Posted by cubbybear on December 5, 2003, at 4:14:42
In reply to Re: Withdrawal Symptoms. SSRIs vs Klonopin, posted by burnedout on December 4, 2003, at 11:21:12
You can read on this board other peoples experiences, you can also do a search on Google for something like "SSRI withdrawal discontinuation pain" and the same for Klonopin.
I sure do know all about the nightmare of Effexor withdrawal and am so glad i never took it. Am also aware of the class action litigation going on. Now that says it all.
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> But there will probably be withdrawal effects with the Klonopin, unless you do a very, very gradual taper. . .It's taking me many months to get off it because I'm deliberately doing a very gradual taper from a high of 4 mg. I definitely recommend buying a pill cutter and going at the rate of .125 mg. every 1-2 weeks, at least.
> For me it's mainly feeling stress more and shaking. I try to stay there a while then if it goes away, I can try lowering the does a tad more. If it doesn't go away, I raise the dose back up to where I was stable and do the taper again. Eventually, I'll be off the Klonopin.
With the exception of shaking, your experience sounds much like mine, in which going back up to the previous dose helped.
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>. Then it took 39 days before I finally came out from most of the effects of the SSRI.You sound like me--do you write down this stuff and keep careful records of your med experiences? One thing I've done with the Klonopin taper is to put it all on graph paper, with the vertical axis being the dosage and the horizontal axis being the date. It's gratifying to see that line continuously sloping downward over time.
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> With either of these, if you've taken them for a while, (over two weeks) DO NOT STOP ABRUPTLY. You are asking for serious/acute and dangerous reactions. I know.And so I've heard and read many times myself.
Good luck. cubbybear
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