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Klonopin Withdrawl
Thu, 03/10/2005 - 15:43I was wondering if anyone can tell me what their experiences have been with Klonopin withdrawl. My husband was prescribed this last August for his JME but has since built a tolerance to it. He has been able to cut his dosage in half since February (he is now down to a daily dose of 1.25 TID), but is still experiencing withdrawl symptoms. His symptoms usually occur when he is trying to problem solve. He says he feels like he has a tiny little myoclonic seizure, undectable to anyone but himself. Naturally, this is causing some anxiety.
Has anyone taken a really slow withdrawl schedule and if so how long did you wait before tapering down to a lower dose? Did this help lessen the problems of coming of this medication? Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Sarah
Re: Re: RE: RE: Klonopin Withdrawl
Submitted by Zara on Tue, 2007-08-07 - 10:55
I most often post other places, though like to check in here off and on. My experience with Klonopin was that I was having the withdrawl symptoms on the way up and no matter what after 6 months it loses some of it's efficacy. You should raise your level slowly though which is an ardurous process and then you should find a good peak level that controls the problems. From there it should then after time be lowered gradually over a period of time giving you the chance to see what effects the reduction is causing. This is both sides. Also any excitement or activity is a great trigger for people weather it be the computer or the television o the radio. It stimulates our minds. Unfortunantly for us, when our minds are stimulated they don't seem to always get the right message and it causes the energy to travel a different path than what was intended. Somehow this always turns into some type of amplifier... odd really... I usually see it as a good thing when my brain doesn't take on this amplification process. Diagnosed with Myoclonic Epilepsy... Andrew Strasser