Klonopin Withdrawal

[Tgirll]

4 months ago I was better from my 3 years depression and was seeing that my anxiety was showing up even taking 4 mg a day of Klonopin . I was seeing a psychiatrist for a time but he didn't seem to really care about me, I knew that if I kept taking klonopin I'd have to raise and raise the dose, cause I have tolerance to it, and besides when I was depressed I've tried to kill myself w it, something I regret more than anyone can imagine .

When I mentioned tapering off the med , the doctor said that I shouldn't and that I'd only get worse . No help offered at all, no tip, not even saying that after finishing up with the pills , I should keep reducing with the drops.

This doctor is the only one I can afford, sadly .

The 4 months went smoothly, but after the last 1/4, things got hellish , I didn't feel like I could reach him for support since he made me feel dumb for wanting to quit a med with so much bad effects on a long term of use .

I lasted 6 days on hell , vomiting, not eating, barely sleeping and the anxiety increasing until it was unbearable . And went back to the med, slowly , until I've got to the point of 1 pill of 2 mg . Even suffering and now waking up at 5 or 4 and something after 6 days of taking it back, my body is craving more of it, I still feel like vomiting, headaches, barely can eat and with anxiety .

I set up an appointment with him again , knowing that I don't want to take other meds , cause I don't wanna pass through this moment of my life more than once and I'm already suffering, and I know antidepressants cause side effects and I just can't handle it rn . I'll ask for real tips for withdrawal, ask about the symptoms and everything, cause I'm going to face it again, I want to be free of all of this med complications.

Here(Brazil) is really hard to detox from this drug, there are no government facilities to help, if you are anxious and ask for emergence they or say you're just in a crisis or they put an injection of a strong med on you, a benzo .

My mom knows a paramedic and he supported my idea of getting out and said to me to do some core exercises so I would make my body tired and able to sleep during withdrawal. When I was without the med I tried all natural stuff as possible but nothing worked to calm me down .

Anyone w good tips? I've been feeling my legs weak, headaches , nauseous and agitation .

[kenster1]

hi sorry for your suffering from my experience I had a terrible few weeks coming off another medication the doctor lowered it week to week last two weeks never slept went back on the full doze things did pick up started halving them went good then quartered them a few months ago again no problems bar the odd blip at the start its helping me maybe doing it that way could help you as well.

[Tgirll in reply to kenster1]

Going back to fully 4 mg ??? I feel so afraid of it, cause is very comfortable, and I know taking it off will be so hard 🤔 cause the easier is to use the med

[kenster1 in reply to Tgirll]

you could for 2 months or so then cut down to 2mg but over a longer period of time.

[Tgirll in reply to kenster1]

I was thinking about it and might actually be good, I was thinking about start taking some antidepressant according to the doctor, to help with anxiety and quiting benzo's being less hell for panic attacks and anxiety.