CLONAZEPAM Reviews (CLONAZEPAM)

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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)

  

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 1  [email protected] I had taken CLONAZEPAM for a few years..noticed I had to take naps during the day. One day 'fell asleep at the wheel' during trafic time..Did not hit a car nor was I hit. Adoctor told me the Clonazepam buildsu[ in your si=ystem the older you get..so i quit 'cold turkey'. BIG MISTAKE. I didn't sleep 'at all' for 1 1/2 months. I was miserable! it finally wore off after I started taking Temazepam. With Clonazepam 1mg I was getting no more than 3 hrs sleep. With Temazapam, I get approx 5 hours sleep...BUT I am beginning to get sleepy again during the day. Could the Clonazepam resodial be kicking back in again? Which is the worst as far as side affectsl..Clonazepam or Tenazepam? F 79 50 years
8/26/2008
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 5  Panic attacks Clonazepam can make you a little bit sleepy but anything is better than suffering panic attacks hour after hour after hour. My doctor put me on 6 mg a day I weighed myself down to two and added an antidepressant together they work okay now I have a new Doctor who wants to completely take me awkwardness of him it's ridiculous. She says I can cause dementia well I would rather have dimension than experience panic attacks everyday with dementia you don't know what's going on with your body For me it did the job it made me functional in my life I wouldn't have been functional and able to work without it. I believe panic disorder is caused from a chemical imbalance I saw therapist they told me there was nothing wrong with me F 62 40 years
2mg 2X day
2/1/2021
 5  PTSD Tired sometimes M 56 30 years
4mg 1X day
9/29/2010
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 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
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 5  Balance Issues/Mild Panic Attacks Worked great for me. I started having balance issues caused by inner ear nerve damage. The mixed signals also caused mild panic attacks. Took a couple of years to find this but it immediatly worked and improved my quality of life. I've since started a successful business and raised 2 children. These things would not have been possible without this drug! It is addictive. If I run out by accident I don't feel right and can't wait to refill my prescription. I have not built up any tolerance unlike other people on this board. I have taken 1mg every morning for the last 24 years. I'm sure that I will have to take it for the rest of my life though. M 53 24 years
1mg 1X day
7/19/2010
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 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
 4  anxiety,panic disorders and depress Well clonazepam did help me. Till one day a doctor said that it was time to detox. So I went not knowing any better. I had no idea how my life was going to change, for the worst. The detox center had me go cold turkey and so three days later all hell broke loose. When i say all hell, I literally mean it. The next 2yrs were pure HELL. I was in and out of hopitals the situation got so bad, I had rather someone take my legs off as long as I was better. I am traumatized from the hell I had to live. Till this day when I talk about I still cry like a baby. So plz if u decide to come off any benzos, do it in a way that u feel comfortable. First talk to ur Dr. and make sure its done very slowly. Plz I just dont want anyone else to go through what I went through! Also remember most of these Dr.s are overworked and dont care, so real quick they'll wright a prescription for benzo's. Always ask all questions u might have. THIS IS UR LIFE, LIVE IT! F 40 21 years
1mg 2X day
7/23/2012
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 5  panic attacks and anxiety none It makes me feel calm and takes away the head pressure. F 61 20 years
1 mg 3X day
7/28/2015
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 4  RLS 0.5 mg/day with really very few side affects. Perhaps a lowering of libido, but this is not conclusively caused by the Clonazepam. Allows me to function whereas I previously was unable to cope with the lack of sleep caused by RLS. I sometimes take 1.0 mg/day (before bedtime) if the RLS is bad. I feel drowsy and a little disorientated in the morning after taking the higher dose, but this goes within a short time after waking. Have been taking Clonazepam for 20 years and haven't noticed a need to increase the dosage. I have been quite regimented with this aspect however and deliberately control the dose. If I don't take Conazepam, then I cannot sleep (an obvious chemical dependence). I feel this is a small price to pay for a greatly enhanced quality of life. I dont think it stops or cures the RLS. Rather I think it allows me to get into a heavy enough sleep to not be disturbed by the RLS. M 56 20 years
