CLONAZEPAM Reviews (CLONAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.3 (348 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CLONAZEPAM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CLONAZEPAM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | panic attacks | At first my doctor put me on .05 mg 2 times a day. I have to tell you it made me feel better and free of panic attacks. Life was good! After a year. I told my doctor, I didn’t want to depend on this the rest of my life. So I went down to 1 tablet a day. Than 6 months after that, I went to ½ of .05 mg a day. Than I went to 1/4 of the tablet. It took me 2 years of 1/4 of a day to taper off. During this time frame, I experience these systems. Tired, dizziness, fatigue, blurred vision, memory loss at times, lower leg cramps and lower body sweats at night. | Its been 3 weeks I’ve been free of this drug CLONAZEPAM and feeling good again. How ever during these past weeks. The first weeks was dealing with migrans and sensitive to bright light. I would have to rest and sleep in a dark room with no noise. Thank god, I took a 2 week vacation. Because it would of been very difficult to function in the work place. | F | 44 | 4 years | 7/14/2008 | 4 | Social anxiety / Fear of Flying | Sleepiness, Ability to have a pleasant and meaningful conversations with high ranking cohorts. | This has (for better or worse) become the work-horse. At 1 to 1.5mg per day, the habituation is minimal, sleep is great, boardroom meetings are a breeze and coast-to-coast flights are are but a dream (plane careening to Earth in a blaze...hey that's great...) I've not experienced the ramping in dosage, but will beware. Otherwise, it's all clowns and candycorn. | M | 44 | 4 years | 3/5/2008 | 3 | anxiety/panic/some ocd | My ability to focus/remember things is very impaired. It's frightening. B.S. Degree/attended law school when younger...no problem with memory. Now, I forget constantly about what I was doing when I enter a different room or if my husband talks to me. I don't know what to do. | I take Effexor in addition to the clonozepam. I wonder if my memory is made worse because of both drugs. Tapering off either of them has not been possible. | F | 42 | 4 years | 11/26/2007 | 2 | MdDS | Clumsiness,headaches, pressure on body | Please don't take this med if you absolutely don't have to. It is so very hard to get off of it. And will stop working for you just at different times. | M | 50 | 4 years | 2/18/2008 | 1 | PTSD | Major Panics & heart beating so fast in the mornings, 12-14 hrs after taking it at nite. I realized later that it was the w/drawels of the nite before. My Dr at the time didnt realized this so gave me zyprexa in the morning & it made me gain alot of weight!!! | Hell getting off this. Many nites of hallucinations, shadowy figures coming at me. Objects on walls turning into scary evil faces looking at me., being EXTREMELY TERRIFIED GOING TO SLEEP, tingling in my arms & up to my face and head---but my regular Dr said it was just anxiety, not Stroke symptoms. I thought they were Stroke symptoms. No? hmmm, what else? Waking more than once in the nite w/ my heart beat rate at 140 beats per minute, (was the highest that I clocked anyway)..., The list is too long, I will have to come back....Feel Free to email. NOW I am the Queen of Klonipin. (Too bad I was trusting & unknowing of the Drs. & Klon before. Alot of hell) | F | 44 | 3.5 years .5 a nite 1X day | 7/19/2011 | 5 | gad,soc anx,panic disorder&depress | makes me sleepy | this is the only med that has ever worked on my social anxiety-making me able to go into the world. it beats my panic disorder w/agoraphobia. this is a wondrous drug...as long as you don't abuse it. that is bad news. | F | 40 | 3 years .5mg 3X day | 4/11/2011 | 5 | insomnia, possible bi-polar | IMPORTANT: This medication will sometimes, often-times take you into a deep sleep where you may have very vivid dreams; for me, this happens rarely, but are very realistic. | IMPORTANT: reports of addiction may be true. I have found that I can choose one or two tablets to sleep, and my choice is usually correct. I have tried coming off Clonazepam several times and what I find is that I am not "addicted" to them, but return to the exact, same situation I had before starting...racing mind, inability to stop having "conversations" over and over, mentally "re-doing" all my mistakes and how I should have done different. So, in a way, I am "addicted" in that I cannot sleep without them, but I have no withdrawal symptoms as others have listed here. NOTE: I have tried taking them in the day for continued "stabilization" and find they make me very drowsy; I would caution those prescribed Clonazepam for daytime use to be aware of drowsiness. As to the bi-polar issue, I am much less volatile than before BUT I do not take any other medication. It is possible that I could be more "normal" with other medication included, but, overall, I am satisfied with my personality. It is, for me, Less Medication Is Better Medication. Hope this helped someone. | M | 60 | 3 years 1 mg 2X day | 12/26/2010 | 5 | RLS | restless legs that interfere with sleep / with very few exceptions Clonazepam has helped me get to sleep and stay asleep | F | 68 | 3 years | 11/27/2006 | 5 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | None really. Feel great actually. | I've have issues w/ GAD/depression and chronic insomnia since age 19. I have tried the whole gamut of Psych Drugs: Lexapro, Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor, etc... All those SSRIs work great for a short period of time, then all you have is side effects (especially the sexual SE's) and feeling tired all the time. Finally after years and years my shrink put me on 0.5mg clonazepam daily, to be divided into 1/2 tab dosing twice daily. I actually just take it once daily, after work, and have a slightly addictive personality/history--yet I've never taken more than the prescribed dose in taking it for 3 years. Nor ever had to raise the dose. I do take w/ 300mgXL wellbutrin daily. It's really