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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 20 9:57pm | Replies (332)

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Good stuff! Yeah, with respect to physicians, what I have found is the older physicians are the ones who still prescribe this benzo crap. The younger guys/ladies do not, my primary (young guy) said as much and I have found that to be true. As a precaution, I saw a neurlogist two weeks ago, to just make sure, my tremors weren't the result of something more serious, although I strongly suspected it was the klonopin. After giving me a thourgh exam, he said, he agreed with me, the klonopin was most likely the cause. Asked me why this sleep doc gave me that medicine as he was frankly surprised. I told him it was due to off/on insomnia I had and he couldn't believe he prescribed this. He did say he prescribes this med (old guy too), however, fairly rare. So 3 docs could not understand why I was ever given this med, go figure. Neurologist told me to just stay away from physicians, thought he was joking but then I realized he was serious. Reminded me of what my God son ( a physician) had told me a while back, be your own advocate. He said he was shocked at what he sees in his profession and being at top of his class at Harvard, he's the brightest of the bright, so I take what he said to heart. Best to you!

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My first psychiatrist told me to take it as long as I wanted to, or felt I needed it, and that as long as I never went over 2mg per day, I would be fine. (The most I ever took was 1.5mg and that was not that often). He did not tell me how difficult is was to get off of it or the brain changes that might occur with long term use. He just kept prescribing it and I was glad it worked for me. It was only when I moved from FL to GA that my doctors started questioning me and telling me it was a bad drug. How could it be if it worked so well for my insomnia? I did not know of any side effects. I'm happy to be at the end of my taper and I cannot believe it has been 7 months since I started that. I'm holding at .125mg for now, but I don't think that low of a dose does much. At least I know when I quit, I should not have any problems that I have not already encountered.