clonazepam withdrawl almost complete?

[veryworriedmomdad]

My 16 yr old daughter has been on clonazepam for 5 months now.  She has had serious side effects from this.  Auditory and visual hallucinations and also extreme  paranoia.  Since we have started titrating her off the clonazepam the auditory and visual hallucinations have subsided quite abit.  She still sees people walking around (who aren't really there).  She said they don't bother her.  She only has 1 troublesome visual/auditory hallunication- a man who she watched kill a little girl and tells her shes next.  Everytime she decreases her dose is when she sees him. The last time we decreased, she started seeing bugs in her food, HE told her is was for disobeying him. But since she's been on the lower dosage, that too has subsided.  Is this just her brain coming off the meds?  She has finally been sleeping better and her anxiety seems a little more at ease.  This has been such a long process and I know we still have more to go.

[derrickinvegas]

Hello everyone i know this is kinda of a old post, but anyways i recently ran out of my Soma 350mg, Ativan 2mg and Hydrocodone 10/325mg.... I ran out of all 3 medications on the same day on 5-18-2010.  I have been taking Ativan 3 times ED, Soma 3 times ED and Hydrocodone 4 times ED for 3 months 90days..... So on 5-21-2010  around 9:30am i was talking to my friend on the phone long distance and all i remember was i had paramedics all around me and they said i had a seizure or i over dosed on my medication because the bottles were empty... BUT I DID NOT OVERDOSE.... Now i am at the hospital waiting to get seen, the doctor finally sees me about 7 hours later well she did not take me serious and just sent me home tells me to get some rest. So i go outside and well I'm waiting for my brother to pick me up i called him and all i remember is he told me he was 5 minutes away. "THAT IS ALL I REMEMBER" So i woke back up in a Hospital Bed again i fell flat on the pavement i had another seizure that's what the DR. said. so Anyways well i was sound asleep i guess my brother asked nicely for the DR. to give me Ativan because that is what i needed the most so the DR. gave me Ativan. I was in the hospital for 3 days and well on Ativan i did not have another Seizure. I am at home now the DR. wrote me a script for Ativan to take every 8 hours 1mg.  I am talking i had 2 serious seizure i don't remember nothing when i fall to the pavement or when i had one laying on my couch. Another thing that is similar to other people on here. I had a EEG that came back Abnormal and i had an MRI with Contrast that came back Normal and the CT scans of my head and chest. was normal. I am just curious are these Seizures i have to live with do you think or will they go away totally after withdrawal????

Please let me know what you think?? Thanks.

[veryworriedmomdad]

Yes.  She only sees/hears things on the meds.  This past summer, her doctor put her on Prozac for anxiety/depression (our family dog of 11 years passed away).  After on it for 2-3 weeks she started with the hallucinations.  Took her off and they went away after a couple weeks.  Then in November he prescribed Clonazepam & Buspar to help with anxiety with school and sleeping.  After a month on them, she started with the hallucinations again.  We weened her off Buspar first and now we are at the final stages of clonazepam.  Her doctor wanted to up her clonazepam and put her on anti physcotic meds.  She and we  said NO.  I felt like that was only going to make things worse,  call it mothers intutition.  Her theraphist agreed with us to take her off the meds since she wasn't having any problems like that before the meds. :)

any ideas or thoughts, greatly appreciated!!!!

[cj29]

Did she only start seeing things after she was on the medication?  Have you talked to your prescribing doctor and her therapist about this?