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Posted by becksFLA on May 12, 2008, at 10:13:11
Take all this with a grain of salt, because I've always been different...needing 14mg daily, then going down to 5 in about 6 weeks.
In any case I'm trying to taper, about 5 days ago I went from my usual 5 to 4.5 daily. Question is how long should I go until I know if this is just "rebound anxiety" or if I have leveled out?
Thanks
Posted by Maria3667 on May 12, 2008, at 13:36:25
In reply to klonopin update, posted by becksFLA on May 12, 2008, at 10:13:11
Difficult to say; I can't differentiate between 'normal anxiety' and rebound anxiety. All feels like crap to me. May be the only give away signal is more trembling with the rebound?
Sorry can't be of more help to you.
Take care,
Maria> Take all this with a grain of salt, because I've always been different...needing 14mg daily, then going down to 5 in about 6 weeks.
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> In any case I'm trying to taper, about 5 days ago I went from my usual 5 to 4.5 daily. Question is how long should I go until I know if this is just "rebound anxiety" or if I have leveled out?
>
> Thanks
Posted by Lou Pilder on May 12, 2008, at 20:03:35
In reply to klonopin update, posted by becksFLA on May 12, 2008, at 10:13:11
> Take all this with a grain of salt, because I've always been different...needing 14mg daily, then going down to 5 in about 6 weeks.
>
> In any case I'm trying to taper, about 5 days ago I went from my usual 5 to 4.5 daily. Question is how long should I go until I know if this is just "rebound anxiety" or if I have leveled out?
>
> Thanks
becksFLA,
You wrote,[...how long should I go...?]
In my experiance and with what I know of the experiences of others that have wanted to be free from benzodiazepines, there is first a day when the withdrawal symptoms start. With the people that I have known that discontinued the drug all at once (sometimes called cold turkey), in about 3 days or so after their last taking of the drug they experience a horrific condition of insomnia and extreme agitation and such, but you may not have those symptoms yet or at all. With the people that I have known that tapered, they reached that condition slower, but still reached that condition. I have read of those that did not reach that condition, and with one person I knew, they tapered for a year and got down to a millligram and still had that condition when they stopped taking the drug at that point.
The first stage then as I have experianced was like standing on the sand and seeing a beast rise out of the sea. This goes on in some of the cases that I know for about 7 days to 14 days, with horrific insomnia and agitation and dread. Some that I knew described that period of time as being dead, yet alive, living in the shadow of death. You may not enter that condition when you get down in your tapering. But if you do, I am saying that others that I have known have overcome that condition after 2 weeks or so and then they entered another condition and then another in all told 7 phases before they overcame the withdrawal symptoms...
Lou
Posted by Sigismund on May 12, 2008, at 21:22:50
In reply to klonopin update, posted by becksFLA on May 12, 2008, at 10:13:11
>In any case I'm trying to taper, about 5 days ago I went from my usual 5 to 4.5 daily. Question is how long should I go until I know if this is just "rebound anxiety" or if I have leveled out?
I have never taken Klonopin, but my experience with benzo withdrawal generally makes me guess that you would need at least a week on the lower dose before things would begin to settle down for you.
Recently I reduced my Valium dose from 10mg to 5mg per day.
I did that in steps over a few months.
Posted by becksFLA on May 13, 2008, at 7:40:19
In reply to Re: klonopin update » becksFLA, posted by Sigismund on May 12, 2008, at 21:22:50
Cool, thanks very much.
Posted by cactus on May 13, 2008, at 15:03:27
In reply to Re: klonopin update, posted by becksFLA on May 13, 2008, at 7:40:19
I find my solar plexus start to zing, then I get shallow breathing, trembling, my voice starts to catch with a lump in my throat and I get shaky. That's when I either go back up by 0.5 to 1 mg for a few days to stabilize and then come back down again. Good luck, please take your time and go slow
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