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Using either CBD and/or THC during Clonazepam discontinuance
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Nov 24, 2023 | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
I am also tapering off clonazepam - presently at .25mg from 1mg at bedtime (occasional .5 if I woke at 2 or 3am). This last taper has been the worst by far. I'm sleeping poorly about half the time, sweating, jittery. My biggest frustration is that my psychiatrist offers nothing to help the problems that were managed with this medication for 20 years. I asked about CBD and he gave me a resounding no. He said it is intoxicating and will eventually make me more anxious. He gave me an antihistamine that doesn't help and offered a very low dose of Remeron, but that is an antidepressant and I am not depressed. It also causes weight gain, had to be taken every night and also requires a taper to get off of it. I am hoping these issues improve. His advice is to just rip the bandaid off and stop taking it now. I feel like I need to adjust to the dose and do a final taper at .0125mg.
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I take 6 pills a day to keep the depression and a nxiety at bay. I have panic attack black outs so I am so grateful for ALL my medicine. I never think about getting off my meds. I've been taking medicine like this since 1997. What's the problem with meds? I thank God every morning for my meds.
I totally understand what you are going through. I have been on clonazepam 1 mg 3xday for 23 years. Suddenly now every doctor wants me off of it when it was always helping me. I had no side effects with clonazepam. Getting off of it was the worst thing I had ever been through. A year later and I'm still a mess. I had a psychiatrist that put me back on it and I was so much better, like a new person. Now he retired and this new one wants me off of it. Why can't they just leave us that do better on it alone? I have 3 chronic illnesses and my life quality should matter but today I don't think they care. I think that people like me are being punished because of the drug addicts. It is so not right 😕
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I was put on Clonaszepam over 40 years ago by a Doctor when I admitted myself to a clinic for a week for exaustion and depression and continure with help long distanse for two years due to a very nasty divorce. I've been told that I MUST continue this for the rest of my life or I will have serious reprocusions. I am still taking one tablet every night at bedtime and will continue forever. My persoanl physician understands this and I have no problems getting refills at the appropriate time. I am taking 2mgs.
At one point while fighting with the opposing attorneys I had to take 5 or 6 pills just to get through the trauma that I created. Happy to say I am down to one 2mg per day. Is sounds as though you are having withdrawal systems? Can you talk with your doctor about this?