Posted by katekite on July 22, 2002, at 22:28:30
In reply to Re: you are right.-Kate? , posted by Pattisun on July 22, 2002, at 18:46:11
Wise. Wow. If only you knew me better. LOL.
Um, I've been trying to get off klonopin since january. But I've had several times where I stopped tapering for one reason or another. I started off at 2mgs a day. I'm very very sensitive and that was a big dose for me but I was very used to it (had been on it 5-6 months). I got down to 0.5 mg pretty fast, maybe 4 weeks. Then I went to 0.375, then 0.25, then 0.125. Each time even at the tiny decrease I had about 4 days of partial insomnia about 4 days after I went down. Then my sleep normalized again by about 10 days. During those 'withdrawal' days I felt mildly jittery. I thankfully have never had to deal with panic attacks (actually I've had one but long ago) so I can't comment on that.
I have heard: A quarter of the dose no more often than once a month. Although that's if you aren't taking anything else at all. Hopefully with Neurontin it will be not too hard.
I think it could be done in 13 weeks with Neurontin. Hard, but possible.
In a way I wish someone had stolen my meds or something as it feels really dumb to be taking such a little shred of a dose still -- I can't even complain about withdrawal at this wimpy a dose, LOL.
kate
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