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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CLONAZEPAM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | slight memory loss, nightmares and hallucinations upon wakening up from a deep sleep. | WHen taking clonazepam the side effects will be small and barely notciable if on a low dosage ie. .5mg X2 day (for anxiety thats wut i took) if u start taking 2mg tablets ull find much more seriouse side effects and ADDICTION. so keep ur dose low, if it stops working, try a low dose of a different drug perhaps xanax or something similar. overall i would rate this drug quite highly provided u use in moderation | M | 21 | 2 months | 6/9/2008 | 1 | anxiety | SEVERE, CHRONIC HEADACHES, i have no desire for doing anything, including sex. Dazed and confused after taking. When I take the med my headaches go away, but I don't want to take the drug all the time, only when I feel anxious is when I want it. It is what the Doc prescribed. I have chronic abdominal pain along with the headaches. I have been in and out of the hospital for the pain and alot of lab work and CT scans and nothing found. This drug is very harmful. I was completely healthy except for the anxiety issue, now I have all kinds of aches and pains. | F | 36 | 25 days | 5/20/2008 | 2 | anxiety | initially this medication really helped me overcome my problems, but then my mind deteriated (s/p?) over the year, complete loss of short term memory, loss in appetite which lead to severe wight loss/malnutrition, eventually i became paranoid, could not sleep, could not think clearly, then had severe bouts of bipolar symptoms, uncontrollable laughing/crying, i lost almost everything in my life. my job, my girlfriend. | high addictive, make sure your mental health is being monitored on a bi weekly basis, and that more than one person is watching your progress, by no means should this medication be used as a long term solution, a healthy diet and excercise have worked much better. | M | 23 | 1 years | 5/6/2008 | 4 | panic attacks, irritable bowel synd | anxiety if dose missed, slight forgetfulness | Even though there are some side effects, it has helped me to live a normal life. I was at the point that leaving the house for almost any reason gave me a severe stomach ache. I now take one half of a .5 mg tablet every morning, and the stomach aches have disappeared. I haven't had a panic attack in a long time either. I am supplementing this medication with hypnotherapy and EFT (a form of acupressure). Would like to be able to discontinue the medication eventually, since it is addictive, but my brain/body are not ready yet. | F | 47 | 6 months | 4/29/2008 | 1 | Myoclonus | Doc said I had Myoclonus nothing serious, so he prescribe me 0.5mg of Clonazepam. I took it for 20 days then I didn't take on the 21st night and woke up in the middle of the night to drink some water and had the first seizure of my life, went to the hospital. The ER docs said it was the withdrawal from the drug. The Neurologist next day said it wasn't. So told me to wean off, took one more night 0.5 and the next 0.25mg on the 3rd night the one I didn't take the drug, I had another seizure! Went to the hospital and the ER doc said the same thing, withdrawal. Now the neurologist wants to give me another drug | . But I'm not thinking anything any more. I was healthy until I use this drug. Did some research online found that side effects and withdrawal side effects, even though they are rare, of the drug can be seizures! The doc never told me that! But in 10min I found what my seizure problem was! Not that I'm an expert but it was easy to track down after the second seizure. I wouldn't recommend this thing to my worst enemy. And now I will always do some research before I take any medication so I will know the side effects right up front. It's very important that we understand that medications are nothing more then DRUGS, they are just legal. I was never a med fan, now even more. I don't know how I'm going to stop taking it but I'm gonna wean off. I hope I don't have any more seizures but, I'm willing to have them, I just don't want other drugs in my body right now. I want to be healthy like I was 25 days ago. Good luck to you all and feel free to email me if you have the same problem. | M | 26 | 24 days | 4/25/2008 | 5 | General anxiety | impulse control | I have never really taken any prescriptions but huge amounts of work related stress eventually made me seek some help. Work had reached a point where it dominated my life and thoughts 24/7. This prescription has been a god-send. I used to fret about doing things and now I just do them (I consider this good, take it as you will). I have energy to do what I want to do and it helps me sleep when I need to do so. It has given me much more confidence in work and social situations and