1/5/2010
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 3  anxiety and panic attacks satisfied at the beginning. only needed it once in a while but now after a few years racing heart at night , lots of aches and pains although they say i have a thing called fibromyalgia .so cant tell if the pain is worse when i try to cut down because of the withdrawal or the fibro it sure helped at the beginningand still does but i need to take more as my body is getting used to it . its going to be hell as it also affects your nervous system so good luck to all of us M 71 20 years
4/6/2009
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 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
 5  sleepwalking none. took to stop sleepwalking which was getting to be dangerous - i hurt myself after a fall while sleepwalking 17 years at 1.5 mg/day with no loss of effect M 57 17 years
8/28/2008
 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
 4  Panic/anxiety/depression/bipolar 2 None really Clonazepam works for my panic attacks/anxiety and helps me to sleep. If I lose sleep I become hypomanic. I have had GAD since I was a child and am now 71 years old. I stopped drinking alcohol 24 years ago, since it was not a medication, and it only made my mental disorder worse. I can't take any antidepressants beyond beginning doses because they induce hypomania. So I take the clonazepam when I have episodes that bring me extreme panic or anxiety, or when my insomnia gets worse. Typically I take between three quarters and one and a half milligrams at night only for sleep. When my panic or anxiety kicks up because of situational things, I am increased to a total of 2 1/2 mg per day. At present I am on that protocol. It has been the first time in almost 5 years that I have needed to take regular clonazepam during the day to break up the anxiety, panic part of my disorder. While I don't like taking it, it is the only thing that helps me. If I tried to cut back to soon the episode only gets worse. Normally, I take only the bedtime dose. From time to time the psychiatrist is in support of my tapering, which I have to do very slowly. Then I may get down to 1 mg at night for several months. Many people here talk about the severe withdrawal reactions. In my case the doctor and I both agree, that when I get down too low, it is not withdrawal, but my primary bipolar to that kicks in , which includes panic anxiety insomnia and depression. Right now, I seem to have episode F 16 years
1-1&½ 1X day
1/22/2014
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 5  Anxiety Addicted to it. Almost completely free from anxiety, but addicted to it. But have never needed to raise the dosage in 15 years. M 37 15 years
4 mg 1X day
1/5/2018
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 4  Seizures, severe anxiety Where would I start? I'm screwed. I've been on this medicine for 15+ plus years. My doctor died, coming off cold turkey wtf I've had no other choice, and no other drs in my county will prescribe a Benzo these days apparently. I didn't anticipate this, at all and I'm not okay, I know I'm not. Amid covid19 I'm immunocompromised, I'm sick af trying to DT myself off this rx- about to be homeless at months end, YAAA just in time for my 50th birthday. Oh yaaaa. I still feel like I'm dying and I don't have ANYONE to advise, guide, prescribe or counsel- I have nothing and no one. Been a month now. These fkn providers don't gaf about my well being. Telling me THEY CAN'T prescribe a benzo, and that's a lie. They CAN but they don't want to. Let me Tell ya- the concerns and actual outcome of being on Klonopin are far safer and better than the alternative of not having it at all. The medical community hates benzodiazepines. They dgaf about ppl who take them either. I've heard this class 4 controlled medicine is About to be banned. Surely NOT. If that happens omg umm get ready ppl Bc then it's going to get way serious. As if it could be any more serious than it is now. I'm trying not to but I am dying here ... and I cannot believe no one gaf. Dayyyum that's a slap in the face. WTAF F 49 15 years
2x per day
5/16/2020
