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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CLONAZEPAM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Insomnia | I'm no longer taking this medication. I use Trazodone for sleep. My doctor allowed me to increase the dosage of the Trazodone. | F | 69 | 10 days 1 - 2 mg 1X day | 3/21/2024 Patient History | 1 | Anxiety sleep | It made me feel angry and upset. It gave me severe anxiety. I felt like I was going kinda crazy. Got off of it and felt much better. It's possible it was poorly manufactured and that why I felt bad. My advice, don't touch this toxic poisonous drug, you will be much better off. | This drug didn't help me at all. Docs don't like to prescribe it, it addictive and it made me feel awful. Stay away from it!!!! | M | 73 | 30 days One half m 1X day | 9/20/2023 | 1 | Anxiety | Grogginess, slurred speech, migraine headaches, severe depression wouldn't recommend this to my worst enemy. I took it for sleep to stop racing thoughts. Most nights I was able to sleep but I needed at least 12 hours to feel somewhat normal. | I am now weaning off the drug I was at 2 mg now I am down to .25 I feel like I finally am starting to have a life again | F | 58 | 25 years 2 mg 1X day | 8/1/2023 | 1 | Torticollos | I been taking 2 / 4 mg daily for 24 years .. to treat torticillis .. side effects were dry mouth .. mouth ulcers ,inflamed gums, bad , breath , sometimes deep sleep .. sometimes no sleep , anger issues ,muscle pain , memory loss , Erectile dysfunction , tired eyes , weight gain , stomach cramps , my eyes wouldn't open during the night ,bitter tongue ,restlessness | Don't start this drug .. I been tapering a year now .. my body is slowly healing . I feel like I've lost so much of my life ... but I'm finally reclaiming it .. guys you can get off this nasty drug | M | 48 | 22 years 4 mg 2X day | 4/3/2023 | 1 | Anxiety and Depression | Listen up people. If you begin this drug, your life will Never Be The Same Ever. Even as you develop Tolerance and Tolerance Withdrawal, the suffering you endure will be Unfathomable. You likely will Suffer Permanent Neurological Damage which can include Tinnitus and Permanent Worse Anxiety and Severe Depression, even Decades After Stopping. To say nothing of being nonfunctional for a decade or more, at a minimum. Just Don't. I lost Everything and don't know if I Can Even Go On. Consider this as possible the only Serious Warning, because You Will Never Be Told The Truth About These Drugs By Any Provider. The reason they won't warn you is because if they didn't prescribe this Poison is that They Would Have No Income If They Didn't!! Simple As That. If you want a future, don't take even one pill. Use Magnesium to effectively relieve anxiety.Take large doses of magnesium for anxiety it works for panic too. I used to have a life before these drugs.It is probably too late for me to rebuild what I lost, Virtually Everything I Ever Had. I will mourn everything I lost, including Myself, til the day I die. | It appears we can't hold any of them legally liable due to a Supreme Court decision regarding patients c. ?2011. | F | 66 | 0 days Can't reme 1X day | 11/27/2022 | 1 | Anxiety | While taking 2-3 times a week was slowly going into withdrawal. Drug works fine at quelling anxiety and insomnia at first, but as you go into withdrawal unknowingly those come back. Over time even that low dose causes me to become a zombie with dulled emotions. Now tapering off. Will never take again. | Just don't. It may seem like a lifesaver in the beginning but it will stab you in the back. Then when you try to get off be prepared for a stretch of insomnia and anxiety that are very unpleasant. The 18-50 hr half-life means that only taking 2-3 times a week it can build up in your system and over more than a few weeks, you're now where you can't just stop abruptly. Very dangerous med like ALL benzos. | F | 67 | 2 years 0.25-0.5 m 3X W | 1/15/2022 | 1 | Insomnia | Clonazepam has taken many people's lives. I know personally how many have committed suicide because of the undescribable torture that we go through when this poison turns paradoxical on us and we come off it. I am one of thousands of prescribed patients who has been going through hell on earth now for over 3 years | Evil poison! Benzodiazepines are going