I estimate the half life for c-lam active metabolites to be around 12 to 14 hours. longish for sure and enough to make you tired the next morning for a few hours if you does late in the day. but nothing like valium or some other RC benzos that have super long half life of 40 to 100 hours or more. After 3 or 4 days I think clonazolam is pretty much out of your system.
Clonazolam itself actually has a half life of about 3.5 hours so most of its action is likely through one of its metabolites (page 9 of the link below). If you read some of the case studies they talk about testing people for clonazolam and its metabolites within a week or two of them coming to the hospital / treatment and cant find it in their systems.
I think what benzos people like is going to vary person to person. A lot of people like Ativan a lot, for me it is okay but not great.
Useful thanks for sharing. The thing with Clonozolam though with me personally, duration and lingering effects aside, and it’s a shame because I always got the deepest undisturbed sleep with it, I just felt not myself mentally and not quite right in my skin the next day.
I’m abnormally in tune with my own bodily interactions, plus more attuned to the finer nuances of certain things most don’t often recognise.
To me at least, Clonozolam had much more pronounced and negative after effects at the lowest doses.
I dread to imagine how I’d have been at points to be abusing it to the same reckless level I have Etiz,
I was again doing quite well, holding about 10-10.7 mg’s consistently, occasional 13.3, but yesterday 15 mg’s.
7.5 today. Feeling less desire and need for it fortunately.
On 10 mg’s about consistently, and acceptable sleep, I can feel little side effects.
Over 10, especially 15 and it’s definite roughness.
So I’ll look to equalise a bit, or get back on a roll again.