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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

klonopin .5BID or 1QD?

My script I was speaking of on the other thread was for 1mg, 3 times a day or as needed. I thought that was kinda crazy since I had no benzo tolerance at the time. It is pretty long lasting, but if you need to absolutely control your anxiety 24/7 I'd say you'd need it twice a day.

Grapefruit and Tagamet (Cimetidine) potentiate it. It works sublingually (sp?), but the generics I got took a long time to "melt" under my tongue. I didn't see any noticeable difference between swallowing and sublingually.
 
yeah seems to work better swallowed actually.

rougly how long does it last? i would think like 8hrs. i suppose thats good enough. the dr said she would give me 1mg BID but i was like nah .5mg BID is fine. i dont know if i made the right choice. i mean 1mg is all i need but thats at once. if i need it more than once a day im screwed. fuck it i should have got 1mg BID. its ok, next month i can always go up.
 
I'd say 8 hours is pretty accurate. You'll only feel that benzo type buzz for 2 hours, but it will work on the anxiety for about 8. If .5mg isn't working at first, the half life is pretty long so if you're taking it consistently it could start controlling your anxiety a little better in a couple days hopefully. I never took clonazepam regularly so I don't really know. I used to take xanax constantly up to 8mg a day when I was really bad and it turned into a nightmare. At the beginning it totally solved all my problems, but I built tolerance so quick I could take 4mgs at once and not get any relief. It seems for actually managing constant anxiety clonazepam on a regular dosing schedule is more ideal than xanax. Hope it works for you. Even if its not working completely, at least mentally you know you're doing something to help. And that can be important. When I was doing nothing to help it really weighed on me just knowing I was gonna feel terrible forever. I still have anxiety problems and don't take benzos regularly, but I'm a lot better than I was before.
 
Ive been taking 2mg Clonazepam everyday sometimes 3mg for the last 4days since i started my heroin withdrawal and its been helping a lot.. I dont really feel anything off of them, they are making the withdrawal very minimal... Well im also taking 20-30mg of methadone as well... and trazadone for sleep.... This is only going to go on for a couple more days then imma start suboxone for 4 days. at 2mg a day... then stop it all.
 
if i were you i would go up to the 1mg 2xday and to start off break a 1mg pill in half making 2 .5mg pieces and take .5mg and keep the other 1.5mg on you and when it is time for your other .5mg take it (even if it is earlier than your next dose as you will still have the extra 1mg to take).
Sometimes just having the extra MG there with you can be enough to help anxiety knowing "i have it in case i need it" instead of "what do i do if i run out too soon?"
So basically i would go with getting scripted 2mg a day and break it up into 4 .5mg pieces and take it as needed. You might surprise yourself by how little you might need when you know you have "plenty" to get you by and that thought alone can help anxiety.. good luck :)
 
HdoubleODeezy said:
Sometimes just having the extra MG there with you can be enough to help anxiety knowing "i have it in case i need it" instead of "what do i do if i run out too soon?" You might surprise yourself by how little you might need when you know you have "plenty" to get you by and that thought alone can help anxiety.. good luck :)
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Thats what I was kinda trying to say. Just knowing relief is available or a possibility can take away some of the anxiety.
 
Lol,
I used to live in Hopkinton and Concord for about 15 years. Maybe thats it, NH people think alike.
 
studies say 1mg is optimal for anxiety. and 1mg does work better than .5 but 1mg at once works better than .5 BID. so i would just like to take a full 1mg in the morning and nothing for the rest of the day. should work all the way up until 5pm. ill try it out tomorrow.

i still have lyrica too. at the dr today i found out i gained 13lbs in 1 MONTH. i mean.....how is that even possible. same scale, same clothes....just unfathomable. so my original idea of cycling on and off lyrica with klonopin has modified to cyling off klonopin with lyrica.

ill prob take my kpins throughout the work week and take lyrica on weekends. i DEF want to take lyrica one week out of the month though as i think this will prevent tolerance and addiction developing to the klonopin.

this sound plausible?
 
homeydontplaythat said:
studies say 1mg is optimal for anxiety. and 1mg does work better than .5 but 1mg at once works better than .5 BID. so i would just like to take a full 1mg in the morning and nothing for the rest of the day. should work all the way up until 5pm. ill try it out tomorrow.

i still have lyrica too. at the dr today i found out i gained 13lbs in 1 MONTH. i mean.....how is that even possible. same scale, same clothes....just unfathomable. so my original idea of cycling on and off lyrica with klonopin has modified to cyling off klonopin with lyrica.

ill prob take my kpins throughout the work week and take lyrica on weekends. i DEF want to take lyrica one week out of the month though as i think this will prevent tolerance and addiction developing to the klonopin.

this sound plausible?
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i think you will still become addicted to k pins even if you only take them during the week and take a break on the weekend. and i don't think a 1 week break is long enough to prevent addiction unless it is (week1- k pin, week2- lyrica, week3- kpin, week4- lyrica) <- just a suggestion, i am not a doctor, nor do i like to play one lol.

i have plenty experience with benzodiazepines but absolutely none with Lyrica. So take my advice with a grain of salt.
 
hmm, it takes about 1 month of daily use to get addicted to benzos and opioids. by taking klonopin only on weekdays 3 weeks out of the month and not at all the last week of the month that is 15 days out of the month which is half the month....so i wouldnt even be using it a full 3 weeks. i would think id be safe that way. you think not? i respect your opinion. thats why i ask,.
 
i would take lyrica more often but im afraid of becoming retarded again and gaining 13lbs IN ONE MONTH like this last month. that shit is too much for me. we shall see. i talked to my dr and she said it sounded like an excellent idea. i take small doses of a long acting benzo and only take it 2 weeks out of the month. she agreed there would be NO way i could get addicted using in that fashion. beyond addiction, tolerance should not go up at all either.

this keeps lyrica tolerance down too so that it actually works. im prety optimistic. the only thing i wonder about is if 1mg once a day is enough. i have a feeling it will be.

the orginial question i had was if 1mg once a day would be enough to cover me all day. i think it should be.
 
WOW i already feel so much more cognizant after having stopped lyrica for just one day. it will probably take a month to start losing some of this weight though. i still can get my mind around it. 13lbs in 1 month.....thats more than 3lbs per week. i havent even been eating much at all. stuff is balls crazy.

i dont know though. even using lyrica half the month that still may be too much too get back to fat retard status. i feel happy now. i think it will work out ok.
 
... ok, i had a long post typed out but i guess you just wanted an answer to your original question..
yes 1mg/daily will be fine. At first.
I'm outta this convo.
 
dude, fuck what the dr said. i wanted to know what you think. thats the whole point of BL, we the patients know the reality of the situation not the text books shit drs are told.
 
potentiating with tagamet allows my klonopin to have noticeable side effects the next day...tramadol + klonopin(with tagamet) + marijuana makes me feel amazing :)
 
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