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Originally Posted by waves
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
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Four hours tonight pacing up and down in agonizing chest pain, hyperventilation, and moaning. Zero sleep last night and anxiety shaking of a very violent type since .25 mg reduction to .75. Doctor says I can't go back up to 1 mg. Facing a total meltdown! I believe I have already reached tolerance withdrawal — is this possible after only 7 weeks? Or is it merely my baseline psychiactric anxiety that is operating? Can't stabilize. Help!