CLONAZEPAM Reviews (CLONAZEPAM)

Average Rating: 3.3 (348 Ratings)

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CLONAZEPAM  (CLONAZEPAM):  Clonazepam is used to prevent and control seizures. This medication is known as an anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drug. It is also used to treat panic attacks. Clonazepam works by calming your brain and nerves. It belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines.   FDA Approval Date: 1996-09-10 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 1  anxiety memory loss, behavior changes This drug and all benzos are crap. Extremely addictive. Should be banned with all other benzos. If you take it for more than a month you will be dependent on them. M 27 6 months
1 mg 2X day
5/14/2010
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 3  Depression Anxiety Insomnia P/A Feeling very lighted headed, severe drowsiness, my coordination has gone out the window completely until a couple hours after taking my 1 MG pill, at night this pill completely knocks me out. I'm so uncoordinated that I am afraid to drive now, I don't want to put others in danger on the road. This drug has helped a great deal with my depression, insomnia, anxiety, and panic attack. I can tell when I need to take my next dose because my heart starts going fast and I begin to freak a little. The only problem is that I do not feel comfortable driving or going to class with the side effects I am experiencing. I am a college student and I have already missed my first lab because I was knocked out by this drug. I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on dealing with the drowsiness??? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me at scorchado18gmail.com with anything you think might help me! Thanks! Steph F 19 2 days
1 MG 2X day
5/13/2010
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 1  panic attacks Generic changed pill size (shape)recently. Now can't sleep, horrid dreams, very high blood pressure Controled panic attacks for 11 years and definitely became a very good sleeping aid as well. Since last refill (when generic supplier changed -tablets aren't flat anymore)It has been very bad. I will have the new generic tested M 58 12 years
.5 mg 1X day
5/2/2010
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 5  anxiety, insomnia and panic attacks Possible slight memory loss (very minor) This drug has saved my life. I have had panic attacks since age 8. Now, I am able to travel and do things that I normally wouldn't have dreamed of. I no longer experience daily anxiety and panic attacks. I sleep great. Currently, I am taking a low dose, but if I have to continue taking this drug for the rest of my life, so be it! Dependence? So what? Are people who take meds for blood pressure worried about addiction? I have a disease and this drug has helped tremendously. Happier than I have ever been. F 40 1 years
0.5 mg 2X day
3/15/2010
 3  Extreme Anxiety Over all this is not a bad anti anxiety medication, however being a benzodiazipine, it causes serious addictive problems as i am experiencing and it takes a lot longer to work than the likes of Ativan or Xanax which work in half an hour compared to the couple of hours the clonazepam needs to build up As much as i like it, i would not say its the best benzo, but according to my psychiatrist its the least addictive out of the strong benzo's like lorazepam, xanax and triazolam F 24 8 months
2-5MG 2X day
3/14/2010
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 5  ANXIETY & PANIC ATTACKS I have not experienced any side effects from this except becoming a normal person again I only take it when i feel a panic attack or anxiety comming and 45 min. later i am back to a normal person. This has been a life saver for me. M 48 2 years
1MG 1X day
3/12/2010
 4  Balance & Rocking none After 1 1/2 years of rocking and being off balance from an auto wreck that caused a fisutla in my inner ear, causing my brain to compensate for so long, then after the surgery to repair the fisutla I was still rocking, my brain was still compensating. Wrong signals were being given from by ear to my brain. I was then given gabpentin which helped some, then clonazepam which worked within a few days, no rocking! F 55 60 days
.5 2X day
3/8/2010
 1  Insomnia Depression, moodyness ranging from highs to numbness. Does not work very well. Takes forever to work if it does work at all. Was prescribed 1 or 2 .5mg as needed. That dosage did nothing. This drug only works (for me) when taking a higher dosage, and still not very usefull in sleeping. F 21 1 months
