KLONOPIN Reviews (CLONAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.3 (1073 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare KLONOPIN with similar:
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| 1 | Panic and anxiety | When I first started it; I thought it was a miracle, but it is NOT!!! I started taking this dope in 2003 and I'm now about done with tapering it! It has not been fun or anything I want to be on again. I took it like the doctor prescribed, too. I never abused it nor did I ask for the withdrawal symptoms' I have. It's horrible. The doctor just told me to keep upping the dose. I hit tolerance. The sad thing is everyone will eventually hit tolerance. It's no Miracle drug by far! | I took this dope for eight years. I never knew I was dependent on it while on it. I hit tolerance and once that happens after so long, well, the outcome is terrible so far. I have had many withdrawal symptoms. I don't have all day to write them, but here goes what I do have:- More Anxiety than before, fear, terror, memory loss, bad concentration, irritable, derealization, depression, low self esteem, jerks, insomnia, and so many more. I can't even explain the feeling of the withdrawal. I hope no one has to go through what millions of us do coming off this dope. I think it should be banned from shelves, but as long as people seek a quick fix to their 'Anxiety' .. sadly, there will be a hard lesson and a quick end. Stevie Nicks came off this dope and said it was hell on earth and it is. | M | 32 | 8 years 1mg 3X day | 12/18/2011 | 1 | Convulsions | depression, suicidal thoughts | This drug made me an emotional wreck. I became deeply depressed and had crying spells all the time. I am a very well put together person that takes pride in my appearance. While on this drug there were days I didn't even bother brushing my hair before going to work. Every time i crossed the street the thought ran through my head to jump in front of a car. And don't even think about having one drink while on this med (i know it says not to drink but me being young and dumb, didn't think one drink would hurt) I had one mixed drink and became a crazy person. Never again. It makes you suicidally depressed and you can't even have one drink without turning into a psycho. No thanks. | F | 26 | 2 weeks 1X day | 12/10/2011 | 4 | Anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks | Sedation (but sometimes that's a good thing) | I am well aware that this is an addictive drug. I used to want to stop taking it. I have flushed entire bottles down the toilet because I was so scared I was dependent on it and did not want to be. Everytime I did that I had rebound anxiety so bad that I wanted to die. Once I ended up in the psychiatric hospital after one of these episodes (but I was also going through an extremely difficult marriage problem). However, at this point I don't care if I have to take it for the rest of my life. Severe anxiety is a miserable experience, as is chronic insomnia. Klonopin helps with both of these. It doesn't make me groggy in the morning, it doesn't cause weight gain...it doesn't seem to have many downfalls while on it, but stopping it is no picnic - that's putting it lightly. | F | 34 | 2 years 1mg 2X day | 12/9/2011 | 5 | OCD intrusive thoughts, gad | I'm in the uk and it's called clonazepam here. Was prescribed by a psychartrist as it's not a typical benzo a gp would prescribe. had a breakdown in feb after discontinuing Prozac after 4 years ( cold turkey), in the midst of withdrawal I thought I was losing my mind and nothing would calm me down least of all the 2mg of diazepam they gave me. the psychatrist was part of the crisis team and ordered me to take 0.5 three times daily as it would build up better in my bloodstream. The relief was unbelievable...I remember lying in bed crying and thinking life was over and within 30 minutes of taking it I was saying I could take my girls to their ballet class! I've cut down and then gone back up as i've had lots of ssri changes this year. now take 0.5 x2 and keeps me calm. Side effects: headache, slightly euphoric feeling, memory not great. Worth it though. Worst side effect is not really knowing if it's the ssri working or the clonazepam keeping u stable? good med, don't abuse it. | F | 29 | 9 months 0.5 x2 | 12/6/2011 | 5 | panic attacks | none | i take .5 mg to go to work as a waitress and don't get tired. but if i have a bad situation in life and get stay asleep with things running through my mind, then i take 1 mg to get back to sleep | F | 47 | .5 1X day | 12/4/2011 | 5 | Anxiety/Insomnia | I have only experienced mild daytime drowsiness. Overall this is a fantastic medicine that greatly helps with anxiety. | F | 20 | 3 years .5mg | 12/3/2011 | 4 | Anxiety | made me very tired thats about it | i tried this this before xanax which i like xanax much better but klonopin still worked pretty good. the down side to xanax is it wears off alot faster. | M | 19 | 4 months .5 2X day | 11/29/2011 | 1 | Sleep | Destroyed my short-term memory and cognition while I was on it. It was like being drunk all the time. | The withdrawal from ceasing to take it has been debilitating