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 |
| 4 | anxiety, sleeplessness | If I take too much, I get drowsy and spacey, but I've learned to take tiny bites if I'm freaking out or going into a situation in which I usually panic. | Ended the chest pains and shortness of breath. Good for sleeping, but I can't remember my dreams. I also wonder if it has affected my memory, but the panic was blanking me out, so it's hard to tell. Also, factor in menopause, if you can. No withdrawal when I stop. I take about .25mg-.5mg per day as I need it. | F | 49 | 11 years | 1/18/2006 | 1 | general anxiety, depression | sleepy, but the real harm when i came off: THIS DRUG IS EVIL! i was once a straight a student at an ivy league college; now i can hardly write a paragraph that makes sense. it has ruined my educational plans. i have been completely off for over a year, and i still feel sick. | I AM STILL MISERABLE and i have been off the drug for over a year!!! it has changed me as a person! DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED IT! i went to the ER several times for seizures after i went off (i only took 1 mg a day!) pleae contact me with comments/suggestions/support! | F | 21 | 2 years | 1/15/2006 | 2 | anxiety | slurred speech, mixing up words when I talked | It didn't help my anxiety, made people think I was a lousy drunk, and made me think my brain had been damaged. I soon regained the gift of clear speech after I stopped taking it. | F | 24 | 2 months | 1/9/2006 | 1 | Anxiety | Intensified anger, blurred vision, sleepiness. | I suffer from anxiety and am not a violent person, but I had a very bad reaction to klonopin(clonazepam). I was involved in 2 traffic violations within 3 days. I was so angry that I would scream at my family. Once I was so mad that I threw my set of heavy car keys at my mom. It did not do anything to help my stress level. I began to suffer from mild panic attacks. It is a BAD medication and I would recommend not to try it. It does more harm than good. Luckily I did not have any withdrawal symptoms, although I did not take it for a long period of time. | F | 21 | 14 days | 1/4/2006 | 1 | anxiety & panic disorder | Very slow brain. I could not think clearly, sleepy and a general fuzzy, foggy feeling. At times dizzy and had slurred speech. Family and friends thought I was drunk. Had problems urinating and at times stopping the urination. I could not remember things that happened a week earlier. Probably the worst was my behavior changes. My girlfriend said whenever I took a 2mg klonopin, she could tell because my personality changed to an aggressive, argumentative and angry man. I didn't notice until I was arrested for arguing with a police officer. | I did research and discovered I am one of the less common people in whom klonopin turns into a Jekle/Hyde personality and not a nice person to be around. The odd thing is that my Doctor responded when I told him of my behavior change with, "It should make you calm down and go to sleep!" WRONG!! To me it was a one way ticket to jail. I quit immediately taking klonopin. It has been since July 2005 (it is today 12/20/05) and my memory is just now getting better and my mind is clearer. I hope it is only a matter of time before complete restoration of my full cognitive abilities. BE CAREFUL!!Listen to people around you if there are personality and behavioral changes in you after taking this medication. It can be life altering! | M | 51 | 23 months | 12/22/2005 | 5 | anxiety over an illness, INSOMNIA | POISON.... NEVER START... YOU WILL NEVER GET OFF AND IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE. ANXIETY AND INSOMNIA RETURNED 10FOLD AFTER ONLY 30 DAYS OF USE ... HAD TO USE VALIUM (SEE ASHTON MANUAL ) TO GET OFF ONLY AFT 30 DAYS.. WAS ONLY TAKING FOR .5 TO.25 | EVIL DRUG... SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET....CAUSED ME MORE PAIN AND ANXIETY AND INSOMNIA THAN ORIGINAL PROBLEM. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS. | F | 52 | 30 days | 12/18/2005 | 1 | anxiety, depression, sleep problems | None - until I stopped the medication. | An evil medication that should be pulled off the market. Since reducing and stopping klonopin 6 months ago, I have not had one normal night of sleep. I never, ever truly sleep unless I take a sleep aid, and even those don't help much...they just get me through, but barely. I am sick, physically and emotionally from Klonopin. In addition to severe depression, my body aches and I can hardly stand the physical discomfort I feel even when someone hugs me. I feel like a junkie who went through withdrawal. I have bizarre thoughts, images and sounds in my mind when I am falling asleep and occasionally at other times. I am extremely ill from this medication and do not know when, or if, I will be well again. It was a terrific med - UNTIL I stopped taking it, then the disastrous effects began. PLEASE stay away from this poison! | F | 42 | 6 days | 12/13/2005 | 3 | Axiety | Tired in the morning, still have anxiety, have to take some coffee to wake up. I am thinking about going off of it, but have not decided how to do it yet. I take 1 mg at night to help with sleeping, sometimes only .75 mg, I do notice daytime drowsiness. | I am not sure if it is causing my coughing or other problems like specs in the eyes, eye floaters I noticed after I started taking it. | F | 34 | 4 months | 12/9/2005 | 5 | Panic disorder | Drowsiness, memory loss | Very powerful benzo to stop panic attacks before they start. Should be used continuously to achieve a steady state in the blood to prevent attacks. It is a slow-acting benzo, so it's not a great choice for stopping an attack quickly; Xanax is better for that. Panic attacks have reduced dramatically. | M | 31 | 3 years | 12/5/2005 | 4 | Cronic Anxiety and phobias | Memory