Connect
← Return to Getting off Klonapin (klonazapam)
Discussion
Getting off Klonapin (klonazapam)
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Feb 26 9:29pm | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
Hi and thank so kindly for responding. I was put on this medication in 2003 when all my symptoms started. This was prescribed for leg pain and leg tremors. At this time I was diagnosed with transverse myelitis. Very severe leg pain. I really don’t remember the dosage. If I knew then what I know now, I would have researched this medication plus probably never would have taken it either. Last two years I’ve gone from 4 relapses, 4 sets of steroids infusion, almost died from extreme weight loss. After lowering this medication leg pain has disappeared, noticed over all health improvements. Started feeling better. Never suffered panic or anxiety attacks in my life until I lowered this medication. Read that this medication very well is now the cause of these attacks. Coming off this medication has been a year long battle but I’m doing it. I was completely off of it for 10 days feeling fantastic....myself again until I started MS symptoms again. I had to go back to my last dosage amount that I ended off on which is very frustrating. So I’m searching for others who may have come off this, trying to come off etc.,
I’ve noticed a lot of what this medication has caused me and wondering if others have noticed the same thing.
Replies to "Hi and thank so kindly for responding. I was put on this medication in 2003 when..."
Connect
I was put on this medication approximately 6 years ago because of restless legs syndrome, neuropathy and difficulty sleeping. I really can’t tell if it has helped at all. I had to change Doctors and my new Doctor wants me off of this drug. After seeing all the problems people are having getting off, I don’t see why I should just stay on it. I can’t be falling or almost falling I am an above the knee amputee and walking is hard enough with out withdrawal causing me to fall. My Doctor says I’m over medicated. I take two pills for sleep the colazapam, and a muscle relaxer trisanidine. The sleep aids are lanesta and seraquel. None probably spelled correctly. He said that it’s a wonder I woke up in the mornings. He said he will not prescribe the sleep aids any longer,or the colazapam . So I guess I have to come off it. I will have to see a psychiatrist to come off it according to my Doctor. I take 22 pills every night and 8 in the mornings, when I remember them. Do you think I should try to come off the colazapam or just continue on like I am. I know I take too many medicines, over medicated, but some of them I have to take. I just don’t know what the big deal is with him about coming off the colazapam, it really doesn’t help that much but it sounds terrible to try to come off of it now after years of being on it. Just don’t know what to do. Sorry this was so long and if you got this far thanks.