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 |
| 5 | anxiety/depression | drowsiness, lack of energy, lehargic tendencies | definitely will reduce your anxiety level, so that a normal life becomes much more feasible. | M | 51 | 5 years | 10/19/2006 | 5 | anxiety/depression | drowsiness, lack of energy, lehargic tendencies | M | 51 | 5 years | 10/19/2006 | 5 | Restless leg syndrome | only drowsiness and after approx 4-6 months had to increase doseage. My family doctor put me on this and then I saw a Neurologist who said I should not take more than 3 per night and put me on all different meds which did not work at all. | This is the only thing that has helped my creepy crawly legs. Over about a year period I gradually go up to 3 then wean myself back down to one. When I do this I have to take something to help me sleep but it works. I am thankful for this drug. My mother and grandfather suffered terribly from RLS and I am just happy to have found something that worked. | F | 53 | 3 years | 10/18/2006 | 5 | Bi-Polar II | Dizzyness and euphoria. Doctor is concerned about memory loss. Everything works fine! | Good drug. I know patients like me can control Bi-Polar II, but, this med helps greatly. Especcially when I am flying, I cant stand planes. | M | 41 | 4 years | 10/13/2006 | 4 | anxiety | sleepiness | M | 25 | 1 days | 10/8/2006 | 1 | Anxiety, agressive behavior | Knocked unconscious | Holy cow. I'm somewhat sensitive to meds that make you tired, but this was an new level of being knocked out. Within 30 minutes of taking it I started stumbling around like I'd had a dozen stiff drinks. I became completely incoherent and promptly fell asleep for five solid hours in the middle of the day. On the plus side, I was on the verge of an anxiety attack and probable self harm (by assaulting a large inanimate object like a wall or table), so it cured that problem, but sheesh... | M | 28 | 1 times | 10/5/2006 | 3 | F | 57 | 6 days | 10/4/2006 | 5 | Social Anxiety Disorder | NONE | I have been EXTREMELY shy as far back as my 40 yr old memory remembers. My 'shyness' eventually became very debilitating (to the point that I could not eat in front of people). It controlled my life and I was conscious of every single action and bodily movement I made (to avoid ANY judgement or self-perceived humiliation). I went through counseling, cognitive behvioral therapy etc... THAT helped me CHANGE my life BUT without klonopin (and Effexor XR to a lesser degree) I would still be too self conscious. I have been on 2mg/day of klonopin for approx. 6 years. I have NOT developed any tolerance to it. I have read that with social anxiety, klonopin does NOT act the same way as with someone who takes benzoes for other reasons. It does not make me tired. I take my 2mg EVERY morning with my high BP med and my Effexor XR. I do not feel zombie like or anything...the ONLY thing I feel IS NORMAL. I no longer THINK about everything. I NEVER felt relaxed before and I remember always thinking how | M | 40 | 6 years | 10/3/2006 | 5 | Social Anxiety Disorder | NONE | I have been EXTREMELY shy as far back as my 40 yr old memory remembers. My 'shyness' eventually became very debilitating (to the point that I could not eat in front of people). It controlled my life and I was conscious of every single action and bodily movement I made (to avoid ANY judgement or self-perceived humiliation). I went through counseling, cognitive behvioral therapy etc... THAT helped me CHANGE my life BUT without klonopin (and Effexor XR to a lesser degree) I would still be too self conscious. I have NOT developed any tolerance to it. I have read that with social anxiety, klonopin does NOT act the same way as with someone who takes benzoes for other reasons. Klonopin is not for everyone, but if I had a friend that was suffering from social anxiety disorder and they had gone through CBT etc... I would strongly encourage them to discuss klonopin as a choice with their doctor. | M | 40 | 6 years | 10/3/2006 | 4 | was put on pcp when i was 17, raped | i have been on klonopin for about 15 some years, and a year and half ago my doctor took me off and ever since then i have no life feeling i just see the picture cant feel i am waking up like i used to. I dont have my sensory emotion, and i am scared to death. | i went to see a psychologist and he told me to go back to my doctors and tell them to put me back on klonopin because i cant function without it.can klonopin make you feel like this. | F | 40 | 3 days | 9/29/2006 | 5 | Severe jerk | none | F | 37 | 3 days | 9/27/2006 | 4 | panic disorder | sleepiness and an unbalanced feeling when I first started, but my body adjusted to it after a while | I used to have panic attacks all the time, and over the years I rarely have them anymore (maybe 2 or 3 bad ones a year). The only downside is that I want to eventually wean off this drug because I am getting married soon and I may want to have a child down the road. I know this medicine is dangerous to take while pregnant so I don't want any problems when that time comes. However, I have already tried weaning off it and I can only get so far before I get bad hallucinations. It is the scariest thing I have ever experienced. If I could someday take this pill on an "as needed" basis, that would be much better than having this dependency. Still, if you are having bad panic attacks and nothing else has worked, then I would recommend giving it a try. Just be aware of the dependency your body will develop over time. | F | 21 | 10 years | 9/16/2006 | 5 | stress anxiety | no side effects, except while drinking alchole. Which is says bot to do on the bottle | Can I just say I LOVE klonopin. It has been a life