Cant do this withdrawal!!

I got a pill cutter and I trimmed just a tiny bit of one pill off yesterday. Since its a 2mg pill, I cut it in half and the cut that in half and then just trimmed off a tiny bit from one of those. So I'm guessing that I took a 4th less. Isnt that .25 mgs?

EVERYTHING is going wrong!!!! Mostly its the feeling in my chest I'd complain about. It feels so tight while my heart will race very easily if I dont be just so still! My whole body trembles and I even feel it in my chest. I feel like I could throw up at any minute. I'm literally shaking! Breathing is difficult or it feels it anyway. Since I'm so shakey, it feels like its strange to breath. Like I notice that I keep holding my breath. I start breathing normal again but as soon as I forget to concentrate on it, I'm back to doing it again. My head hurts so bad from the very bottom of my skull in the back all the way around and feels like my ears are trying to push air out and are just going to pop wide open and pop is too small a word!!

My bowels arent normal. My stomach is so cramped up and I've been getting alot of those severe gas pains. The ones you get when you really need to go and you have to hold on to something and cant breath bc the sharp pain hits.

Its really hard for me to talk out loud! My thoughts are racing so fast that I cant even begin a converstation. My thoughts are starting to be hopeless! I'm angry at everything! I've been crying over hopelessness alot!

Please just lend me some support! I have a apt today at the mental health clinic but its only an intake apt. I dont think they are going to be able to help much. I know I wont get to see a nurse or doctor because it will take a month or more to get in to see one of them.

Anybody that has done klonopin withdrawal without the help of diazepam, how did you cope???

Thanks for reading!!!!!!

Hi there...I cold turkeyed Lexapro...nightmare.  Then I decided to wean off Valium.  I am going through the same nightmare even  though I have been tapering very slowly and in very low doses since July.  I found a website that is helping me through the wean, thank God.  Benzo's are Nasty buggers to come off of...all of them.  Some people on Klonopin cross over to valium because it has a longer half life and stays in your system longer.  I have yet to find a doctor who has a clue about withdrawal from these drugs...both of mine told me to stop both the SSRI and Benzo Cold turkey, and at the same time.  When I complained about the symptoms(brain zaps, crying jags, infections, headaches, the inabilty to articulate a single sentence etc) they told me to go back on them...uh, no.

Your symptoms are typical of withdrawal.  If you have an understanding doctor ask him about a  sensible weaning schedule....and don't rush it even though it might take some time.  Good luck to you and hang in there...they are only symptoms and are not harmful!

Donna

I dont exactly know what to say to him or her tho? See I dont want them to think I am putting down their job or ability but it is VERY important to me that they dont try to wean me too fast!! I know the ER doctor was wrong trying to come down a mg a week !! And I know that its important to come off it for the baby!! But I have to come off slower than 1/4th a mg a week or something!!

Can you guys give me any advice on what to say to the doctor? How to word it? I find that alot of doctors I've seen unfortunatly think the weaning process is easy or something. I dont know what those poor ppl do in rehab coming off things like this waaaaay too fast! I dont want to think about it! I'll just pray for them!!

Any advice would be good. And what do I also say if he/she tries to wean me off too fast? What do I say if the schedual they put me on is a far cry from the weaning schedual Kitt showed me? The one I trust! I have a hard time sticking up for myself!

Thank you!!

Post Edited (Raynebow) : 1/18/2011 1:10:21 PM (GMT-7)