Posted by cactus on April 4, 2008, at 15:35:11
In reply to Re: klonopin - weird effect, posted by Molybdenum on April 4, 2008, at 3:46:01
> I take 0.5mg clonazepam at night to suppress my hyperventilation - which is what I apparently do to overcompensate after I stop breathing over & over due to Central Sleep Apnoea. *yawn*...
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> Anyway, I was feeling quite depressed the other night so I decided to take 6 of the .5mg tabs plus 4mg of Xanax. I was expecting to be zonked out so much I'd not wake up till midday next.
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> The strangest thing happened - I couldn't fall asleep at all...! I was up most of the night reading PsychoBabble of all things.
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> I had no more than usually morbid thoughts but I was just amazed that it didn't knock me out. I call that a weird reaction.
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> My latest morbid thought? Well here it is: get my pocket knife engraved with my ex's name on it, then mount it in a block of wood & fall on it so as to "stab myself through the heart". 8/10 for melodrama or what?
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> Now, in this scenario I am circling up in the trees watching her all upset & all. Hmmm....I actually don't have any after-death beliefs, so that's a bit silly I suppose. And all I can imagine her saying (dry-eyed) is "I knew there was plenty wrong with him".... ;)
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> Quick - duck, here's comes Dr.Bob to redirect this to alt.get.the.hell.off.my.site....!
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Hey, it sounds like you had a paradoxical reaction to the meds, which isn't too uncommon from large doses of benzos. I usually take 5-6mg of clonazepam daily.
I'm tapering back at the moment, but if I have a bad day and take 8mgs, which I've only done a few times, I also find it hard to sleep. I'm just so lucky that I don't get weird racing thought like I use to.Molybdenum, there is 24hr phone lines for crisis situations, please pick up the phone and talk to someone or go to hospital straight away if that happens again. Do you have a good psychologist????? They are hard to come by ( it took me 5) but, if you can find a good one you will be amazed at the coping techniques a good one will give you, that are for you alone and not from page 352 of the manual!!!!!!! Good luck!!!!
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