Posted by Squiggles on September 21, 2001, at 0:11:01
In reply to Re: Seizures and Klonopin » Squiggles, posted by Cam W. on September 20, 2001, at 17:50:22
> Squiggles - Next time you may want to slowly switch to Valium? (diazepam) from the Klonopin? (clonazepam). The Valium (and it's active metabolites) have even a longer half-life than Klonopin (100h V vs. 18-36h K). The longer half-life may give you better protect from the seizures (which are quite common when withdrawing from long-term benzodiazepine use). You may have to use a much slower withdrawl schedule (eg. withdraw over the course of a year).
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> Valium is both an anxiolytic and anticonvulsant, like Klonopin. Ask your doctor what he/she thinks of this method. - CamThanks Cam,
you're always "there". Next time, I might do
that - yup - this is recommended by Asthon.
BTW, I tapered the clonazepam from 0.750 to
0.075 over more than a year with a specialized
taper calculator. I still got "seizures" and
I believe that Ashton and other addiction psychopharmacologists,
do know that no matter how slow, and how gradual
the taper, you still get seizure when approaching
0, depending of course on how long you have taken
the stuff (in my case more than a decade).My main point though, is that the recuperation
from these ordeals, may be so long and so protracted
that the advantages must be weighted, particularly
when the dose one is taking is very low, such as mine 0.50 to 1.0mg.Both from Dr. Ashton's manual and from testimonials,
there are people who have taken 10-15 years to recover
from motor symptoms of w/d especially, and some never at
all, claiming irreversible brain damage.So, I am just reconsidering things and putting forth
what I have learned to a forum.Squiggles
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