1X day
3/2/2010
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 5  REM sleep disorder No side effects noticed. Before I started taking Clonazepam, I experienced nightmares and bizarre sleep behaviors like sleep walking, realistic visions, and acting out while sleeping. I was prescribed a couple of medications before Clonazepam, which works great. I sleep without experiencing REM behavior disorders or side effects. F 55 10 years
.75 mg 1X day
2/17/2010
 1   My husband was prescribed this pill and it immediately changed him for the worse. All of his family and friends have begged him to switch meds but his psychologist refuses to change it. He has slurred speech, drastic lobido change, impulsivity problems now that he never had before in the years we've been married. It's a definate "I don't give a crap" drug and it's almost ruined our lives. Please, SERIOUSLY do not take this drug! For the "all knowing" psycologists out there reading this: please listen to your patients when they tell you about the side-effects they are having. Ours won't listen and won't change the drug. M 37 6 months
1X day
2/16/2010
 5  panic disorder i fell relaxed there aretimes that i will have my panic disorder or anxiety. i purchased clonazepam which made me feel good. F 22
30mg 1X day
2/4/2010
 1  anxiety and panic disorder My experience w/ clonazepam began about 10 yrs ago. To make a long story short, I became addicted. It led to polysubstance addiction - to alcohol, oxycontin and crack cocaine. My boyfriend of 7 yrs is also addicted. He has overdosed 8 times, 4 times in ICU. Yet the Texas MHMR still prescribes it to him if he goes to a new MHMR location. This last time, it started 1/4/10. He stole my car, hocked all my tools, spent $650 on crack w/ me, went to jail for DWI, then back to Tx.rehab at Homeward Bound. He left the rest of the Klonopin w/ me while he sat in jail. It caused me to blow my 9 mos total sobriety, total my car, ended up with a closed head injury, cervical sprain, which then led to severe diverticulitis and acute asthma from laying around taking clonazepam. THIS IS A VERY VERY DANGEROUS DRUG. IT IS QUITE INOCUOUS AT FIRST - SEEMS LIKE JUST A MILD TRANQUILIZER. THIS DRUG LEADS TO SERIOUS AND POLY ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR WHICH WILL KILL YOU. THIS DRUG SHOULD BE BANNED COMPLETELY. DON F 54 12 years
1/22/2010
 5  Depression, anxiety, insomnia. No side effects at all. The only problem with taking my .5 mg 3x/day of Clonazepam is when I run out when waiting too long to get to the dr's office. There is an obvious addictive factor to it. I experience great anxiety and panic attacks if I go off it cold turkey like that. By the 5th day I am totally desperate! I don't like that. I do like it better than Ativan or Xanax. It does help me fall asleep when taken with my 12.5 mg Ambien. I also take 75 mg/day of Effexor XR and find that my depression, anxiety, and insomnia are kept at a minimum. I do NOT like being so dependent on Clonazepam but it's better than feeling panicky and anxious 24/7. FYI-recently tried Seroquel for insomnia instead at 150 mg/day. A nightmare-weight gain-awful drug!! F 43 3 years
1/15/2010
 4  RLS 0.5 mg/day with really very few side affects. Perhaps a lowering of libido, but this is not conclusively caused by the Clonazepam. Allows me to function whereas I previously was unable to cope with the lack of sleep caused by RLS. I sometimes take 1.0 mg/day (before bedtime) if the RLS is bad. I feel drowsy and a little disorientated in the morning after taking the higher dose, but this goes within a short time after waking. Have been taking Clonazepam for 20 years and haven't noticed a need to increase the dosage. I have been quite regimented with this aspect however and deliberately control the dose. If I don't take Conazepam, then I cannot sleep (an obvious chemical dependence). I feel this is a small price to pay for a greatly enhanced quality of life. I dont think it stops or cures the RLS. Rather I think it allows me to get into a heavy enough sleep to not be disturbed by the RLS. M 56 20 years
1/5/2010
