As well as chilling you out physically, it actively makes you stop worrying about things.
I’ve bee off it a while now, and I takes a bit of getting used to again to be worrying about stuff.
It’s just a normal level of worrying though, nothing catastrophic. But still I’m getting used to it.
I was on that drug a pretty good while. I played with it in ways I shouldn’t have. On days when we were going to town I would take one or two extra, which would leave me short at the end of the week. I’m off Klonopin now, and I don’t miss it.
Why don’t you stay on the Klonopin while you are taking the Abilify.
To avoid tolerance, keep lowering the Klonopin dose then raise it.
Benzos sometimes become necessary.
Yeah when I lived in the sober house they said “no klonopin”…I saw my doctor after panic attacking for a week straight and he told them “you gotta give him klonopin, or else he can’t stay here, he needs it for akathesia from the abilify”. He might have just be being mafiaso to lobby me for klonopin but that was what he said.
It really does help with worry. When I worry i take a klonopin and it goes away
I’ve just struggled with coming off it for the last 6 months, so I’ll see how it goes. It’s always there if I want it. I’m just getting used to life without Cloneazapam again that’s all. Hopefully I’ll be able to survive without it.
Clonazepam is a wonder drug for me. But I have the wrong sort of personality to be on this drug long term - I like it a bit too much.
It’s a wonder drug if you use it for emergencies in my opinion. I’m just leery of it full time too.
Klonopin works real well for me…in that I’ve never built a tolerance. I’ve been on and off it for 6 years…2 1/2 years straight and .5 twice a day always does the trick for me. I’m lucky with all my medications.
I’m working at stopping klonopin. I feel more energy in the morning with a very reduced dosage. I use a pill cutter to make 1/8 mg doses for bedtime. When I try to go from that to zero, I find trouble getting to sleep. I would like to taper it off, but the pill fragments are too small to split or measure.