Posted by Melissa on March 22, 2000, at 21:46:20
In reply to Re: generic version of klonopin CAM W help, posted by Cam W. on March 22, 2000, at 20:49:23
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> Amanda - What have you heard that was disturbing about the drug (outside of the seizures)? I find that Klonopin to be a safer benzodiazepine than Xanax. It has less chance of withdrawl effects and can be taken fewer times a day. Klonopin has some anticonvulsant activity and when used for convulsive disorders, the seizures can return upon withdrawing the drug. Klonopin is not involved in as many drug interactions as Xanax. Klonopin is used quite extensively for mental disorders to take the edge off of anxiety. 0.25mg is a nice, low dose. Hope this helps - Cam W.
Amanda -- Please read the messages that come before. Xanax is highly addicting, but so is klonopin. I would not get on it for the life of me. I am on it, 1 mg a day, and I have been for ten years. And I have been trying to get off it for 5 of those years under doctor's supervision and it has been impossible. If you do any research you will see it is extremely addictive, getting worse the longer you are on it. It is designed solely for extremely short term use, like a few weeks. Tell your doctor to check out neurontin. It is an anti-convulsant like klonopin and non-addictive. This list of messages that you sent yours to is filled with horror stories of people who have gotten addicted to klonopin, became epilectic afterwards, suffered hearing losses and so forth. Read this list carefully. And tell you doctor to do better research. The problems with klonopin are well known. I am not some self-absorbed obsessive who can't function in life. I am a university professor at a major university, I have widely published in two disciplines and I was given klonopin to get through a very rough divorce which coincided with a difficult period professionally. Four years later I started to try to get off the drug and found that I could not. I had been on it for short periods of stress before and gotten off rather easily. But I was only on it for at most a matter of weeks at the time then. So please use caution here. I have not heard a single person who has been on it long term without some really terrible story about it, and I have heard a ton of stories and have other friends who also have had terrible experiences about it. So really. Take care. Melissa
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