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Yesterday, 05:06 PM
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(Mods, please leave this here as I'm specifically interested in what people with my diagnosis think.)
My family thinks I should be angry at my pdoc for not getting me off klonopin sooner. I explained that it isn't safe to go off it the way I did and they think I should have been put IP and had it removed that way since lowering it gradually didn't work very well for me and was taking literally years. That Ashton method wasn't an option because even tiny doses of valium knock me out. We even tried liquid valium at one point to allow me to have really tiny doses like .75 mg and it was still too sedating to use effectively. I'm not upset with her. I don't think there was any way to know I'd do so much better off it and getting me off safely is important. I am well aware that one psychotic night and the fairly mild withdrawal symptoms was on the better end of what happened. They know less of course. If it were you would you be upset?
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 9 mg/day patch,, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx3 daily |
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Yesterday, 05:28 PM
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I was addicted to Valium for years. I was on 5mg 3x a day due to a careless pdoc. You could have gone IP yes but no point in being angry what’s done is done.
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Yesterday, 09:36 PM
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Yes that class of drugs are addictive but not being able to calm yourself, can be far more dangerous and it's about quantity of life. Maybe it was helping your quality of life but now it is not so now you have to taper off.
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Today, 09:14 AM
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I don’t see the point in being angry about it. You and your doctor talked about it and we’re at an impasse. Just enjoy the benefits of being off. It’s not as if your doctor was maliciously keeping you on it. I’d tell your family to just be glad you got though being taken off the wrong way and came though that with no harm, to be happy for you.
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Today, 10:21 AM
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I'd be more upset that my family wasn't grasping that I had already tried to come off but there was no feasible way to do that safely outpatient.
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