Posted by Janelle on May 25, 2003, at 20:47:15
Hi all -- I have had yet another series of horrendous mood swings in my bout with BiPolar2. I discovered that for some odd reason, Buspar HELPS me (my pdoc wanted to reduce the number of meds I'm on, started by taking me off Buspar, it was a disaster so I'm back on it and feeling somewhat better) -- the next med he wants to remove is Klonopin, which I have been on for like 10 years and I could swear after the first year or so, I became habituated to it and it has NOT worked one iota for me. Case in point: in the hospital about a year ago I couldn't sleep (chronic insomnia at the time) so they gave me like 8 mg of Klonopin - NOTHING. I was WIDE AWAKE and the nurses let me watch a video at 2:30 in the morning! When I told this to the pdoc the next day he was astonished and said if he had been given that dose of Klonopin, he'd have been on the floor konked out!
Anyway, with the Klonopin, I'm currently taking 1mg in the am (breakfast time) and 1 mg in the pm (bedtime) -- I will be seeing my pdoc fairly soon, but I cannot stand taking this stuff which does not help me. When I went off Buspar recently, then crashed, Klonopin did NOTHING to ease the anxiety I had, which was HIGH.
I want to start tapering off Klonopin ASAP, and if anyone has a reasonable idea for a taper schedule (I know it's a benzo, but the least addictive of them, but I've been on it a long time) I would appreciate it if you would present it to me under here. Thanks.
poster:Janelle
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