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Endless withdrawal from benzos and pregabalin
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Hi I have been addicted to Clonazepam for 10 years now ..since 2014 my dad passed away ..knew nothing about benzos.. didn’t even Google ( 3 months later ) when I couldn’t go to work ? Crying . Omg I felt like I was having a nervous breakdown the anxiety , severe depression, sadness .. finally I realized ? I did stop taking my clonazepam 1 day earlier … looked it up and BOOM ! I found out quickly what I was going through . Fast forward to June 2023 .. after recovering from shingles … I ended up with after effects … nerve pain . Terrible ! My dr put me on 2 (75 mgs) pills per day .. they said it takes about 2 weeks to work .I found it to work after the first week .. but I also noticed I no longer needed my clonazepam??? Which was in my purse at all times for 10 years ! I wasn’t reaching for it and still haven’t for almost 3 weeks . I have a new refill and have put them on my top shelf . I told my dr what had happened and he said that they have used it in connection with tapering from Benzodiazepines, but never as a straight exchange ? My pharmacist said she’s never heard of 150 mgs replacing the effects of clonazepam but maybe if it works I could be a “ case study “ I did ask .. am I replacing one drug for another ? As I’ve tapered before with cpam ! Nightmare …I ended that on month 2 !! I figured at some point I would try the micro tapering As advised in the Ashton publication . But to come off of 150 mgs of pregabalin in another week or so … sounds easier than the clonazepam wd mess !! But I’m still not convinced .. as this isn’t supposed to happen .. will the wds of cpam come back ? But dr said “ no , I may have cravings or think of taking one of those (90) pills on my top shelf after something bad has happened “ so I’ve only been on this for 4 weeks now and I’ll give him my cpam .. but he promised if I start having terrible wds after pregabalin? He doesn’t know how as cpam is completely now out of my system … he will give me my prescription back ..lol I’ll keep you updated ? Idk what will happen but it sure worked for me ? Killed some nerve pain ..75% but took need for cpam , completely away …. I still can’t believe it .
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75 mg of Clonazepam? I am pretty sure that’s not so much illegal as is unethical and no question would red flag the dr. Through the PMP snd pharmacist if it’s a good one. 2 mg four times a day is what I take and he’s being forced by the pharmacy and other entities to bring me down to 1 mg. And he’s doing it way too fast over three weeks but what can I do. 75 mg though are you sure I was kind of confused on the message. was it .75 or 75? 75 mg Klonopin would wipe out most of my town I live in, and all the cows
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Unbelievable. One person has been on 75 mg of benzodiazepines and has now tapered to 25 mg!
Do you know how high that is? I’m having trouble getting off a 1 mg klonopin!
People think they are addicted to benzodiazepines but I beg to differ. Benzodiazepines themselves are not addictive. It’s the withdrawal symptoms that keeps you on them. That technically is not an addiction.
Benzodiazepines have good benefits as well for other things. I’m only on half a benzodiazepines in the morning and 1 mg at 4 pm.
I was in the hospital as I am on blood thinners that went into overdrive. My INR was over 12. I’m supposed to be at no more than 3.0 maximum. The hospital called it Coumadin poisoning. I was bleeding internally heading towards bleeding to death. I was literally dying. However this forum is about benzodiazepines.
The hospital took me off klonopin cold turkey because I had gone to the ER for bleeding and they lost the list of medications I was on. Including benzodiazepine.
They didn’t have it so they went into their computer and gave me medication from 3 years ago. I was not on klonopin then so they didn’t give me any for 2 months while inpatient.
It was a nightmare. I’d rather die than go through the awful withdrawal symptoms I experienced.
I came to realize that I’m not addicted to Klonopin but addicted to the withdrawal symptoms. I can’t stop! And that’s only one and a half Mg’s per day.
I’m still on them with no problems because as soon as I came home from the hospital I took a 1 mg of klonopin and within a half hour I was no longer feeling withdrawal symptoms.