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Old Mar 09, 2025, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by MuddyBoots View Post
If your pdoc will take you off cold turkey, can you just keep asking for decreases? That’s what I do when I want to taper off something, but I don’t think my doc will be in it at the slow rate I want to go.
My pdoc took me off clonazepam slowly and worked with me; sometimes I could make a step down every 2 weeks, sometimes it was a month, in the end it was doing my best to take it every other day and then only to take it as necessary, and when I got down to taking 1-2 0.25 mg pills of clonazepam weekly we stopped. I would discuss it with your psychiatrist; that you want to come off the benzo but you have done it cold turkey before and it was a disaster, so if you could slowly taper it working with me and my needs, I would appreciate it; if some weeks, I might be able to step down a notch, sometimes it might be a month or just over that what you both feel is do-able.
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