Posted by willyee on February 5, 2006, at 20:33:32
Greetings all nice to be back.Anyway wanted to share a few things,first most know im on a ongoing mission to find a parnate combo as i have no desire to replace any other current med as a primary one,and i have thought this through.
I had what seemed like a fair combo down,but A it required just too many various pills.....B Some of the pills it required i would never be able to ensure i could get..........C It really just wasnt that helpful.So as i stopped it and went back to JUST parnate i felti was slipping in quick sand FAST,VERY VERY FAST.I immediatly went to my doc a broken man,there she shook her head and said "well soon you know we have to go back to srris" i dident reply much and left.I left with geodon,it took me one night to know this med wasnt gonna help.
So the third night i lay thinking.Goiung over stuff i read everywhere here,there all over,in my head.I then ran to my walgreens was lucky enough to have an old xanax script valid.Said to myself the next morning,i hold in my hands,parnate,klonopin,xanax,three of the most SUCCESFUL medications there are,point blank,if i cant get these to work then i am doomed.(i also had old depakote in my room never used.)
So i started the next morning,first thing i wanted was change,so instead of even looking at parnate,i took a partial tab of xanax,and a smaller tab of klonopin,followed last by a caffiene tab.
Then as a hour or two passed id take the smallest pieace of klonopin u could imagine about two times over alone.Now i had already tried caffiene plus klonopin,which did not help,but here my thinking was all the caffiene was doing was sidetracking any side effects in the sedating area.
Let me tell you i had a doc who wanted me to up a normal once to twice a day klonopin .5mg to THREE 1 mg tabs a day .Even with a docs ok i choose this was not a way to go and i never did it.
ID LOVE TO KNOW....... has anyone found instead of adding or rasing klono or xanax they got a much more profound effect from instead combining the two,even if the two in combo still ended up being less benzo over all than the raise of the single one?
Well thats what happened to me,by the end of the morning my axniety was extremly tamed,something klonopin alone,or xanax alone could never ever achive without depression.
So and im almost done here lol,now i take my 40 mg dose of parnate,and yess that too worked quite well.We are now on day 8 of this,and i have to say using klono and xanax seems to be the reason why,its not like it doesent make sense,yes they are both benzos,BUT the both have a uniquness to them,and in medication in can be that slightest tweak that makes a world of difference.
I also wanna state i once tried parnate and depakote and became very depressed,when i first took the parnate after the xanax/klonopin dose,i feel wired,just a lil,so ive also been cutting up the smallest tiniest pieaces of depakote,and again an extreme extreme difference,still of course not holding crown to what i believe is the working factor.......the low dose klono/xanax.
Unless someone is a very very very long time klono user,i myself 5 yrs,and unless they are a very heavy indvidual,i personaly dont see a person needing to go up to the 4- 5 mg of klonopin,to me its simply way to high out of the spectrum for anxiety,way before it gets there a working second medication should be in place,klonopin climbing up to doses of 4 mg a day is a lot!!!!!!!!! of medication when one doesent suffer from seizures.
If any of us work the same,i personaly would speak to my doc,and inquire since being on such a high dose if the doc would be willing to alternate with a second benzo,maybe it does not have to be the particular two i took,or even in direct combo,maybe just a alternation during the day,can hit the smallest sights differently yet make the biggest changes.
Anyone ever using two benzos succesfully over one,allowing them to lower doses and feel better id love to here ur story.I hld in my hand a sheet from my hospital stay.......William y... to take klonopin 1,g,
Morning,lunch , bed
Well william himself choose this
morning........25,to one half of .25 klonopin.morning.......xanax partial tab
Morning........Caffine tab,whole to half of tab depending on my feel.Any excess anxiety from that point is treat with half of a .25 mg klonopin until 12 pm.
12pm noon
Afternoon 30-40 mg parnate....10 mg depakote.
Late evening i havent settled in yet,im not sure should i just repat the mornings steps one last time before bed,or the late afternoons step.Either way my breakdowns have ceased and my anxiety has been helped to a outstanding degree thus far.Thank goodness,mainly cause i want to watch when emsam comes out and slowly if need go on it,i dont want to have to jump on it out the door without seeing even if its effective.
Well thanks for the ear,its a fight people,it may feel like that demon from behind chasing u never needs to slow down but he does,and when he does youll get your chance to feel some relieaf,just keep moving.We all are.
poster:willyee
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