Posted by J. Wesley on December 24, 2002, at 10:43:10
In reply to Re: Squiggles and K withdrawals » J. Wesley, posted by Squiggles on December 24, 2002, at 8:59:23
> Hi J. Wesley,
>
> I don't rightly know what it was, nor did any
> of the doctors who saw me.
>
> But this is what happened: after a year and a half
> of withdrawing from 1.0 mg Klonopin, in very minute
> decrements, and finally reaching 0.125, i was sitting
> at the computer and i felt something like electric
> cable climbing up my spine/head area. They then seemed
> to catch on fire and a boomerang like strike on the
> back middle of the head hit me. After that,
> the whole head was on fire, it seemed.
>
> I lost memory for a while, and could not walk straight
> for a week. My blood pressure seemed to go up and down
> wildly and i was sweating. I had terrible pain and
> disorientation. I became quite ill and took to my bed
> for about a month. Sleep was very strange as i would
> fall into and out of consciousness/sleep at strange
> intervals. My pupils were contracted and stayed that
> way. The pain in my head was excruciating.
>
> It took a month to get better.
>
> I don't know what that was but i guess a seizure or
> stroke or aneurysm, because the year before while
> still withdrawing, my head started bobbing, and i had
> become very dehydrated. At that time i went to
> an emergency doctor who said i was having myoclonic
> seizures and advised me not to withdraw on the net
> as i could get a real seizure, and then what would
> i do? Indeed, i should have taken his advice.
>
> I am still feeling the heat waves from that incident;
> i know something happened but i am not sure what.
> Anyway, i am better, but it was probably the worst
> period of my life - getting of Klonopin. I did not
> by the way, i had to raise it.
>
> Squiggle
___________________________________Hmm...I guess the main thing is that you survived and are better now.
I'm still puzzled though. I'm assuming the doctors did a battery of neurological and endocrinology tests, mri, eeg, blood workup, etc. to rule in or out any possible causes. Anything less would seem to me to be cause for concern about the medical care you received. The symptomology you presented with should have raised any number of red flags that the doctors should have investigated, I would think rather aggresively.
Since you didn't mention anything about what type of medical care you received to figure out what caused this cluster of symptoms, I'm left with a lot of questions.
To simply increase your dosage of klonopin to get you stabilized, after such a long period of time withdrawing from such a low dose sounds ludicrous to me from a medical standpoint.
But I wasn't there, so I have to accept that the level of medical care you received was acceptable to you and your doctors.
I suppose there are worse things in life than having to take a small dosage of klonopin to maintain quality of life.
Oh well....thank you for responding.
Happy Holidays to you,
J. Wesley
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