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Originally Posted by marcoleap
Thanks, Laurie. I just read somewhere that you should only taper by 10% at a time. Have you had experience tapering off benzos? If so, how slowly did you go?
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Yes. Once I tapered off Klonopin within a month. I had been at 2mg. I was horribly sick...literally so weak and shaky I could not walk around the block. Had to go back on the Klonopin.
I'm doing a taper now, also off 2mg./day. I'm doing this taper over almost 2 years. Seriously. It's taken me a year to get down to 1mg. with no w/d symptoms. I will take another 9 months or even a full year to come off the last 1mg. I've been on Klonopin for over twenty years, and I do not want w/d syndrome.