loss which I compensate with notes and a little sleepy | If you have an anxiety disorder cronic or debilitating such as I do and have tryed all other medication for that first and had little ar no success Klonopin works Great and if you her a lot of people on this sight or uk benzo.org be very carful to the complaints for most people with this disorder are hypocondriacts and everybody with this dissorder suffers with anxiety Klonopin is addictive very however without it I am a mess and an asshole and do not function I stopped taking the medicine before almost three years in a twelve step group the steps did not cure me and I realized this was a problem in that period of time I tryed the newer anti depressants nothing was helping me klonopin takes the edge off not a cure but a crutch that allows me the oppertuniti to live a somewhat normal life Ill alwasy suffer from this disorder and their are other things I do to controle symptoms but by all meens this medicine has helped me and if you are already taking it and whant to stop you will g | M | 32 | 10 years | 12/1/2005 | 1 | Bipolar, Depression, PTS | Dizziness, vomitting, blacking out, and confusion | This is the worst medication that I have ever taken | F | 16 | 1 years | 12/1/2005 | 3 | insomnia, anxiety | loss of coordination, confusion, short term memory loss, slurred speech, minor depression, spaced out feeling | this helped me sleep but i realized it made me really spaced out and my coordination was so off that i couldn't walk in a straight line. beware of side effects | F | 20 | 2.5 months | 11/17/2005 | 5 | anxiety | I take .5 mg once or twice/day for anxiety. I'm also on Cipralex (a new anti-depressant from the Celexa family that has less side effects). With Klonopin, I try to skip days and do not take more because I realize that I could become addicted to the warm and fuzzy feeling and then it won't work. The drug helps me with my anxiety. When I am feeling anxious, I take it and I then have the will to do stuff. It's also an excellent sleeping aid. I've tried other benzos, but this drug works the best for me. I worry about becoming dependant on it. I probably am. I've been on it since 1998 and have tried to wean myself off it at times, but I can only do four days before my anxiety is unbearable. Hence, stopping is a problem. Until something else comes along, this drug is the best for me. | F | 44 | 7 years | 11/3/2005 | 5 | Panic attacks | Sometimes it makes me slightly drowsy, but overall it helps me handle the panic attacks with a clear, rational mindset. | I take the .5 mg twice a day. | F | 21 | 6 months | 10/14/2005 | 5 | Leg Spasms | F | 30 | 4 years | 9/12/2005 | 5 | Panic Disorder | 2 BEST DRUG EVER!!!!!! It makes you a little sleepy but its sooo worth it, feeling GREAT!!!! | F | 20 | 2 years | 9/2/2005 | 4 | sleeplessness, agorophobia | This drug was GREAT for the prescribed purpose. It always did exactly what I'd hoped it would do, and I don't remember any negative effects while taking it except perhaps some memory loss. | Going off this drug was hell. It was possibly the hardest thing I've ever had to do, and I developed a number of permanent changes from being on it for a long time. The least of it was terrible insomnia. Other ODD changes were things like tremors, BIG uncontrolable jerkiness, and uncontrollable constant finger movement. The oddest was that it seemed like-when a song gets stuck in your head, only it was 100 times louder and absolutely constant. If you are on this drug, it will be unbelievably helpful, but keep in mind there may be long term consequences (that can be lived with) and a very difficult period of going off it. | F | 33 | 3 years | 8/23/2005 | 3 | anxiety | drowsiness, short term meomory loss. lack of motivation. | I am not sure if I want to stay on klonopin. I am just not my fun old self. I don't even want to do anything besides watch tv. I am not depressesed by any means--just tired. I have been taking 4mg a day and perhaps that is too much. I am going to talk to my doctor about Valium or Xanax. On a positive note this drug is very effect at helping with anxiety | M | 27 | 2 weeks | 8/23/2005 | 5 | Postpartum Depression-VERY VERY BAD | Sleepiness and drowsiness.Kind of warm and fuzzy until I got accustomed to it.I take 4 mgs a day now. | This is the ONLY thing that kept me from killing myself and possibly others when postpartum depression kicked my ass 8 yrs ago.No drugs during my pregnancy due to fear of fetal damage-so when I gave birth(which was really a rough time) I was wiped out. I now take 75 mgs PAXIL and 4 mgs KLONOPHIN daily and it keeps me in control. | F | 43 | 8 years | 8/17/2005 | 5 | severe anxiety/panic/insomnia | sometimes on the tired and mentally sluggish side, but that was to be expected from a benzo. anyways, the tiredness is a good side effect for an insomniac. | very effective at getting my anxiety and panic under control. the attacks were getting so bad that it would be like a full blown seizure with twitches and everything. also taking paxil and nadolol (beta blocker) but those weren't enough. i know about the whole horrible withdrawal symptoms that are described, but i dont ever plan on stopping this med. the withdrawal symtoms described by people were an everyday thing for me before klonopin, so ill probably have to keep taking this or something like it until medical science comes out with something like it that doesnt suck. the only thing that worries me is the high dose that i have to take to keep it working. after reading everyone elses comments, my 4 to 8 mgs a day seems a bit high, but anything less is barely noticeable with me. if it weren't for klonopin, i would not be alive right now. its not the perfect panacea for my problems, but since it saved my life, i give it a 5. | M | 20 | 2 months | 8/12/2005 |