has significantly improved my quality of life already by putting the comparatively little pains in life in perspective. I'm slightly concerned about the apparent addictive nature, but that's a risk I'm prepared to accept based on the huge upside it's providing my total life. | M | 27 | 7 days | 4/21/2008 | 1 | Anxiety, Panic Disorder | Initally it made me drowsy, but that effect quickly wore off. After taking it for some time, it started making me space out; which is completely unlike me. It sometimes even made me have heart palpitations; and I've been through several tests and I'm completely healthy, so I'm assuming the palpitations came from this medication. | I wouldn't recommend this mediciation. It is overly prescribed and so many people are unaware of how habit forming it can be. Once you take it for some time it gets hard not to take it, and you have to slowly stop taking it or else to get adverse reactions such as increased anxiety. After some time it didn't even help out the anxiety, which it is suppose to do. Again, I wouldn't recommend this medication; Always keep in mind the problems that this medication and other Benzo's cause. | F | 20 | 45 days | 4/12/2008 | 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 | 1 | mild anxiety | Have been taking .5 mg at night for about 6 months. Tried to wean off - wound up w/convulsions in the hospital. | This drug is like swatting a fly with a machine gun for me. Talk about overkill. And now I don't know how to stop safely! DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE!!!!! | F | 49 | 6 months | 4/3/2008 | 5 | anxiety / stress / worry | It makes me very sleepy initially, but after an hour or so the drowsiness calms down and it leaves me feeling relaxed. Things that i'd freak out about during the day don't bother me half as much. I just let it slide - take things easy. I feel normal at last :) Sometimes, I feel like a zombie, sort of lose concentration for a brief moment but I don't mind because it's better than being a bundle of nerves and full of anger as I was before. | I take one tablet of 0.5 mg in the morning before work. The doctor perscribed twice daily, but once daily does the trick for me. Plus, I usually don't take it on weekends - i'm trying to use only a miminal amount for my own safety. Please do not take more than you need as it can be habit forming. Please try to make changes in your life that will help you relax in addition to this medication. Clonazepam is not a cure; it's a temporary escape from your problems. God bless... | F | 27 | 14 days | 3/31/2008 | 3 | Anxiety | It helped with my anxiety but I am getting HORRIBLE headaches,I am getting off of it | M | 41 | 60 days | 3/30/2008 | 1 | Anxiety, insomnia | Extreme rebound anxiety and insomnia, agitation, loss of appetite, nauseau, diarrhea, muscle spasms and tremors, cognitive distortion, depersonalization, suicidal ideation. | This drug was touted as mild and non-habit-forming by the prescribing doctor. SHE LIED. It was hell while I was on it and even worse hell to come off of. Even though I tapered off over an 8-month period by having the drug compounded, I still have some sfx (mostly physical) at 7-1/2 months off. I will never touch a benzo again as long as I live. | F | 53 | 2 years | 3/21/2008 | 4 | Anxiety/phobia/panic attacks | Mainly i experienced a dazed, zombie like effect with difficulty focusing or concentrating. I also noticed I was getting more headaches and had a loss of appetite. I also tended to stumble while walking and had a hard time speaking. Makes you extremely groggy. Noticed I forgot a lot of things and was more absentminded, but it helped get my mind off what I was anxious about. | Despite the effects this drug does help with anxiety and the symptoms are better than the pain of anxiety. I would recommend not to take more than two .5 tablets per day. It helped me sleep and calmed me down after a severe break up. My doctor put me on it as a precaution due to past experience with panic and generalized anxiety/ depression with no results from Zoloft. I would recommend to only take it as needed unless it is being used for some other physical reason. | F | 22 | 1 weeks | 3/11/2008 | 5 | Anxiety | Drowsiness, not caring, slightly addictive (as is any benzo) | I worry a WHOLE LOT sometimes, enough to sort of nudge myself into a state of depression. Certain (rough) times in my life are worse, and this is one of them, so my psychiatrist put me on Clonazepam 0.25-0.5mg x2 a day, and 0.5-1.0mg at night. I don't take it very often during the day, or I might lower my dosage so the effects aren't as noticable (I keep busy during the day so it isn't needed as much). At night, my mind starts to wander, which is where I find this drug VERY useful. It puts me in a "happy" place, I really could care less about any negative things in my life. It really