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I am having a VERY difficult time with Klonipin withdrawal
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: May 11 6:43am | Replies (61)Comment receiving replies
We all think either we’re on for life or we can’t handle the w/d. I’m not sure I’d consider wanting “hell” to end as a craving. You’re not seeking pleasure. You absolutely can get off both drugs, but you have to be willing to go through a lot of symptoms. There are support groups full of others coming off benzos, pregab (Lyrica) and ADs because they were in tolerance and there’s no sense in taking a drug that stops working. They don’t continue chemo if it’s not working.
I wish you’d check out Benzo Information Consortium if you are suddenly hit with worsening withdrawal symptoms. They can be very strange. Hopefully, you’re one of the lucky ones and you will just taper off the pregab slowly with few issues. It’s not an easy drug to get off of.
See this post here.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/my-lyrica-journey/
I wish you only the best. I’m not at all anti-drug. Many are life-saving. These, however, should only be used in emergencies and for the shortest time possible and slowly tapered off. That’s the new black box warning the FDA finally realized was the honest thing to do.
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Thank you 👍. Yes , off clonazepam ( cold turkey ) not one pill since I received nerve pain after recently having shingles . Dr gave me Pregabalin, to help . This had nothing to do with my clonazepam..I figured I was on that for life ? Until after taking the 2 75(mg ) pils per day for the pain … it did help a bit but like I said before it obviously took the place of the cpam .. no need to take one in over 3 weeks now .. so now it’s only been 3-4 weeks that I’ve taken Pregabalin. But we’ve already started my tapering from the 150 mgs of Pregabalin, yesterday ..cross fingers …no Wds from Pregabalin.. but I was only on a low dose for 3 weeks so they didn’t think I’d have a problem ? But the exciting thing is that I haven’t craved or felt a wd symptom in 4 weeks…. I guess I was always scared that the cpam wds would wait for me ? 😂😂. Pharmacist laughed and said no that if I’ve had not one clonazepam in 3 weeks and 2 days ? It’s def out of my system .so nothing now ? Shingles saved my life ? They would never have thought to use Pregabalin as a substitute…but it has been used in the tapering process …