Do you take klonopin? Does it kill your energy?

I still take this med though… I am very anxious and tensed, so it helps a bit. But it makes me a bit sleepy, which can be a problem in the day… I wonder also if it can depress me too?..
I have one ill agy friend, shes on xanax till life and she just takes a small dose and shes not sleepy in the day…
I plan to stop this klonopin one day, but i’ll have to gain some more mental health for that, for which i really fight now. I was just given up before and all my treatmnets couldnt fix my bad life situation…
Hugs!

You can ask your doctor if it’s ok to take a lower dose.

But eventually you’ll build up a tolerance and it won’t make you sleepy. It will also probably stop working.

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I have been taking Klonopin for decades.
My last doctor prescribed it to me and wanted me to take 0.5mg everyday.
This caused tolerance and it didn’t work as well after a while.

My current psychiatrist wants me to take a small dose, 0.25mg on an as needed basis.
I don’t take it everyday, only when I really need it.

This works out better for me.

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Thank you for the answers, dears :slight_smile:
In fact, my ex pdoc was allowing me klonopin every day, but my current pdoc is a bit against it.
In fact, i lack energy since decades, maybe mainly because my conversion disorder… Its a somatic disorder and it suxx a lot tbh… :frowning: Ive read somewhere, that the conversion disorder is the new name for the once so called hystery etc… but its still a mental disease. I work on my emotions now, on my mind too, but theres no meds for conversion disorder… Maybe a bit of some AD, but i turn paranoid and agitated on ads… I’ll see, it was very hard to be in pain even physically all my life. I’ll hope for a different future now. I try to accept my illness too, which is maybe a step to feeling better lol…
But i still need some klonopin in some tougher times, am very fragile still, my mom puts pressure on me too lol…

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I took klonopin for most of my 20’s until I went to a dual diagnosis program that took it away. It was the first thing they did. I went through such bad withdrawal that was worse than anhything. My head caved in. I got back on it in my 30;s and experienced the same thing when I went off it. I went crazy. I really need to step down on the dose when I come off it but they wouldn’t let me when i went to dual diagnosis treatment. I didn’t even have a problem with drugs when I went there. I was just drinking and abusing some kinds of medication. I don’t know. I used to take xannax for my anxiety disorder in my 20’s and that helped but I would go to parties and black out from just having taken a small dose earlier in the day. Thats when there were parties to go to in my life. I now take gabapentin and just deal with the severe anxiety I have. My worst problem was feeling detached from self and the world around me. it started when I was 16 and abated in my mid 30’s. I used to call it feeling ‘out of it’ or ‘a million miles away’. I took effexor for it and it would stop but then come back and my doctor back then would just up the dose. I ended up obn so much that I got the ‘electric shock sydrome’ from it. it’s actually listed as a side effect on the pharmacy printout. it was the worst experience of my life back then. I would like some clonazepam for my anxiety disorder because it would help.

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