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Clonazepam - Experienced - I Knew I Missed It

chairmanma084

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i apologize slightly in advance. i just wanted to express my satisfaction with the effects of klonopin.

I got my Rx refilled yesterday after not having insurance for about 3 months. 3 refills of 30 x 1mg clonazepam (klonopin) to last me 3 months. I got tons of ambien too (hate the stuff really).

ok, i took my first dose of clonazepam last night at around 9pm. before this, i'd smoked about 1g cannabis in the hour before. To wash it down, I had 1 x 12oz beer.

after about an hour i noticed my fuzzy, giggly high. maybe i wouldn't call it a high. it's more like a respite. it is a relief from constant anxiety, which leads me to the point of this post.

last night after taking the pill, i intentionally tried to stress myself out. i mean, BAD. i tried as hard as i could to think about the bad things i'd done to my fiance, the money I owe to the world, how bad my credit score is, you know...all that sorta shit.

anyway, my efforts amounted to nothing. there was nothing I could do to evoke real anxiety. every time i'd spark a thought related to something stressful, my mind would just kinda giggle or push it to the side. in fact, it was hard to really concentrate on any one thing at all.

i'm not trying to reiterate on and harp about a drug doing what it's supposed to do. but it is quite amazing that while under the influence of this benzo, i am utterly incapable of stressing myself out.

it's great stuff. now i just gotta make sure not to abuse it.
 
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ok now instead of not caring about stuff try fixing it now that you can focus on what it is without caring..
 
benzos are bandaids for a broken leg...

...although sometimes a handful of bandaids is the only thing you have to build a makeshift splint before you can get a proper cast put on that permenantly heals the bone

Anything that makes you feel (or have lack of any feelings in that "good way") so great for no reason and so easily is essentially never a good thing, and is obviously ultra fricken addictive. I've been taking clonazepam daily for 6 years now. I used to be at 16mg a day at my worst..I've spent the last few months doing a slow taper detox off of it. I'm now proud to say I'm at .5mg a day and soon to be zero. It has definately been a long rough and rocky ride. Benzo addiction is psychologically far worse than opiate addiction imo, and withdrawals from benzos is/can be very dangerous, to the point of risking a serious psychotic flip-out, seizure(s), and death. Even when I was no longer getting any theraputic relief from benzos what so ever (I just took it because if I didn't I'd be shaking uncontrollably, racing thoughts over the racecar's redline, all the physical symptoms of a non-stop panic attack to the max, constant suicidal ideation, almost nothing but delusional thought processes, the feeling of being sabotaged and attacked by my own mind and body..etc), and knowing how stupid (literally stupid as in a severely dulled intellect/fried processing powers, the daily death of my personality and conscience) the crap made me..I still wouldn't stop. I wouldn't even stop when a random blood test was done to check the concentration of the plasma levels of it in my system confirmed that it was way too far into the toxic range. It took an OD on opiates, ending up in the ER/ICU then an inpatient detox of the opiates...it took a "forced stay" in the hospital for ~2 weeks in the hospital with my doctor ordering the hospital to withhold giving me my standard daily dosage of the benzo to start the detox on my clonazepam usage...acute titration (immediately went from 16mg to 8mg, then to 6mg before I left the hospital...then slowly, at .5mg every 14-21 days..depending on how I was functioning and felt), with no way of being able to cheat it. Benzos seriously make you so god damn retarded. They calm you down by making you slow and stupid...they slow down the rate (and the amount?) of neurons firing in your brain..so you're anxiety is relieved because you're as ignorant, if not more, than a 5 year old. It got to the point where I was completely forgetting common place words every single day like "chain-link (fence)", "stoop", "rupture", etc...you know it..if you can. :) ....Getting some occasional anxiety relief from benzos isn't going to harm you (arguably..a lot of people get so uninhibited from them that they do the stupidest things and many times don't even remember doing them because they weren't even conscious of what they did...they can even make you super aggressive, hostile and an arrogant asshole ..this being because you're now holding back essentially nothing (shy from being a strait up beast in the zoo), where as before you were holding back so much that you felt like you were suffocating in your own mind. This very extreme polar shift of your emotional state leads to a drastic shift in your mental state. Tricking the brain into thinking that the blood pouring out of a gunshot wound to the stomach doesn't hurt and that you're fine because you feel nothing is obviously a death sentece to nowhere..'cept death. Benzos to treat anxiety is like a bandaid on a broken leg. However, for many people that suffer from debilitating anxiety, to artificially feel (from benzos and what not) what it's like to not have anxiety and panic attacks for even a few hours, can be a very useful thing...to rebuild hope and confidence in yourself to do whatever it takes to fix/heal yourself for real and for good. To give yourself a reminder of what "it was like" and "can be". You simply can't be/get there without doing the hard work. There's nothing easy to the solution of your problem, and only you know/will know/find out, what that is, if you ever do. It won't happen from popping a pill. I attribute use a benzos more to like a ride in an ambulance to the ER, or the forced visit to start going to NA/AA or some crap like that by a judge from drug court, and eventually you quit going (stop taking the benzos), and eventually muster up the courage and will to not just make yourself go on your own, but to want to go on your own, and actually want to work the program and really work it..this would be like therapy (or whatever it is that finally helps in curing/permenantly reducing your anxiety, and making you a happy, and/or at least balanced person). I'm just gonna stop now because I totally forgot where I was going with this and my back fucking hurts...'tis a shame I came across like a total idiot....whatever, maybe someone got something out of this dribble. Good luck with the klonopin.
 