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 1  seizures HELL IN A PILL. Turned me into a complete zombie. Could not remember anything. Life became a blur. Physically and emotionally numb. NO SEX DRIVE OR FEELING, and it has not returned after 1 year off. Became quite stupid and careless. My life fell apart and I became physically ill. Now I have permanent brain damage from it. For the love of God, STAY AWAY FROM THIS DRUG. The biggest problem with klonopin is that it's completely addictive. you take it for a few weeks and your body gets dangerously hooked. Even if you have the willpower to get off, quitting is phsycially dangerous, agonizing, and can debilitate you for months. there is no way to describe the hell of Klopopin withdrawal. See the Ashton Manual for help if you need to get off this poison. this stuff should be banned. PLEASE don't do this to yourself. F 34 3 years
12/21/2009
 3  anxiety/Aerophobia (fear of flying) increased anxiety after using the drug to get through a few flights. I only took this to get me through two flights that were spaced 10 days apart. In the month following I had increased anxiety in social situations and 3 panic attacks, which I have never experienced before. It worked GREAT on the flight, but I was not pleased to feel like I was having a breakdown while getting a haircut. M 29 2 days
12/3/2009
 4  anxiety lower libido, some fatigue Trial lawyer. no other meds ever. 1.5 mg p/night.no more/no less. tried to cut back......terrible. wish i hadn't started, but anxiety has stopped. guess i will take forever. absolutely addicted....no doubt. dont drink, dont smoke. and only misery i ever had was trying to cut back just .5 (no reason, just wanted to prove i could do it)...i couldn't. M 42 10 years
11/10/2009
 1  panic att My heat went crazy F 25 60 days
11/6/2009
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 3  Panic attacks Problems with sleeping patterns, I get estremely sleepy and have to take naps at innapropriate times and have trouble sleeping at night. Have lost my ability to care about many things, including work related duties. Have become more sedentary and do not get excited about things anymore. I call it the "I don't give a crap" pill. On a trip to a conference in Vegas, I left my pills at home and had some horrible side effects; hot flashes, elevated heart rate, depression, extreme fatigue and dizziness. I slept for two straight days and finally had to go to a local doctor and get a prescription. Extremely addictive. I don't know how I will get off of it. Very good at treating extreme panic attacks. However, I am very much concerned about getting off of it and worry that I might never will. It's a toss-up; it completely cured me of the panick attacks, but it has made me a sort of junkie. I do not want to go back to the panic attacks, since I got to a point that I was almost not able to function. But, I don't want to depend on thos stuff for the rest of my life. Any suggestions? F 40 3 years
10/13/2009
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 1  Anxiety Withdrawal!!! Tremors, Migraine Headaches, Depression, Panic Attacks. Terrible!!! I was prescribed this drug for panic attacks when my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer last year. My doc started me on .5 mg 3x a day and by Christmas she had raised it to 1 mg 3x a day. I started having dissociative events, I was numb to the grief when my mother died. I had depression that worsened each month because I refused to up my dose any more. I did not know I had developed a tolerance and started having withdrawal symptoms. First I slowly withdrew from my husband and children, & I started having migraine headaches daily. I could barely make it through my work each day. I had tremors, myclonic jerking, suicidal thoughts, painful joints and muscles, and fever. I finally looked up clonazepam withdrawal symptoms on the internet and I suddenly realized that these symptoms had crept up on me slowly each day until I was barely functioning. My doctor had started me on gabapentin and I noticed that I was able to cut back my dose of clonazepam. I have tapered it slowly over the last 2 months by myself, my doctor does not believe it is addicting so she has not helped. I have taken Magnesium and the Gabapentin to help. I am now in day 5 of complete withdrawal and I am very miserable. I had to completely take work off. I have run fevers, experiences dreadful insomnia, and terrible tremors. I wish had not trusted my doctor when she said it was not addicting. Don't ever take this drug daily for more handful of weeks. addiction is far worse F 33 13 months
9/16/2009

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