Posted by Dinah on November 30, 2007, at 8:53:51 [reposted on November 30, 2007, at 22:39:16 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Stopping Benzodiazepines - Please Help, posted by Sigismund on November 30, 2007, at 1:03:44
My pdoc gave me the exact same prescription even though he knew I'd worked my way down to 1/2 mg of klonopin. I doubt he'd have a problem if I said I was back at the full dose, even though I've now tapered off it completely after ten years of at least 1 mg a day.
I thought I'd have physical effects when I cut that last 1/2 tablet, but all I've noticed is a mild return of the middle of the night anxiety and insomnia that I first took it for.
Maybe the key is that he didn't ask me to reduce my klonopin. I'd been getting an average of 1 1/2 per day for the entire ten years with no increase. I doubt he'd have minded my taking it forever. I'm getting off it because the sleep neurologist said something about sleep stages, or cycles, and apnea, and suggested I go off it. I'm sure if it had been my pdoc who suggested it, he might not have been as unconcerned.
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