OK, so I can’t do it without it. I take just 0,5mgs every evening and I don’t increase it at all… I even don’t feel it’s effect anymore, but I know I’d be worse without it…
And even when I am paranoid, I don’t touch to more or anything…
The only problem is, that my current pdoc is very against the benzos… But my ex pdoc was OK for it for me, even on a daily basis if I don’t increase it, cause she was seeing how anxious and somatic am and just in pain… I supply myself now with it from my generalist tbh…
All the other tranquilizers or ads was making me crazier or didn’t work… it’s a very good med I find, I even don’t have side effects from it…
But I just saw this “dopesick” TV show, it was about the danger of the oxycontin and maybe I’ll be stigmatized for my klonopin, no? 
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Yeah, maybe klonopin is not as oxycontin still, but I need to convince my pdoc, that I need the klonopin… idk if he’ll believe me… I don’t lie to you, pals, I really don’t increase or abuse with it. And it helps a bit even my somatic disorder… you think my doc will finally agree? I am a bit reassured , that my ex pdoc wasn’t scared from it…
For the rest, I still am sick and psychotic, but my situation was very bad for too long, I don’t believe in the miracle med for me, so I just try now to change for better 
Yeap, I still get a lot of mental and even physical pain, but I walk forward now, I fight, not as before lol…
The reviews on klonopin by people with seizures or panic attacks or even bipolar are quite good tbh, some can’t really function without this help… for some, it’s a life long treatment… But am I just not too dumb to need this med?
Maybe some of you avoid the benzos as hell lol…
Take care!!!
I take 1.5mg of clonazepam (klonopin) every night. I like it. It’s the only thing that allows me to sleep because my insomnia is so awful.
If your new doctor doesn’t want to prescribe it can you get another doctor?
Tell him your old doctor didn’t have a problem with it, and lots of doctors don’t have a problem with it (like my doctor), also tell him it helps you without side effects. Be firm with him, but in a polite way, and let him know you will deteriorate if he takes it away.
As for stigma, it sucks, but who cares. If the meds help you stick with them.
Yes benzos 100% stigmatized along with opiates.
Doctors do not like administering it especially for long term use.
This is a problem for people who are suffering anxiety and panic attacks.
Docs at my hospital are turning to Gabapentin for anxiety treatment.
Oh, thanks, dear… 
yeah, I really feel like it’s this med, that I need in order to survive, along with the zyprexa…
The other benzos were never so “clean” on me. Only with the klonopin, I don’t feel as drugged and it maintains me well through the day, cause I take it in the evening too, when I get more paranoid…
I was so anxious and sped up in my mind without these two meds, that I was crippled in bed, with the risk to pee on myself there, with the feeling, that I am dying, for real… that’s how my sz was… I guess I need the klon even mentally, it reassures me that I take it and then, I try to get better…
Yeap, you clarify me a bit, thanks. I’ll try to convince my new doc yeap, he doesn’t even know, that off it, I am scared to die from sedentary every day, it wasn’t a life to feel like dying every day nope… I also was feeling for long, that I’ll never feel better, that I’ll die between my 4 walls and alone as I am now, but on klon, I fight this tendency now and it’s a bit better…
Yes, my ex pdoc was completely fine with it. I have one other sz friend too, who is on xanax till life too lol…
Yeah, the stigma, I see it just now, I know… that’s why I brought the subject. Some fans of the TV show “dopesick” here? I recommend
That’s all, my pdoc probably still doesn’t know well me… I’ll see what I do with him…
For the rest, I was just sick and in a lots of pain all my life till now, now I try to change it all. Even one other pdoc told me, that they gave me way too many aps, I stopped switching that one…
My brain now needs to get smarter, I work on my emotions too, on all basically. And I’ve accepted that I am ill for now… I’ll be it always, but maybe I’ll be able to be surrounded by loved ones one day, not as before…
Thanks again, headspark, yeah, the klon helps me a lot…
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