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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.
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Horowitz I know what it's like to have that panic and fear they were giving me anti depressants I had to shock treatments also,I had all kinds of medications I had four psychiatrists that misdiagnosed me as having depression which maybe I did have depression from the anxiety was the main thing. the only thing that ever helped me was Ativan and then when they changed me to klonopin I was my old self again I could sit I could watch a movie , I could ride in the car without rocking back and forth. even drive after a little while. I got my driver's license back. and I know what it's like just to be afraid . I would stay close to my wife at night I would snuggle up against her like a little child to get comfort and I needed to be close to the Lord I had gotten away from the Lord and my Christian Life. and he helped me get back through the doctor and the medicine even though some Christians saw that was wrong. I know that the Lord used the medicine and the doctor. I know he's helping me now with my Gabapentin for my nerve pain in my neuropathy in my legs and feet and I just pray and ask the Lord to help you give your whole life over to him and he can lead you and guide you to a good psychiatrist. Most doctors won't prescribe Controlled Substances they're either not able or they don't want to have anything to do with it.
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God bless you Horowitz I've never had that problem before it's kind of scary to look forward to something like that but I just pray it doesn't happen our doctor hasn't hasn't wanted us to try to do that they said that it was not something that you would want to to do to stop taking the medicine the Klonopin or clonazepam generic I just pray that they don't have to force us to quit taking it all at once if that if that causes problem although I have cut back on it without too much problem and he said that was okay