going to turn off my phone and go to bed, where I'll be able to sleep soundly until I'm rudely awakened by an alarm, and I'll be able to do that because I will have taken my Klonopin. Among other things. Sleep well tonight, Cheryl.

Jim

Dearest @tooncinator I hope by now you feel much better! Please don't cut back or stop taking your medication without consulting your doctor. Discuss your worries about this medication with her thorougly, see if there is something which suits you better. I know how difficult it is to have a good night sleep. So many of us take the sleep for granted but comes one night that sleeping becomes a fantasy or dream, nothing to take place in reality. I usually have a very very boring scientific or economy book with my bedside. The first pages are aged but I have never made it past page 20. Another recommendation is to try meditation. I have many friends who have tried meditation in order to be able to sleep @ everybody swear for it's benefits. Even researchers have published many positive papers about meditation.
Wish you all the best,

Hello! I didn't even know these responses were here until today so please forgive me for being so terribly late in replying. I didn't tell you all of the story with me running out quote on quote. I had seen my doctor 3 weeks before she was to go out on surgery and she knew that I was going to need a prescription refill. She told me no problem she'd make a note in the chart that when I called in it could be refilled. Needless to say she never made that note, and that is what resulted in me running out on a Sunday.