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 1  Generalized Anxiety Disorder none to start...great drug at first, horror in disguise I was given .5 mg a day to start, over 15 yrs that has gone up and down. I was diagnosed with CFS. I DID NOT know it was addictive when given to me. I was simply told, I would be on it the rest of my life. I tried after 7 yrs and 2 Drs later to just go without it. BAD IDEA. I can give you day to day, withdrawal as I have done it so many times now, I can't count. 1st day, really no change, maybe a headache, thoughts: I can do this. 2nd day, restless, headache, a little weird feeling when I stand up, thoughts: I can do this. 3rd day, (where I am at right now, going off again because moved to diff state and it is a controlled substance here and Drs will not prescribe it) Bad headache, light hurts my eyes, I am agitated, panicky, anxious, thoughts: I can't do this much longer. 4th day, tomorrow, which just makes the anxiety worse to think of, I will have a major light problem with my eyes, everything will look to "shiny" and bright, what I have termed 'metal mouth' will start, the taste in my mouth like I have been sucking on metal. Thoughts: God help me. Day 5, I will have metal mouth full blown, salivate excessively, my eyes will not allow me to see anything normally, as it should be, panic attacks are constant, anxiety levels will skyrocket. By day 7 I will not sleep, urinate excessively and have diarrhea. After that, it only gets worse. F 44 15 years
1mg 1X day
3/2/2011
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 1  Chronic Anxiety Zombie, Zombie! Can't focus. Can't sleep, can sleep. Can't think right, can think. Weakness. Sex is unheard of here. Who knows what else. I've been on this drug for 15 years. At the start it was fine, but then in a short time I felt that I would die if it was not by my side. I continued to need more and more. Up to 10 mg a day. It finally stopped working for me because my body became almost resistant to it. I finally ended up drinking to get the same effect. Needless to say, that ruined my life at the time. Once I figured out how to deal with my fears, social problems,and way of thinking in general,that is the only way I could get off this stuff. BE VERY CAUTIOUS! IT RUINED MY LIFE FOR A LONG TIME. GET THE RIGHT DOCTOR! IF YOU HAVE AN ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY... TELL THEM! Go see a Psychologist first. If your Psychiatrist was like mine then they will keep feeding it to you. Please be so very careful. M 38 15 years
11/7/2006
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 3  insomnia - tardive dyskensia hang-over affect next day. tired. perhaps depressed ( it is a central nervous system depressant !). digestive problems. blunts emotions. vision problems. memory problems. some coordination problems. EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE !! REPEAT -- EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE !!.. May lead to alzeimers and brain malfunctions.. and definite memory problems.... Clonazapam is one of the most addictive drugs on the planet.. it and xanax... Do not start on it !! .. much more addictive than heroin !.. 20 times more addictive and powerful than valium..very short half life... do not take this drug or xanax..!!! go to www.non-benzodiazepines.org.uk for warnings !!!!! Read the book Toxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin... almost impossible to ween off... Klonipin (clonazapam) is extremely addictive and TOXIC!.. please contact me if you want to know the TRUTH about psychiatric drugs. M 57 14 years
7/10/2009
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 1  I was so drugged I don't remember! Everything on the side effects list "plus" many that are mentioned in other comments on this site. Clonazepam is horrendous. It has taken me almost 3 years to decrease from 3mg to .5mg.. I am trying to get by on .25 and can't seem to totally discontinue. The diagnoses as found in my medical records is: OCD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, MPD, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Mixed State (psychiatry), Dysphoric Manic State, Dissociative Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Delusional Disorder, Paranoia Disorder, Major Affective Disorder, Depression with Psychosis plus, Psychomotor Retardation. Because of the prescribed drugs, I developed very difficult medical issues such as Gerd, Sleep Apnea, and Incontinence. The FDA needs to be aware of comments made on Ask a Patient, perhaps people could get the help they need instead of being thrown into the legal drug system. Good news: although drugged, I awakened in mid 2007 with a clear mind, researched the drugs, began my decent and am alive once more. I reluctantly take one medication, a .25 clonazepam and it is still horrendous and very controlling. I want to be totally free of clonazepam, life has passed me by (over 30 years gone). I have color in my life once more, and I love living. Any fear I currently experience is directed at Psychiatrists and the power given them by the court system in America (forced drugging and ECT or Electroconvulsive Therapy) F 69 14 years
Up to 3mg 1X day
7/5/2011
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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)

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