What is the best way to taper off Klonopin?

They have no business prescribing these unless they have schooling on what happens after you build a tolerance to these and the horrible symptoms that come with them. This is a silent epidemic. These doctors need to be held accountable for what they do and how they don’t help

Wow, That must of been excruciating coming off 18mg,I have known people that compilated suicide over a severe Benzo detox
The buzzing and side effects in your head is enough to drive one mad,from a Benzo detox
Good Luck to all

@neiko1998
No, not at all. I did it over 2 to 2 plus years. Slowly is the key, at least for me. Some people take these medication's for many years or decades and then when they decide they want off they want off quickly. One lady here stopped another medication cold turkey after 30 years and she had a stroke.
Take care,
Jake

Go verrrrry slowly (.125 mg every couple months) and you will do fine.

I was tapered off by ¼ very two weeks. Had been on one mg for 20 years due to GAD & insomnia. Doc added abilify as I was tapering. I ultimately wound up in a full blown panic attack that lasted a couple of weeks until my primary added ½ mg klonipin back. In the meantime, I found a psychiatrist who diagnosed me with panic disorder and severe anxiety, etc., and promptly put me right back on the one mg and advised me not to take abilify, which I had already stopped when the panic became so terrible. Finally, the panic abated. It was the worst experience of my life! I was terrified of my own 5 lb pups that I had for eight years. I was so jumpy! Couldn’t sleep and I couldn’t drive. It was horrendous. This was not my first experience being messed up by a doc’s prescription, but it was certainly worse than the first time! I’ve personally found private psychiatrist to be superior to PCP’s or community MH centers.

I am so glad that you brought this up, hearing someone call your name. I too have had the same thing happen to me but I was so I was so scared, I thought I was really going crazy. I have been tapering off of klonopin for the last 4months. I have been on it for 30yrs.

That is absolutely not true. The longest half-life Ben is are Valium, Librium and clorazepate. Please be factual.

In reply to rose bookays comment. I DO know what I'm talking about. As a nurse in the field of addiction and detox for over 25 yrs, I'm well aware about benzos and detoxing from them...it's similar to detoxing from alcohol. Do your research.

The same thing happened to me. Very scary stuff. I was afraid to tell anyone about it, not even my Dr. I have been on klonopin for 30plus yrs. The Dr wanted me to get off of it so I tried for months. Nothing really worked and I tried everything! So my new Dr a neurologist told me I didn't need to. I look at it this way almost all drugs are addictive so I'm sticking with klonopin. My choce.

As I began tapering down my benzodiazapines, which I had been on for the better part of the past forty-plus years, the primary care physician I'd had advised me to switch from Xanax to Klonopin because due to the longer half-life, the withdrawal would be easier for me to handle. Over a one year period I went from taking 1 to 2mg/day Xanax (my pill doctor refused to change my med's) to about 0.5/day. I was certainly progressing. Then I relocated (couldn't afford living in CA) and wasn't able find a doctor who would prescribe benzodiazapines. I ran out at the beginning of the year and am not coping well. I feel anxious and agitated, and I have horrible insomnia. I'm a Vietnam veteran whose neurological problems have gotten debilitating. Playing sports and being quite active had kept me grounded, but now I simple get out and walk as much as possible using a cane or sometimes a walker. The VA says my condition is unrelated to either Agent Orange exposure or from toxic drinking water at Camp Lejeune, so there's nothing they can do and don't have any useful resources especially with what's been happening to them recently. I'm no longer able to drive, live in a town without mass transport, and I'd probably veg out in front TV, but I've never owned one and don't wish to have one in my home. I used to love to read, but now I can't seem to concentrate or stay focused. I know I have much to be grateful for, but these past several months have been some of the toughest times I've ever had to face. And I was a person who lived most of his life on survival mode having left home at fourteen to escape regular physical and emotional beatings. I feel empty right now and wish I could just pop a little pill to lift the weight off my chest. I'm sure there's a light at the end of the tunnel. How long does withdrawal last.