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Originally Posted by Adamo
I cut from 1 mg to .75 last night. Today daytime anxiety unbelievable. I am now at 7 + weeks. I am using the vistaril perhaps too much. At this point I despair that I will ever be able to function with a clear head.
I know that if I remain at .75 for too long and don't cut to .5 soon and so on I am reaching past the 2 month mark and may find it impossible to stop. I think I am close to losing my job.
Waves: Could you put some of this in perspective for me (off the record of course)?
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Alrighty. I do not like the sound of the situation you are in.
My take... FWIW:
That '2 month mark' is pretty arbitrary. In general, the slower you taper the easier it is. Your situation sounds like it is getting too hard.
I do not see that coming off Klonopin needs to be rushed, especially not with you in this condition (overwraught with anxiety). With the gabapentin, you described being non-functional at work because it doped you up when you took it. I don't believe that is the case with the Klonopin, correct? You are lucid with it, right? I mean, right now, were it not for the anxious symptoms, you'd be functioning fine?
Can you ask your doctor to stay put with the Klonopin, until you stabilize? Frankly, if it were me, I'd be asking to go back up to 1.0 mg, and stay there until I felt better.
After you feel better, you could resume the taper. In regard to that, based on all you've posted so far, I would ask to taper by decrements of 0.125 mg (there are scored 0.5 mg tablets or you can ask for 0.125mg wafers).
waves