Posted by Squiggles on July 16, 2002, at 19:23:48
Hi Essence,
I am sorry to scare you about clonazepam;
i did not intend to do that, though you are
right imho, that there is a special difficulty
in getting off this drug in comparison to
Xanax. I did get off Xanax too with relatively
short horror at about the same dose.However, the clonazepam, even at therapeutic
left me with a head seizure/or/stroke or something
which took a month to recover from.I don't think I quite recovered entirely after
that and that is what i mean by head problems;
that if i don't take my doses back to back i
sense the faint remnants of that really bad
experience - it feels as if there a currents
of vein swellings, and my temperature goes
up - it was much worse - we used to call them
electric eels;The rise in the dose has helped tremendously.
As i said i do not wish to scare you, because
I was taking the clonazepam for a very long time -
at least 17 years and possibly it just changed
my brain; mind you the Xanax was just about as
long, but it is not as potent, nor an anti-convulsant.I think the shorter you take it and the smaller
the dose, the better - unless of course my lithium
or bipolar condition has something to do with it,
which i don't imagine it does with you.Squiggles
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