Posted by Rocket Jackson on March 5, 2006, at 20:58:41
In reply to Re: Has Anyone Tried These for Social Anxiety?, posted by RobertDavid on March 5, 2006, at 2:39:54
Thanks for the helpful information. I'd love to try Klonopin daily in light of its benefit, but I'm worried I'll lose the substantial benefit I currently receive when I space my dosing out by 4-5 days. Maybe an increased dose on the days I anticipate more anxiety would do the trick if I indeed go with a daily attempt.
I'm happy to see your Klonopin continues to be effective after all these years. This almost seems to be the norm rather than the exception based on feedback from this site and others, which makes me want to give it a full daily effort over at least a few weeks to see if it really might work well for me (I've limited my daily attempts to 4 days in a row max in the past when it seemed the usual benefit had vanished). Do you feel it took days/weeks of consistent use before you found your therapeutic level?
And just curious- what's your current daily dosing regimen? You mentioned you're down to 2mg per day (great job by the way)... are you taking 1mg twice per day? I may try this type of schedule and titrate up slowly depending on effect.
Thanks again for the advice. I'll keep you posted.
> I tried to switch from klonopin to lyrica. The lyrica did nothing for me. If you try it you probably need to get to higher doses for it to work. I went back to klonopin. Perhaps you never got to a dose high enough for you.
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> Many go to 4mgs for anxiety. Typically the sedation wears off, but the anti anxiety benifits don't. I've been on it 12 years and am currently at 2mgs, down from 3. Good luck.
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