Once a week should be fine at those dosages, but try your best to stay to once a week. The second that you tell yourself it would be okay to take it twice a week is when you get into trouble. Not because twice a week would screw you over but because its the beginning of a craving
buspar is the shittiest meds there is for ME when i first tried it nothing but dizzy spells right after another
plenty of other options i had success with lexapro and prozac
IME i have been taking xanax for over a yr on and off sometimes weeks or a month is between doses and no adverse effect whatsoever
the chance of building tolerance if truly using it one day out of the week is super low
better yet thats how benzos are suppose to be used once a week once a month or really when you do need it ....what a lot of people dont understand and dive in head first then rant about how shitty benzos are when they're WD
far as taking a benzo before a psychedelic all you're gonna do is ruin the effect meaning you wasted the psych for nothing
benzo should only be used when shit hits the fan while on a psychedelic sorta like an emergency stop button
another thing about WD people dont understand the WD becomes horrific when you are on high doses of a benzo not a tiny amount OP.....actually surprised you still take such a low dose of either one
why you dont try to talk to your doc to stop cold turkey or a rapid taper ......highly highly doubt youll exp nothing more than some rebound anxiety which isnt life threatening
i see doses at the level for a long period of time to be a placebo
Damn man, you are telling him that he can't take more than 2.0mgs of Klonopin A WEEK and that more than that he's asking for trouble?!?!
I am prescribed 1.5mgs of Klonopin and my doctor suggests I just don't take it more than 5 days a week to avoid addiction, but speaking from personal experience I actually took 1.0-1.5mgs of Klonopin EVERY day for 11 years and although I was VERY stupidly taken off it cold turkey which probably SHOULD have been dangerous I stiil had no WD.
Now I realize I'm a HUGE anomaly in that regard and NO ONE should EVER stop a benzo cold turkey or use it EVERY SINGLE day like I did, but saying someone can only take 2.0mgs ONE day a WEEK or they are asking for trouble is just plain ridiculous in terms of being WAAAAY too strict.
OP: I'd say don't take more than 2.0mgs--3 days a week never two days in a row and you should be ok.
Really, everyone is different in this regard and there's no one correct answer here to how much you can or can't take to avoid WD.
If anyone is proof that this is something that WIDELY varies from person to person it's me.
Quetiapine withdrawal can be very bad. My "friend" whom I met on twitter, not IRL, is doing it now. She's in constant frantic misery and rarely sleeps.
If you get free and clean of benzos the best thing would be to never touch one again. With alcohol and nicotine that has been completely true for me. I was so messed up on Abilify with restless legs/akathisia that I was out of my head and would have eaten raw snails or given up a finger to make it stop. So 1 beer, and bowl of tobacco and 5 years later I have spent about $18,000 since hooking myself back on. That's two trips around the world, plus a decent used car. I like menthol ecigs so much that I don''t even want to quit.
Lets see from pharmacokinetic point of view. 2 mg a week (I am sure I would not need 2 mg dose this time, as even 0,5-1 mg works now for me) with a T1/2 of clonazepam being 1-2 days means you may still have 0.15-0.2 mg of a drug left in your system after a week (if you are "unlucky" [or lucky] person with T1/2 of 2 days). The next week you will add to this amount (I am lazy to do the precise math), and you will be approaching the concentration, what is twice the previous, what means you may have 0.3-0.4 mg of clonazepam in your body all the time at least. This is an equivalent to 5-10 mg of diazepam, what is not very small amount, and people are withdrawing from this amount.
These calculations regarding clonazepam do not leave my head, and I still think it is better to choose at least alprazolam or lorazepam for these issues in equivalent dosages, not long acting clonazepam.
I don't think that kind of math matters once you are below like 0.4 mgs of Klonopin or whatever IMO which is a seriously tiny amount for me personally.
I personally have used so much of it for so many years that I am used to almost always having a very small amount of it in my blood stream which is something that people who don't use it seem to have some kind of issue with for some reason.
It's just a natural staple of my life, like saying that I always have some amount of caffeine and some amount of Lexapro in my system.
I am always on these 3 drugs and Klonopin has very few side effects for me except SOME tiredness but that's not present on a small dose.
To have less than 0.5mgs of Klonopin in your system is IMO irrelevant but it's your body so if that idea bothers you then don't use it.
Wait, did you just say you are a doctor in one of your posts???
Why are you asking for mostly non-medical opinions on this if you are a doctor??