Posted by 2sense on August 10, 2002, at 12:15:06
In reply to Re: Given Neuronton to get off Klonopin « Bobby » 2sense, posted by Squiggles on August 10, 2002, at 8:54:02
I agree about being dropped too quickly. I have heard people on like 1.5 taking 6 months. This new pdoc is a very strong woman and so am I -- but she has the power, so to speak -- I am going to do 3.25 versus 3.0 and do the 0.25. My thyroid was and still is really screwed up and extreme stress (physical and/or emotional) causes the Hashimoto’s antibodies to reactivate and attack the thyroid producing a state of hypothyroidism. One of the many symptoms is depression. I am depressed, not horribly, but not myself. I was on Wellbutrin SR 300 mg. (which is also a seizure lower-er) and know the new pdoc dropped that to 200 mgs. A day and my mood is a fairly good one – but given everything that has gone on and is going on internally in the family and externally to the family the diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress that is on-going (I was in an abusive marriage for 10 years, was a whistle blower at a nuclear facility there went my career, 3 children with disabilities and a school district who is as bad as the medical system, a husband whose mother is hospice and will die within the next 6 months, his company is going down the tubes, he needs to be treated for depression and is seeing someone the end of the month, he is also a fight or flighter but we are seeing someone and I think it is helping. Add to all of that in the present tense (school is just days away as is my hubby’s 43rd b-day) the older two 13 and 15 almost 16 have the hormones and are being cold turkeyed from a cigarette habit they picked up during the summer. So is the depression due to dealing with all of that (I am the point person for everyone, when Nancy Regan was doing the, “Just say no” campaign, my co-workers were pinning buttons on me. So is external stresses or is the depression due to the Klonopin w/d, potential cognitive side effects of the probable but not definite MS (though the neurologist and this new pdoc do not think so), peri-menopause (I will be 40 in November, and didn't go through surgical menopause so I still have "periods" all that goes with them (i.e., bloating, moodiness, etc. and I get that mid-month too).
WHO KNOWS -- I am functional but I'd rather be walking on a beach for 10 miles a day and reading good books, doing crossword puzzles, sleeping, eating right, etc. for say 6 months. Too bad there isn't a big HOLD button I could push, but there isn't so I push on and up and forward for what else is there to do :-) right?!?Thanks for your concern and posts I appreciate them.
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