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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow
I'm a week into my first small decrease in klonopin with the goal to come off it. Last night I finally slept and only was up sick once which is a huge improvement. I'm hoping that's all the withdrawal for this dose and I'm not going down again until I see my pdoc in a few weeks. I had enough issues to show this will have to be really slow but apparently if I'm patient I can make it through. I hope.
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That is a great goal! Often I tell myself I can just quit the Klonopin (well the generic) that I take without repercussions, but I think I'm just kidding myself. And I've been on it for ages. Over 10 years, I think. My old pdoc did not want to raise it to 4 mg until I admitted to her I was dosing myself with 4 mg and had been for awhile. I must have had an old bottle lying around from a time I had the great idea to stop all my meds (which was not at all a great idea and led to severe mania).
New pdoc does not want me struggling with dosage withdrawal effects until my life calms down a bit, and he is probably right about that. Maybe once I've been in therapy awhile and/or this CPS case is closed, and we know what is going to happen with our living situation - rent someplace, sell/rent the house, get foreclosured on it =, declare bankruptcy, though we pay our credit cards in full monthly so I suppose we'd have time to run up some debt there, and our vehicles are old, we own them outright without bills.
But I am proud of you getting trying to get off such an addictive benzo. It cannot be easy. Great job on a good start 
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