Anyone that wants to discontinue these meds will. No question. It can be a long and arduous journey for some. Not for others. The best thing you can do is get your doctor on board and follow the Ashton Method which you can find online and is the best taper method we have available to us right now. It’s tried and true and has helped many. Good luck!

Yes. I used the Ashton Method on-line. Personally, I would not tell my PC I want to wean. I would just do it myself, which is what I did. My fear of weaning and never taking it again was the worst part for me. I have been 'clean' for 2 months and I did it with restraint, no help from my doctor, he doesn't even know I quit taking it. Honestly, your PC may just cut you off completely and refuse to prescribe any and that is horrible.

Not yet, but will look forward to hearing about your experience--physical & cognitive. hope it all goes well for you. have been on Benzos (off and on, actually) for more than thirty years, and I know I'm going to have to face my demons before I move beyond my comfort zone. Actually, I've been cut off: the VA no longer prescribes Benzos (originally through the VA shortly after returning from Vietnam as a frazzled ex-Marine), and it seems as if you want to find a doctor who will prescribe them, it's usually a "quack" who's not on my Medicare plan. So, I've had too many days where I'm holed up in my apartment, afraid to face the world; not much of a life. When I asked for as little as 0.5 mg clonazepam, I was treated as if I were a junkie looking for his next fix. The government puts Benzos in the same drug classification as Opioids. Yeah, I'm a drug addict who came back home as a basket case of anxiety; but the same military doctors who had me taking the med's in the first place are now scared to death of having us OD on trace amounts of med's that at least helped me to live a fairly normal life. I don't even know who I'm supposed to be angry at--taking on the responsibility myself, or coming home a shell of my former self. I'm accepting my Parkinson's diagnosis and mood disorder, but am having an extremely difficult time living beyond my comfort zone. I feel more alive, yet afraid, yet the anxiety and (much worse) panic attacks and nightmares keep torturing me.

I've been taking Klonopin or yes it is now called and generic clonazepam since 1994 I took three doses a day I just nature of the thing started missing my noon day middle of the day dose and when I mentioned it to my psychiatrist he said that was fine he said the least that you can get by with the better but he also told me not to try to go off of it all together so I guess the thing to do is to try to reduce it with the doctor's help I wouldn't I wouldn't take advice from the Internet or from people because everybody's different and they doctor should know you and should know your case and hopefully you have the same doctor or you've had a doctor that said our psychiatrist that knows what to tell you and how to do it my wife went from Xanax to clonazepam and she's been doing good that way I pray for the best for you may Lord God help you

Please forgive me for using this talk for text it's so inaccurate and I need to go back and redo my editing but I get in a hurry and trust it and it messes up a lot of things I'm sorry

I gave my experiences and my opinion what I would do in a certain situation, never giving advice. Just a cautionary tale. There are too many doctors who have prescribed benzos and either try a quick 4 week taper or cutting off a patient entirely and completely due to ignorance on both sides. For those who are judging me otherwise or don't like my opinion, move on. I am in a free country, and I am entitled by God to have one.