How do you taper off klonapon 05 after been on for 15 years?

Answer 1

I would speak to my physician!

Here is what some guy said online:

starting at about 2 tabs I got a pill cutter and cut the pills into quarters like before. I would take 1/4 less every MONTH instead of every week. Every time I reduced I noticed withdrawl effects starting about the 3rd day which lasted about 3 days or less then I would normalize until the next time I reduced.I was terrified of having a seizure but never had any. Once i got to 1 pill a night I felt that the 1/4 reductions were too much so I reduced by 1/8th pill per month, sometimes 3 weeks, depending on how good I felt. I was getting anxious to quit but did not want to go through withdrawl so I stuck with it. It was not too bad, during these times, I felt pretty good most of the time, but would have an occasional bad day. Once I got down to about 1/8 pill and had been on this dose for a week I figured this was not doing anyththing anyway so I decided to just quit. This was a mistake. I felt all the withdrawl feelings again like the first time I quit cold turkey. This time however i didn't go back to my full dose, i resumed taking 1/8 pill again and within a couple days I felt ok again. This showed me that the med was still had a hold of me. I resumed the 1/8 for the rest of the month and then split it again into just a little spec of a pill for another month. Finally I felt I was ready and stopped it altogether. To my surprise, I felt better than I had in a very long time for the first 3 days, then just slight anxiety and insomnia for a few days and that was it. No more withdrawl. It's been 6 weeks now and I feel real good, no more withdrawl. Sure I have the occasional sleepless night or a bad day but I had those before going on Klonopin. Now I can find other ways to deal with my problems than a pill. When I had gone to the internet for info on stopping these pills all I found were Horror stories about people having seizures and having withdrawl effects for a year or more. All that did was to make me want to stay on them. I realize that alot of people have alot of worse problems than mine such as panic attacks and epilepsy so I can't say much on this subject. All I can do is to tell you my story and hope that it will be to you what i was looking for when I was looking for help.