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I had the most debilitating panic attacks! I started getting them at 23 yrs old. Beforehand, I didn't even know there was such a thing! I thought I was having a heart attack (other panic-disorder sufferers know what I mean!) So, for YEARS, I would have an attack w/out any outside trigger or reason. I stopped drinking coffee, alcohol, and even thought that I was causing them from eating high-fat fo...

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Until June, I have been on 6mgs of this poison for seven years. In my opinion, it is given out to easily, prescribed at high doses for too long at a time, and is highly addictive if used for most two weeks. I've been going through withdrawal for weeks and it is only the beginning of what I will endure. Just watch the videos on Youtube or Google Klonopin Withdrawal and you will be horrified. I have...

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Hannah | 19-24 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
1/29/2024
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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I have been prescribed 0.5 mg of klonopin for almost three years and even the thought of taking one during a panic attack will calm me down!

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Jeffallen | 45-54 | Male | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
12/2/2023
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 4.7
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The only mental med that makes me feel comfortable with myself

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Ryan Stevens | 19-24 | Male | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
11/27/2023
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 1.0
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This medication is worse than any of the pharma pandemics going on at the moment. I was prescribed due to panic attacks that i was getting from using recreational drugs, which i wish my doctor would've just told me to stop using said drugs and I would've been fine. Instead he prescribed me Klonopin. Very very long story short, it worked well for six months and then I started having severe adverse affects from the drugs. I then realized how awful it is to taper off these medications. I have tapered off of plenty medications in my past time but nothing comes even close to this. I know have severe intrusive thoughts of hurting others and myself which i never had prior to the Klonopin use, I either feel like a walking zombie or I want to tear my skin off, and much more symptoms that are too long to list. I have been tapering safely for around a year and a half and it has been pure utter torture. Please just knowledge yourself of the dangers of this drug. With all this being said I am trying to meet in the middle and say that I am not against it but it should be taken when needed and not of every day use. Unfortunately, my prescription was 2mg tablet split up 1mg morning 1 mg night. Now I can barely talk, walk, work, you name it. I was once a division 1 goalkeeper that played semi professional soccer for the u-23 rowdies and had a contract for the Florida Elite USL 2 team and now I, like many others that have a similar journey, would describe myself as disabled. Please please consider my story before taking these medications. Much loveRead More Read Less

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MS | 25-34 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
11/7/2023
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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I have been taking .25 mg once a day for about 3 years now for severe anxiety. My psychiatrist put me on it when I was enduring intense physical pain, psychotic and dissociative episodes, crippling anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, neurological/nerve symptoms, and insomnia. I desperately needed an intervention, even though I was hestitant, he made the right call with clonazepam, because I was truly in hell. It has helped me. Clonazepam has allowed me to regulate my sleeping and has definitely lowered my anxiety. I am able to function better. Also it doesn't feel like my tolerance has gone up. I feel like this medication is still as effective as it was when I first started taking it. I suggest taking the lowest dose possible because you really don't need a lot for it to work, in my experience anyway. I intend to never get off of it. At this point I can't imagine my life without it. I was able to get through so much horror in my life because of it. I also meditate and do a lot of stuff like that, so I recommend meditating and doing similar therapies along with this medication and for anxiety in general to get more benefit.Read More Read Less

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Denise | 65-74 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
9/6/2023
Condition: Other
Overall rating 4.7
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CPTSD & other related conditions kept me on Xanax for decades. Detox with medical care, supervision n& drug cocktails was effective. However, I had to become psychotic briefly for 1/8 mg more of Xanax to stop. My new Psychiatrist has been weaning me off it from 5mg day, to .5 mg 2 x day with .5 to use if panicking. Now I’m off of Xanax! He began Klonopin ER .5 2x day. I’m not done withdrawing from the Xanax yet. The Klonopin really works. I feel normal (I think). It’s been one day though….. So, what can I expect? How do I get off the Klonopin? How bad is Klonopin WD if I get hooked? What do I take next (usually)?Read More Read Less

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Alzair | 45-54 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
7/8/2023
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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If I take 1 mg of Klonopin it lessens my anxiety, thus lessening my fibromyalgia pain, which gives me a lot of energy and ability to get things done

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Paul Sanchez | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
6/15/2023
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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After 14 years on Imipramine that surpressed my 24/7 6 month panic disorder that started on August 8th, 1986, I had breaktrough symptoms in 1998. I then have sucessfully been treated as I write today using 1.0 mg Clanazepam (2023) with absolutely no side-eefects affects. When I wake up I feel normal, and unlike my experience with xanax (1986) in Graduate school, I raised to kids by my self and worked as a scientist with national security clrearance. Based on my behavior and positive input from my peers, the FBI agreed that my description that the medication did not impair my work in four five year reviews (2000) (2005) (2010) (2015). I retired in 2019 and continue working on my doctorate. Alcohol brings out oncerning impairment, which is why the two are only combined right before bed. I live a hyperactive yet functional life at the age of 64, learning Spanish in Mexico and engaged in the best life I could have hoped for. And when /i moved here and looked for a doctor in San Diego, they said I needed to get of Cloanepam because it caused Alzheimers. I read the studies. I do not believe I fit into that cohort.Read More Read Less

