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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR KLONOPIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | No negative side effects! I LOVE THIS DRUG!!! I got cancer while my son was in Iraq. The chemotherapy caused me to have a very rapid menopause. Developed constant "free floating anxiety" & massive frequent panic attacks. Was emotionally crippled. Took .5 mg four times a day along with Zoloft 100mg. I WAS IN HEAVEN!!! Took this at bedtime, so it helped me sleep. Woke up feeling completely refreshed and relaxed. Have been on this for 3 1/2 years. It got me back to work within 6 weeks. I work a 24 hr week as an R.N. I line dance two eves a week. I have a new granddaughter! I am in love with life! I now take only .5mg ONCE a day at bedtime with 75mg of Zoloft. Yes, I am probably addicted to it. But, WHO CARES? Without it I would be like a diabetic without insulin. I plan to stay on this dosage until the day I die. Which doesn't appear to be any time soon. I am positive this medication helped get me into remission from my cancer. It gave me a positive attitude and sense of we | F | 60 | 3 years | 7/11/2007 | 5 | anxiety/panic disorder | I had no side effects at all at first. My doctor though was using this to get me off of xanax. It worked alright. I was overjoyed to be free of xanax (even worse.) But now its been 20 YEARS OF 2MGS 3X'S A DAY!!! I was not told this med was addicting. I suppose it would not have mattered to me then because i was going out of my mind with anxiety and would have done anything to feel better. I had a young child to raise and needed to be there. BUT now my child is all grown up and i am an addict and slave to this and many other meds. I am trying to wean myself off of this terrible drug. If I had only known. KEY - I forgive myself for my ignorance and what it did to me when i was spacey trying to raise my child and any harm it may have done him. (no, i never hurt him) So I am weaning, too fast, I think. I forgive myself for this also and know tomorrow I will regress, but will go on. Once I had it down to .25 per day and was happy and fine. Then a friend died and I quickly got c | Yes, it works great. Just don't take it long . Please do that for yourself or you will end up like me. I have no support on this and am ashamed of what I have become. But I will find freedom again. Get off it now those of you who are on it only months. Please........its evil and seductive | F | 53 | 20 years | 11/3/2008 | 5 | Social Anxiety Disorder | Energized feeling, especially after having caffeine. - maybe false euphoria. Skipping even a dose or 2 I feel unpleasant withdrawal effects. The only real side effects for me are when tapering off the drug, nothing troublesome when on it. | Helps me alot with panic, social situations, depression. I prefer this too Ativan so I will continue with it. YES it is addictive. | F | 31 | 90 days | 11/24/2007 | 5 | Anxiety, palpitations IBS | No side effects except for a little sluggishness. My symptoms have gone away since day one. That is pretty impressive for someone like me who has been taking herbal/holistic remedies for over 6 years and they no longer work for me. I had to switch to western medicine and I am grateful I did. I feel like I can get my life back again. | F | 51 | 4 days | 11/24/2007 | 5 | anxiety & Bipolar I | I get alittle tired if I take it at the wrong time. | I have been taking 1mg twice a day for a while now. I have panic attacks when facing social situations or any kinda of meltdown type of thing. I have other medications that help but they have side effects like loosing hair. This seems to help better and I don't loose my hair lol. I can actually function at my son's school events and it helps with my rage from the Mania of my Bipolar. I know that some people don't like it but for the moment and what I use it for it is better than alot of other options. | F | 25 | 6 months | 12/4/2007 | 5 | severe insomnia/fibromyalgia | Some dizziness, occasional drowsiness during the day.Have to go through a "mini" withdrawal every six months or so. | I am a person who, for whatever reasons, cannot sleep more than 3 and a half to four hours a night without help. Sometimes I don't sleep at all. I even went to a sleep clinic; their diagnosis? "You don't sleep." Thanks, guys. My rhuematologist first recommended Klonopin (after trying multitudinous other approaches, natural and otherwise) to treat what had been diagnosed as fibromyalgia pain. The pain turned out to be directly related to the sleep problem. No sleep = lots of pain. Klonopin worked like a miracle. I can't take opiods, so whether they would be better is a non-issue. I don't like the mini-withdrawal I have to go through every six months or so to keep the dosage in check, but 10 to 11 months of feeling mostly normal is worth the six or so weeks of "hell" I have to go through to keep the dosage between the .5 