How did you cope with Effexor discontinuation symptoms?

You only take the Valium or klonopin twice per week? I know mirtazapine is great for anxiety. I took it for two months. Even with dosage adjustments it made me too lethargic.

I take 1 mg twice a day of Klonopin for anxiety and sometimes.5 midday if necessary. Had to get off anti depressants due to side effects and they didn’t work

How long have you been taking this much Klonopin?

I take the Mirtazapine 1.5 hrs. before bed. It helps me sleep 6-7 hrs. Doesn’t do much for depression. It’s sedating quailties are wonderful. But not to be taken full dose in the a.m. Never makes me tired the next day. Been on it 2 yrs. now. The benzos, quite frankly, scare me. I’m experimenting with two times a week....in a row. 5 days off.....sometime even two weeks. Hoping to not reach any tolerance.....or dependence. We’ll see how it goes.

All physchiatric drugs are scary. Mirtazipine is NOT a benign drug.

My story is much like yours. I had a physchiatrist who told me I needed Xanax and Paxil for over 25 years. I suffer from debilitating anxiety and panic. No known reason. I’m 67. Last year when the Xanax “turned on me” the best way I know how to put it, LOL, I expressed my desire to discontinue and begin tapering. To make a long story short my doctor totally abandoned me, refused to take my phone calls, office staff was hanging up on me, etc. etc. I had no prescriptions left and even though I live in a very large city couldn’t find a new doctor willing to take on another doctor’s benzo addict. I wound up in the hospital and was put on all kinds of crazy physch meds when in actuality I was in withdrawal from the abrupt cessation of the Xanax. No physchiatrist at a very well known hospital here would acknowledge or admit I was in withdrawal. Another long story short after leaving the hospital with about 5 different meds making me horribly worse I did find a compassionate, caring doctor who is now helping me out of this mess. This has not been a good year! Thank God I have a loving husband of 48 years and two great sons. Doing pretty darn good now.

@sears, I was reading an older post of yours about your situation of being hospitalized for unknown reasons, but in reality you were in withdrawals! I had a very similar incident many years ago before we knew how devastating benzos can lbe. I was the one who finally figured it out and made the mistake of jumping back on the drug out of desperation to feel better. And now years later I feel like you, that the klonopin finally " turned on me". I think you have used that term in several posts. I would really like to know the details of your experience when that happened to you. Thank you.