@rogue - welcome to Connect. Since you posted a query about tapering off clonazepam, I've moved your post here so that you can connect with others discussing this same issue, like @artscaping @gettingbetter75 @jakedduck1 @doorman and others in this conversation. Hoping they can provide some support and input as you walk through this taper. Did your doctor have a tapering schedule he or she wanted you to follow, rogue?

@rogue
I believe in the 5- 10% taper. Using a Compounding Pharmacy would be an ideal taper method depending on if you insurance would cover it. If not and you could afford it to private pay it would be money well spent.
My experience getting off Klonopin was uneventful. I believe the reason why is because I did it so slowly although at the very end I was literally chipping and taking small flakes. My taper was much slower than most but it was withdrawal free. I did it slowly mainly due to my low seizure threshold at that time. I had a high propensity for Status Seizures which virtually always required me being put into an induced coma for a week to months. I wasn’t about to take even the slightest risk since I knew what the probability of the seizures not ever stopping was and the chance of never coming out of coma was.
Wishing you an easy & uneventful taper.
Whatever you do don’t decrease your dose every 2, 3 or 4 weeks by a specific milligram. In the beginning you may be decreasing by a relatively small percentage but that percentage will increase and change as your dosage decreases. Some people are able to decrease by a higher percentage in the beginning but that doesn’t mean 50%. If you want off this med withdrawal free do it SLOW and when it comes to reducing this medication SLOW has a different definition than the regular meaning of slow. Here we’re talking SLOOOOOW, very SLOW, snail pace slow. Get the point? If you do it SLOW ITS VERY DOUBTFUL YOU WILL HAVE ANY PROBLEMS! Do you understand what I mean by slowly? Also, it depends on your dose and how long you have taken it. SLOW! Really SLOW!!!
Got it? Getting off this is no joke.
Jake

Also I’d like to mention something else;
There was a Psychiatrist in Europe who was depressed and had a drinking problem so he started taking Klonopin, unfortunately when it came time to stop he took his own advice and stopped it in 10 days. Needless to say he suffered greatly. He learned something from the experience though. Now he is an advocate of the 5-10% taper.
Wishing you well,
Jake