Another question

[mwi3240]

Thank you for your response.  I'm going to try and keep to what the doctor said for as long as I can stand it.  When I get to the second week's worth, my plan is to go to 1/2 and then I have a Dr. visit scheduled when the second 7 are gone.  If I have it calculated right, that will be three weeks from now.   They called out klonopin, 3. 1mg/day.  I will also be able to get some ambian tomorrow or Friday, so if I can stay busy during the day and have the ambian at night and the klonopin for in the middle, I'm hoping it will be ok.  Today I started thinking that maybe I should just wait and do this next summer.  Here's the question I was afraid to ask the pharmacist.  I take clonodine for hot flashes menopause already.  If I also take a klonopin, for the withdrawals, and I take an ambian 5mg at night.  Is that too much stuff?

[mwi3240]

Ok, so I'm floating through the weekend on klonopin.  I'm hoping that when it's time to go back to school on Tuesday the worst of the withdrawals will be gone and I can back off the klonopin, maybe 1/2 if absolutely necessary.  Is klonopin a drug that is hard to stop, even after one week?  The next step will be to half the 5mg methadone.  I'm wondering if it will be just as bad as going from 2 to 1.  I hope not.  Is there a normal somewhere other than with drugs?  I want to feel normal again, but for me to feel normal I need a 5mg methadone and 4 narcos.  I do not want to do rehab or 12 step because I have been doing really well and am a well respected, sought after, teacher.  Except for walking weird and being slow getting up and down, I function normally on a day to day basis, until I come home and collapse on my bed and only talk to my two teenage sons from a lying down position.  The doctor has been awol.  Talking to him via his nurses he wanted to put me on nucenta.  I said absolutely not.  I've been there and done that, and that drug made me miserable.  So after the ramblling.  My question again, is there another normal for me and how long before I can get there?

[mwi3240]

Thanks again.  I took a couple of the klonopin yesterday and I am walking around at 1/2 speed today.  My mind is super foggy.  I'm so glad I don't have students this week.  You are right about it making me sleepy, but with the ambian, when you're up, you're up.  You're not walking around half asleep.  If I can get my ambian I'm going to use it at night and see if it works better than the klonopin.  I could reserve that for the really bad, skin crawling, get me another pill, syndrome.  This is day three of a three month nightmare.  I can do anything through Christ who strengthens me!  I think my family may do an intervention on my son, who is an alcoholic and is destroying his life.  I want to be able to say I am completely off of the pain meds when this happens so that he doesn't drag me off to rehab with him.  Ha Ha!

[tomskat]

Hi there and congrats on the first few steps!! I would speak to your pharmacist-they are a huge under-utilized resource that oftentimes know more about the drugs themselves then the doctors do. Hopefully you have a good one you can trust. I personally think it's too much. The Klonopin should be enough to put you to sleep,actually. But good luck to you and keep us posted!! You can do this!!!Stay strong!!~Anne

[vicki595]

Hi there!  I think it's too much. What you're needing to do is cut back to nothing on the pills,not add some,you know what I mean?  See what happens with the klonopin first. You may have enough to sleep. If not call the doctor.  The object is to get your brain chemicals working on their own; not with help.

Don't over think this. It may not be nearly as bad as you anticipate!!