No Benzo W/D After Quitting. Any Insight?

[ericmm1331]

Hey BL, I Have recently quit Klonopin almost cold turkey with no signs of withdrawal whatsoever.
I took Klonopin for a little over 6 months before I decided to I didn't really need it anymore.

I was RXed 1mg a day, for roughly 3 weeks before I moved to 1mg two times daily.
After two weeks of that dosage, I moved onto 2mg 3x daily. I took this for roughly 5 1/2 months. At the end of this time frame I cut myself down to a 2mg pill once a week, I was scared I might end up seizing, I was not experiencing any negative effects from the drastic cut, I was more so scared something would happen, and decided it would be best if I had some in my blood. (Holy run on)

After around a month of dosing once a week with no negative effects, I just stopped taking them without thinking about it.
I went a little over a month of not taking any Kpins with no adverse side effects, and no withdrawal symptoms to speak of whatsoever. How could this be that I didn't experience any w/d symptoms, let alone no negative side effects of stopping? I'd love to hear any feedback. I have a slow metabolism, 2 cells in the chromosomes of CYP2D6, only one is fully working. Also I take OP Oxy daily. Thank you for your time!

 

[Hapomen22]

"After around a month of dosing once a week with no negative effects, I just stopped taking them without thinking about it. "

You tapered, this is why you didn't notice any withdrawals, cause you slowly lowered the dose and didn't exactly quitted cold turkey, so your brain didn't freak out.

I quitted cold turkey after 2 months of each other day 1mg use, and got some mild withdrawals that lasted 3-4 days to a week max.

 

[ericmm1331]

@hapomen22 I understand that I tapered. But I went from 2mg 3x a day, to 2mg once a week. Id say that Iis a drastic reduction.

 

[pasha]

Consider yourself lucky and stop while you're still at it.

 

[Tommyboy]

@hapomen22 I understand that I tapered. But I went from 2mg 3x a day, to 2mg once a week. Id say that Iis a drastic reduction.

Klonopin has a long half-life which makes it easier to come off compared to shorter acting benzos like xanax. I realize that your reduction was drastic, but if you haven't been on a medication for too long it's usually relatively easy to lower your dose. It's not going from a moderate dose to a low dose that is rough, it's going from something to nothing that is hard.

Given the long half-life your 2mg once a week dose likely resulted in you slowly having less and less of the drug in your system as the week went on, which was enough to act as an effective taper for you. Either that or you were just lucky as some people are more resistant to experiencing withdrawals compared to others.

 

[BlueHues]

Consider yourself lucky and stop while you're still at it.

^This exactly.

Also they do have a long half-life, you used a taper and you weren't really on them that long to begin with. You're still quite fortunate to have experienced no WDs though.

 

[ericmm1331]

Klonopin has a long half-life which makes it easier to come off compared to shorter acting benzos like xanax. I realize that your reduction was drastic, but if you haven't been on a medication for too long it's usually relatively easy to lower your dose. It's not going from a moderate dose to a low dose that is rough, it's going from something to nothing that is hard.

Given the long half-life your 2mg once a week dose likely resulted in you slowly having less and less of the drug in your system as the week went on, which was enough to act as an effective taper for you. Either that or you were just lucky as some people are more resistant to experiencing withdrawals compared to others.

This was exactly the answer I was looking for. Thank you! ~End thread

 

[F1n1shed]

Cutting your self down to 2mg ONE time a week is not a taper. I have no idea how you didn't go through withdrawals. ATM i have built my self a habit with my k-pins. I try to keep it as low as possible, just .5mg a day. But if i don't dose the next day i start getting withdrawal symptoms. My mind starts racing, i can't focus, feel real anxious and worried. I have no idea how OP's situation is possible when i get bad symptoms from using only .5mg a day.....

 

[BlueHues]

Now that re-read, that's not much of a taper...It can take some people longer than others to build a dependence though!

 

[ericmm1331]

Cutting your self down to 2mg ONE time a week is not a taper. I have no idea how you didn't go through withdrawals. ATM i have built my self a habit with my k-pins. I try to keep it as low as possible, just .5mg a day. But if i don't dose the next day i start getting withdrawal symptoms. My mind starts racing, i can't focus, feel real anxious and worried. I have no idea how OP's situation is possible when i get bad symptoms from using only .5mg a day.....

I didn't think my situation would be 'classified' as a taper either. It just seemed to big of a jump for other people to be successful with. I didn't experience any bad symptoms from the cut, and totally jumping off all of it. The only bad thing was it took about an hour longer to sleep for maybe a week after I totally quit. I also was and still continue to take around 30mg Oxy OP everyday, which might have attributed to not feeling as many symptoms. I also only view kpins as tools for anxiety, and not something recreational. Even then I didn't like that the beznos were tools around 3 months into my use.

 

[F1n1shed]

O well that's your answer right there. If you are taking oxy daily that would mask the withdrawals, i am certain of this. When i got off xanax the first time i used low dose oxy every day and it completely killed my withdrawals. If you didn't have those oxys you would have been in for a ride eric.

 

[phactor]

Some people are more resistant, the first benzo withdrawal I went through I had no idea I was in WD, just felt off. It was over within 24 hours too. Same for opiates, 24 hours of sickness.. no clue why.

Taking oxy daily will also help mask the withdrawals as others have noted.

 

[sonicwhite]

Most likely it came from you forgetting about the drug....I noticed when I cut back from .5 twice daily to once that if I just forget how I feel because these suckers are addictive. Then I get better and feel better....You also weaned some and wasn't on very long but, long enough to feel withdrawal. IDK maybe your blessed. I wish I could stop but klonopin is the only drug that helps me OCD......