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Re: Benzo feel? » Phillipa

Posted by yxibow on August 16, 2006, at 4:00:12

In reply to Re: Benzo feel? » yxibow, posted by Phillipa on August 15, 2006, at 20:17:31

> Jay which do you prefer and why. Klonopin or valium. It's important. Love Phillipa


Its subjective -- its hard to say now. I used to take small doses of Klonopin when I was taking SSRIs or especially Wellbutrin.


Now that I take larger doses for a disorder that seems no end at the immediate time in life, but a palleative rather than restorative function, at least medically in late 2006 (there is a lot psychologically at play underlining including an increasingly ingrained peter pan syndrome, fear of death, and the world at large that is overlayed on top of my visual symptoms or may be causing them), I began to feel that I wasn't really feeling enough anxiolytic relief from Klonopin. (Hopefully that run-on sentence made some sense)

I felt it was worth enough of a concerted taper/switchover (which was complex in dosing strategies, eventually discovering that adding Valium before removing Klonopin was better) that I did so.


Today I can't say that I "feel" Valium a lot, as I am used to its dosing, but I at least believe that for my particular condition it provides a greater GABA sub anxiolytic type receptor binding than Klonopin. Of course, I could be reading into things alot, or there could even be a placebo effect in a sense, which isn't terrible really.


So personally, I am continuing Valium although for other reasons such as cognitive function (which occurs with any high dose benzodiazepine regime no matter how used to it you are) I may scale back on the amount if I can tolerate my condition with less.


Others may wildly differ on this and find Klonopin (and then there's the whole side issue of "real" Klonopin, discontinued in general use in the 80s or so I would imagine and the argument of generics) at high doses more effective than Valium.


Ultimately I think its a personal brain chemistry issue and preference. I dont think I really get depressed from benzodiazepines, except maybe Restoril, which ironically is a smaller metabolite of Valium. Some people seem to get very depressed from Klonopin. Again, that has to do entirely with personal biochemical makeup and current state of psychology, which of course is biochemical in the first place.


So if you are happy, I believe, with taking Valium, and you have for quite some time as I recall, a relatively minor dose, then all means do so.

-- Jay

 

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