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Posted by mmealltalk on July 17, 2013, at 12:22:12
I am flipping out. I have been taking Klonopin for at least 15 years (between 2-4mg/day, though the last ten years about 2.5mg/day) and my pdoc informed me yesterday that she wants me to take half the dose from now on. Like yesterday I took 2.5mg and beginning today she expects me to drop down to 1.25mg/day. This is absolutely insane on so many levels. Number one, withdrawal sucks, I've been there done that many times and its not like she is telling me to wean myself off it, she just said take half the dose. And there are a million things happening in my life right now that are making me more stressed and anxious that she doesn't seem to think matter, she just told me to do this. She said she would give me an rx from now on for the same amount she gives me now, but i will only get it every other month. She even told me the reason, besides her believing i can handle less Klonopin, is because of some new state law that physicians are being required to get patients off controlled substances. She went on to describe how many people are abusing the system and getting multiple rxs, which i have never ever done. When i got home from her office, in a total panic and crazed i looked up the law and it seems beginning in late August doctors will have to check some database 24 hours before prescribing a controlled substance to make sure patients aren't getting multiple rx for controlled substances and the state will know if the doctor went into the data base to check this info out. So, she basically is sparing herself paperwork and having to check the database on the months she doesn't prescribe the Klonipin (though I take Adderall and told her there was no way in hell i would even consider decreasing let alone going off that so my guess is she will still have to go to the database every month.) Anyway, I left her office more panicked than i have ever felt before and I am truly going to go insane. I called my therapist and told her there is no way i can do this and she supported my decision and at least until we speak I am not changing anything. But, what the hell. My doctor is worried about her own license because there are major penalties for not documenting all this stuff and checking databases (I read all about that part too, and I am sorry that the state is giving her so much more work to do) but I cannot decrease my Klonopin now. I will go to shreds and freak out. I know i am babbling but I'm like completely losing my mind here and Klonopin withdrawal, even if I decreased it a little is very hard to do so how she just thinks i can do this is beyond me. I'm getting myself worked up, which my therapist insists I not do until we speak...
Thanks for listening,
Mel
Posted by Phillipa on July 17, 2013, at 16:48:03
In reply to Pdoc wants to decrease Klonopin and I refuse!, posted by mmealltalk on July 17, 2013, at 12:22:12
New pdoc? My pharmacy won't fill RX for benzos ahead of time anyway. Lazy doc. Phillipa
Posted by Phil on July 17, 2013, at 17:17:01
In reply to Pdoc wants to decrease Klonopin and I refuse!, posted by mmealltalk on July 17, 2013, at 12:22:12
If you want go to benzo.org.uk. They have a taper schedule. You might find info that you could slap this lady with. :)
Posted by rjlockhart37 on July 17, 2013, at 19:43:52
In reply to Re: Pdoc wants to decrease Klonopin and I refuse! » mmealltalk, posted by Phil on July 17, 2013, at 17:17:01
fax a letter to her office, discuss the anxiety problems...and that they are hard to deal with....just make a simple request to keep it at the dose.....
write distintly what the anxiety does...
r
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