@sears and all...Really? I've prayed for him for the Lord to heal his pain, to send someone to help, to bless the doctors he's seeing at the moment, to bless the situation, to give him relief emotionally from the horrible losses of his whole life, etc and etc. I've asked for prayers and he's getting them from my church prayer group, and others as well. Other than some kind of Holy intervention, I see no hope for my son to have any further relief from his acute or chronic pain, to have a life with any semblance of quality or joy. Dystonia and his medical issues have no solution as far as I know. The damage caused by Klonopin's sudden withdrawal is enormous, both physical and emotional. I now have a precious, bright son filled with pain and emotional rage, paranoia, and uncontrollable explosions.
Please, I appreciate your positive outlook and I've worked every second of the last 20 years to present him with positive options, with support and to be there for him...I've been in a 20-year fight-or-flight situation and I'm exhausted. I'm also furious with the medical profession, and the health centers that can't/don't/won't/dodon't know how to give him some help. It's been completely impossible to imagine the calls I've made, docs who don't or can't help, the psychiatrists who aren't available...
So, thank you for your support and your good thoughts. Please keep them coming. But, I"m pretty much through with any expectations of helping him in any way.
Be blessed, Elizabeth
Your son will recover. It can take some people years to recover from a benzodiazepine injury. But they do recover 100%. I want you to go to the BenzoInformationCoalition website. You will see hundreds of success stories there along with valuable information and guidance. These folks know exactly what they’re talking about. Years and years of experience on this site. People much much older than your son have recovered and he will too.
Your son will recover. It can take some people years to recover from a benzodiazepine injury. But they do recover 100%. I want you to go to the BenzoInformationCoalition website. You will see hundreds of success stories there along with valuable information and guidance. These folks know exactly what they’re talking about. Years and years of experience on this site. People much much older than your son have recovered and he will too.
Valium dependence can indeed be catastrophically hard to overcome.
I've taken valium (10 mg/day) for many years (largely to help me with sleep) and my primary concern about it, is that using it at high doses makes it the hardest to get off it .
When I began to take it, the psychiatrist who prescribed it (4 X 10 mg/day) swore up and down it was NOT problematic. This was 50 years ago - not that long after it was first marketed.
As a Jew, I always tried to do without prescription medications on our fast day (Yom Kippur) - anything apart from medically indispensable meds (chemotherapy drugs, hormones, and others).
The first year I consumed it, I was astonished and horrified at my intolerable reaction to that one day without it. I was beyond jittery and unable to function. That's when I realized how much more powerful it was than I'd been told. I reduced the dose to 10 mg/day thereafter (realizing among much else, how ignorant my psychiatrist was).
I also read a book specifically recounting the nightmare experience of a woman's reaction to a dose like mine. Hospitalized for a long time, she struggled for ages to return to her "normal" self. For anyone interested: its title was "I'm dancing as fast as I can."
I scared the hell out of me, thereafter only taking a minimum dose realizing what could happen upon habituating to a significantly higher dose.
Since then I realized how ignorant some psychiatrists can be and how vital it is to take medicines with great caution, according to ones personal experience rather than according to doctors' assurances, however firm. That's when I came up with my new term, " MDeity''. According to that author's experience, it was a nightmare to finally escape its catastrophic effect on her.
TRUST your personal experience! It's YOUR body and mind, and it can cost you your mind and survival to make decisions based solely on a doctor's assurances. however certain s/he may be.
Ever hear this sad "joke": "What do you call someone who graduates at the bottom of his/her medical class?"
Answer: "Doctor".
TRUST YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES!
(Again, look up, "I'm dancing as fast as I can".)
Valium dependence can indeed be catastrophically hard to overcome.
I've taken valium (10 mg/day) for many years (largely to help me with sleep) and my primary concern about it, is that using it at high doses makes it the hardest to get off it .
When I began to take it, the psychiatrist who prescribed it (4 X 10 mg/day) swore up and down it was NOT problematic. This was 50 years ago - not that long after it was first marketed.
As a Jew, I always tried to do without prescription medications on our fast day (Yom Kippur) - anything apart from medically indispensable meds (chemotherapy drugs, hormones, and others).
The first year I consumed it, I was astonished and horrified at my intolerable reaction to that one day without it. I was beyond jittery and unable to function. That's when I realized how much more powerful it was than I'd been told. I reduced the dose to 10 mg/day thereafter (realizing among much else, how ignorant my psychiatrist was).
