Hi, Bizi and Pam,

I can take your suggestion and do .25 first. It's logical anyway.
Thanks.

When I did my own taper for Xanax a couple of years ago, I didn't know I was in trouble until about a month into my taper when the withdrawal symptoms showed up. The pdoc put me right back to my regular dose in order to correct for the symptoms.
He also gave me a big explanation about how benzos work and so on.
He seemed very conservative about tapering then.
I promised him and myself that I would do any future tapering only after checking with him.
(I did not exactly keep my promise, but I kept the spirit of it.)


Today he was relaxed it seems.
Maybe Klonopin is different from Xanax with regard to tapering?

Mari

Mari,
they even make .25mg pills so that way you can cut them even smaller dose very easily.
I remember when I tapered off of the klonipin I tapered off using a quarter of the .25mg at a time....jsut to be safe...it does take our brains a long time getting used to these changes...it is like the receptor sites get used to the drugs and when we reduce them they get all worked up.
bizi
I hope your foggyness gets better for you...soon!

Hi Mari - hope you are getting relaxed. Will the decrease in the klonapin, effect being able to sleep at night? Just wondering, because I take klonapin at night to sleep with my trazadone, I am supposed to take klonapin if needed during the day, yet if I do I get drowsy.

HEAT - we have hit 102 - now back and forth 80's -90's, but I really have to say it is such a difference with NO HUMIDITY here in AZ, it amazes me.
Still have to drink lots of water and be careful in the sun.

Hugs, Nikko:hug:

I'm glad doctors are careful now
 

:(I wish that my doctor slowly withdrew me off my sleeping pills back around the late 1970's. As you might remember,I was on 2 Methaquaaludes(600 Mgs)a night for 2 years. I felt strange after two years of being on them. I felt dull in the morning. I told the doctor that I wanted to stop taking the Methaquaaludes that he put me on 2 years earlier.

So we went in the bathroom,and flushed them down the toilet. Soon after that I started having withdrawals. I was in excruciating anxiety,and height of anxiety that I cannot describe. My dad just gave me strange looks. I went back to the doctor,and asked if I could slowly stop taking them. He shook his head no. I still remember that moment.

I didn't know what to do. I went out into the night,and bought bear. I drove into the country at 12 AM and tried to relax. I had these terrible sensations. This went one for a long time.I was in silent desperation.

I was a absolute basket case if there was ever one. I stoped seeing the doctor,and things are not clear in my memory for 2 years after that. This ended any confidence that I'll ever have in medical professionals again. It was horrible. It's despicable. I could not get any help from anyone in that two year period. It was during the time of the Elvis Presley doctor scandal. No attention was being paid to me,and they where cracking down on doctors. My situation is the untold other side of the coin.

Can anyone let me know if this could have damaged me. I'm afraid to ask any doctors,or do any research on the subject. If anyone doesn't know what Methaquaaludes are,they where the most addictive,and most powerful sleeping pills of the 1970's. I basically lost my peace of mind after that time. I think that the doctor lost his practice,but not because of me. He must have done that to other people who reported him ,and got help. I didn't get help,and was living on edge for two years. This subject scares me. Can you believe a doctor did this to me. I've found out that with me when a doctor makes a mistake,it's a huge one.

I ended up in the hospital in 1980,and you know what the Doctor did there? He took me off the Ativan,or Xanax that I had been on. I forgot which. I had a seizer after several days. They put me on Valium,and then put me back on Ativan,or Xanax which I was taking before. I was prescribed Valium in 1970,and was on it until around 1977. They made a movie about valium,and it got a bad reputation. So they made Ativan,then Xanax. (Same thing but no mustle relaxer in it)

I could go on further,but I think that this damaged me. I don't feel anything like I did when I was a child. I feel like I'm living on the edge all the time. I don't have any modern knowledge on medications,because of what I've been through.

For about 20 years now I've been on a small dosage of Xanax(0.25 Mg.)4 times a day. When I was upset a couple of months ago,he uped my dosage to 0.25 Mg. 6 times a day. It's not been helping. He put me on Luvox 10 years ago for the OCD,which is also a antidepressant. It seems to help those thoughts to not become to bad.

I know that you all don't know me,but from what I've tried to tell you all,does it sound like I've been handled right by Psychiatrist's? I feel burned on one side,and then flipped on the other side and burned on it also. I feel sorry for the people who went through emotional issues in the Dark Ages. BF

Mari,

I take Klonopin when I want to go to sleep when i have anxiety. I also take Ativan that does not give the hangover the Klonopin does when going to sleep is not an otpion. I'm sure thought that your feel more energic buy cutting down on the klonopin.

befuddled2

Dear Friend,

Even today drs are sloppy about taking people off meds too quickly.
That's why we check with each other here.

I hope that things have changed somewhat since the 1970s. Drs are more knowledge about these drugs because they have been around longer. And that have move patient experience to draw from.

I had been happy to see in your posts that you were less anxious and sorry to see that the anxiety has creeped back.

I remember qualudes. Poeple I knew in college in the early 80s abused them on the weekends. I stayed away from that abuse culture. Even back then, I was working to keep my brain is as good a shape as possible.



I hope that the Xanax a Luvox help you.
You have learned a lot about your needs over the years. When you see a dr you will know what to ask for.

M.

I might need more Xanax,and i'll want to keep taking the luvox,and I might need a mild antipsychotic. I don't need any sleeping pills. I just want to feel better during the day,and night. I need something to stabilize the mood swings,and something that will stop me from becoming very upset over little things. I need something to decrease the pain in my chest over time.

I see a new Psychiatrist in June. You all please cross your fingers for me. I don't want another life shattering experience. If the doctor does anything drastic,it will cause that anxiety pain in my chest to go critical. Does anyone else have anxiety pain in their chest? Please let me know.

I don't know anything about most of the modern medications,but at this point, I need something. I've been under medicated longer then I was over medicated. Now I'm ready to die if they don't do something quickly. I don't care what anyone thinks now. I just want them to treat my illness properly. This has gone on,and on,and on now. It's definitely not in my head. "Huston,we have a problem." BF