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SatisfiedPatien | 55-64 | Female | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
6/16/2022
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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I have been on .50mg of Klonopin since about 2009. From 2009, for 1.5 years I had to split the pill to make it .25mg - I am so drug sensitive that it took me that long to adjust the full .50. From 2011(?) until mid 2015, I continued to take .50mg, once a day, at night. Mid-2015 I went off the drug but NOT because it was not working. My then life conditions changed and I was able to exist without it. From 2018 through 2019, I went back on it at .50mg, once a day, at night. I managed to acquire a different medical condition which was being affected by stress and generalized anxiety, so to improve the medical condition, I went back on this drug. Near the very end of 2019, I read a Harvard (?) study suggesting long term use could impact you as far as Alzheimer's or Dementia. I decided to go back off it. I would still be off it if not for Covid! The Covid 19 lockdown affected my life so much, that by May 2020, I did need to go back on Klonopin. IMPORTANT: Although indicated as an addictive drug and I personally DO HAVE an addictive personality type, I have never since 2009 gone over .50mg a day, taken at night. Regarding other side affects, other than the initial dose in 2009 which did make me wobbly and I had to reduce to .25, I have not had a single side affect from this drug! I do some really intense work with numbers, formulas, all sorts of minutiae, and I am fully functional at 6 hours after taking my .50mg. I am really sorry this drug gets such a bad rap because for me it really works. It was ultimately decided by MULTIPLE doctors and PAs, that at the very low dosage I am on I am not likely to encounter the negative long-term issues normally associated with any drug in the benzodiazapine family. Read More Read Less

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Brandon | 25-34 | Male | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
4/24/2022
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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Klonopin or clonazepam is the only medication yhat has controlled my debilitating panic attacks without feeling like I am on any "drugs". I take 1 mg 2-3 times daily. If home all day only 1 mg. This medicine is a life saver. Do not listen to the fools who talk bad about its reputation. Ssris and anti psychotic have worse side effects and what happens to a diabetic when they stop their insulin? They're diabetes comes back. Same thing with people getting "scared off of benzodiazepines" they end up living a bad quality of life out of some false conception that it's wrong to take a medication for a MEDICAL CONDITION because you might have to take it for life. Does a chronic pain patient considered an addict if he takes his prescribed vicodin without abusing it? No he is not. Neither are people who suffer from anxiety or panic disorder that find LIFE SAVING RELIEF from Klonopin.Read More Read Less

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19 | 13-18 | Male | On medication for 1 to less than 2 years | Patient
1/20/2022
Condition: Seizure with Loss of Normal Tone or Strength
Overall rating 5.0
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Hello , I was taking clonazepam and stopped. The only drug that can destroy the effects of clonazepam is carbamazepine. So if you have panic attacks and seizures, tell your doctor to prescribe carbamazepine. Do you sad and worry about the future? Do not worry about the future because we are unaware of our future. If something goes wrong, we should worry, not worry about the problem. Remember, when we die, should the moments of death was worries or our love and affection? In the shelter of God.

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What2do | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
12/13/2021
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 3.7
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I take 1 mg klonopin for anxiety and to help with sleep. I have always been on same dose. If I run out of pills i cannot sleep at all and feel like I am having a heart attack. Over time the pills are not as effective but will not up dose bc I am already addicted. Also I am experiencing memory loss. At first I thought these pills were the greatest but not so much now. The pills should not be used every day bc of addiction and tolerance. Personally I need to also find an effective anti depressant.Read More Read Less

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Sad dad | 45-54 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Caregiver
12/6/2021
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 2.0
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Klonopin destroyed my life and damaged my whole family especially my young daughters. It was given to me for panic to take as needed. It does calm you quickly but at the highest price. Very real side effects include paranoia, fatigue, confusion, and impaired judgement. I made several terrible terrible business decisions while taking it. But the worst side effects come when you stop it. For me zero sleep insomnia, chest pain, fatigue, muscle loss, emotional emptiness, and SUICIDAL thoughts/acts that go on and on. It has been four months since my last dose and all I do is lay in bed. My body is mush. My daughters are watching their once vibrant dad erode to nothing and I am helpless. Read More Read Less

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Paul | 19-24 | Male | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
4/22/2021
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 2.3
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I had od on Xanax, and then sent over too a behavioral health hospital and well there for a 8 days I was talking klonopin twice a day this drug would give me nightmares and I thought it was because of the place I was in but my first day out of the behavior health Hospital I found out that is one of the side effects

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The Amateur | 35-44 | Male | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
3/31/2021
Condition: Extreme Apprehension or Fear of Social Interaction
Overall rating 5.0
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I have found this to be exponentially better for my situation than something like xanax, because of the longer duration. However, I highly recommend taking it on days when interaction is necessary. If taken every day, it doesn't seem to be *quite* as beneficial.

