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Originally Posted by jo_thorne
Raspberry, I am just now reading your post. I have taken both lorazepam and clonazepam. How much clonazepam were you taking? When you say that you are taking 1 mg of lorazepam, do you mean 1 mg per day in one dose? Is this an every day dose or as needed?
A lot of the difficulty in switching from clonazepam to lorazepam depends on if you were/are taking the drugs regularly.
I can't address the issue of whether the lower seroquel dose is causing anxiety, but clonazepam is so much longer-acting than lorazepam, that I would think switching from one to the other would be likely to cause some disturbance in your mood (either sedation or anxiety) until the clonazepam gets completely out of your body and your body adjusts to the lorazepam.
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With both I was/am prescribed 4mg a day. I took the clonazepam regularly, usually 2mg (one in the morning, one at night, and sometimes I would take a third while at work if I experienced intense anxiety/paranoia, not that it really helped with that, hence pnp switching me). I'll be taking the lorazepam daily too. Actually, on the bottle it says to take all 4mg, so that one isn't a PRN.
Right now I'm experiencing some clonazepam withdrawal, which is really uncomfortable. I spent the entire day feeling like I was going to have a panic attack at any moment.
If I stay on it, I'm hoping I'll adjust and be fine once I'm over the clonazepam withdrawal.