and lengthy. I have been in withdrawal for seven months and counting. No sleep, permanent brain fog, and heart palpitations are among the withdrawal symptoms, but these are preferable to continuing to take it. | M | 20 | 2 years 2mg 1X day | 11/27/2011 | 5 | Chronic Insomnia | Very effective with no tolerance after 20 years of use. Have withdrawn from it twice for periods up to 4 months to see if I still needed it, without any major problems other than delayed sleep onset. I did need it, as alternatives I tried did not work for me. | Sounds like there is a lot of variability in how people react to this, which is not unusual. I have worked in drug development in psychiatry for nearly 40 years. As the old saying goes "One man's drug is another man's poison." Don't start or stop this drug without ongoing close medical supervision. It is an anticonvulsant (primary indication) and can't be stopped abruptly. | M | 63 | 21 years 1.5 1X day | 11/26/2011 | 4 | anxiety | M | 28 | 10 days 1 | 11/25/2011 | 5 | panickattacks | It wrks gud my dad takes it to but his dose is stronger he told me if i start to have an attack chew it up it gets in ur sytem faster unstead of waiting min to kick in. Pill 2 Powder. | F | 32 | 1 months 1mg | 11/19/2011 | 3 | muscle relaxant, anxiety reduction | I was on this drug for sleep .25 at bedtime along with 300 mg Neurontin. Then, started taking 4-5 times per day (.25 each time) for chronic muscle spasm/pain which helped. It does work great for anxiety and is the only muscle relaxant that works for me. However, after a few months you get tolerant and then need a boost to get any benefits, yet are stuck with the side effects: daytime drowsiness that can make driving dangerous, memory and cognitive impairment. As others have said, it is hell to get off. You need to paper gradually over a period of months and then may suffer for another 6 months or more with insomnia, restless legs like symtoms, etc. | Take this only for 1-2 weeks at a time for a stressful period or 1-2 times per week on an ongoing basis. BTW- Lunesta is fantastic for sleep. My memory and cognition got much sharper after getting off this and not using too much. | M | 55 | 12 years .25 mg 2X W | 11/13/2011 | 1 | anti-convulsant post surgery | Auditory/Visual Hallucinations, GI Upset, Unable to gain weight, panic attacks, tremors, leg muscles spasm and lock in contraction, severe rapid mood changes, fatigue, weakness, depression, and excessive bruising. Almost forgot the elevation in my kidney and liver enzymes found during my many different hospital stays, fyi I am 26 years old | DO NOT EVER TAKE THIS MEDICATION IT ONLY WORSEN'S THE CONDITION DOWN THE ROAD. It was not my choice to be on this medication, they say it was only thing that brought me out of status epilepticus post lumbar surgery. I am in the weaning process now and its hell but all I can do is look to the brighter future and in knowing I will be able to take care of 3yr old little angel for longer than me or anyone else thought possible. | F | 26 | 2 years 1mg 3X day | 11/8/2011 | 5 | Chronic Anxiety and Panic Attacks | I do not have any side effects with Klonopins, I do have side effects with every anti-depressant that I have tried to take. I have tried 9 different anti-depressants from Amitriptyline, Clexa, Cymbalta, and many others. Doctors try to shove them down your throat even though you are not depressed just have anxiety. | I am happy with Klonopins. I have not had any more panic attacks and it comes down my anxiety, It doesn't completely take it away which is good because I do not feel numb to the world. It has not affected my memory and I know this because I am in college. I have not forgotten a thing that I have learned. I thank god everyday that I do not feel like I am having a heart attack, cannot sleep, and can leave my house. | F | 32 | 3 years 1mg 3X day | 11/6/2011 | 1 | PTSD and severe anxiety | Sleep disruptions, distorted reality, extreme fixation on negative stuff around me, increased blood pressure, fear of going to sleep, not wanting to get out of bed in the morning, severe, crippling depression. | I'm back on the poison after my third attempt to go off. I lasted nearly six weeks this time, the longest ever. I became so exhausted and psychotic I had to go to the ER. My primary care BEGGED my shrink to put me back on. I've been on the crap (1 mg per day) for nearly 20 years). and his six-week taper seemed to be going fine, until it ended. I fell apart, and the sensations were (and still are) a living hell. Imagine being able to see through your eyelids. Imagine waking seizures. One night I was nearly asleep and I saw a light through the window and actually SAW a UFO and aliens outside. It was actually just a motion-detector light over the shed. I'm marginally better back on the stuff, but hate myself for not being able to be off it. Add to this the fact that when I was hospitalized right after the taper-down (for psychoses), it was discovered I had head lice! Now I am constantly in fear that they will come back, and can't stop itching. Constant checks by my husband come up clean, but I don't think I'll every get over the phobia. DO