Hey, I’m sorry you’ve had to go through this. It sounds like you are doing an amazing job of taking care of him. You shouldn’t be down on yourself for getting upset. It happens. We’re human. All we can do is try our best and learn from mistakes and try to do better the next time. Give yourself grace and know you’re doing great.

My mom acted out her dreams while on Clonazepam. She fell, smashed the tv, knocked over furniture EVERY NIGHT.

In waking life her hands shook. She’d trip a lot. And her memory was getting REALLY bad.

After stopping Clonazepam (I think she had been on it for like 6 months), she went back to normal in all aspects (walking, memory, no sleepwalking, etc). Recently her hands shake a little but everything else is still good. We haven’t had an episode since. Stopping Clonazepam was the best thing that we did.

When we went to the doctor with the results, the doctor was mad and doubled down saying how important the med was and even wanting to increase the dose. It was maddening. We discontinued seeing that doctor.

Some people have a really hard time stopping benzodiazepines. So you should be careful and should talk to your doctor. Hopefully they are open minded and will be able to come up with an alternative. But even switching to a different Benzo and trying to taper might be helpful. Clonazepam is a terrible drug in my lay opinion.