KLONOPIN Reviews (CLONAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.3 (1073 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare KLONOPIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR KLONOPIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Panic and anxiety | All the fears I had in the past before Klonopin coming back 10X stronger. Depression, derealization, more anxiety, crying spells, Bipolar effects, setbacks, shaking, Insomnia, lack of motivation, almost every symptom! Upon withdrawal and taper! | I have nothing good to say about it. It may help at first, but you will need to keep increasing the dose. I don't care what anyone says, YOU WILL HAVE TO! It may take a while, but you will hit tolerance, and it will be time to come down, the party will crash and you will be left in carnage. I have no interest how others see this DRUG because I already know! If you're on it, switch to valium 1mg of Klonopin =20mg of valium, stabilize and start tapering, once you start tapering, keep going, you will feel like hell, but the only way to get your life back is to taper! And heal! This medication is mind rot IMO. 5 years ago I would have rated it a 5, not anymore! Good luck and God bless those who are on it, and WILL have to come off because the drug will lose its effect. | M | 31 | 8 years 2.5 1X day | 3/12/2011 | 2 | Anxiety, insomnia | Depression, suicidal thoughts, exhaustion, joint pain, irritability | I initially started taking this medication to help with insomnia and anxiety issues. Within a month or so I was in a full on depression. I stopped taking the medication, because I was exhausted and immediately noticed a change in my mood, joints, and level of energy. I am currently trying to ween myself off of it. Horrible drug!!! | F | 40 | 5 months 0.5 mg 1X day | 3/11/2011 | 5 | anxiety, chronic neck pain | Slightly drowsy on the first couple of doses. | I was having frequent anxiety attacks due to, I believe, lingering neck pain from spine surgery. Klonopin has not only alleviated my anxiety but also has worked much better for pain than any muscle relaxant I've ever tried! | F | 52 | 8 days .5 MG 2X day | 3/5/2011 | 4 | Panic attacks | No libido, sudden crying spells, no energy, increased depression, jaw pain, mood swings, paranoid thoughts and feelings, increased saliva, constipation, stomach upsets | I was on K as needed for panic attacks. It took those away in one week! Worked great! But, there is a down side. I am moody, cry a lot and have no energy some days. I am on nothing else! I would rather put up with a sudden panic attack then the side effects. Now, I am told it will take months to get off K! | F | 60 | 2 years .25 3X day | 3/5/2011 | 5 | Social Anxiety, GAD | Drowsiness, laziness, spaced out, calm, disconnected from reality at times. This happens to me about 4-5 hours after taking it. | I was prescribed Klonopin for social anxiety. I like it a lot more than Xanax and Ativan. My doctor allowed me 1-2 mg per day, but I only take 1/2 a mg every other day. This medication works very well. It calms you down within an hour and a half. I didn't have social phobia after taking it. However, this pill can be addictive without you even noticing it. Try to take as little as possible because you will get addicted, or after a few months, you'll have to increase the dosage to get the same effect. Otherwise, as long as you watch your dosage and DON'T take it every single day, it will help anxiety tremendously. | M | 20 | 4 months 0.5 4X W | 3/1/2011 | 3 | anxiety/depression | Drug was ok, but withdrawal was AWFUL. TAPER off | Took this a few years ago, don't see that I reviewed it, so I will now. Don't remember the dosage, but I was only on it for a month. My doctor would not prescribe another month so that I could taper off of it slowly. I tapered off in about 5 days. The withdrawal was terrible. For about a week I couldn't stop crying even though I had no reason to cry. I wouldn't eat, and I wouldn't leave my room. If you take this DEMAND to be tapered off. | F | 23 | 30 days 1X day | 3/1/2011 | 4 | anxiety attacks | If you take this drug daily and suddenly stop, you may get insomnia, mood swings, more severe anxiety. | I have been taking Klonipin for anxiety / sleep disorders for almost three years. Overall, it has helped with those horrible anxiety attacks. I take 1 mg prior to going to sleep. The