yes sir. it is VERY VERY VERY freakin addictive. it is dangerous and most unnatural. however, for some weird reason, i do not "enjoy" taking klonopin. i never have a desire to take it. in fact, i'd usually NOT take it. i can't even seem to take it when i'm supposed to. it seems like i'm taking it (on average, which means nothing) about every 3 days or nights.

and JESUS CHRIST i know all about withdrawal from benzos. two years ago when i first started stealing these from my Dad, i ended up taking at least 3mg every night before bed (he had years and years worth saved up). Then, they were gone. I was too young/dumb to realize what was going on and couldn't do anything. the derealization/depersonalization and depression were pure killers. i failed out of my day program @ school, etc.

but, back to the point, i basically just felt like posting a trip report while i was currently taking/intoxicated with the drug in subject to be able to put something into words that i felt was very important.

i do have some other emotional issues that affect me. in truth, i don't know how to deal with them. i know that klonopin is not the right answer, especially in the long term.

has anyone else here tried BUSPAR or buspirone? my dr. prescribed them if/when i'm tired of running from my problems.
 
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Buspar doesn't feel anything like any other anti-anxiety medication I've ever taken. I used to be prescribed Buspar, and sometimes it just made me anxious (yeah, ???) because it made me so uncomfortable like fingers in light sockets. Definitely don't ever try to take Buspar for a panic attack.
 
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Buspar doesn't feel anything like any other anti-anxiety medication I've ever taken. I used to be prescribed Buspar, and sometimes it just made me anxious (yeah, ???) because it made me so uncomfortable like fingers in light sockets. Definitely don't ever try to take Buspar for a panic attack.

really? that sucks. i get that strange finger/hand feeling from all benzos. it feels like they are slightly numb, lightweight, and have an unusual texture. what is this called or how common is it?

buspar makes you anxious? that sucks. i haven't decided on whether or not i'll begin taking it this coming week. i'm concerned a little. thankfully, i don't have panic attacks. i just have socially & professionally debilitating anxiety that also translates into torturous bouts of insomnia.

basically i think the Dr. Rx'd buspar b/c she doesn't want me to get hooked on benzos long term. quoting her, "I have patients who have been on buspar for 15 years with great success." what i worry about is whether or not this med will be enough to tackle those "Late Night Worries" that keep us all up from time to time.

this is totally understandable. i went to this particular Dr. after being released from drug detox/rehabilitation, so she knows all about my drug abuse. she also knows that benzos (now at least) are not my DOC.

i guess you could say i'm @ a turning point: to stay with Klonopin or switch to Buspar?
 
If you take the time to go through the actual hell that is getting off of Klonopin, then you'd be best to just not take anxiety meds anymore. Buspar is bullshit, it's not even a GABA agonist of any kind. I think it works on serotonin.
 
thankfully, i don't have panic attacks. i just have socially & professionally debilitating anxiety that also translates into torturous bouts of insomnia.

If I were you I would try to stop smoking cannabis, then if that doesn't help with your anxiety (which I doubt), let the anti-anxiety drugs flow. And that advice being from someone who smoked cannabis for 15 years. Simple as that.
 
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