Klonopin Withdrawal and Howling Dogs

[[Ru...]]

I just read the book 'Klonopin Withdrawal and Howling Dogs' about a woman going through insane insomnia after coming off benzos. I think any of you losing hope should get hold of it. She basically didn't sleep AT ALL for months, then got half and hour to two hours for a couple of months and then one night of seven hours which was followed by two weeks of no sleep and then her sleep stabilised at around six months off.

 

Te book proved to me that your brain can be well and truly ****** but completely heal. The book is pretty scary stuff and you are right there with her. I skipped all the parts about her life before the drugs so only really read half the book about her dealing with insomnia.

 

Seriously she had it BAD. Worst I have EVER EVER come across.

 

I hope her book gives you strength. It has certainly made me see that the body can endure almost total sleeplessness and still function. She was severely suicidal and I think she would have done the deed had she not started to get the odd hour here and there.

 

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[[ME...]]

I have not read the book.  But 6 months is too long to endure sleepless nights.  One sleepless night is bad enough for me to wreck the whole day.  Why did she not try other medications?

 

Maybe each of us has different opinions, but for me, I am willing to try other drugs that will give me sleep (if I will have sleeping problems after quitting Klonopin).

 

 

[[Cl...]]

It seems to be a very interesting book! I will try to find it!

I cannot cope with insomnia either...I feel very bad for 2 long days when I have it!

Valerian and passion flower pill is still working somehow...

[[Ru...]]

She tried EVERYTHING. She literally tried all of the usual suspects but her brain was so damaged from the klonopin that she couldnt get ANY sleep no matter what she tried. She was willing to take ANYTHING but she knew that NOTHING would work.

I have no idea how she stayed alive. Im sure I would have HAD TO kill myself under her circumstances. For so long there was no evidence that she was going to heal. She kept asking her parents (I think she was mid twenties) if they thought she could heal.

 

I honestly don't know how she stayed alive. I have a run of a few days of 2-5 hours sleep and I am at my wits end.

 

She had no pleasure or comfort for almost six months.

 

I do think it is a good book (I only read half of it as the other half was her life pre bentos which I thought was boring) as it makes you feel enormously grateful that you can get some sleep and also makes you realise that no matter how damaged the brain is (her brain was completely fried) it can heal. Perfectly heal.

 

It's not a comfortable read though. Her experience of insomnia sent shivers down my spine. i almost couldnt read it at some points as I felt her pain so acutely.

 

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[[Ba...]]

I am going to read this book too.  I didn't sleep at all for 5 months. It may be why I finally collapsed and was hospitalized .

[[Ru...]]

At all Bailey?

Some half hours or hours here and there?

You'd definitely find it interesting. Im sure you could relate to most of what she has written.

How do you sleep now?

 

[[Ba...]]

I sleep well now but I'm on seroquel.

[[Ba...]]

I did not sleep when I was in Valium withdrawal. The weird thing was that I never felt tired and I mean never. I never got hungry either though I ate ice cream because I knew I had to eat but it was about the only thing I could eat.

 

I became weaker and weaker until my blood pressure dropped to 50 something over 30 something and I began to faint

 

Eventually I could not eat or drink and that's  when I was hospitalized. There I was put on fluids and then  Klonipin .

[[Ru...]]

Why were you put on drugs in the first place? Were you a good sleeper as a child? Did you sleep adequately before you went on drug?

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[[Ba...]]

Rubiskscube,  I had always slept well. As a matter of fact I was sleeping too much and my family was worried about me. My husband was being treated for cancer, the house had burned down, and several other EXTREMELY stressful things had happened. Why this yo yo put me in Valium is beyond me .

 

He was also the person who did not recognize that I Was having a paradoxical reaction to Valium and kept uping the dosage.