Hope someone here can help me... My Dr. has switched me from lorazepam to clonazepam. At the moment I am taking .0625 clonazepam and .125 lorazepam. Yesterday I took .125mg lorazepam in the morning and .0625mg clonazepam in the evening. I felt okay. Today I took .0625 clonazepam in the morning and was feeling very anxious and uneasy all day. I took .125 lorazepam this evening and still not feeling so good.
Does it take a while for the clonazepam to build up? Or is it just my body trying to adjust to the clonazepam? And will things get better? Not sure how to proceed from here. Any help would be appreciated..... 
Hi [...]
Yes, Clonazepam does take time to build up in your system. It might not take as long as Valium but it's not instant.
Let's just take a step back and look at your situation.
1) You have been waiting for your doctor's appointment so you could get a long-acting benzo.
2) During this time your taper was on hold
3) You finally get to your doctor but the Valium dose is too low
4) You have to make yet another appointment and then you get K
5) You plan a gradual crossover schedule
6) You start your crossover, the first night of the crossover seems good and you go full out on the crossover
I'm doing this stepwise so you can see you are probably rushing the crossover but also so you can see the rushing part is logical. Gosh, your taper has been on hold for such a long time and then the first night of the crossover went well. It makes sense that with everything happening you would attempt to go faster. So I hope you won't beat yourself up over this.
What I think you need to remember is that a crossover would inevitably have withdrawal/uncomfortableness with it. I mentioned it earlier in this thread. I did not expect you to go through this crossover not having any symptoms at all (it would've happened if you crossed to V as well).
If it were me, I would go back to the original crossover schedule. I suggest tomorrow you start with your Lorazepam dose in the morning again and then continue with K in the evening and we continue with that for a week. Please remember, no
expect there will be symptoms present as you crossover. I don't want you to get anxious about these as it will likely increase the intensity of your symptoms.
Also, I don't want you to get upset about rushing and changing the schedule. It happened. I want you to think about this crossover as something that
you have chosen and therefore you can manage and face the symptoms. You are in control, not the benzo, not the symptoms. Because
you have chosen this path. When we start thinking about our symptoms in an empowering way instead of fearing it, we become mentally more resilient to face it and push through.
Soon this crossover will be in your past and you'll be tapering your way down to zero! You can absolutely do this!