mellowed out my anxiety, which was crippling; I'm actually in a functioning monogamous relationship for the first time in my life. The thought of being dependent on a drug for life sucks. But the thought of driving yourself insane with anxiety is even worse I think. I really don't feel high on the drug an | M | 30 | 3 years | 4/3/2008 | 5 | Anxiety at work | Very slight loss of libido, sleepiness within 15 minutes but gone after 30 mins. Other than that, nothing to report. | This drug came to me at a time when I thought I might need to quit my job and career due to excessive stress and anxiety. I had never had this anxiety before, but one day it was just there and it continued to get worse every day. Clonazapam saved my career and likely my life. I take .5mg (or half) pills as needed when i'm working. Maybe 7 or 8 times a week when I'm working, which is about every other week. When i am off, I don't touch the stuff. This works very well for me. Good luck to you all! | M | 32 | 3 years | 10/18/2007 | 5 | For sleep | Vivid, realistic and very "busy" dreams. Otherwise, none I know of. | I also take Cymbalta for neuropathy, which can have similar side effects. I have had some weight gain and loss of sexual desire, but either drug could cause that. Ambien didn't work for me at all, but the Clonazepam is wonderful for getting a good night's sleep. I've taken the same .25 dose nightly for 3 years with no need for increase. | F | 56 | 3 years | 2/13/2007 | 5 | Depression, anxiety, insomnia. | No side effects at all. | The only problem with taking my .5 mg 3x/day of Clonazepam is when I run out when waiting too long to get to the dr's office. There is an obvious addictive factor to it. I experience great anxiety and panic attacks if I go off it cold turkey like that. By the 5th day I am totally desperate! I don't like that. I do like it better than Ativan or Xanax. It does help me fall asleep when taken with my 12.5 mg Ambien. I also take 75 mg/day of Effexor XR and find that my depression, anxiety, and insomnia are kept at a minimum. I do NOT like being so dependent on Clonazepam but it's better than feeling panicky and anxious 24/7. FYI-recently tried Seroquel for insomnia instead at 150 mg/day. A nightmare-weight gain-awful drug!! | F | 43 | 3 years | 1/15/2010 | 5 | Anxiety, PTSD, Insomnia | I've not experienced any negative side effects while taking the drug it is difficult to stop taking | Clonazepam has essentially cured my insomnia (along with trazodone)and has made dealing with PTSD and anxiety a lot easier. I took .5 mg 1x a day for about 2 yrs (took 1 extra per day during extreme times)then about a year ago I lowered the dose to .25 mg 1x per day with no problem. My new doctor wants to get me off the clonazepam and she suggested I take the pill only every other day but so far that has not been doable for me, I don't sleep w/o it and the next day I can't really function. The clonazepam also helps with pain associated with a herniated disc in my neck and loss of disc in spine, I do not take any other drugs for pain nor anything else. | F | 57 | 3 years .25 mg 1X day | 3/26/2014 | 5 | Anxiety Attacks | First time taking it a little lightheaded, sleepiness but goes away once on it for a while. | It's a miracle medication for me. Totally relaxes my speedy mind. I can actually concentrate better since it melts your stress away. I take it as needed now so it works better when I do need it. It's better then Xanax since it lasts longer but it takes a bit longer to kick in. Usually 15 minutes your brain is more at ease. I feel like I may need this for the rest of my life living in this crazy stressful world. It is the best anti-anxiety medication!!! I also tried Buspar and that stuff made me feel like I was losing my mind and made anxiety much much worse and gave me a speedy feeling with rapid heart beat. Stay far away from Buspar! Not sure why doctors prescribe all it does is the opposite of what its supposed to be for... | M | 41 | 3 years 1mg 2X day | 11/15/2017 | 5 | Anxiety | None | If this medication did not have addictive qualities, I would take one every day. I have not experienced any side effects. This medication calms my nervous system without making me depressed. | M | 56 | 3 years 0.5 1X AN | 5/12/2021 | 4 | Severe social anxiety | No energy to do anything. | No social anxiety. Chilled and relaxed state of mind. Confident to go anywhere and do anything. | M | 35 | 3 years 2mg | 6/7/2020 | 4 | anxiety, panic disorder | Drowsiness, able to cope better with high stress job, sleeping well, able to breathe better, bad moods if I missed a dose (addiction) | I've tried several times to just totally get off this medicine, but the withdrawals were terrible. I couldn't even think or work. I am tired of taking the medicine. This drug is something that really just covers up your problems. So what I am doing is solving my problems and tapering off the medicine and exercising. It's working but it's going to take I figure around 6 months to get totally off. But in the end it will be worth it---no more medicine to take everyday yeah:) | F | 38 | 3 years | 8/7/2007 | 4 | anxiety, panic disorder | sleepiness, drowsiness and besides that, big time short-term memory loss. | The memory loss was the most concerning. I would forget entire events and days that had happened while I was taking it daily. If I take it only as needed, this doesn't happen so much. If I ever have a week where I take it every day, I barely remember any of the week. | F | 25 | 3 years | 11/11/2007 | 4 | insomnia | Groginess next morning and evening. Hard to stay awake early in night before going to bed or taking nightly dose. Also, definite rebound insomnia when you stop taking it. | Provides decent sleep, better than no sleep. | M | 52 | 3 years | 9/29/2005 | 3 | To control facial sweating while ea | everything everyone else says plus I have noticed light hair growth on the shaft of my penus since taking it. The hair only grows when I'm taking klonopin and stops when I quit. Classified as "Unwanted hair growth" | M | 27 | 3 years | 2/9/2006 |