I came across your post because I cannot find my script and haven't taken my Clonazapam for at least 3 days that I remember. I am disabled, due to fibromyalgia and mild cognitive impairment (had 22 hours brain surgery at 16 to remove an AVM), and I fall A lot. In fact, was going to the ER after I dropped off that script & one for Vyvanse (also take Effexor for depression), for injuries to my knees and hips after two falls two days apart on concrete. I thought girst I was prescribed it for sleep (I have PLMD), then when I was going through my malicious divorce, A dr told me it was for anxiety, and to take one when my narc ex was trying to provoke me into slapping him again (never do this, even if he says (growls at decibels) YOUR'E THE b***h! He will call the PD, who will arrest you in front of your snooty neighbors and children, abuse you, and ultimately you will lose residential custody of your children, as he will alienate them from you, telling them you are mentally unfit & unstable, take a lot of medications, and have let them down all their lives.
I leave hair ALL OVER my three bedroom, 1 1/2 bath apartment (filled with divorce c**p, stuff from my grandparents' death, and my parents' deaths. I rarely want to leave my apartment, feel I should be getting rid of things, discarding paper, but in three years I haven't made a dent. I used to see a DV counselor, (they decided he was the abuser, although I hit him.. I'm on 10 medications for seizures (from the surgery, to get to stage IV sleep because of the PLMD, interstitial cystitis, depression, anxiety, acid reflux, either ulcerative colitis or Chron's disease, so I don't know how those interact and how stopping the Clonazapam will affect everything, I have focal, self-limiting seizures, I live alone, I do things when I drink alcohol (well, in college), that I completely do not remember and am embarrassed to be told by other people! Also have given myself several concussions (not intentionally), and was diagnosed with BPPV vertigo. So, I don't know exactly what to point to that is making me lose my balance, fall, lose my memory (except long term).
I have limited social skills, never could make or keep friends that were girls, so now I make friends with only married men. It's stupid. I'm 50, and an orphan, divorced, with a disabled son, and daughter away at college, both stopped wanting to come see me,,,,,
Anyhow, I'm lonely and alone, and losing hair.
My mom did have alopecia ariata (not sure of spelling but she said it would happen when she got worried, one place on her head.
My "criminally irresponsible" local mental health care centre forced me into 6 weeks of Klonopin withdrawal. I was prescribed Tranxene after waiting 5 weeks for an appointment. Since then, little sleep, crying, tremors, drenching sweat, agoraphobia....atop PTSD and MS. Now I have an 11-day wait to see if I can get back on Klonopin. I know one woman who committed suicide after this same institution (Centerstone, Indiana, USA) forced her to wait for med adjustment. Emergency rooms turned her away as a drug-seeking junkie. Now the DEA wants to take away our meds altogether. Indiana's treatment of individuals with psych needs is abominable and needs to be held accountable. Who will help?