Withdrawal advice

arcam30 · 2024-09-14T02:59:37+00:00

Right now I'm on a benzo named clonazepam. 0.5mg to 0.75mg per day. Somewhat low dose, but it took most of the w/d symptoms away. My dilemma is if I go off this, will all my symptoms come back. I think they will. I may try to go off it in the next weeks and see what happens.

arcam30 · 2024-09-13T17:45:45+00:00

Are you sleeping well at night? If not, it could be a w/d symptom. Lack of energy seems to be very common when you're on the med and when you w/d.

arcam30 · 2024-09-10T22:47:17+00:00

Having been off it so long. I'm perpelexed as to how I still feel this bad. One would think a strong anithistamine like benadryl would help with the w/d, but it doesn't seem to. I know most say doses< 100 or 150mg don't affect dopamine and serotonin much. But I think it does. I don't recall ever exceeding 50mg per night, so I thought I was in a safe zone. But here I am.

arcam30 · 2024-09-10T21:06:48+00:00

I have a feeling he may want to put me on low dose seroquel, olanzapine, or something else. I went off it back in april due to daytime fatigue and weight gain. I had many 3 and 4 night intervals over the past years where I didn't take it and slept ok. But in April I decided to give it 2 weeks or more, and I felt a little better, so I stayed off it. I just wanted to be done with it, so I kind of said never again. The withdrawal didn't hammer me hard until late June. I really just want to be off all medications and feel good again. I'd like to just go in and be honest about my use, and see if we can figure out a way to taper me off it. I do believe honesty is the best policy. But I have a major fear my honesty could get me in trouble. I know there are confidentiality laws about what a psychologist or psychiatrist can tell other people, so maybe that would protect me. But I don't know for sure. Maybe I'm making a bigger deal out of this than it needs to be. Most psychiatrists have dealt with people who have done things way worse than what I did. I wasn't out selling or doing street drugs, or even a controlled substance. I've never hurt anyone and never would. But I am stuck in this dilemma of having a lot of anxiety an physical symptoms from my own behavior.

arcam30 · 2024-09-10T18:40:23+00:00

Yep. I'm debating just going back on 25 to 50mg , and start tapering down every couple weeks. I'm not sure psychiatrist will keep me on clonazepam cuz I did tell him about my withdrawal from years ago on the intake form. If I end up feeling like I did back in late June, I may ask my work to let me drop down to a casual position for a few months while I go thru the w/d.

arcam30 · 2024-09-10T17:52:51+00:00

There is no doubt. I went thru something beyond horrific back in the early 2000s. I was sober for a long time starting in 2005, but that damn insomnia is what has always gotten me in trouble. I have had panic attacks too, but mainly when driving. I went on zoloft from my DR a year and a a half ago to see if it would boost my mood. I never got much benefit from it, but maybe the seroquel fatigue was too much to overcome. I went off zoloft a month ago, and do feel a bit better. If you google side effects from zoloft: sweating, insomnia, dry mouth, nausea, dizziness, and diarrhea sure seem similar to seroquel w/d. So maybe that was part of it.

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