Posted by bubblegumchewer on November 25, 2002, at 8:09:47
In reply to Success of Klonopin with panic disorder, posted by HopeNotLost on November 24, 2002, at 22:20:29
Don't mean to scare you, but I took a low dose (.25 mg 3 x per day going up to maximum of .5 mg 4 x per day) of klonopin for panic disorder over the course of four months and my panic disorder worsened during that time. I found it to be a fine stopgap measure but a terrible long-term therapy. When the PAs reappeared about midway through, they soon became bad enough to disable me, leaving me in my room trying to "rest" more and more as they got worse. Soon I was non-functional and checked into a psych ward as I felt that I could no longer live in such a state, as I was starving to death and constantly in a state of blind fear. I could not eat, drink or sleep much at a time. The diagnosis given, of course, was depression, and I did feel better when the nortriptyline they gave me kicked in after about three weeks, but I also felt better after ramping off the last of the klonopin. In fact, I was back to my "old" happy, eating, life-loving self less than a month after checking into (and out of; they only kept me a week although I went home quite shaky) the hospital. I believe the klonopin must have had a depressant effect on me in addition to giving me terrible rebound anxiety that was nearly constant and crippling.
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