Posted by Janelle on May 26, 2003, at 15:04:24
In reply to Re: HELP! Need TAPER schedule for KLONOPIN asap!, posted by stjames on May 26, 2003, at 13:38:44
I was trying to see if anyone here had any direct experience with tapering off Klonopin before I see him (in about 10 days).
He had said something in last appointment about going from 1mg am to .5 mg am and doing the same reduction at pm (1mg to .5 mg) but I don't know how long I'd do that for and the if I'd have to cut the 1mg pill in half again to get it down to .25 mg. Or maybe he'd give me a prescription for .5 mg and I could more easily cut that into .25mg, but something tells me he will have me go from 1.0 mg twice a day to .5 mg twice a day for who knows how long, to stopping the am dose for awhile, then stopping the pm dose, and being off this cr@p for good. He is NOT into microdosing for tapering and I honestly do not think I will have a problem with what I've mentioned here because the hosptial pdoc had me do something similar when I tapered off 1mg/day. She had me on .5 mg/day for awhile then took me off completely and I had no withdrawal problems at that time.
It's the fact that I'm on double the dose I had been on that kinda scares me.
poster:Janelle
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