I've been on Clonazepam for over 9 years now. I found out only last year that my first doctor had screwed up big time by prescribing it to me, and the rest of them that followed continued to prescribe it in combo with other meds like Lamictal and such. Let me tell you that I never passed the 8 mg dose as needed, but my body craves at least the 2 mg a day it has gotten so used to, It's gotten to the point now that if I don't take it one hour after I wake up, I start to get shaky hands/knees and pains all over my body like a beat up dog. I can't even describe the sense of anxiety, shakiness, fear and almost terror and psychosis that I feel as well as physical pain which is a torture, but since I haven't been able to find another substitute, I am obliged to continue taking it. Someone told me to switch to betas, but that's not an option for now, not without proper medical care, which lacks where I live at the moment.