Anyone here got an easier taper on Klonopin instead of Valium?

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I am familiar with the Ashton Manual but when I switched to Valium things got really tough.

Any experience from someone who went through both tapers and found that K tapering was easier?

 

I never got hooked to Klonopin nor used it to taper. It's just that when I cross tapered from Xanax to Valium I started having much more trouble: I was unable to play online games with my friends during the pandemic because it was too much stimuli, then this symptom of "frying brain" got worse and I can't even work now because of the screens, meetings and rational effort needed for programming.

When V kicks in, it feels much less mental. I updosed to above 10mg this symptom still not only bothers me but made me not able to work since December. This is my outdated signature from benzobuddies:

First lines on Zoloft 100mg:

08/18-.5mg of Xanax

09/18-1.5X

10/18-1.25X

11/18-1X

12/18-.75X+5V

04/19-.5X+5V

07/19-.25X+5V

12/19-.25X+2.5V

01/20-.125X+2.5V

04/20-2.5V

05/20-1.25 then 1

06/20-.75

03/08/20-.70

24/08/20-.60

22/09/20-.50

06/10/20-.40

03/11/20-.30

16/11/20-Increased Zoloft to 150mg due to unbearable intrusive thoughts

30/11/20-1.25V w/ some updoses after that (2.5, 5)

08/21-Added pregabalin 225mg and swaped sertraline to Luvox (100mg)

04/22-200mg of pregabalin and updosed V to 7.5

05/22-10V

17/09/22-9.03mg compound pharmacy diazepam

18/10/22-8.58

17/12/22-8.15

15/01/23-7.84

05/02-7.5V

04/22-10V

Currently at: Luvox 100mg, pregabalin 200mg and Valium 10mg.

Sxs: Sensory overload, exacerbated OCD, tinnitus and GAD.

Any experiences or thoughts on this are welcomed.