Hello all.
I've just finished a one week script of Nitrazepam 5mg for insomnia and my doc has now changed me to Clonazepam 2mg. As soon as I got them I popped 4 2mg pills equalling 8mg. I had a little taste of one and it tasted rather minty is that normal? Anyways should I be ok? I do feel wobbly when standing. Am I at risk of blacking out?
Hey OP! Because I want to help you out the most, I want to just get down to brass tacks here. This is all free of personal judgement. Please keep that in mind. You have a Benzodiazepine prescription
now. If you continue this sort of behavior, you won't in
the future. Such is the nature of addiction/compulsive drug use that we often convince ourselves that these instances are one-off occasions, but they usually are not. If this is your approach to Benzodiazepine usage, I am surprised that you actually got these in the first place. I can only assume that you're not yet "documented". If you would like to be able to get prescriptions like this in the future, please try to reel it in and become more responsible.
Benzodiazepines are not typically toxic as standalone poisons. If you combine this dosage with even a single alcoholic beverage, an Opioid or whatever, it could easily kill you. Even if death doesn't come by poly-substance intoxication, you could just as easily hit someone with a car/get hit by a car. The issue with blackout is that you are typically still able to do really dangerous shit to others even if you can't remember your own address. If you take 8mg Clonazepam and lock the door to your room and say goodnight, you will most likely not experience anything other than some next-day fog.
If you leave your house, literally anything could happen. Don't take any other drugs tonight man. You say you're struggling with insomnia. Again, no judgement, but I want you to consider what it's like for people who actually can't sleep. They would be desperate for the kind of relief you have and many can't get it due misuse by others. I'm not saying this is you. Maybe it is. Who knows, but the way in which you're using this script implies to me that you're not very serious about actually getting better.
You are going to go through all of these pills and be back at square one. If you stop now, you might be able to regain control over your situation and get some positive benefit from Benzodiazepines, but it's my 99.9% certainty belief that, given what has happened here, Benzodiazepines will be nothing but a detriment to you if you are in charge of your own prescription. Believe me dude, years of heavy Benzodiazepine dependence is not a pretty sight, on multiple levels.
Definitely at risk of blacking out. Please, for the sake of the community around you, don't approach such potentially dangerous drugs with such a cavalier attitude.