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Originally Posted by Blueberrybook
@ Manarinorange
My pdoc weaned me off clonazepam b/c he felt it was causing me too much forgetfulness. I'm still forgetful now but not nearly as much. It was tough as I'd been taking 4mg clonazepam for over 10 year. It took about a year to completely wean off it. Sometimes, I'm glad of it, sometimes not. But for my overall health, it's probably better. If you still have 2 refills left, your pdoc probably will renew it once you run out of refills. Now my pdoc just tells me to take extra hydroxyzine for panic attacks. I suppose it sort of works, but not great. In the past, he had me take 25 mg of Seroquel for panic attacks, which worked better. He didn't prescribe the low dose Seroquel again, but I have such a surplus of Seroquel, I've chopped some down to 25 mg. just in case.
My mood is better this morning. I feel really bad b/c I went to bed way before H cleaned up all the mess from the drywall. But sleep hygiene is SOO important to my stability. I mess up my sleep, stability is soon out the window. H still isn't finished with the drywall; he just got the old drywall down and the mess cleaned up from that and still has to put the new drywall up today. I hope it won't be such a big deal as taking down the old drywall. That shot my anxiety sky high yesterday.
This morning, I went for a walk/jog but I left way early, like 45 min. before sunrise b/c I was up; my cat Pecan was walking/jumping all over me while I was in bed, wanting me to get up and feed her, and I just couldn't sleep once she woke me up. But I still got around 8 hr. of sleep, so that's good 
Ugh. Some dissociation this morning., really hate when that happens. Not sure what might have triggered it. Sometimes it has a trigger, sometimes not. |
Yes I was taken off lorazapam. My np switched me to diazepam and slowly weaned me off. After it was completely out of my system, I started having what are called rolling panic attacks. They would last 4-5 hours every 3rd day. I found a new pdoc in the same clinic bc we only have 1 clinic in my city that takes medicaid.
He helped more and he would add a med and it would quit working so he would add another med same thing happened. Eventually he retired and I got a new np. I started not being able to sleep. I swear I knew more about meds than she did. She left and I got the pdoc I have now. He prescribed me 10 mgs of ambien and all it did was make me foggy and like I was drunk. So he said I will prscibe you depakote and that's it. He said that or the hospital. So I went in the hospital.
I didn't see the pdoc in the hospital for a couple days. He put me on klonipin as well as temnazepan for my sleep. I found I didn't really need the temazpam so I just took myself off of it.
BTW, I didn't want the lorazapam in the first place. I was taking lauda and it was causing akathisia. I didn't realize that at the time. But she should have known. She forced me to go on it bc she said I was too scared of aps. I was but I told her one day a Dr is going to want to take me off it. I had heard they were really hard to get off of. She said if I didn't agree to it I would out of compliance and so I agreed. e