NOT TAKE BENZOS AT ALL IF YOU CAN AVOID IT. The detox, especially from Klonopin, is a living hell. | F | 56 | 15 days .25 daily 3X day | 11/6/2011 | 4 | Extreme Anxiety | Relaxation. | I've been prescribed Klonopin for over a year. I take it once a week, sometimes twice. This pill wipes out your anxiety. Sounds great, right? This is how people get hooked on taking it every day. It's great to have something like this during those unbearable anxious moments, but it is very wise to take an antidepressant that keeps your general anxiety at bay. Once you find one that works for you (mine is Celexa), your anxiety overall goes down, and you learn how to recognize and better deal with anxious situations. Of course, Klonopin is there if the anxiety is out-of-this-world, but that seldom happens now. Also..I wonder why there are 4 ratings on October 29 that all give Klonopin a "1" rating. Hmmmm. | M | 21 | 14 months 0.5 mg 1X AN | 11/5/2011 | 1 | Anxiety,muscle spasms, indomonia | Sometimes does nothing. Othertimes it makes me drowsy in a bad way. The worst thing I ever experienced is when tried to stop it bc wasn' t doing anything but reducing spasms and occasional saevete anxiety or body anxiety. I went off it for 6 months bc I had no choice. I had felt every imaginable hell through disgnosed mefical conditions and undiagnosed. If you wan't to feel utterly and completely out of your mind from uncontrollable mind and bofy impulses that never stop, only subsife snf lose control of every part of your mind and bofy then go on this drug and then go off it. It has no mental benefits but temporarily slowing down anxiety caused by other meds, and muscle spasms thst are severe. But 2 months eithout it I slept a total of 3 days. I paced yo try and distract the incomprehensible unstoppable psychotic and body affects for 3 weeks. I Would have killed myself if if i had a gone . 6 months later I was always alert but couldn't think snd lost all emotion,feeling and thought. p | See abov | M | 40 | 4 years 2mg/day 2X day | 10/31/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | This drug is nothing short of DEMONIC. For those who take this drug occasionally, good for you. For those who have taken it long term and think it's a wonderful solution to your problems, pray that you never have to stop taking it. This drug can takes YEARS to recover from after long term use. I have had 18 months of head pressure, extreme fatigue, tinnitus, IBS, tremors, electric shock sensations, heart palpitations, burning skin, muscle twitches, and more - and that was after a slow taper! How this drug is even legal is baffling to me. My God have mercy on those who have been chained to this drug and don't even know it. | M | 39 | 1 years .5 1X day | 10/29/2011 | 1 | anxiety brought on by ativan wd | For about 2 weeks it helped the anxiety problems I was having. Soon after all the symptoms got worse and more frequent. the doctor I was seeing told me it was withdrawal and to take more. At that time I didn't know about the addictive nature of these drugs but I still didn't want to take more. I continued to have worse and worse symptoms. I never had any of these symptoms before I was given ativan for labrynthitis, which it was later found I never had. I was given a multitude of drugs to try that hard horrible side effects. My pch doc thought my symptoms were more biologic and sent me for more tests, hormones, thyroid, vitamin levels. All came back normal. He sort of had the right idea, but was certainly down the wrong road. It wasn't until after many more tests and a new doctor and my own research that it was determined that the K was causing all my problems. | While many people can stop taking these meds with few problems, there are still many that have severe withdrawal effects. I am one of these people. Even the psyc doc finally admitted to me that there are some that have real problems discontinuing these drugs. My new doc crossed me over to valium and I tapered from that. I am almost 5 months away from benzos and still suffering with symptoms daily. NEVER TAKE A BENZO | F | 61 | 2 years .25 2X day | 10/29/2011 | 1 | anxiety/IBS | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!! It is evil-incarnate. I am tapering off. Nearly every system in my body is affected. I have massive muscle pain/ weakness, anger, rage, insomnia, major GI problems, headache, obsession, noise sensitivity, light sensitivity, sensitivity, agoraphobia, increased adrenaline, anxiety, restless legs, akithesia, agitation... I believe it stopped working for me more than a decade ago and is the reason I had to start an antidepressant, which I quit 2.5 years ago with difficulty, but nothing compared to quitting Klonopin. I believe it caused a lot of problems over the years. Finally realized the problem and am going to be off this poison soon. | Do not take this drug. If you do, beware interdose withdrawal, tolerance and withdrawal from this medication. Do not take for more than 2 weeks. Do not cold-turkey. You must taper slowly off this. I am currently tapering off at 5% per week and it is the single worst experience in my life. | F | 46 | 20 years 0-1.25mg 1X day | 10/29/2011 |