What is the best way to taper off Klonopin?

chelle54
Excuse me for butting in but I just wanted to say that your most consistent option would probably be a compounding pharmacy. Your brain zaps may be a sign your tapering too quickly or the 2 weeks may need to be lengthened or both. I cut by approx 10% (11% in the beginning) but as I reduced my dose, especially close to the end was reduced at a much lower percentage.
I had virtually no withdrawals at all. But at the end of the taper I must have had very slight side effects so I cut tiny chips and kept cutting them smaller and smaller. I took nearly the maximum dose so I took two years or maybe more to get off it. It's been decades since I took Klonopin so my memory doesn't recall everything about my taper. I was taking it for seizures which didn’t help reduce them at all.
Good luck,
Jake

Thank you I realize I’m going way to fast. My doctor wants me to go back to my original dose get stable and taper more slowly. This is definitely a learning process. I thought since I had only been taking the medication for three and a half months I could get off quicker. I realize that’s not the case.

@archermac15
The best option for quitting in my opinion would be using a compounding pharmacy. Of course your doctor would have to be on board with that because he’d have to write a prescription and chances are he wouldn’t be willing to write it for a slow enough taper. Another possible downside is not all insurance companies pay for compounded medicine.
I was about 30-40 when I tapered.
I'd say it's a gamble on how long to taper. It also depends on your dose, length of use, age. Some say it depends if your male or female. At the end when I chipped off pieces it probably wasn’t necessary to do that as long as I did and it was a guess as to how much I was taking a that point but it was an infinitesimal small amount.
I usually don’t have any problems going on to her coming off medication and rarely have any side effects from them. Although I went off this medication slower than what I normally would it was because I was having so many status seizures at the time and when you have epilepsy you can’t just stop your seizure medication. also I was on an extremely high dose.
I don’t know if your other illnesses or medication would interfere in anyway that’s a question you’ll have to ask your doctor.
Take care,
Jake

Depending on your age I would work through it. Your dose was very small. Call your pharmacist and see what he recommends.

I have not posted anything here for nearly a month. However, I am more and more wanting to get off Klonopin after 6 straight years of taking it at a low dose. I have had no real success at tapering and ended up relapsing ( going right back on the medication) without my Doctor even knowing about it. My Doctor scolded me the last time I was in his office and asked him please, if I could taper. I do not have any health insurance coverage and will have to pay out of pocket for this medication. I find it is making me feel more depressed but my Doctor insists I keep taking it because I get such bad anxiety attacks. Anxiety can throw my life off balance and distort my thinking. I still want to taper! Leah09

@leah09
Would you mind sharing how you have tapered in the past.
Jake

@chelle54
Are you currently having withdrawal symptoms? what dose are you currently on and what dose does your doctor want you to go back onto.

I am currently taking 1.125 every day. I was at 1.5 for three and a half months. The doctor wants me to go back to the 1.5 get stabilized and taper more slowly.

My current withdrawal symptoms are upset stomach, lack of appetite and severe depression.

@chelle54
I would do as your doctor recommends. The best chance of not having withdrawal symptoms is a slower taper. Better to slow than too fast.
Jake