Posted by neuroscience on November 3, 2012, at 8:04:26
In reply to Lou's response-nowlizdahtym » g_g_g_unit, posted by Lou Pilder on November 3, 2012, at 6:27:03
> > I started taking clonazepam about three months ago to assist with insomnia. I started on 1mg at night and ultimately ended up on 2mg.
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> > Anyway, it didn't seem to help much (with sleep or anxiety), so I started cutting down by 0.5mg a week. I was finally on 0.25mg for the past two weeks and stopped completely two days ago.
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> > I also cut my Memantine dose down to 5mg ten days ago. Now when I initially tried Memantine at 5mg, it was causing some anxiety, but for the past two days I've been feeling incredibly restless, jittery and uncomfortable (like I'm crawling out of my skin). My psychiatrist said 0.25mg was quite a small dose, but I tend to be sensitive to medication in general, so could I possibly be going through withdrawal?
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> > It's rather unpleasant, so if so, how long could I anticipate it lasting?
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> g_g_g unit,
> You asked, how long? What you are experiancing could be the beginning of sorrows. You see, the benzodiazepine that you have been taking can induce addiction in as few as 7 days and withdrawal can happen when you stop the drug. The withdrawal period can induce a mind-altered state to compel one to kill themselves amd/or others.If I felt better right now I'd add more in reply, but, this mind-altered state, it's ambiguous as you put it though, with no explanation.
Of the cases I've read of these drugs causing someone to be suicidal/homicidal at their cessation (usually abrupt cessation), the given explanations were akathisia, an acute withdrawal induced akathisia; psychosis (I'm supposing mixed with akathisia). I think because of the way these drugs work sometimes, inhibition perhaps plays a role.
g_g_g_unit will be fine though. It's probably withdrawal form klonopin. And it's hardly sounding as a disastrous withdrawal.
Lou maybe you want to really help people. But telling people here that you can't because Dr. Bob won't let you, isn't helping people imo.
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