has helped me get past a terrible recent break-up, and it helps me to sleep. Also, some people say it makes them a "zombie", but for me its the exact opposite. While I don't really care, I do still do my homework, as well as hang out with my friends, go out and take care of what I need to, go to the gym, play basketball, etc. I do not find myself less-active when I take this medic | M | 20 | 1 months | 3/5/2008 | 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 | 1 | Depression / Bi-polar | My Fiance started taking Clonazepam in January of 2008 due to a breakdown she had. She is 53. Now she is a space cadet, suffers memory loss, slow speech, cannot concentraite, nothing moves her, important things do not matter to her, sleeps too much, and is doing very poorly in school. She cannot prioritize things, and has no emotions. | I found this website in frustration over what the so called expert doctors seem to prescribe this drug like candy. I have read a lot of bad stuff about this drug and cannot believe they say start taking this and come back and see me in a month. My Fiance is taking .05 mg 3 times a day. Now she is failing in school, our relationship is strained, and all of her friends and relatives keep telling her to get off the meds because she walks & talks like she is a half zombie or on drugs. And this is supposed to add to her quality of life ? With all of the stories I've read about the addiction and side effects, I only hope that because she has been taking it for about two months that serious damage has not been done. She is supposed to contact the doctor today about getting off of Clonazepam, she was suppoed to call him for the last two days but could not remember that we talked about it. Take my warning, do not get on this drug or let anyone you love get on it, it could destroy | M | 53 | 2 months | 2/20/2008 | 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 | Social phobia/social anxiety | Hard not to get addicted to this drug due to its long half-life. The withdrawal was really, really bad. Took more risks (and fell twice). Got too tough against other people. | What a hard lesson: Felt some anxiety and a very low sex drive when being on Sertraline 200 mg. Had been using it for about four years. Got prescribed oxazepam and felt great. Decided to try Klonopin (clonazepam). Was not knowing the side-effects. Worked well for one month or so back in april 2007. After about a month I had to increase the dose to get the same effect. More and more. By the end of june I understood something was wrong. Had gotten a bit too impulsive in relationships and was really tough. At work I did some mistakes and did not really care. In august the increase of dose was so high I became like a drug addict. Then read about the withdrawal symptoms. Decided to stop in oktober (took a vacation from work). Stuck on an about 6 mg of Klonopin during september/october was a really bad feeling. That vacation was the worst experience of my entire life. But that is another story. I am not sure how, but during these two weeks my first suicidal thoughts of my life entered my min | M | 32 | 6 months | 2/17/2008 | 1 | panic attacks | heart palpitations, nervous, dizzy, sleepness nights, hairloss, vertigo, memory loss. | This is a really dangeous drug. I have taken Klonopin for years and I really thought that it was a great drug. But after a number of years I have continued to develope more and more problems from this drug. If you think its not dangerous and that it's not harming your body....try quitting! You will get a real dose of reality and what this drug is really all about. It's been the worse experience of my life and I continue to suffer from the side effects of taking Klonopin. I have since turned to holistic medicine and yoga and meditation. I have discovered that you can actually learn to overcome panic attacks instead of just suppressing them with a drug. The withdrawl symptoms are worse than coming off of heroine! It takes months and months even years for some people to get back to normal. | M | 50 | 10 years | 2/9/2008 | 4 | Panic disorder, Agoraphobia | In the beginning, it caused drowsiness, but that abated with time. No other side effects that I am aware of. | I read a lot of negative comments about benzodiazepines from other users. I took alprozelam for over 10 years and never developed any apparent dependence. I had no major withdrawal symptoms when I stopped it. I have had severe panic disorder since childhood and would not function at all without clonazepam. I began taking .5 mg 3X a day when my panic attacks returned full force. It provides much more even control throughout the day than the other med, and without the adverse affect on my hormones. It is not uncommon for me to forget to take it, and I never experience any withdrawal symptoms when I do. | F | 52 | 2 years | 2/4/2008 |