to be the next opioid crisis. | F | 57 | 20 years 0.5 1X day | 12/6/2021 | 1 | Anxiety | Awful dementia type feeling, zombie. Yes those who are itchy it causes that, maybe something in it drug eruption. If you do stop it, better off on valium. I feel this is another drug just handed out loosely. It's too strong for anxiety. We won't die people from anxiety ok.. just breath techniques... As I said valium better option just cross over. My penis shrunk too like other guy, messes with uranyl stuff to much. If you have epilepsy fine but anxiety c'mon... Try not just pop pills | Avoid it don't start..... Simple valium better. | M | 52 | 2 years 0.5 1X day | 11/30/2021 | 1 | Anxiety | Lethargy, dizziness and lightheaded, muscle aches, muscle weakness. Only took .5mg for two weeks and stopped. Not sure if it was withdrawal or leftover still in my body, but felt terrible for a week after I stopped. This is a awful drug and wouldn't recommend to anyone. | Prescribed to me to reduce anxiety in response to my nervous anxiety resulting from an event where I experienced heart palpitations. | M | 51 | 2 weeks 0.5 MG 1X day | 11/30/2021 | 1 | Severe Anxiety, Fear, Panic Attacks | This drug is a living hell to get off and can be abused, and is extremely addictive to some. I wish prayer worked so I can be set free from this medication and other things as well, but at lass, I shall reap what I have sowed. it works, but it comes with a great price for someone like myself. Sigh!!!! HELP! | I feel like I'm going into a semi psychosis when I'm off it for some weeks, let alone a month. Sigh!!! HELP!! John. | M | 34 | 10 years 6MG 3X day | 4/3/2021 | 1 | Insomnia | Very severe withdrawals | If u decide to get off this poison taper very slowly drs know nothing about the side effects | M | 66 | 17 years 0.5 | 5/28/2020 | 1 | prescribed to titrate off xanax | Turns me into a zombie. I sleep up to 12 hours nightly. Have little or no energy to get things done in daytime, evening. Can't get organized to accomplish tasks. | I was given this drug in a detox facility (a good one, client-centred) to get me off xanax which I'd been on since 1984 - I was 70 yrs. old and the College of Physicians and Surgeons where I live said all docs had to get their older patients off high doses of benzos. I was on 3.5 mg xanax daily. The idea is clonaz. has a much longer half-life and "they say" it is easier to get off of. Think heroin and methodone. We'll see. The only thing I like about it is it lasts longer than xanax (though it takes longer to kick in) so you're not going thru withdrawal several times daily! A considerable benefit, but the zombification is a total drag!!! PS - You shouldn't limit our gender choices to male and female! It's 2019, for crying out loud! | 72 | 2 years 0.5mg 3X day | 5/28/2019 | 1 | I was put on AD and depression got | Depersonalization, derealization, severe depression, emptiness, anxiety, severe insomnia, muscle weakness, loss of energy, suicidal thoughts, anhedonia, loss of emotions, pain, vertigo | When meds are used to treat side effects it looks like this: I was hospitalized for depression in 2007.(probably a side effect of contraceptive pills) They put me on antidepressants and gradually my depression got worse. Doctors told me that they had to find the right meds. Later I was put on clonazepam and I felt a bit better. Then it got worse again and my dose got higher. I completely believed I had treatment resistant depression. I was severely depressed for 10 years and didn't recognized it was side effects of my meds and I couldn't just quit taking clonazepam 'cause I couldn't bear anxiety. I've tried to taper two times unsuccessfully. Doctors didn't recognized side effects either and I've been treated for chronic depression. I'm tapering now, depression is relieved, anxiety and insomnia is horrific but generally I'm better. God bless all (mainly) long term users who are tapering. | F | 34 | 10 years 1mg | 5/5/2018 | 1 | Sleep | Significant withdrawal syndrome after only 3 months use. Been off for 6 months and still struggling | Should be illegal | M | 31 | 3 months 1 mg | 1/7/2018 | 1 | for sleep | Slept great but unfortunately one cannot detox from the med. Side effects are Terrible. 