and 1.5 milligrams I take at night the rest of the time. I increase it gradually as I need to, and then decrease it gradually to .25 ml over 3 to 4 w | F | 61 | 15 years | 12/5/2007 | 5 | panic attacks, acute anxiety | Drowsiness, euphoria. None others, but I do NOT take this drug consecutively. I take it as needed, as people should be taking it. Any doctor who gives this drug without a plethora of warnings should have his/her license removed. Klonopin is a highly addictive and dangerous drug, and benzo withdrawal can ruin someone's life (as it has ruined peoples lives here on this board). For acute, severe panic, klonopin is awesome. | It helps me sleep at night, it calms me down and takes away my ability to lose it. It mostly helps with my nausea, which is always associated with panic/anxiety. Like I said, before you put ANY chemical in your mouth, you should educate yourself. Doctors don't know everything, and esp. mental health doctors don't know how you feel. These drugs effect your brain, not theirs. Be conscious of side effects and addiction and so forth -- klonopin is dangerous and addictive, and if you do take it, you must take it responsibly. I've been using this drug when needed (once to twice a week or less) for about 5 years now, and it has done very well for me. I also use as needed: Xanax, Ativan, Dalmane, etc. Klonopin has been the best. | F | 23 | 5 years | 12/30/2007 | 5 | RLS | NONE NONE NONE | this works great for RLS. I have not experiencec ANY side effects and have only ever had to take a maximum of 2mg at night..I can go down to 1mg easily with no side effects...i can even take it 5 out of 7 days and it works perfect. | F | 45 | 2 years | 12/26/2007 | 5 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Initial slight cognitive impairment. Taking .5mg BID. | This drug is often grouped in with benzos (xanax, valium, etc.) but it's different because it also works on your serotonin receptors (which gives it antidepressant effects). I switched over to this after years on Lexapro (which was really hard to get off -- and took 4 months). I lost 25 Lexa-pounds, felt mentally better and also physically better than on SSRIs. I believe pharma companies positioned SSRIs as safer (less-addictive) to encourage SSRI use. I've also come to believe that the risk of addiction is a small (and manageable) factor compared to the benefit of a simpler drug. Having said that -- if you've had issues with addiction in the past, don't take this drug. Or, if your dose stops working after 2 months -- klonopin (or other benzos) are probably not for you. One last note. If you are switching directly from an SSRI to klonopin, you may not be able to fairly evaluate klonopin. Going off an SSRI (after prolonged use) means you've trained some of your | F | 40 | 10 months | 1/20/2008 | 5 | anxiety | a little sleepy | i loved it when i was on it because it was quick to help with the anxiety whereas ativan didn't seem to heplp at all. no major side effects with klonopin- i really liked it. it helped quickly and greatly. unfortunately i'm an addict and klonopin being addictive, i don't know if the doc will be willing to put me back on it. hmmm... | F | 32 | 2 months | 8/23/2008 | 5 | anxiety/panic disorder | none | I very suddenly developed severe almost hallucinogenic panic attacks when I was 14 or 15, in 6 years I've been on almost every antidepressant/antipsychotic/anti-anxiety under the sun excluding prozac and lithium,(I also had depression and PTSD) but klonopin was the first and only real thing to work for my panic attacks, not even xanax worked. I know people sometimes buy klonopin to get high, but I was on .5mg for 6 years, and even when I first started taking it never had symptoms, never even got high off of it, and occasionally during extremely bad panic attacks would take up to four .5mg pills at once. Klonopin is a wonder drug to me, before it I was afraid, and wanted to kill myself, but now I am fine and drug free, and I believe Klonopin helped greatly. I switched antidepressants constantly, and Klonopin was the only constant during those 6 years. The best thing was that it worked almost immediately, no waiting 3 weeks for it to get into your system. | F | 21 | 6 years | 8/24/2008 | 5 | anxiety | NONE | EXCELLENT! The best anti-anxiety drug ever and I have tried quite a few! | F | 54 | 4 years | 9/9/2008 | 5 | acute anxiety,panic disorder | can't describe any side affects. Was diagnosed with mononucleosis same week I started taking Rivotril. | IT SAVED MY LIFE. I spent about 19 yrs seeing psychiatrists,psychologists,behavioral therapy,hypnosis.Tried many different medications.NOTHING WORKED..Referred to a psychiatrist/drug therapist who gradualy brought me to 3-2mg rivotril a day. After mono subsided I felt normal for the fist time since my symptons started. No side effects. Afer about 10 yrs reduced myself to 2-2mg/dly. After a few more yrs. reduced myself down to 1-2mg/dly.Never