I also read a book specifically recounting the nightmare experience of a woman's reaction to a dose like mine. Hospitalized for a long time, she struggled for ages to return to her "normal" self. For anyone interested: its title was "I'm dancing as fast as I can."
I scared the hell out of me, thereafter only taking a minimum dose realizing what could happen upon habituating to a significantly higher dose.
Since then I realized how ignorant some psychiatrists can be and how vital it is to take medicines with great caution, according to ones personal experience rather than according to doctors' assurances, however firm. That's when I came up with my new term, " MDeity''. According to that author's experience, it was a nightmare to finally escape its catastrophic effect on her.
TRUST your personal experience! It's YOUR body and mind, and it can cost you your mind and survival to make decisions based solely on a doctor's assurances. however certain s/he may be.
Ever hear this sad "joke": "What do you call someone who graduates at the bottom of his/her medical class?"
Answer: "Doctor".
TRUST YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES!
(Again, look up, "I'm dancing as fast as I can".)
@sears, @cookiegirl1944 , @shake, and all...
I've spoken to and called multiple lawyers to find help against a doctor who withdrew my son suddenly, with no refills/no tapering/no instructions/no suggestions, from Klonopin. I've hit dozens of brick walls. The last lawyer stated he considered my son's situation a tragic life, a tragic case, but too expensive and difficult to go further due to the complexity of his illness and the 20 years of poor treatment.
Does anyone know of a Klonopin Class action lawsuit? or can this be included in the Benzo suit?
Any help is appreciated and needed!
Thanks.
Be blessed on your journey...Elizabeth
My husband will never take klonopin again because it was hell getting off of it! And he had been on fentanyl patches for multiple neck and back surgeries. It was easier getting off the pain meds than the klonopin- and that was a very rough road. And the bad thing is (that was almost 20 yrs ago) he has other health issues that seem only answer at this point is klonopin. He won’t take it tho. We have found CBN which is a cannabinol oil that works pretty well. He just develops a tolerance too quickly and we have to keep increasing his dose. If he could only grow and make his own, it sure would save some money.
@sears, @cookiegirl1944 , @shake, and all...
I've spoken to and called multiple lawyers to find help against a doctor who withdrew my son suddenly, with no refills/no tapering/no instructions/no suggestions, from Klonopin. I've hit dozens of brick walls. The last lawyer stated he considered my son's situation a tragic life, a tragic case, but too expensive and difficult to go further due to the complexity of his illness and the 20 years of poor treatment.
Does anyone know of a Klonopin Class action lawsuit? or can this be included in the Benzo suit?
Any help is appreciated and needed!
Thanks.
Be blessed on your journey...Elizabeth
Klonopin almost killed me due to its tendency to magnify depression in some. After time in a hospital where I was taken off cold turkey, I hallucinated and all kinds of horrible things. One doctor said, "NO! They cannot take you off cold turkey like that". He re-prescribed. Another doc takes me straight off the next day, once again. This was because of suicidal tendencies these professionals linked with the Klonopin. Tell me that isn't messed up. As soon as I came off, my life changed dramatically. THEY WERE RIGHT! Watch carefully those depressed individuals on Klonopin, please. The professionals made it very clear to all who were there with me in the hospital for the SAME reasons, those of us on Klonopin need to come off. Records to prove.
Klonopin almost killed me due to its tendency to magnify depression in some. After time in a hospital where I was taken off cold turkey, I hallucinated and all kinds of horrible things. One doctor said, "NO! They cannot take you off cold turkey like that". He re-prescribed. Another doc takes me straight off the next day, once again. This was because of suicidal tendencies these professionals linked with the Klonopin. Tell me that isn't messed up. As soon as I came off, my life changed dramatically. THEY WERE RIGHT! Watch carefully those depressed individuals on Klonopin, please. The professionals made it very clear to all who were there with me in the hospital for the SAME reasons, those of us on Klonopin need to come off. Records to prove.
I have been taking klonopin for a few years, mainly to help me sleep. Sometimes I take it and sometimes I do not. I am currently facing what feels like a health crisis, and it is comforting to know that I need to stop the anxiety I can take one tablet and feel better as a result. I understand that it can create dependence and a host of other side effects, but for me it works and that is all that matters right now. I have spoken to my doctor about tapering off of it and will do so once I get a better handle on what is wrong with my liver and pancreas. Seeing the specialist finally on March 7.
