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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 2, 2023 | Replies (547)

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@archermac15

Hello Hazel, I too have been on Clonazepam for a long time due to anxiety, panic attacks, and PTSD. I too was abused horribly as a child and I still have the nightmares. It's been 16 years since I've been on Klonopin. I also suffer from severe depression and I'm 53 and going through menopause, have chronic pain in my neck and lumbar, chronic migraines, and now developed severe Restless leg Syndrome. I'm a mess right now, and am on a lot of medication. I think the Klonopin is making my depression worse, and my Psychiatrist wants to lower the dose to 1mg but hasn't because he knows that I'm going through a divorce, so I decided to just go ahead and lower down to 1mg. I do have extra Klonopin from when he used to give me 4mgs and I sometimes use them for when I get a migraine and I need to take Excedrin migraine and I usually will take 2 mg Klonopin with that. It makes me really nervous and a previous Doctor had told me that Klonopin works well with the Excedrin migraine. I felt like you do at one time. I felt like I should just stay on the Klonopin because after all, it is an anxiety medication and I have really bad anxiety, but I read that it causes dementia and memory loss and that's when I got worried and thought about detoxing. I don't think I can at this moment though unless I do it extremely slow, but I don't believe my Doctor would be willing to help me go really slow. Can I ask how long have you been taking it?

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I can't believe your Doctor won't help you go slowly. That is the NUMBER ONE ADVICE from anything you will read about tapering off any Benzodiazepines, must go slowly to prevent a terrible WITHDRAWAL. Research Benzoinfo.com. You need to take control and find another Doctor. I cannot believe everything you are going through. At 53 you can't wait much longer as the older you are the worse it is when you taper. I saw a video this morning from someone whose Doctor told her to stop taking the Lorazepam now. I don't think I need to tell you what bad nice that was, the person on the other end of the Video told her she will end up in the Emergency if she does that. Very very dangerous not to taper slowly. Laurine