Posted by KellyD on February 18, 2004, at 14:58:11
In reply to Taking Klonopin before bed - effects next day?, posted by mrgeek on February 18, 2004, at 10:12:36
Reports state the halflife can be up to 30 hours. Which means some of the active metabolites can still be in your system at that point. While it has helped me with sleep, I have found after using it a while, the sleepiness feeling dimishes and I'm left with only the antianxiety effects. Stands to reason that if those symptoms (anxiety based) are the cause of insomnia, a benzo can still be of use to aid sleep. There are some conflicting reports of benzo's interferring with stage 4 sleep in some sleep studies. But, personally, once my anxiety is controlled, I no longer have sleep issues.
I have found for my garden variety anxiety "disorder" which includes: social, generalized, agoraphobic tendencies, and (now) rare panic attacks, a once dosing at night does not cover me for 24 hours - even with the halflife findings. My daytime dose is actually MORE important than my nighttime dose and I can actually skip the nighttime dose altogether at times.... in the beginning of my use I always dosed twice a day.
Other probably have different findings, but those are the ones I find for me.
I hope you don't mind my input to your actual question. You know my standing, but I do want to see you succeed in getting a handle on this cr*ppy illness.
How are you doing, btw?
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