OP, were you prescribed the klompers or did you street buy them for recreation? If RXd, for what purpose (Klonopin, like all benzos, is normally RXd for anxiety/panic disorders but I've seen Klonopin RXd for seizures). If RXd, why did you want to come off them? Four mg per day is not a heavy dose. I think your taper was too rapid. Klonopin/clonazepam has a long duration of action and onset, it can take about 2 hours to start reaching theraputic levels in your blood stream for a lot of people. I think this is why you felt okay for a few days and then it smacked you with a vengance. I have been prescribed 8mg of Xanax daily for many years (I have a nasty ass panic disorder and 8mg of Xanax just gets me to normal mentally) and will require this for the rest of my life, along with opioid pain killers for pretty severe chronic pain (20 + years and counting, also a lifelong thing for me). I have never had the really hellish benzo WDs I've heard others speak of and say is worse than heroin WDs (which I think has to be an exaggeration, or the people saying it have never spent many years shooting good heroin several times every day). The worst benzo WDs have ever been for me was heavy anxiety that built to hellish panic attacks, plus some BZD seizures. Maybe that's because I've always had something onboard (normally opioids and liquor) on the occasions I ran out of Xanax early.
Something that may help you during the PAWS phaze is some alcohol (which also is a GABA-ergic drug like benzos). I would drink enough to get a bit of a buzz while remaining generally functional. For work hours, I would pack a flask of vodka and take a nip or three whenever I felt shaky. I recommend vodka because it's harder for people to smell than whisky, etc...... and flasks because they are small and flat, thus easily concealed. They don't hold enough alcohol to get you thru a long day, so you may want to keep a bottle of vodka and small funnel in your car and top up your flask on breaks or something. Don't get drunk at work or make it where co workers notice, but sneaking into a bathroom stall, getting comfortable, then eating a few Listarine breath strips (those little films are great, I used to keep a pack on my key chain because the containers have a hole for it) will be less noticeable than a shaky person full of anxiety in WDs. Just some advice from someone with experience in such matters. If you have anxiety/panic attacks, I would stay on a medication that's effective and helps me feel better. I wouldn't dream of asking my doctors to take me off or reduce my Roxicodone and Xanax. I'm in the process of trying to get my new pain Dr to raise my Roxicodone dose back to where it was (90mg per day instead of the 60mg per day I'm prescribed now). Without them, my life would be a living hell full of constant high levels of pain and anxiety with frequent panic attacks. At least with my roxys and xannys, I have some quality of life where the pain is at least dulled, I'm not constantly having a freak out, and can get around better, even tho I'm only in my mid 40s and my ass walks with the assistance of a cane. I'm too young for a cane and feeling like a broken, old man. But anyway, sorry for the tangent, I just wanted to offer some advice on what I'd do, from someone that's been there and done that. Good luck buddy.