saver and I don't know how I would make it through each day with out it. I am also on 40m of celexa which is also great, but not enough. Before starting klonopin my anxiety got so bad that I didn't want to leave the house and could not function at work. I got put on Klonopin after my grandmother ( who to me is my mother) started her battle against terminal cancer. This alone crashed my world down, I was begining to have panic attacks daily to a point I would avoid leaving the house and taking sleeping pill just to get away. I was also starting to be a extreamly heavy drinker which made my situation even worse. Since taking this drug, along with my celexa I am me again. It doesn't block your feeling about what is going on around you, it just helps you deal with it. I think starting Klonopin was the best thing for me to do in this time of life. I don't know how I could deal with what I do with out klonopin. | F | 21 | 3 months | 9/15/2006 | 5 | bi polar | none | In combination with Zyprexa it helps me stay calm and definately helps with my anxiety. I had used Xanax for 5 years but my psychiatrist switched me over about 6 months ago. | M | 38 | 6 months | 9/9/2006 | 1 | social anxiety, panic, depression | had to go into hospital detox to finally get off of this horrible, horrible drug. will open the gates of hell...........once you stop. | You're fooling yourself if you think you aren't addicted to Klonopin. Everyone gets physically addicted after a number of months. 4 or 5 months of daily use will cause addiction. Unless your life is an unlivable hell and you want to die, don't get on this drug. If you're at the end of your rope go for it and put yourself on it forever, but only if you're hopeless. Getting off of this drug cost me $30,000 and 6 weeks in the hospital. It took my body 2 years to recover. If you want any sort of future without daily expensive drugs don't even start with this stuff. It works, but you will go clinically insane once you try and stop. | F | 29 | 3 years | 8/24/2006 | 4 | Anxiety, Panic Disorder | Sleepiness, somewhat. | I went from Xanax to Klonopin. I know they are both benzos. However, Xanax seemed to remove all concern from me to a greater extent than was useful. I'd forget to pay my bills, for instance: "Oh, look. Bills. I guess I'll get to those ..." Klonopin manages to keep me from being a jittery ball of nerves without blunting my intellect and "appropriate" concern and anxiety. This is good. I was on Xanax for two years. I am switching to Klonopin to taper off; we'll see once that's over whether I need it anymore or not. (I certainly did need something at one point.) Oh, and definitely don't go cold turkey off of a daily dose of a benzo. I did that last week with Xanax, before switching to Klonopin. Muscle spasms and the whole works. (2mg.) So ... yes, taper, taper, taper, if you wish to get it out of your life. | M | 25 | 3 days | 8/18/2006 | 5 | Severe Anxiety, Hypnotic Jerks | None. | We all know anxiety is awful. Klonopin, along with Zoloft pulled me out of a BAD state. Hypnotic jerks are the WORST when they awaken you at night. Another poster described them like this: "had severe insomnia with hypnic jerks (for those who don't know what these are - every time you start falling asleep, a body part will involuntarily move and wake you back up). Hypnic jerks are generally associated with high levels of anxiety (too much brain activity causes the neurons to fire out of control)." I only use "Klonies" as needed and can take a small dose. In terms of addiction, it was 10,000 times easier to reduce this than to get of PAXHELL! I would take a benzo over Paxil or Effexor any time. | F | 35 | 2 years | 8/11/2006 | 5 | Panic Attacks | Drowsiness, blurred vission | I love this medicine, it has really calmed me down. This drug is a life saver. | M | 21 | 30 days | 8/8/2006 | 5 | Severe panic disorder | None | I was practically catatonic the day my doctor prescribed Klonopin--unable to eat, sleep, or function like a normal human being. Twenty minutes after my first dose (2 mg) I felt NORMAL, happy, communicative...and hungry! THANK GOD FOR THIS DRUG. I would rather not be on any drug at all, but the alternative was a living nightmare 24/7. My only problem is that I have no insurance, and the pills are very expensive. I tried the generic, but it didn't work at all for me--am I the only person who has experienced this? | F | 43 | 10 years | 8/6/2006 | 1 | Panic Disorder | Muscle & joint pain, depression, mood swings, abnormal sleep, headache, lethargic state, vision problems, memory problems, concentration problems, suicidal, unable to work, liver & kidney problems, addiction, personality changes, life disruption, and so on. | Nice to know after eight years of struggling with this drug that is also known as an anti-psychotic, date rape drug as well as an benzo. It worked great at first, but it shouldn't be used long term and patients should know just how addictive it is. Used as needed may be okay. My life literally stopped when I began taking this drug. My panic was gone and I could function, but I def. lost myself in the process. Since the panic was gone I didn't notice or care, but I didn't understand what I was becoming and now it's taken me years to get down to just one milligram a day. I've been told I will never get off of it. Never have children. Never really feel again. The doctors and drug companies don't tell you any of this. And many people who are on it are like I was, glad to not be terrified, but I'd rather deal with a panic attack then this. I want off and that's a problem. I'd rather people know of the consequences. For me... none of this is worth it. | F | 32 | 8 years | 8/6/2006 |