Posted by cubbybear on March 15, 2004, at 16:12:21
In reply to anbody withdrawing from Klonopin?, posted by shiraz on March 14, 2004, at 8:23:58
OK, I've got some practical advice that worked for me just within the last couple of weeks. I'm now OFF the benzo bus, since I switched over to the equivalent dosage of VALIUM for my taper down to zero. Like you, I was running into some anxiety problems once I got to .125 mg. and was determined to get off the final .125 as smoothly as possible. So I explained all this to the pdoc and got an Rx for 2 mg. Valium tabs. Since 5 mg. Valium=.25 mg. Klonopin, then 2 mg. Valium=just under .125 mg. Valium. You can try going back up with a dose of 5 or 4 mg. Valium, stay for one week, then split the pills and decrease by 1/2 mg. Valium each week. These are much smaller increments than you can get by cutting the Klonopin. You can stay as long as you want/need to on each dose. I finally got down to 1/2 mg. Valium and quit after one week. It's been about 10 days since my last little morsel and I've had ZERO problems since then. (I had planned to post a new thread about this anyway, for all to see.)
I learned about the recommended switch to Valium from the website www.benzo. org. Many people resent them as being benzo-phobic, and I can see why. Yet, their tapering chart and recommendation for a switchover to Valium did the trick for me, and I'd totally recommend it to anyone who's having problems getting off Klonopin.
poster:cubbybear
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