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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 20 9:57pm | Replies (332)Comment receiving replies
My regular doctor didn't like the fact the sleep doc put me on klonopin so recommended I try trazadone for restfull sleep as that's a pretty common medicine. I tried it and the episodes came back so I felt as if I had to go back on the klonopin. My sleep doctor told me that at a dose of only .5 mg per day my chance of dependence was not likely?? He said most people were taking double that dose or more? I don't know what doses people here take or have taken but need to read through these posts. Thanks!!
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I can tell you right now your sleep doctor doesn't know what he's talking about. It doesn't matter if your dose is .25 mg or 2.5 mg, you will develop tolerance, dependence, and experience a withdrawal from mild to severe, depending on your individual constitution and how long and how often you've taken them. Your regular doc is absolutely right. How could someone who specializes in sleep be so ignorant? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he's an older doctor, as they seem to be the ones left over from an era when these things were handed out like candy with no regard for consequences, which, if anyone had bothered to look, have been documented since the inception of benzos more than 50 years ago.