downside has been insomnia and dependence. I experience more anxiety if I suddenly stop. This drug is not effective in it's original dosage if I take it every day. It doesn't work anymore, so I stop taking it for about a week or two every month. Other than that, I would need to take double to get the same effect. It has it's good and bad sides, but it has helped me out many times on the anxiety problems. Just be aware that it can be addicting and be prepared of the side effects if you choose to stop suddenly. Also, do NOT drink alcohol with the drug. It does not mix well at all. | F | 49 | 3 years 1 mg 1X day | 2/22/2011 | 1 | anxiety/panic | Addiction. Horrible, godawful withdrawal. | Do not get involved with Benzos. Repeat: DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH BENZOS unless you want to be on them for your entire life. I spent three months of my summer "detoxing" from the stuff and experienced every horrific side effect in the book. I'd list them all, but I don't have three days to spare. I'm still not fully off this hideous shit. Please just take a yoga class, drink some tea, get accupuncture. DO NOT TAKE THIS. It should be illegal. | F | 32 | 3 years 1 mg 1X day | 2/17/2011 | 1 | I was prescribed this drug as an anti-anxiety drug after a divorce. It has completely ruined my life. I experienced drastic changes in my personality and became detached from all of my friends and family and my life in general. It made me extremely tired all the time and severely depressed. I developed physical problems mimicking IBS and MS. I also developed memory problems. What dr.'s do not tell you is that once you stop taking this medication, if the withdrawal does not kill you, the amnesiac effect of this drug will make you want to die anyway. I have no memory for the entire 10 years I was on this drug and I cannot tell you what that is like to have to live with. My physical health was ruined as well. You feel great while taking the drug because that is what it is designed to make you feel. When you stop it, you will realize that your physical health has been drastically comprimised. | F | 43 | 10 years 1X day | 2/8/2011 | 1 | anxiety, insomina, | (continued) f you are prescribed this drug you are better off taking heroin, at least with heroin there are withdrawal methods. There are no withdrawal methods, besides tapering, with benzos. I'd like to see the people giving this drug a 4 or 5 rating come back in 5 years and tell what their life is like. I am now tapering off, which will take a year or more. Sure wish I had those 15 years of my life back, which were destroyed by this drug. | F | 44 | 2 mg 1X day | 2/8/2011 Patient History | 5 | anxiety | none | M | 35 | 2 days .5 1X day | 2/5/2011 | 5 | Sleep aid | Morning sluggishness. | I have a sleep disorder and use klonopin 2-3 times a week at bedtime. I fall asleep quickly and sleep soundly. I only use it when I feel that I really need a good night's rest. I have gone weeks and sometimes months without taking it and have had no withdrawal symptoms. This week I had an MRI and because I am very claustrophobic, I took 1 mg an hour before and suffered no anxiety. | M | 58 | 10 years .5 mg 1X day | 2/5/2011 | 4 | Anxiety | Some reduced libido, must eat high fiber due to occasional constipation | I was on lorazepam for 5 years for sleeping aid and prn for anxiety, and on propranolol for panic attacks for same length of time. My doc and I talked about a switch cause lorazepam just wasn't cutting it in terms of anxiety down at work. I switched to klonipin and it's been fine. I no longer need propranolol cause the klonipin taken at night lasts throughout the next day. To all who push the panic button about addiction, well, think of your quality of life without it. I know I'm addicted to klonipin, but the alternative is endless anxiety which started when I was around 9. I came to the realization that I have a very highly reactive nervous system and school and work was a nightmare to get though on a daily basis, and on klonipin it isn't. It's a quality of life issue for me. I know and understand it is a drug, it can be addictive, but if it improves my quality of life immensely at work, with family and in my relationship with friends and my girlfriend, well - seems like a no brainer to me. If some day I have to cease taking it for some reason - I'll deal with it. For now I