Posted by cybercafe on December 26, 2003, at 3:56:33
In reply to clonazepam concerns, posted by zeugma on December 24, 2003, at 15:46:22
> I'm concerned that although the low dose of clonazepam I'm taking (.25 mg/day) is helping my social anxiety, and general anxiety too, it is causing fatigue, need for excessive sleep, and weakening the effect of the other meds I take. I have been drinking tons of coffee to stay awake lately and I have not needed to do that in a long time. I feel that with my nervous system, a depressant is not going to help long term. I was pretty desperate when I started clonazepam, and it definitely has been working- maybe now I should reduce the dosage and see if that helps my energy and mood? I think tomorrow I will reduce it to .125 which seems like a ridiculously low doseage but obviously I am sensitive to these things.
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> On a general note, I think my depression/ADD gas a lot to do with dysregulated arousal systems- i.e. when my depression is in in full force I can't get any restorative sleep because I constantly have hypnagogic halucinations and intrusions of waking consciousness into sleep, while conversely when awake I often feel like I'm dreaming, I find it impossible to properly guide my attention to the salient features of the environment (inattentive ADD). I feel like the clonazepam, unlike the other meds I'm taking, is pushing sleep and waking closer together which is the last thing I need.
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> or maybe it's just the holidays that have me depressed?
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> Or some combination of the two?
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wow.. i'm taking 2 mg of clonazepam twice a day... fortunately parnate helps me get up on time... and ritalin also helps me stay awake... we'll see when i get a job (maybe i'll drop the morning dose) ...... to answer your question... no i'm not really sleepy on 2 mg of clonazepam, though i used to be sleepy on .5 mg a few years back ... maybe abilify is also helping? i chose only activating drugs for mood stability/ADD/depression so i could take benzos and still concentrate...
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