Posted by mair on January 29, 2003, at 13:00:06
In reply to Re: Support for Klonopin, posted by SBOATRN on January 29, 2003, at 11:02:14
I guess I just wanted to echo what others have already said. I took it for years just before I went to bed in increments of anywhere from .125 mgs to .50. I also took Wellbutrin as an AD. I had taken, some years ago, SSRIs.
I frequently worried that I was getting too dependent on klonopin. My pdoc and my internist kept assuring me that my dosing level was too low to worry about a chemical dependency. My dependency was more psychological. Getting enough sleep is extremely important to my mental health, so I mostly didn't dare not take klonopin for fear that I wouldn't sleep. In particularly bad times, I might increase my klonopin or perhaps try something stronger. The thing that I found to be great about it was that it was fast acting, and that you could increase and decrease it so easily.
I went off klonopin last summer because I started adding to my Wellbutrin, amitriptyline which can be pretty sedating. I had no difficulty stopping abruptly and I certainly wouldn't hesitate to start up again should the need arise.
Mair
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