This happened to me as well. My primary care doc stopped prescribing it and referred me to a young psychiatrist who was very against any benzos, especially taken for a long time (almost 20 years for me) and in the elderly (I am a young, active 64 year old). I took it only for sleep and nocturnal panic attacks and it worked like a charm. Never increased the dose - 1 mg at night with occasional half if I woke at 2:00 or 3am. I am down to .25mg and we have tapered very slowly. The first few tapers were fairly uneventful but when I went from .5 to .25, it has been really hard. I have felt more daytime anxiety and irritability, night sweats, insomnia about one night a week. I'm determined to see this through and I do think I will be better in the long run and allow my CNS to heal from years of dependence on Klonopin. But I will miss it. I have been tapering for 7 months and have about another month to go. The doctor thinks that at this low of a dose, I could just quit. But I think I need to cut my 1/2 pill into a 1/4pill for the final taper. They do make a .0125 dissolvable tablet but I'm told it is hard to find. Good luck - I don't think it has to be horrible for you if taken very slowly.