Posted by katekite on July 7, 2002, at 10:11:36
In reply to Withdrawal from Clonazepam (Klonopin), posted by 2sense on July 6, 2002, at 18:08:14
Hi Sue,
Sounds like you are going through a lot! Hang in there.
There is no reason to stress your body by doing 0.5 mg a week. At 0.5 mg a week you are not too likely to get seizures, but insomnia etc is not unlikely...and who really needs that?
I did 0.25 mg every two weeks. (I'm still on .25 mg a day at the moment). I found I would get a few days of insomnia about 4-5 days after every reduction. I have Cushing's syndrome so am more sensitive to meds and med changes than some might be. However mild your MS is, you are surely more sensitive to some drugs from it (I'm sure it doesn't feel 'mild'). Maybe as you are going down from the beginning you could do 0.25mg decrease a week, then switch to less often if you run into insomnia or jitters.
Have you read about curcumin for MS? Brand new research. I will try to find some info for you. No harm in eating lots of curry, which is why I remember about it. Of course, this is in mice so far... so it's hard to know if humans would react similarly.
Take care -- kate.
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Curry Spice May Halt Progression of MS
Hot on the heels of reports suggesting that curcumin, a compound present in the curry spice turmeric, can help to treat cancer researchers have now found that it may stop the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). Dr Chandramohan Natarajan of Vanderbilt University discovered that mice with an MS-like disease developed little or no signs of disease symptoms after receiving injections of curcumin. Natarajan and his colleagues found that untreated mice developed full-blown experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) - an autoimmune condition used as a model for multiple sclerosis - and severe paralysis within just 15 days. However, mice treated with thrice-weekly 50-micrograms injections of curcumin only developed minor disease symptoms, and mice given a 100-microgram dose of the compound presented with no symptoms at all.
SOURCE/REFERENCE: Reported by www.reutershealth.com on the 24th April 2002
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