Do you need to taper Klonopin taken briefly for sleep, anxiety?

@historyguy, I don’t mind at all asking me what medication I use.. I currently take Amitriptyline for depression and anxiety, it’s an older medication that they still use for those of us who don’t adapt easily to the newer ones..I also take lorazepam and I have been on them for 22 years, I never even thought they were a problem until recent years…I understand their concern with drugs like this but they always paint everything with the same brush and I am fed up with them…I had enough to deal with and suddenly my doctor gets into it and puts all this pressure on me..he even had the nerve to reduce my dosage by more than half without a talk or anything, he would even leave messages at the pharmacy about how I am to use this medication, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I hate these meds but I am addicted to them and I get very nervous when I have to deal with doctors who worry more about their reputation and not wanting to be associated with them, I thought they were supposed to be caregivers but I strongly doubt that very much and when I read all the sad things going on with people I get sick to my stomach

Can anyone provide me with a more definitive description of what it means to “ go slow”. I think I am but suffering terribly with withdrawal. My psychiatrist doesn’t seem to know much about tapering and I have zero confidence in him.I’m 71 years old and do not take drugs well, having tried three different antidepressants that either didn’t work or made me nuts. The only thing that worked was klonopin and have been taking it for about 14 months with a daily dose of 1 mg that I divide into 4 doses a day at .25 mg. I was never comfortable taking klonopin but every doctor or therapist I spoke with assured me that I was on a very low dose and not to worry. I wish I did my own research because nothing could be further from the truth. I started to suffer from tolerance withdrawal and so I had two choices, either up my daily dose or get off of it. I started to think the klonopin was the actual source of my anxiety and so I decided to get off it.I asked my doctor to give me a prescription for .125 mg which I was told is the lowest dose I could get and that is what I’m using for my taper. I’m tapering down .125 mg every two weeks. I know I should be tapering at 10% but the math doesn’t work when you start to reduce the daily dose. My first taper was 12%, second taper was 14% and things were going, for the most part, pretty good. Lately it’s becoming a nightmare. It’s been 3 months now and I’m down to .375 mg daily. Tonight I’m scheduled for another taper reduction by .125 mg which would be bringing me down 33%. Don’t know how to avoid this since i only have the .125 mg to work with.I want this nightmare to be over as soon as I can but worried I may be going to fast. Is four months a safe taper from an original dose of 1 mg? Any feedback or guidance would be greatly appreciated since I’m doing all of this on my own having no faith in the medical community. Thanks