[BeyondtheRainbow]

I keep messing up this klonopin reduction and making it so much worse.

The first time we tried it I cut 1 mg pills into 4ths and then took 1.75 but still didn't feel well on it so my pdoc had me stop. We decided that a consistent dose was probably better so she prescribed .5 mg pills to divide in halves to get the 1.75 mg.

The pharmacy screwed up the script and I gave up on it and decided I knew what I was doing. So I thought I needed to take 1.5 pills and that made me drop to 1.5 mg too fast. Which has been causing worse and worse side effects.

Last night (tonight?) I decided that I needed to go up to 1.75 mg. So I carefully cut a 1 mg tablet into 4 pieces. I was so focused on that project that I forgot I needed to take 1/2 of a 1 mg tablet. So instead of increasing my dose I decreased it to 1.25 mg.

I had a terrible night with very little sleep. I took a gabapentin PRN and got a few hours that way and I took the .5 mg of klonopin when I realized what I did but it's not putting me to sleep so I'm wide awake on a few hours of sleep.

I'm supposed to drive my nieces home today. Its a 2 hours trip each way. My mom can't leave until later and so she can do it but it's a lot since she has a big day of work tomorrow. I hope I feel ok to do this. But with so little sleep I'm probably not. I feel so guilty for saying I could do this, although to be fair I said I could meet my sister halfway. I just can't believe how badly I messed things up.

[Wild Coyote]

I am sorry it's been such a rough start.

I hope you can drive safely.


WC

I know how hard it is to split those small pills into four pieces. I'm sorry the pharmacy screwed up. Is there any way you can get that rectified? Maybe explain what happened to your psychiatrist? Or call the pharmacy to see what they can do to rectify the mistake? Some pharmacies (usually private ones) can do medication compounding.

[SorryShaped]

Sorry you're having so much trouble. At least they're trying to step you down instead of cold turkey like with me