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Re: Klonopin king of Insomnia? » randermin

Posted by laima on February 13, 2007, at 11:09:11

In reply to Re: Klonopin king of Insomnia?, posted by randermin on February 12, 2007, at 22:57:10

The thing I keep stumbling over most regarding benzos and sleep is their disruption of deep sleep, diminishing stages 3 and 4- which are said to be crucial for mental health. I had two sleep studies while on clonazapam, and indeed, these stages were pretty lacking- especially on higher dose. As for waking up after taking a benzo, I think that "high" you mention could be rebound stimulation or anxiety after it wears off. As I developed tolerance, my awakenings became earlier and earlier, panickier and panickier. I also had problems with short acting benzos and sleep for this very sort of reason- waking up as soon as they wore off, an effect that would become increasingly pronounced. At least clonazapam is a long acting benzo-plausably still longer acting than something like xanax after tolerence developes to either/both? Your thought about taking breaks to preserve efficacy seems a good one.



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