had any symptoms of withdrawal.Holding on to the last one,I think,as security blanket. Never regretted taking it. | F | 57 | 20 years | 9/12/2008 | 5 | Anxiety, Panic attacks | I have been on this medicine for many years. I have no side effect problems and I can't say that about many drugs! | it helps me in so many ways. I can actually go places now and enjoy life. I used to take Xanax but got addicted to it so I finally got off of it. If I miss does of Klonopin, I don't even notice it. | F | 47 | 10 years | 4/16/2009 | 5 | GAD, Panic Attacks, Insomnia | None | 15 years of battling these disorders and now I've had 1 month of being "cured". I'm absolutely amazed. .5 mil 3x a day. Not a moment of anxiety or even a hint of a panic attack since the first day, even in the most stressful situations that would have sent me reeling before. Of course I worry about the side effects of withdrawal, but I'm gonna enjoy my freedom while I have it! | F | 33 | 30 days | 5/28/2009 | 5 | GAD/panic disorder | no side effects until I went off of it | Klonopin helped me greatly with my constant anxiety and frequent panic attacks. I began with 1.5mg/day and ended with 4mg/day 2 years later because I had built up a tolerance. I used to take Ativan which I found to be extremely addictive and was switched to klonopin which, for some reason, was not addictive for me. The bad news is one day, about 2 weeks ago it seemed to just stop working out of the blue. I had raging anxiety and I overdosed on klonopin by taking around 60-80mg. Nothing happened and I had no relief. THANK GOD I did not die, go into a coma or end up in the hospital. My psychiatrist was shocked that I had not fallen unconscious. I abruptly stopped taking the klonopin and was put on Librium. For the next week I had horrific withdrawal symptoms. Severe depression, suicidal thoughts, horrible anxiety and panicky feelings and general physical discomfort as if my skin was crawling. It has now been 11 days since I stopped taking klonopin and I am finally beginning to feel better. It is possible I had a bad withdrawal because I had overdosed. It's possible other people may come off of this medication just fine. | F | 31 | 2 years | 5/29/2009 | 5 | anxiety / panic attacks | No initial side effects other than it worked to help me get to sleep and keeps the racing thoughts at bay. | After taking this med (or other benzos) for 20+ years I know I am addicted. I have taken the same dose every night and never upped it. I don't take it during the day. If I can't sleep after taking it, it makes me irritable and tired. It did save my sanity at the time I started it, but I know that if I ever try to go off it, I may likely go insane or worse, so it is hard knowing that I'm addicted. I also believe it has gradually caused other health problems but would not know for sure unless I went off it. What I hate the most is that someday I may go through hell trying to withdraw and it scares the hell outta me. My advice is to try every other non addictive anti-anxiety med you can before you end up on benzos. They save your life in one way - but destroy it in another. | F | 53 | 20 years | 7/2/2009 | 5 | anxiety | no side effects at all | I've been on 4 mg throughout the day and it is a blessing. It helps my anxiety like nothing else I've tried w/o side effects. | F | 35 | 6 years | 10/27/2008 | 5 | Panic Attacks and Anxiety | A very slight and temporary forgetfullness, like I acted a little slower than usual to answer questions and remembering things took a couple of minutes. | Took this med for about 1 year for anxiety along with Serzone for Depression. Doze of Klonopin was 3 pills a day. Was off of it for some time. Still take 1/2 pill ocasionally here and there for a couple of days and it seems to work. I thank my psychiatrist for this treatment. It is stronger than Xanax so if you haven't tried any of the two try the mildest first, however for acute and recurrent panic attacks it works the best when taken between 6 months to a year, otherwise don't bother. You got to start on a small dose, 1/2 pill and increase it over a week, otherwise it won't work if taken too high of a dose at first it can aggravate your panic attacks and anxiety and so you think it won't work on you. Not meant to be taken for over a year I would say. It's not so addictive that you can't take it off. Unfortunately for people that are anxious by nature is a chronic disorder comes and goes with Stress! Yes you can keep it under control when you go off the med by identifying y | F | 39 | 1 years | 2/17/2009 | 5 | Stress, Panic, Anxiety | Relaxes me, Helps me have a fulling night sleep. | I was taking Xanax for a while there, but I couldn't stand how tired and agitated it made me feel, so I switched to Klonopin, I love it, because there is no lasting effect with this medication. It has also helped my breathing, which I thought was asthma, but it was due to stress. | F | 25 | 1 years | 2/21/2009 |