2 months and I still cannot function. Lose everything all the time and it's very precarious when I drive. I think I would be a safer driver after having a six pack. DO NOT START THIS DRUG. MY DR RECOMMENDED IT TOO. I CAN'T EVEN STAND UP FOR EXTENDED TIMES. the dizziness. Fatigue. Palpitations. Can't even work. Dr's ???? | M | 52 | 10 days 2 mg | 12/6/2017 | 1 | Dystonia | Dr cold turkeyed and severe withdrawal | F | 61 | 5 weeks .5 | 7/9/2017 | 1 | Ever since ive been taking this ive been constipated why | Constipation from this why | F | 57 | 2 years | 1/16/2017 | 1 | Anxiety | Massive hair loss and weight loss severe depression fatigue lost interest in life and all emotions and no appetite anorexia induced total body pain | WICKED frightening drug-completely ruined my life and all the while dr telling me it was non-addictive I lost over 21 pounds and now suffer painful anorexia and have been off for 5 months and ton of hair loss I look like a very sick person and feel lain every day trying to regain my weight hair and strength Don't Try This Drug | F | 46 | 1.5 years .5 1X day | 9/14/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | Clonazepam ruined my mother's life and absolutely cause dementia and Alzheimer's she is off it in as a new person but the damage it has done I could kill her doctor for what she has done telling me that 10 a day was just fine if that's what she needs to go to sleep I knew she was taking too many I asked about it all the time finally psychotic was led to the hospital where is psychiatrist said your mother has dementia caused by clonazepam. I took her off it cold turkey things were not that bad we are living a new life he's able to read the paper put on makeup wants to go to the movies wants to go out when she was a zombie for years | F | 80 | 10 years 7.5 | 7/5/2016 | 1 | Chronic anxiety disorder | Yes, this medication works. It works very well for chronic anxiety disorder and sudden onsets of severe panic attacks. Knowing what I know now, I wish with all my being it had never ever been prescribed to me, and without the absurd nonchalance dozens of practitioners have portrayed. I'm 32 and have been prescribed clonazopam for 14 years. Ive been in situations where my health insurance is in transition and I must go off the medication abruptly-- this is when I realized how deep I was. Weeks upon weeks of non stop physical, emotional, and psychological withdrawal effects that are like hell. Words cannot accurately describe just how awful it is. | This, again, has been my experience during withdrawal as a long term clonazopam patient. All skin, especially the face, becomes numb. Vision gets fuzzy and difficult to see clearly. Panic attacks become extremely exasperated, frequent and debilitating. Severe irritability. Worst of all: a terrifying disconnection between your mind and body; as if you're an onlooker watching and feeling this horrible thing happen to you, but not actually feeling connected to any of it-- that one is tough to explain. All of this... It can lasts months, maybe more. That's right. Not just some one week hump to overcome. After finding how awful the withdrawal is I've been attempting to ween very very slowly down from 3 2mg doses per day to eventually zero, hopefully. After six months of gradually decreases in dose I'm now at 2- 1mg doses per day and I'm not sure how or if I can go much less than that. No doctors I've had have been of any help. The ween down was my idea and the rate of it was also my idea based on experience. It sure would be nice to meet a doctor that truly had knowledge of this withdrawal syndrome and took it a bit more seriously. I am confident that the medication is no longer treating my anxiety disorder, but simply preventing withdrawal from the meds themselves. And there don't seem to be any good alternatives. It's a long road ahead, please think it over and over with someone knowledgeable before being so quick to embrace this miracle drug. The truth is that most of us ac | F | 32 | 10 years 6 mg/ day | 6/10/2016 |
CLONAZEPAM (CLONAZEPAM): Clonazepam is used to prevent and control seizures. This medication is known as an anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drug. It is also used to treat panic attacks. Clonazepam works by calming your brain and nerves. It belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines. FDA Approval Date: 1996-09-10 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)