Angelique67, yeah...exactly. As far as I can tell there are claims that one way or another is "slightly better" when coming off Klonopin, but I have never heard of anyone who is a daily Klonopin user of many years coming off it without at least some really bad withdrawal symptoms. And most people either never can come off it, or are like you - off it, but extremely sick. I might have mentioned, in another thread, that I did manage to come off Klonopin for one year, some years back, and that year I spent mostly in bed...I was so sick. Getting from my bed to my car and doing a short grocery shopping trip would leave me feeling so sick, I felt like I had the flu, and a really bad case of it. I finally gave in and went back on the Klonopin. The result was that I felt better immediately. But the "feeling better" was not as much because of the medication relieving mental illness symptoms so much as it was the medication relieving withdrawal.

Honestly, as much as I want to come off Klonopin, I really wonder if I ever will be able to. That's why I started this thread...it's kind of like...as long as I'm stuck being on this stuff, maybe I should take a dose that will help me more.

The situation is hugely confusing, unpredictable, and has no fabulous answers.