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4mg Clonazepam cold turkey attempt.

Anxious.Individual

Anxious.Individual

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So I've rapidly tapered down from 6mg to 4mg within the last 2 weeks, and today I decided to try to go cold turkey at 4mg, it has been 30 hours since my last dose and I can feel the withdrawal already, and I obviously won't be sleeping tonight, instead when things get real bad, I will start measuring my heart rate every 15mins and blood pressure every 30mins and will post updates.

I will also update on the other symptoms throughout the night, and if things get too serious I will take the Clonazepams. Cold turkey attempt with flubromazolam was a fucking seizure and psychosis filled disaster, I hope this won't be as bad.

Wish me luck.

Anxious.Individual
 
Omg reading your thread makes me feel better about my situation... I'm addicted to IV h for 2-3 years now trying to cold turkey tonight ... I feel so bad for you :( it's so much more brutal and dangerous to quit benzos let alone klonopin let alone 6-4 mgs ... I attempted to quit h recently a few times each time taking benzos for a few days in a row maybe 7 days In a row usually Valium Xanax and klonopin mixed mainly Valium and Xanax , and realized I got minor addicted still in that period and now I cut down to like 3 mgs a day maybe 5 mg one day maybe skip a day ... If I were u with my little experience is try to just wait as long as you can and if it's unbareable take like .5 mg a micro dose for you and you'll be surprised how strong it'll feel at least you'll cut the amount of drugs in your blood at least that's my theory and what I try to do with h... I wait as long as I can with heroin short half life but idk what's gonna happen . Anyways update me good luck I'll be happy to help
 
That's a pretty rough ct AI. Do you have people around to at least monitor your progression. I CT'ed from around 2MG xanax and that quite the ride for quite a long time. That was November last year (almost exactly one year today). I was hit very hard within 48 hours but xanax definitely has a much shorter half-life than clonazepam. I've sub'ed to the thread. I hope you manage safely and positively!
 
Update:
Well, it has been over 3 hours since my first post, and the symptoms got significantly worse.
The tremor and jaw clenching is much worse. The twitching kicked in, and worst of all the psychosis...
its definitely here, I feel like I have warped fishbowl vision, I am starting to hear weird noises, and "the man in the corner of the eye" symptom is also here, wow, I did not see that coming, the symptoms got so much worse in only 3 hours.
I will update when I enter the seizure zone
EDIT: I also feel the "jolts of electricity" in my muscles and I can see weird shadows

Anxious.Individual
 
A quick update:
I have been measuring my heart rate and blood pressure and something's off.
My bpm is usually 80-85 but now it's 60-65 and I feel like my heart is beating heavy.
 
Well had to take my 4mg at 7am, just as I predicted this cold turkey attempt was also a disaster.

Everything was going well until 6am when my bpm went to 130-135, and some intense hallucinations also arrived. I managed to hold out for an hour, but then realised that I'm not achieving anything and just risking my life, so I took the clonaz.

I guess I will continue with my 0.5mg decrease every 3 days taper, but that's gonna take me a month.... :(
 
.5mg every 3 days is too fast of a taper. You will still feel uncomfortable because of the long halflife of clonazepam. Just be careful. At that dose of potent benzos I would probably be getting a medically assisted taper. Have you checked out the ashton manual? There is a lot of very good advice in there.

I finished my taper with xanax a few days ago I think. I am still foggy and full of anxiety, and my temazepam only gives me relief at night. I was only on .5-1mg a day of xanax for like five or six months. My withdrawals were not bad, but when I had to ct a 1-2mg a day over a year habit of clonazepam with xanax up to a few miligrams a day along with heroin I thought I was going to die. I would consult a physician if you can, and look into the ashton manual. Your taper schedule for how long and what your using is crazy.
 
Don't do .5 every 3 days that's too quick wait like 24 hours take .5 and see if that holds you off most likely not take .25 mg extra every 3-4 hours if possible you'll have a dose to look forward to when u feel like shit .
 
I hope you are okay man! i tappered down from 6mg Alplax / day and then 4mg Rivotril / day. Now i'm on 0.75mg Rivotril / Day, my tappering started 1 year and 6 months ago!! please be patient and do that way. With the help of Zoloft the withdrawals were like never were there! Please reconsider that..
 
Anxious.Individual said:
Well had to take my 4mg at 7am, just as I predicted this cold turkey attempt was also a disaster.

Everything was going well until 6am when my bpm went to 130-135, and some intense hallucinations also arrived. I managed to hold out for an hour, but then realised that I'm not achieving anything and just risking my life, so I took the clonaz.

I guess I will continue with my 0.5mg decrease every 3 days taper, but that's gonna take me a month.... :(
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These statements are what make benzodiazepines so dangerous. I was benzo free for 7 YEARS until December 22 of last year where I was immediately put on 4mgs of Clonazepam a day (I know how to speak the "language" like most addicts, but the Dr. still felt she didn't feel conformable with what she gave me). I knew what I was getting myself into.. It's now 11 months later and I'm on an 8th month taper that was my decisions (decreasing 0.5 each month) and I got down to 2.5 for a few weeks. I'm not finishing a 6 day addie binge and was taking dosages as high as 7mgs completely destroying the cycle. When I see him next month I'll tell him to stick to my current amount of 3mg a day.

About 10 years ago, I had 3 grand mal seizures in 5 days and was basically pronounced dead at a point from a 5 day taper of a 3mg clonzaepam legal script that i took for 2 years. Took me years to recover...The thread can be found under my old handle name PARooolller.

Start a SLOW taper or prepare for hell and/or death.
 
Why do you feel the need to quit COMPLETELY?

Why not just taper down to a lower dose like 1.5mgs and stay there?

I took 1.5mgs for 11 years with zero problems, stopped for 9 months and am back on again, still with no issues but only using 4 days a week and 3 off, again, with no issues and a better quality of life overall with less anxiety than when I'm benzo free.

I think people just take doses which are WAAAY too high.

These drugs can be used properly, even for extended periods of time, with few problems if discipline is maintained.

Anyways, i wish you the best of luck because i would strongly recommend you DON'T go cold turkey.

Stay safe.
 
Anxious.Individual said:
So I've rapidly tapered down from 6mg to 4mg within the last 2 weeks, and today I decided to try to go cold turkey at 4mg, it has been 30 hours since my last dose and I can feel the withdrawal already, and I obviously won't be sleeping tonight, instead when things get real bad, I will start measuring my heart rate every 15mins and blood pressure every 30mins and will post updates.

I will also update on the other symptoms throughout the night, and if things get too serious I will take the Clonazepams. Cold turkey attempt with flubromazolam was a fucking seizure and psychosis filled disaster, I hope this won't be as bad.

Wish me luck.

Anxious.Individual
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I thought my 5mg reduction per week of Diazepam was fast....

I got down to a steady 20 mg per day dose for around 2 weeks and then I blew it by taking 130mg one night and then going cold turkey for 4 days and then taking 80 mg, then cold turkey for 3 days and then taking 60 mg That was yesterday, and today I've decided to go back to 20 mg per day for the next week and if all is well I'll cut by 5 mg again.

I hope to be off by around Christmas/New Year..

Good luck to you ;)
 
Hey man take it easy and go slow. Sounds like your pretty hard on yourself. Sounds like you have access to the kpins and its not like you HAVE to turkey. I know what it feels like to get free of a drug but listening to your previous "seizure" experiences I would advise medical help and or the ashton method as a previous poster mentioned. Good luck
 
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