dsmaxis10

Well I'm having a hard time quitting it. I'm a alcoholic and opiate addict. Opiates really haven't been a problem for a long time. I have 36 days from drinking. I quit nicotine about a month before I quit drinking. I'm taking less klonopin then perscribed . I'm perscibed 3mg a day. I use to abuse them. I just want to stop I recently tried to quit and went into psychosis. I've been angry hostile irratable I'm in a battle. I know I should of never taken them but my drinking was way out of control so I used klonopin to by me some time until I could get serous again. By AA standards I'm sober By refuge recovery and NA I'm not. Has anybody else struggled with benzo withdraw. I had four years sober before in AA I started my sobriety date the day I got off benzos the last time I was serous.

Soberwolf

I havnt got experience in benzos but just want to wish you every success in recovery

SoberJohn

I used to take benzos a few years ago and not knowing the addictiveness of them I stopped them abrubtly and went into severe withdrawals. I did some research and found a taper program called the Ashton Taper Protocol developed by a doctor in the UK.

The plan call for using long lasting benzos in a taper protocol that makes the withdrawals non-existent. I printed out the protocol and took it to my doctor and requested to follow the plan. I followed the plan and never once went through withdrawal.

Here is the website if you are interested in talking to your doctor about it.

benzo.org.uk : Benzodiazepines: How They Work & How to Withdraw, Prof C H Ashton DM, FRCP, 2002

Good Luck

dsmaxis10

Down from four mg to a half mg. Alcohol dreams and cravings. I know it hits the same receptors as alcohol thats got to be why I'm having such a hard time 41 days of not drinking feeling like it's day one. Been very angry and moody ah man I'm in a jamb. I quit opiates after relapsing on them I had a close to a year. That was easy compared to this. I quit nicotine ten weeks ago opiates three months ago. Porn a month ago and struggling if I should play poker or not I won 6800$ in about 400 hours of poker at casinos. I know I'm not sober by refuge recovery and na standards i agree even though it's perscribed. I told a psych I needed them for anxiety when I really wanted to take them to slow down on my drinking it helped for awhile but not long. Treating people I love like crap I tryed to quit cold turkey and went into psychosis not fun at all. Well I'm not going to give up and I'm not going to drink cause it's really klonopin I'm craving drinking would make a things a lot worse. I had four years of grace before now I really got to up the ante with recovery.

Soberwolf

I wish you the best in recovery Dsmaxis

CobraCommander

im having a hard time with them im on clon as well and not really by choice. when i was tapering off oxycodone i started taking xanax and built up a dependancy. well when i was off the oxy the anxiety got really bad because i needed a long taper and my body was already addicted to the xanax without me knowing. so i found a new dr who put me on clon temporarily until i could find something else to deal with my anxiety. well i wanted to get off everything, he wants me to be on some sort of anxiety med. so now im stuck in clono withdrawals. i feel like i just went backwards again. i definately gotta say benzo withdrawals are worse then opiates. im constantly dizzy and having anxiety attacks. im taking 2, 0.5's a day. which is barely anything. i wish i could give you some advice but i have none, and even if i did all the members would yell at me for giving medical advice anyways. so i hope this at least let syou know someone else is havin a **** time with it and your not alone. clono is very weak compared to something like xanax though. xanax will put you in a withdrawal within 2 hours because it acts so fast. clono lasts like 12 or more hours and takes forever to work. so i dunno im still trying to figure out if im just going through withdrawals each day, or if my anxiety is just this awfull because ive always had bad anxiety my entire life

one thing i do know is to not just stop them out of no where, you could have a seizure. youll need a tapering schedule from your dr. dropping down mg's or something. theyll tell u the safe way

dsmaxis10

I'm not saying your not sober or anything clon really helped me out I was drinking so much I got put on it and real bad anxiety but I would take 10mg some times cause I was so depressed and wanted to fall asleep. If you have an anxiety disorder take something for it AA big book says we never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist won't here that at a meeting.I have schizophrenia and I take medication for it I have been in 15 mental hospitals sober all because I wouldn't take my meds.