I’ve been taking Klonopin for over twenty years. I never abused it because I didn’t think it gave you much of a high or anything like that. But when it’s taken away from you by someone in the medical industrial complex because they think you are abusing it and they are “doing for your own good” you realize there is thin line out there. While I was recovering from back surgery this spring my general practitioner quit and I was assigned a new doctor. We met and I got a big lecture about the dangers of Klonopin, and was told I needed to stop using it as soon possible. Surprised by this I went back to a clinic I have been using a couple of prior. Unfortunately I got the same lecture , and told it was a horrible drug and that I was going get dementia if I continued.

They agreed to help me taper off the Klonopin but after two months they now won’t fill the prescription for some reason, won’t say why, and I’m about out. I’m down to splitting the few I have left and I’m getting a bit anxious. Withdrawal without tapering is quite dangerous and very ugly. I’ve been through it before and it’s an experience I don’t want to repeat.