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Re: Withdrawal Symptoms. SSRIs vs Klonopin » shadows721

Posted by cubbybear on December 5, 2003, at 23:43:37

In reply to Re: Withdrawal Symptoms. SSRIs vs Klonopin » burnedout, posted by shadows721 on December 5, 2003, at 21:20:29

>. Klonopin was hell on Earth! My doc abruptly took me off of it after I had taken 2mg/day for 4 years. I felt suddenly paranoid one night. The next day (day 4) of no Klonopin, I felt knives all over me and I had violent convulsions. I had violent convulsions until the klonopin was administered. The next time the doc tried to get me to stop over 6 weeks. I hallucinated and felt ants biting me. I got a new doc and tapered the drug over 3 years. It was really rough.

It never ceases to amaze me what gross incompetence, if not downright malpractice exists out there in the medical profession. Every patient and every doctor should know the #1 rule about abruptly stopping benzos: never quit cold turkey.
And, tapering off 4 mg. over a period of 6 weeks? Also insufficient. Even six months might not be enough. As I mentioned in my prior post, I've been tapering off 4 mg. myself, and have been deliberately taking it super-slow over many months. I'm not in the market for any convulsions or hallucinations of ants.


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