Can you get interdose withdrawal on Clonazapam? I thought the half life was 12 hours. I reinstated to 1 mg - .5 in morning and .5 at night. My first wean was 10% in the morning. I am also using a compound from pharmacy. I started my first 10% wean 8 days ago. But I haven’t really been stable since the ct in November. Did you start to feel any better at all during the wean? Were you able to work and feel any form of happy while withdrawing?
Yes you can interdose withdrawal with Clonazapam. Even though it's techinically in your body for 12 hours, as time goes on the blood concentration decreases, so less K in your blood stream hitting your blood brain barrier. If there is less, then this means more withdrawal symptoms. If you can keep a more steady concentration throughout the day it Will help decrease the withdrawal feelings between doses.
Cold Turkey really does a number on the brain. It takes time for it to recover. Reinstating was the best thing you could have done (in my opinion) - as it will decrease the Shock to your brain of having to repair itself with no help. Since you're back on K, your're brain now has help to find homeostasis, then as you slowly decrease your dosage your brain has a better chance at readjusting to a new homeostasis with each dose. I'm so sorry you're not doing well. But you are not alone, this is something we all go through on BB. It Will pass. It took me about 3 months to feel somewhat ok after I went cold turkey then reinstated.
I did start to feel better as i tapered. That said (as Ashton notes) my symptoms Waxed and Waned. Windows and waves were experienced. Some weeks I felt Ok, good enough to work but i still thought about what I was going through every second. Other weeks it was complete terror, and I just cried all day and shook in a corner. I am a CFO for a company in the oil and gas industry. so I really didn't have a choice to not work. I either had to take a leave or just continue working. I'm really not sure how i did it. but i continued working through it all. I took a lot of sick and vacation days. Some days I would close my door and just lay on the floor and cry. Some days it was just going through letting myself cry, letting myself have a melt down. and then trying hard to distract myself. And THEN some days I would get relief! Mostly at night time. And I would savor those moments of peace, and recharge for the next day, knowing that a Wave was probably around the corner.
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also -when you say 10%, did you mean 10% of 1mg of K ? which is roughly 1/8th of a 1mg pill? If so that's a good cut. Just stay longer on this dose, until you feel symptoms are decreasing. They won't go away, but you'll notice its not As bad. and you'll know ok i'm ready for another decrease etc.
