how long do withdrawl symptoms last with klonopin?

Hello xx I was on Xanax for years then wanted off Dr. put me on klonopin 0.5 milligrams. I have taken for 2 months. I also take Effexor xr 40 milligrams. I wanted off all as sick of them not really making me feel better. Dr. from clinic said just stop!!!! Being a medical assistant I knew better. I stopped the Effexor as was only on for a month. But have been on meds for depression and anxiety for while due too some issues with family and death of family . So now I am taking 1/2 every other day still really bad did just quit effexor I hate you are having this withdraw but I am glad too see someone else I can relate too I almost went to hospital as the muscle spasms especially under ribs, also the joint pain, etc so I guess I will get through it but I am 45 and had a minor stroke. So anyways good luck you can do it and I also will and you are right no one should ever get on these drugs. I am getting off while I can although I have taken things for my anxiety for years. I hope I can get a Dr. I can talk too the clinic is not a good place to go The Dr. even told me he did not want to be there (at clinic) so I know he does not care. Good luck too everyone I will post update if I make through all of this.

I have been off for almost 3 weeks now and feel so much better. If you are reading this, please take a look at the road back program, just google it. TRB health has some suppliments which really work with with drawls. They have a solid detox program. It worked for me. Stay in there, but help is available from the the road back program. I would not go any further with out it.

Oh am I with you on your reply! I am now 2 1/2 months off clonazepam. I was on it for 7 years. This has been the worst time in my life. As soon as I start to feel better, I'm slapped with brand new symptoms. The drug has stripped me of almost everything I care about in life. I can't drive. I have constant jelly legs and cannot properly feel my feet. I have severe digestive issues. I could go on and on. I am about to lose hope. I pray for the strength to go on, but I can't even care for my children. I can't work. No one should take this drug unless it's life or death.

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I hav done alot of research re detoxing from clonazepam. I am tapering off, on it for approx 15 yrs. My calculations indicate I hav taken over 15,000 pills in that time.It is one of the most difficult meds to get off of and the symptoms are frightening and at best debilitating and there are many and vary on when they decide to appear. The longer one is on and the am't taken determines the severity of the symptoms. I am learning to accept them, they are what they are and I am finding humour in whatever I can. For everybody detoxing, we must always remember, there will be an end.

to psychotropichell I feel for you I can not imagine trying to take care of children and trying to stay off this. I was on something or another for over 14 years or more and I recently was on Klonopin and Effexor xr I have good and bad days the 1 thing I hate is I have had a mini stroke once. I keep thinking I am having another now that I am off this. I have no insurance so I do not want to make a bill which makes stress. So yes it seems to go on and on. I pray a lot and I will for you too. Good luck to you

I first tried klonapin about 4 years ago anxiety but didn't help. Dr put me on cipralex which worked great and I don't remember withdrawal side effects from klonapin. Unfortunately the Cipralex stopped working for me so the dr upped it from 10 to 15mg. This made my anxiety worse and also one insomnia. The dr prescribed klonapin to help me sleep and reduce the daytime anxiety. This worked for a few days but then I got worse. I finally found a specialist who has taken me off klonapin and reduced the Cipralex. He prescribed Remoron to help me sleep and reduce my depression and anxiety. This is also supposed to help with the withdrawal. I've been off klonapin two weeks and I've had 4 good days and 10 bad. I was only on klonapin for 3 months and I will never go back. I'm sure it's the reason for some of the horrible days I've had.

Hello,

I read many years ago that reason it is a long withdrawal process is because klonopin and other benzos like it store in the adipose (fat) tissue making it a longer process to detox from

Even with side effects, this is a really hard drug to stop abruptly. Your friend should be under the care of a really good doctor. If you are in LA, I recommend Dr. Jeffrey Becker. Maybe there is something else she can use just for now. Normally it is best to stop benzos GRADUALLY... meaning 5% ev 2 weeks...over a 8-9 mos period to do it safely. Then you allow your brain to adjust. Go to the website- the road back.... for info and supplements to help with the side-effects your friend is having.

HI psychotropichell I was only on for short time but I havebeen on xanax before and was taken off that put on klonopin. I am having a strange feeling last couple days . Have not taken any klonipin or effexor xr for 8 days now. I have slept some now with melatonin but you said had digestive issues. My stomach right now is so blowed out it seems like just blown up. I have gone to bathroom etc do not know why this is. It is very uncomfortable. Did you have any of this I sure hope it ends for you soon. Your right wish I had not started any of these meds. I am doing yoga, meditation etc much as I can right now. You will be ok just keep going and do not give up. I will pray for you also as I do each nite This is hell right now. I hope you feel better soon. I am looking for work and I need a job but again scared of what will be like when working.

Guest I will pray for you and everyone else here yes this is all terrible. I have a problem now that is very uncomfortable myo stomach is extended out and it is not because I have to go to the bathroom it is a awful feeling.

