hi jim @thankful thank you so much for your post. i hope that it helps me as much as it has helped you, even to just get me over this rough patch. i am going to take it until my next appt on oct 30 and see how it works for me...my hope is that by then my increased dose of effexor will have kicked in to the point where i can start cycling down on the klonopin but we'll see..in the meantime hearing your story is very helpful, thank you.