Hello, all

[[Ma...]]

Hi there,

I've been considering relinquishing Benzos for quite some time now. I now feel ready and excited, quite frankly. For about 4 years I've been prescribed 2mg of Clonazepam. I took it as needed for anxiety and honestly abused it more than not. I've done substantial reading on tapering off of Benzos and am planning on starting a straight-forward Direct Taper. I've read through a large portion of the forums, and you all appear to be wonderful people, whom I look forward to getting to know.

 

As a general rule I can go about 5 days without feeling any real withdrawal symptoms. I crave them, of course, but nothing physical hits me until approximately 5 days, and at that point It's awful. And from there I can take 1-2mg and last about another 5 days. So I'm not really sure where to start my baseline dose. And considering I usually take my Klonopin about every 2-3 days should I be taking my taper doses every 3 days?

 

My current plan is to clean the slate and take 1mg a day for 7 days and then taper down every two weeks by 15% . Anyway, I know this is only an introduction, but I thought I might squeeze in a few questions while I'm here.

 

Thanks In Advance,

Marlowe

[[ma...]]

 

Hello marlowe 

Welcome to benzobuddies you should never stop c/t these drugs 10% cut every 2/3 weeks

Feel free to look around others will be along shortly to welcome you, you will get a lot of support here

 

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Take care

Magrita

 

 

[[pi...]]

Hello Marlowe,

 

Welcome to Benzo Buddies, we are glad you found us.

 

Congratulations on your decision to become benzo free, this will lead you to a life of health and happiness.

 

I think that your plan to stabalize is correct.  You might consider stabalizing for a longer period of time if you are having strong symptoms.  Magrita is right, it is generally advised to cut no more than 10% at a time and some even cut less to make it gentler on your cns.

 

You will find a community of knowledgable, kind and caring people willing to help and encourage you.  Please feel free to ask questions.

 

pianogirl

[[On...]]

Hi there,

I've been considering relinquishing Benzos for quite some time now. I now feel ready and excited, quite frankly. For about 4 years I've been prescribed 2mg of Clonazepam. I took it as needed for anxiety and honestly abused it more than not. I've done substantial reading on tapering off of Benzos and am planning on starting a straight-forward Direct Taper. I've read through a large portion of the forums, and you all appear to be wonderful people, whom I look forward to getting to know.

 

As a general rule I can go about 5 days without feeling any real withdrawal symptoms. I crave them, of course, but nothing physical hits me until approximately 5 days, and at that point It's awful. And from there I can take 1-2mg and last about another 5 days. So I'm not really sure where to start my baseline dose. And considering I usually take my Klonopin about every 2-3 days should I be taking my taper doses every 3 days?

 

My current plan is to clean the slate and take 1mg a day for 7 days and then taper down every two weeks by 15% . Anyway, I know this is only an introduction, but I thought I might squeeze in a few questions while I'm here.

 

Thanks In Advance,

Marlowe

 

Hello Marlowe and welcome!

 

I'm not sure if you've seen the taper schedules on the Ashton Manual site, here it is; http://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/bzsched.htm.

 

Scroll down to the spreadsheet called "Schedule 5" you'll see the table for Clonazepam.