27yr F here. I started klonopin 1mg 3x a day in 2006 for anxiety/panic attacks. I then stopped it in 08 for a little over a year. My child was diagnosed with a terminal illness which had my in the ER downstairs asking for the one drug I liked, the only one that helped me without many side effects. I got back on it after that and have been on it until recently.
I never really realized how stuck my body was on this benzo.
Benzo withdrawal is very dangerous, much more so than opiates, and today I know why.
I averaged (and was written for) 3 to 4 mg a day. Sometimes I'd take six if I was extra stressed. I was calm, not high.
This past year I knocked down to 3mg, then 2, then tried 1 but had immediate symptoms. I bumped up to 1.5 and have been in that for the last year or so.
I finally realized when talking about another child with my significant other the klonopin had to go, but even more so that I had been on the c**p for 6 years. Time to make a change.
I never missed a dose, the two times I did I thought I was going to die. I just felt gross, shakes, dizzy, confused, bad high, slurring... So is pop what I needed to.
Anyway. I stopped my klonopin cold turkey in the beginning of the month. My DR said 1.5 was small enough to cold turkey it. She was very very wrong.

I ended up with Benzo withdrawal syndrome. Senses heightened, muscles aching like a flu and twitching, skin crawling, couldn't cook, write, drive, speak properly, or function for that matter.
I'm so lucky my other half was patient and understanding. I'm a depressed person, but withdrawal depression was very different. Strange thoughts, hallucinating, yes hallucinating, (seeing and hearing things) though I could tell reality from these for the most part. I'd cry for no reason, couldn't eat. Oh and sleep!!! NO Sleep, no rest. Got pumped with Benadryl by IV and I felt even worse. My brain absolutely refused to shut down. Chills, bad sweats, tremors, teeth grinding, spasms, palpitations, high blood pressure, ireegular heart rate,waves of nausea, overall body pain, extreme headaches, the one person that saw me (outside my home) was my neighbor, and she basically said I looked like extreme c**p, in not as pleasant words.
I knew that if I had to endure the withdrawals for too long that I would take drastic measures to end it. I needed a safe secure place with someone I KNEW I could trust, so life's worries could be set aside for this. I quit smoking cigs at the sane time also. Couldn't tell you though, for all I noticed was Kpin Kpin Kpin.
I didn't feel remotely safe during my withdrawals, and I will never ever touch the sh*t or anything like it again.
I could go on and on, but if this helps anyone I'm happy.
Yes, first symptom is usually dizziness and a nasty feeling I can really word. It gets much much worse, and I am on around my 20th day today is the first day without a dizzy spell.
There's a lot to clean up from my klonopin use. In general it takes months to a year to reverse the changes klonopin induce. My DR agrees it'll be at least 6 months for me to have my "normal" speech back. It's not too noticeable, but klonopin withdrawal induced a kind of mini speech impediment with me. It did mildly during my years on it also. Regardless, 20 days is worth it to think clear again. I know that if I ever popped another it would be my death sentence. So not interested! It was a full on addiction to a drug I really never even abused and was prescribed.
Sum it up? Get the c**p outta your system, be with only a trusted person or they'll think you are a true psychopath, which won't help you one bit, since you'll be thinking the sand thing, and see a DR. Tell them the truth and end the madness. It isn't worth it, not one fu#%^*+ bit.

I am watching a friend come off Clonaz again and it is horrible to watch and be able to do nothing. Then the anxiety gets so great after a few months its back on again. What a horrible dangerous drug. Told he should take it for severe anxiety and was on it for years. Basically has destroyed his life. I hate this drug.

How are you now? Good I hope..

I was taking 6 (and then 8) mgs./day for 4 years as part of a treatment regimen for cervical dystonia.  It initially worked reasonably well.  About 2 months, whatever relief it gave to the spasms, agitation and pain was nowhere near what it was at first.  I kept at it because my neurologist continued to prescribe it.  I had no idea how addictive it was and certainly no idea that it was not designed to be taken over a long period.  Ultimately, I was fed up and was pulled off of it over 14 days under medical supervision.  Miraculously, the pain vanished.  On the other hand, I had tingling in my fingers, could not sleep, lost my appetite and noticed my sense of smell and taste had been blunted and was very agitated and could not find my center of gravity. I have had some forgetfulness and occasionally an inability to concentrate.  4 months later, I still have residual dizziness and the "pins and needles".  Believe me.  I would rather have these withdrawal symptoms than feel like I did at the end of taking it.  It might take as much as a year or more for these symptoms to go away.  It's easy to trash this class of drugs but there are plenty of people who benefit from it.  All I know for sure is that my body does not respond well to these drugs.  I have considered getting a medic alert bracelet to warn health care providers in emergencies that they must be very careful if they administer these drugs in the event I am unable to verbalize it.

I found going down 1/2 a pill to difficult and started going down by a quarter pill. I went from .5 twice a day to .25 twice a day. I am going to stabilize before I go down any further. I have been taking Klonopin for 3 years now. Good luck!