Posted by zeugma on April 1, 2005, at 21:04:13
In reply to Yep, definitely losing its kick., posted by Dinah on April 1, 2005, at 14:14:45
> Took one when I woke up, another midmorning, still found myself sprawled on my bed waking up from a nap a bit after noon.
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> Sigh.
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> Part of it may be blood sugar, but it's not all that high.
Dinah,How much are you taking? I remember last time you mentioned your dosage it was 100 mg.
Yesterday I was so drowsy (despite having taken 200 mg) that I tried to take a nap about noon. Unfortunately, I simply can't nap, because of my peculiar version of narcolepsy (I feel like I'm in withdrawal from paxil or something, get 'zaps' and jolts and all kinds of unpleasantries if I don't have the right level of nortriptyline in my system when I try to sleep). The drug simply didn't work because of sleep debt. If I've missed any sleep, for any reason, I pay the price, sooner or later, and the Provigil can't help with that.The situation is clonazepam is analogous. I don't feel that great state of non-anxiety that I once did from 1 mg a day. But going over that produced sedation and ataxia. 1 mg does help me say hello to neighbors, and keeps the IBS in check, more or less, because the general anxiety level is lower.
I personally, would rather take less meds, not more. I don't want to go over 200 mg. But 1 mg clonazepam is a reasonable maintainance dosage for me, although I'm still highly anxious, and hopefully you can find a dosage that is a reasonable one that keeps you on the plus side of the benefit/side effect ratio.
-z
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