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Blindbat | 75 or over | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
12/5/2020
Condition: Mania associated with Bipolar Disorder, Adjunct Treatment
Overall rating 1.0
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In 1997, Age 55, male, occasional low levels of hypomania. My doc was testing for an effective Rx regimen and prescribed Klonipin. I had an intense, horrible allergic reaction beginning within about 20 minutes and lasting about 24 hours. The reaction was neurological, an intense itching over my entire skin surface. It seemed almost unbearable, couldn't releive it by scratching, bathing, laying down, standing up, using creams, ointments, etc. It felt like every nerve in/on my skin was afire/'screaming'. Nothing releived it. Never again. All from one little pill. Now 78 and the only other extreme alergy reactions I've ever had are to statins.Read More Read Less

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TShoot | 45-54 | Male | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
3/28/2020
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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I have used Klonopin for the past 10 years for insomnia and anxiety/panic attacks. It is THE single most effective thing that works everytime for me. I never abuse it. If I was tired, I only took 1mg at night and, only if started to have a panic attack, would I take 1mg during the day. I worked a high stress job for 18 years (over six figures+). Much better than self medicating with alcohol. Been down that slippery slope once and I would take Klonopin every day of the week versus Ambien/Lunesta/Trazadone/SSRIs/TCIs because, for me it always works. The ONLY reason I stopped taking it was because my new job (Health care field) FREAKs if Benzos show up in your urinalysis. I cut it cold turkey from about 3mg per to zero. A bit of an anxious 5 days but nothing like trying to quit hard alcohol use where for 3-5 days you feel like you have the worst flu ever (too cold then sweating through all of your clothes, the shakes/tremors, etc.) I did these "detoxes" at home with no supporting meds to ease into a detox. Klonopin was my friend. Klonopin had less side affects, worked as predicted all the time and, cutting it off cold turkey after a 10 years run, was not 1/5th as bad as quitting a heavy use of alcohol for a couple of years. Everyone is different, talk to your doctor about what is right for you. HINT, heavy drinking is NOT your friend - almost everything you will regret during this time frame is when you were drunk - trust me.Read More Read Less

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KJC77 | 35-44 | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
5/27/2019
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 3.7
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This med helps but I don't like the long term effect on the brain especially short term memory loss. I'm taking a med for ADHD which helps my mind stay sharp and a low dose of Zyprexa Zydis to control irritability and panic attacks while getting off this medication. It does the job to stop panic attacks but not everyone responds to this med in the same way. Over several years I went from taking 6mg of klonopin to 1.5mg of klonopin. It is a very difficult med to get off of but I only recommend you take it if you are in constant state of panic and terror. My life went from having panic attacks which led to depression and eventually led to bipolar disorder. I'm tapering off the medication slowly but I don't know if I like the way I'm feeling. While tapering off of it, I've noticed that I am more antisocial(nonviolent) but I think this is temporary till Klonopin leaves my system. Be careful and choose your medications wisely. I hope you find peace in your life.Read More Read Less

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SadOldMan | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
2/6/2019
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 2.7
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An incompetent GP prescribed 3 mg per day for ten months. I became unable to function in any way. Stay away from benzos, push for CBT, DBT, etc. DO NOT use drugs to control anxiety, they are poison.

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Howdy Doody | 55-64 | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
12/17/2018
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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This medication saved my life. I suffer from crippling arthritis and failed spinal fusion. I was taking diazepam on and on for 20 years with opioid therapy. I was stable on them. Suddenly my pain doctor did not look at my medical history and see that I could not take SRI SSRI having tried them all. The fentanyl insert states benzodiazepine therapy is reserved for people that cannot take SRI drugs. A more knowledgeable pain doctor recognized this an put me on clonazepam. I had been off the valium for 5 months and nearly died. The CDC opioid prescribing guidelines are actually Guidelies. Read More Read Less

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Weiner Dog Man | 55-64 | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
12/14/2018
Condition: Panic Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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Immediate elimination of my anxiety and panic. I spent every waking hour with racing thoughts. One dose and they are gone! I use them with fentanyl patches because I cannot take any SRI, SSRI because they cause serotonin syndrome and clonus.

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