Hi possum220 I can share my experience with you.

The withdrawal from Klonopin (for me and for most people) is a NIGHTMARE. Dangerous, leaves people terribly ill long-term. MUST be done verrrry slowwwly. I've been on 2mgs/day of Klonopin for 20 years, with the exception of 1 year during which I stopped the K-pin. I went off it too quickly and found myself so physically sick that there were times I literally could not walk from my bed to my driveway to get into my car. I felt like I had a catastrophic illness, I was so sick, weak, exhausted. I recall vividly one evening - attempting to walk around the block and making it just a few houses down the street and feeling like I had run a 25-mile marathon. I made it only that far and had to turn around and walk slowly back to my bed.

I am currently going off K-pin, but this time I'm taking at least a full year to do so. Maybe more. And I am SCARED. I'm afraid that even with a very slow taper I'll be sick for years to come. But, I'm doing my best to prevent that from happening by taking this so slowly.

Now. Seroquel.

I was on Seroquel for about 2 years and recently switched over to Geodon. I started out doing the Seroquel taper pretty quickly, as my p-doc suggested. Soon found out that I had to go more slowly than she had said I would. I got the Seroquel down from 400 to 100 okay. 100 to 50 took a couple of weeks. 50 to 25 was a rough 3 weeks. I felt nauseated (a half-tab of non-drowsy Dramamine helped with that, also sipping ginger ale over ice helped). The biggest problem, though, was insomnia. Especially when I dropped 50 down to 25mgs of Seroquel, the insomnia was really bad. I took about 2 weeks to go from 25mg Seroquel to no Seroquel. I found that when I went more than 3 days on no Seroquel I had bad withdrawal symptoms (nausea, sleeplessness). SO, I decided to go two nights with no Seroquel, then every third night I took 25mgs. I did that for three weeks...25mgs Seroquel every third night. That seemed to ease withdrawal a lot.

At this point I have been off Seroquel for about a week. I have not felt sick (nausea) at all. I am having some insomnia, but I'd not sure whether that's the Seroquel w/d or whether it's the Geodon (which apparently can cause insomnia).

Take it slow and try the every-third-day routine. Best of luck to you. Med withdrawal is hard, but you are certainly not alone.