choose to live in the present time and function at a high level as a worker, parent, friend and partner to my girlfriend. | M | 53 | 3 months 1 mg 2X day | 2/4/2011 | 2 | anxiety | extreme tiredness | I was given klonopin because I told my doctor I wanted something that worked like Xanax but lasted longer. Nope. Klonopin is ridiculously sedating. I swear the pharmacist swapped mine out for Ambien. I took HALF a pill at breakfast and was passed out on the couch napping by noon. When I started taking Xanax it was mildly sedating, but never like this. Maybe it's good for people who have the type of anxiety that keeps them awake at night (not me) | F | 28 | 3 days .5 mg 1X day | 2/4/2011 | 5 | Panic and Anxiety | I havent had any side effects. The only side effects are the good ones. | I have tried xanax, but xanax makes me drowsy. I think Klonopin works great, keeps me focused, very rarely do i have anxiety and panic attacks on this drug. My panic attacks began to effect my daily way of living until i was prescribed this. I have An Abnormal cardiac arrhythmia and klonopin has been keeping my panic attacks completely under control further more protecting my heart from overworking to hard. And this has been confirmed by my cardiologist. It has been working like a charm, I have been getting my priorities straight. I plan on going to college with the help of this drug. And pursuing future employment. And also short spans of maybe 5 hours off sleep wont be as bad as it used to be without the drug, because Klonopin has me waking up fully energized and ready to take on my day! | M | 25 | 1 months .5 2X day | 2/2/2011 | 4 | Panic Attacks | Tolerance. Mood Swings. | M | 21 | 1 years 1 MG 1X AN | 1/31/2011 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | Attempted suicide by overdosing on this drug. Decreased anxiety but increased depression. Memory loss (short term and long term). Horrible drug! | I took this drug three years ago, and while it did relieve my anxiety, it increased my suicidal thoughts to the point where I didn't want to get out of bed. I ended up in the hospital for a month. | F | 21 | 4 months .5 MG 1X day | 1/31/2011 | 5 | anxiety | a little bit of drowsyness - not bad. | For occasional, as needed only use, I couldn't rate this drug high enough for anxiety. Even a really low dose worked well for me. I'm sure others that have rated this are correct though - stay on it long enough, or steady enough,and quitting may be a problem. | M | 41 | 50 days 0.5 mg 2X day | 1/28/2011 | 5 | anxiety | drowsy and tired | PLEASE people dont be stupid!!! This drug should ONLY be taken as needed. I only took it about 5 times in 6 months when I had my out of this world anxiety attacks. Its a benzo for crying out loud! Did you honestly thing you could take it for months or years and just get off it? YOUR CRAZY. Do your research first. Any time you put any kind of medication in your body, you should know what your taking. If you take it as needed, and I mean not a weekly thing, you will be fine. Of course if you take it every night, you will go through crazy withdrawals eventually! | F | 21 | .5mg 1X AN | 1/27/2011 | 5 | severe (major) anxiety, PTSD, OCD | a little more tired, if i took it before bed, it was a little harder to wake up, but nothing serious | Ive been down the benzo ladder and back up again! after the death of my son in 2003, ive been on Klonopin, ativan, xanax and valium, not to mention some liquid (non addictive stuff) as well. at first the ativan worked ok, but about a yr later (as with all of these meds) I found the effect had stop, so the doc would switch me. xanax works great for in the moment anxiety but not long term and it was a horrible to come off! valium and the liquid stuff didnt work at all...so ive been between klonopin and ativan for some time now. ive come to like klonopin better because it does last longer. if i take one at night im good through the next day. i even cut them in half a lot of times. i know some people had had issues coming off this med, but ive been off ALL benzos twice in 7yrs and never had any issues, however i came off (prescribed) opiates and that was HELL ON EARTH! Any way, i highly recomend this medication for people who suffer with severe anxety...that feeling sux and this med has helped me regain my life and not live in fear:) | F | 31 | 7 years 1mg 2X day | 1/21/2011 |