OK, I really want to try to stop my klonopin… even my pdoc is very against it… so I want to try to stop it. I didn’t take it today and I am very somatic even on this first day without it… I shake even too…
For those who’ve stopped your benzo, I guess the withdrawal was hard, right? 
After how many days the symptoms of the withdrawal became easier and less painful? I’d pray that maybe after a week? 2 weeks? Idk how I’ll do it if you hard lasts a month lol…
Tbh, I should have never touched to this med imo… the zyprexa already have helped a bit, for the rest, I was always counting on my efforts…
Anna, you shouldn’t come off benzos cold turkey,
It could kill you.
You have to taper.
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Titrate down slowly! I had a gran mal after stopping xanax for one day. Not good and I wasn’t taking too much either. It’s very dangerous to stop abrubtly.
I’ve tapered already from 1,5 mgs to 0,5 mgs 4 months ago… but I was addicted even to 0,5 mgs and I feel the withdrawal even on the first day today… but this time, I really want to try to stop it. It started to cause me real problems after years on it… and my doc is very against it for me, cause I have negatives in my illness…
I won’t die from stopping it, I am sure… I just don’t know how much I’ll be in pain from the withdrawal symptoms…
Maybe the first week is the hardest or how?
I have my benadryl prescribed in order to sleep, I’ll see in a few if this will calm down my anxiety…
Rogueone, you managed though to stop the xanax? It was a bad withdrawal? Which was the worst - the first days or later?
Thanks for the answer in advance, I hate what this klonopin made of me…
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It took me about 18 months to come off the benzo I was on. I had to taper very slowly. And when it came down to the last 5mg….that was the hardest.
Here’s a post I made earlier :
I was on 0.5mg a day of clonazepam, and got horrible withdrawals. The way I eventually came if it was by slowly increasing the amount of days between taking it.
At the beginning I would take it every other day for 2 weeks, then every 3 days for two weeks, etc.
Doing it very slowly was the key.
Good luck coming off it
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Thank you for the answer, qwerty 
Yeah, I am on my last 0,5 mgs and I really feel like I need to stop even this now… it causes me only problems lately like depression, shakiness, headaches etc…
I have a somatic disorder as well , because of my sz…
How many days you were bad without the last dose of your benzo? It got better in a week? Or more? 
you were scared for these days? 
My doc thinks, that my zyprexa already helps a bit my fears…but now I am definitely addicted to my klonopin, which I took without docs approval for years… I’ll keep it as prn though, but I want to be clean from it on daily basis…
Oh, thank you, dear you too yeah, we’ve already talked about this, you told me your method before, thanks for reminding it to me 
but I am quite mentally addicted to benzos since I’ve discovered them… until I take it, I’ll attribute all my good moods to it… idk, I’ll try now cold turkey sheesh… there should be probably people who’ve succeded cold turkey, no? Mhm…
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I didn’t notice any withdrawal as I went slowly, slowly over a period of months. It wasn’t that hard in the end and I deal with anxiety better than with the xanax these days.
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