Posted by PanickingJake on July 29, 2004, at 19:38:41
In reply to Re: Severe Panic and Anxiety disorder anyone like me?, posted by Glydin on July 29, 2004, at 17:52:47
Yea, two months is all I would ever give for anything, to bad it didn't pan out. I know quite a few people that weren't helped by Wellbutrin, though there are obviously others that its the wonder drug. All I know is that I don't think just one will go for me, mostly because of the high dosages I have to take.
This just happened to me last week and I thought I should share since you started Klonopin. Also remember that I have been taking 4mg Klonopin for about 2 1/2 years.
Tuesday:
Changed from Klonopin to same dose Xanax (your supposed to be able to substite a benzo for a benzo and stop any of the awful withdrawal effects)Wed: little better; the Xanax XR was better because of the long lasting part of it. I had the best sleep this year - easily. (Tues. night)
Thursday night: worst sleep in long time.
Friday: The worst I've been in two years. I was having panic attacks that had there own panic attacks.
I figured that it had to be withdrawal with the timing. Klonopin's half life is like 11 hoursish I think. I took 1mg of Klonopin and all the symptoms got better in like a few hours. Thank god!!! I wasn't gonna last that long that way. There is awful withdrawal for all the benzos. If I ever decide to try switching over, because I do think that Xanax may be a good shot for my constant panic feeling, I'm going to go off it so slowly that it will take me a 1/2 a year to get off it!
Moral of this story: Please go down slowly if you ever do stop them. For now, I'm about as "good" as I've been, so I'm going to stick with Klonopin and try to catch my breath. That sucked. I actually posted that night the first thread of this.
It reminded me of the time that I did not want to live. Not that way anyway. I didn't really want to die though either. I got into deep depression and never wanted to open my eyes or be awake. Sleeping was as close to death as I could get because I didn't have to deal with my panic. That was the most agoraphobic I've been. Bla bla bla.
Learn from my mistake (actually my pdoc's mistake). Yea, next time I see him, we're going to have to have little talk about how everything I change, I'm so sensitive to. But he won't take that into account when making decisions. Thank god I saw that guy in Chi town.
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