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New Klonopin question for Ryan

by Pa1965, Dec 19, 2007 02:43PM
I made a post earlier about being on 1 mgs b.i.d of Clonazepam per day for the past 11 years successfully until three weeks ago when I had some panic breakthroughs where my doctor increased my dose to 1.25 mgs b.i.d.  I was posting to see how to wean back down to my maintenance dose of 1 mg b.i.d since I was feeling better, but didn't hear back, so I started to wean back on my own slowly.

I cut the extra 0.5 mg dose in half by taking only an extra .125 mgs in the morning, and .125 mgs at night simultaneously instead of the .25 mgs in the morning and night.  I felt some anxiety the first night, and it got worse the second night, so I went back up to the extra 0.5 dosage thinking this might not be a good time to wean back, if at all.  This may be my new maintenance dose - the extra 0.5 mgs per day.  

The problem is, now that I'm back up (it's been two days now) to where I was (2.5 mgs per day - 1.25 mgs b.i.d), I still have a lot of anxiety breaking through whereas, I didn't before the wean.  Could this be because my steady-state plasma levels have to readjust again from the wean, or would it not take that long to get back to steady-state since it was only two days I did the wean?  I'm hoping that is the reason as I am not comfortable going any higher than the dose I'm at now of 2.5 mgs per day.

Thanks again.  
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