Just wanted to drop you some advice as i recently came off a years of Ativan use.
First off if you have no history of seizures then you can rest assured, its not going to happen at these dosages, its extremely unlikely. Seizures happen when people go cold turkey.
Doing .5mg cuts is easy now but it wont be when you get lower. I've managed to drop from 6mg to 2mg in the past with virtually no withdrawal symptoms. A mate of mine dropped from 4mg to 2mg and again no withdrawals. Once you get to about 1.5mg this will probably become an issue. In my experience dropping from 1.5mg to 1mg is hard and 1mg to .5mg is absolute torture. So once you get to 1.5mg i would advise shaving the pills with a blade and dropping .25mg at the most!
Once you get to 0.5mg i would advise dissolving the pills in a liquid and dropping 0.125mg for each cut or just get as precise as you can with a blade.
Just remember ITS WORTH IT :D
Thanks for chiming in, I have zero history of seizures + I'm on Depakote which in theory would help. I'm just going to keep the pace steady and listen to my body and hopefully work with my doctor. I talked to a mate of mine who rapid tapered in 3 months off of 4mg of Klonopin and he agreed that the initial cuts were easy, but once he got to the home stretch he had to really slow down as it was pretty bad for him. No seizures or anything like that, but rebound anxiety like a mother. I think I can get to 1.5-1mg at a decent pace but I will definitely take your advice about shaving or liquid tapering when I get to that point. I know it's going to be a hard road ahead but you're right it's absolutely worth it. I'm so tired of being on this drug which does nothing but give me chemical dependency.
I think my greatest fear was seizures/death, but the more I read and educate myself I think I'm doing this the right way. My biggest problem is that I have 2 full time jobs, a wife, and a family so I can't afford to go screw-loose and need to function. So I'm hoping the new doc's office will be a bit lenient and help me taper and/or give me more refills so I can taper with comfort.
I'm not a religious person by any means, but if stuff gets bad I may be "finding jesus" lol