Relative withdrawal - your experiences and suggestions

I developed tolerance withdrawal from 1 mg of Ativan after 4 months (12 hour panic attacks and insomnia). My doc suggested switching to Konopin. I am on .7 and have less insomnia (4-5 hours sleep) and less anxiety (5 - 9 am only) but now have depression. Any suggestions? Your experiences? I'm trying to decide if I continue to up the Klonopin which seems to help the anxiety but causes depression, find a doc to switch me to Valium or just start tapering now.  I appreciate your input!!

I would say that if you can stabilize on clonazepam you can carry on your taper using this benzo. Many people have done it successfully.

Heather Asthon's manual indicates that the crossover to diazepam is the best alternative if on the other benzo things get difficult.

 

I personally switched to diazepam from clonazepam because I couldn't be stable anymore on it. I was on a larger dose than you however, so I think it's not looking too bad for you and could achieve this on your current drug.