I was prescribed clonazepam for probably 10 years by my old dr. My new dr told me that it is not good to take and would not prescribe it so I had to taper off of clonazepam. She prescribes me antidepressants for anxiety instead now and from what I have heard from others too, this is what drs are doing now more and more. I guess that people build a tolerance eventually and there may be more reasons that I don’t know about too. They are effective though, at least for me they were.
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I took tranxene every day for years. Then I was done with them and quit cold. Nothing bad happened. I think benzos are right for other people, but not for me.
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I was on Klonopin for a while, but the doctor took me off of them when I told him that I had given a couple of my Klonopin to a girl who was jonesing for heroin. Then one time I went into a room where a woman used to live who aburptly left our program. There were all these plastic bags filled with stuff in the room. I went up to one bag and nudged it with my foot. Two bottles of pills rolled out - Klonopin and Atavan. I took those pills back to my room, and took all of them - 13 Klonopin and 28 Atavan. I don’;t remember anything after I counted the pills, but they told me that when my case manager found me I couldn’t walk. This wasn’t a suicide attempt. Those pills were just more powerful than I thought, that’s all. I don’t know if they pumped my stomach. This was ten years ago.
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I think they serve their purpose, they can be abused but I think if you need them than you should take them.
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