Posted by DynaUnity333 on December 2, 2004, at 9:40:03
In reply to Re: klono dose Re: Clarification re: Gabatril » Franz, posted by viridis on November 27, 2002, at 1:02:32
I wonder sometimes if people dont take the side effects of the medications they start seriously enough.
If someone is having such memory problems and/or stupor/zoned out etc, it would seem to me that maybe the med is not the right one.
Maybe Gaba is just not the problem for that person.
If someone has enough gaba available in the brain and suddenly its increased its quite easy to conclude that Gaba raising is not necassarily what is needed.
I started Klonopin six weeks ago immediately on 3mgs a day (1mg, three times a day), and apart from the occasional balance problem (which imo is mor to do with me bouncing around without the anxiety, but could well be to do with the Klono aswell), i have had absolutely no side effects except an occasional rise in mood and a little paranoia.
The paranoia has been iliminated with an intake of l-histidine (amino acid to raise histamine), and by adding gabapentin for stability.
I truly believe people should listen to thir bodies when starting taking medications because they will quickly tell you whther or not its something it needs.
Then again YMMV as the old saying goes, maybe you are so deficient in Gaba the body dosn't know what to do with it just yet and its accostoming.
Who knows, but i would suggest tht if the symptoms weren't to calm down over the next couple of weeks to think bout tapering off and trying something else.
Maybe Buspar. It gets a bad rep but it CAN be a really good medication taken at the right dose which is often quite higher than the literature suggests.
A friend of mine used it to withdraw from alcohol and she said it was like a beacon of light??? Not sure what that means, but it was definitely positive.
Listen to yourself, and think about it.
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