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Your son will recover. It can take some people years to recover from a benzodiazepine injury. But they do recover 100%. I want you to go to the BenzoInformationCoalition website. You will see hundreds of success stories there along with valuable information and guidance. These folks know exactly what they’re talking about. Years and years of experience on this site. People much much older than your son have recovered and he will too.
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1 ReactionValium dependence can indeed be catastrophically hard to overcome.
I've taken valium (10 mg/day) for many years (largely to help me with sleep) and my primary concern about it, is that using it at high doses makes it the hardest to get off it .
When I began to take it, the psychiatrist who prescribed it (4 X 10 mg/day) swore up and down it was NOT problematic. This was 50 years ago - not that long after it was first marketed.
As a Jew, I always tried to do without prescription medications on our fast day (Yom Kippur) - anything apart from medically indispensable meds (chemotherapy drugs, hormones, and others).
The first year I consumed it, I was astonished and horrified at my intolerable reaction to that one day without it. I was beyond jittery and unable to function. That's when I realized how much more powerful it was than I'd been told. I reduced the dose to 10 mg/day thereafter (realizing among much else, how ignorant my psychiatrist was).
I also read a book specifically recounting the nightmare experience of a woman's reaction to a dose like mine. Hospitalized for a long time, she struggled for ages to return to her "normal" self. For anyone interested: its title was "I'm dancing as fast as I can."
I scared the hell out of me, thereafter only taking a minimum dose realizing what could happen upon habituating to a significantly higher dose.
Since then I realized how ignorant some psychiatrists can be and how vital it is to take medicines with great caution, according to ones personal experience rather than according to doctors' assurances, however firm. That's when I came up with my new term, " MDeity''. According to that author's experience, it was a nightmare to finally escape its catastrophic effect on her.
TRUST your personal experience! It's YOUR body and mind, and it can cost you your mind and survival to make decisions based solely on a doctor's assurances. however certain s/he may be.
Ever hear this sad "joke": "What do you call someone who graduates at the bottom of his/her medical class?"
Answer: "Doctor".
TRUST YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES!
(Again, look up, "I'm dancing as fast as I can".)
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6 ReactionsDecades…why do you ask?
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1 ReactionMy husband will never take klonopin again because it was hell getting off of it! And he had been on fentanyl patches for multiple neck and back surgeries. It was easier getting off the pain meds than the klonopin- and that was a very rough road. And the bad thing is (that was almost 20 yrs ago) he has other health issues that seem only answer at this point is klonopin. He won’t take it tho. We have found CBN which is a cannabinol oil that works pretty well. He just develops a tolerance too quickly and we have to keep increasing his dose. If he could only grow and make his own, it sure would save some money.
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7 ReactionsI was just curious. I forgot if you were on a benzo.
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1 ReactionHi ! I share with you this link. It gives hope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i_m5LnShvg&t=187s
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2 ReactionsKlonopin almost killed me due to its tendency to magnify depression in some. After time in a hospital where I was taken off cold turkey, I hallucinated and all kinds of horrible things. One doctor said, "NO! They cannot take you off cold turkey like that". He re-prescribed. Another doc takes me straight off the next day, once again. This was because of suicidal tendencies these professionals linked with the Klonopin. Tell me that isn't messed up. As soon as I came off, my life changed dramatically. THEY WERE RIGHT! Watch carefully those depressed individuals on Klonopin, please. The professionals made it very clear to all who were there with me in the hospital for the SAME reasons, those of us on Klonopin need to come off. Records to prove.
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4 ReactionsYes, if Klonopin is doing you harm you need to get off it.
BUT NOT COLD TURKEY!
It treats seizures and needs to be begun and stopped with gradual titration so as as to avoid fatal seizures - "status epilepticus".
Sister of my SIL died because of messing with her Klonopin dose on her own, from precisely that (above) reaction.
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4 ReactionsI have been taking klonopin for a few years, mainly to help me sleep. Sometimes I take it and sometimes I do not. I am currently facing what feels like a health crisis, and it is comforting to know that I need to stop the anxiety I can take one tablet and feel better as a result. I understand that it can create dependence and a host of other side effects, but for me it works and that is all that matters right now. I have spoken to my doctor about tapering off of it and will do so once I get a better handle on what is wrong with my liver and pancreas. Seeing the specialist finally on March 7.
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