Posted by SandyWeb on May 8, 2007, at 11:02:21
In reply to Anyone else not affected by Klonopin?, posted by football on May 3, 2007, at 23:01:27
Hi Football,
I take 4mg Klonopin per day (2mg in the morning and 2mg in the late afternoon/early evening). If it were not for the Effexor XR that I started taking a few months ago, I would be taking 6 mg of Klonopin per day. As one poster stated, you can't feel when Klonopin begins working. It just gradually is there, and you can't feel a sudden impact from it. And like the poster said, that is why Ativan is highly addictive....because it hits with a punch and you LIKE it. You breathe a big sigh of relief that the anxiety is gone, but with Klonopin, you just realize that you're not anxious anymore. And the half-life is much longer, so you don't need to keep taking as many pills as you would with Ativan.
I found Ativan to be strong and worked well (although short lived), I've never tried Valium, and I found that Xanax was just a placebo effect on me (like taking aspirin...it did nothing). Immovane was also a placebo effect....nothing.
Ask your doctor to let you try another benzo. Klonopin doesn't have as much of a sedation effect either, so if you're looking for a sleeping pill/anti-anxiety in one, Ativan would probably be better. Good luck!
God bless,
Sandy
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