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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
Yeah, my psychiatrist thankfully knows what she's talking about with this sort of thing and understands the danger and how to do this safely. Right now is a good of a time as any(because no time is "good" when you have a serious mental illness pfft) for me to start tapering, and like you said I think a year is reasonable for getting off of it entirely. I'm not on a ridiculously high dose, a moderate one.
What dose were you taking before you were taken off of it?
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I was on benzos for 30 years and in the past 10 years I got on horribly high doses, like 17 mgs/day of Klonopin (don't ask!) but I worked it down to 4 mg/day on my own. I was on 4 mg/day when that NP decided she wasn't going to write it anymore. She wrote drug seeking behavior on my chart so no one would prescribe for me. It was after I said I was hoping to get a car - I think she thought I'd have a wreck because of the Klonopin and vicodin but I wasn't taking much vicodin and I was adjusted to what I was taking and not "out of it". I drove fine on Klonopin. It's now that I'm useless. The changes in my brain function are profound and I'm useless now.
She didn't know about my history with benzos because I hadn't been in this area long. I really wish her bad things.
After she decided she was ending the Klonopin she brought it down to 2.5 mg/day, and then just stopped and left me high and dry to die.