Thank you so much to all of you who have posted encouragement and questions/fears about Klonopin w/drawal. It's been such a support to me. I'm currently tapering off the drug after taking it nightly for about 1.5 months, for trouble sleeping and to counteract Prozac stimulation. I started at 1.0 mg/night for the first month or so, then have been tapering down to .75, then .5, then .25 mg over the last 3 weeks, and have found myself able to sleep fairly well. For the last 2 nights, I've taken none, and am having TERRIBLE withdrawal effects: severe irritability, jitteriness, muscle twitches, feeling like I want to jump out of my skin. Running 4 miles yesterday didn't seem to help. I had to take a 2.5 dose with yesterday to calm myself, and I'm resisting doing that today. Maybe just a .125 dose?
I consulted my psychiatrist yesterday -- I'm also battling major depression and am taking Prozac 30 mg. (almost 5 weeks now at 30 mg., with 3 weeks prior to that on 10 and then 20 mg.) -- and she feels the Klonopin is such a low dose now, if I can hang in there with the W/drawal it should be out of my system in 3 days. ??? I can barely stand it. (She did say not to torture myself, to take a little bit in the day if I need to.)Because I also struggle with anxiety and have had some major stressors lately, we're trying to get the Klonopin out of my system and assess whether the Prozac is truly helping or whether it's too "activating" for my system. I'm feeling so activated right now it's almost unbearable, but thanks to your postings, I don't feel alone. Good luck to anyone else coming off this stuff!
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