Posted by Marco Polo on January 16, 2008, at 22:49:20
Hi all, long time reader, first time poster to this board. I hope someone has experienced the same thing that I'm about to describe.
I have been stable on Klonopin (1mg) for about 2 years. In December, I decided to taper off in favor of Lyrica a non benzo anti-anxiety drug. Bad news. I got down to .5mg and started freaking out, so I went back up to 1mg. No good, still freaking out. It's been 2 weeks now and tonight I upped the dose to 2 mg. Some relief, but still jittery. Did I screw up? Can I go back to the lush green fields of 1mg? This is pretty frightening.
I plan to followup with my psych doc tomorrow, but wanted to survey the soldiers in the field here, so to speak, for a similar experience.
I didn't realize how important this particular med was to my sanity.
Cheers,
Marco.
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thread:807140
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