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What is the best way to taper off Klonopin?

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Dec 5, 2024 | Replies (281)

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@archermac15

Thanks so much, Jake. I probably will have to ask another Doctor to help me with the Detox. I am 53 years old. You were a lot younger than me and were probably in much better health. I was taking it for anxiety, but I recently developed Restless Leg Syndrome. It's really bad. I had it back in 2017 but it went into remission and now it's back with a vengeance. I was taking 2mg for 16 years but went down to 1mg in the summer. I didn't feel any difference. I get 1mg Clonazepam twice a day, so for the last 3 nights, I've cut my dose down by 25%. The smallest I can cut a 1mg pill is in quarters, so I've been taking 3/4 of a 1mg of Klonopin for the last 3 nights. This morning when I woke up, the Restless Leg Syndrome, that's also in my arms and neck since February was so much worse this morning and I felt really anxious. Ugh, this is bad timing to do a detox. Ive tried to take medication for RLS since February but for some reason maybe because Im in menopause my heart starts racing after a few days and then I get chest pain. It seems like I can only take the medications I already take. I've never been sensitive to medication like this before. I've never developed palpitations nor chest pain to any medication in my life before this. I spoke to my Cardiologist about this problem hoping he could give me something that would help me so I could be able to take the Gabapentin or Lyrica, but he didn't believe me and told me to call my Psychiatrist. I was shocked. I shouldn't have to seen him. He made a mistake in 2020 when he said my Perfusion Scan showed a blocked vessel in my heart and had me undergo a Angiogram. Not only was I allergic to the dye and needed to take Benadryl, but I was in pain and kept requesting pain medication and didn't receive very much, and after it was over he was gone. Didn't even say Goodbye. Later when we spoke, he said that my heart was fine and that my perfusion scan turned out to be normal. Obviously he was too proud to admit that he made a mistake reading my Perfusion Scan or reading the wrong Perfusion Scan. So I went through a painful procedure for nothing and got a rash from them shaving the inside of my arm. I don't have very much faith in Doctors. The only thing I had was Right bundle branch Blockage an electrical thing which he had said was minor. I don't know what to do. I feel depressed and anxious about my situation. I'm in a lot of pain. I've been in pain management for a long time and on pain medication for 16 years and on the same dose, so it's not helping me with this new pain. Every day I cry. My pain Doctor doesn't want to give me more pain medication. I have extra because these past years, I've gone down when my pain wasn't that bad and I have extra so I've had to take extra just to deal with the excruciating pain, but it's not going to last me. I'm eventually going to run out and I will be out. I will be out. I'm terrified. I can't live with all this pain. This is too much to bear. I've even considered suicide. It's just that I'm a Christian and it's against my religion. How can I do this to my mother. Will God understand? I don't want to be damned.

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Oh Evie, I hear you. You are certainly at the end of your rope.
I understand your mistrust, but I encourage to continue to seek care from someone you can confide in and whom you can trust. I know it's a lot of work. I think that is why patients are called patients. It requires a lot of patience to be a patient, but also a lot of perservance.

If anything, I want to give you the confidence and courage to know you matter and you have the right to good health and feeling better. I wonder if you have ever considered a Pain Rehabilitation program?

You might be interested in reading about Mayo's program and approach in this discussion:
- Anyone in (or have been to) the Pain Rehab Clinic? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/anyone-in-or-have-been-to-the-pain-rehab-clinic/