About Klonopin? - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

TLP53 · 04-01-2005, 08:10 AM

Can anyone give me feedback on Klonopin???

I've been on Lamictal for about about 8 months, it works great.

BUT....(there's always a but)

I have developed an anxiety/panic problem...AND I DON"T LIKE IT!

I'm going to my PDr. at the end of the month and I want to go in armed.

How does Klonopin affect you and does it make you a vegetable?

M* - I see you are taking it, can you give me some advise? Have you tried any others? Is it better than Xanax? By the way, the double spacing is for you. (LOL)

MellyMel · 04-01-2005, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by TLP53

Can anyone give me feedback on Klonopin???

I've been on Lamictal for about about 8 months, it works great.

BUT....(there's always a but)

I have developed an anxiety/panic problem...AND I DON"T LIKE IT!

I'm going to my PDr. at the end of the month and I want to go in armed.

How does Klonopin affect you and does it make you a vegetable?

M* - I see you are taking it, can you give me some advise? Have you tried any others? Is it better than Xanax? By the way, the double spacing is for you. (LOL)

I was on Klonopin for almost 15 years. I does NOT make you a vegetable. I took 0.5 mg. 2 x's a day. I was able to work..get married..have a child..and it helped my anxiety disorder a GREAT deal. The only problem is that it is a very physically dependant kind of drug and is hard to come off. I was finally weened off it almost a year ago, taking propanalol in transition, and I am fine now. Good luck and I think it did miracles for my life anyway.

Melly

reesie · 04-01-2005, 10:30 AM

Ditto what Melly said, I've been on klonopin 3x daily and it swats down an anxiety/panic attack in a minute but you don't become a docile child. You're very approximate to "normal" But the stuff really is addictive. I lost track of my script refills and went without for a couple of days. My the end of the second day I was curled up in a ball with a migraine, nausea, and shaking. It's not an experience I reccomend.

loopyturtle · 04-02-2005, 10:37 AM

I am also on Lamictal and klonopin. For a while I had to try to use an alternative to the klonopin, as the person prescribing my meds couldn't prescribe benzo's. Once I got the klonopin back, things got soooo much better. I don't take a large dose, so never have experienced withdrawal. Then again, I get periodic migrains that sound like what reesie was describing, so don't know if I would recognize it. But, no, no zombification. I am just a non-panicked verson of who I am. And that is good.

Loopy

TLP53 · 04-02-2005, 02:24 PM

Thanks guys,
I appreciate the feedback.

But Melly, Why did you get off, did you find something better?
And Loopy, whats a Benzo?
Is there anything similar to Klonopin that is not so addictive?
Is Klonopin in the same family as Xanax?

Hope you see this,
Terry