I'm losing my mind.
Been suffering from benzo withdrawal for almost 2 months now. I think. I stopped counting.
Starting tapering by 1/8 of a mg on March 1st. I decrease the amount every 2 weeks. I'm not at the point where I'm almost completely off of it. Only a few days left.
So far, I've experienced:
agitation
irritability
increased anxiety
flu-like symptoms for a few days after about 3 weeks of tapering
muscle tension
mild nausea
muscle jerking
restless leg syndrome
probably other things that I'm forgetting
those last 2 symptoms (#9 not included) are the most prevalent right now. The only real reason I'm writing this is because my phone is updating and I don't have anyone to talk to about this. But I NEED to talk about this, even if it's just to myself in journal form. and I'm currently being driven up the wall by the nerves in my right leg. It feels like electricity is shooting around my kneecap and down to my ankle. This is the most uncomfortable I've been since the early withdrawal symptoms.
Early on I found someone via Twitter who has gone through the same thing as me, and I've since adopted her as my "sponsor", for lack of a better term. She's been very helpful. I feel very lucky to have her help me along this journey.
This is the second time I've attempted to taper off klonopin. The first time I failed after 2 weeks. About a year and a half before that, I had experienced pretty bad withdrawal symptoms after running out of meds for 36 or so hours.
I'm tired of these symptoms. They're not nearly as bad as I was expecting, probably due to tapering so slowly. But it's still hell.
As I sit here, super uncomfortable, moving my leg every 30 seconds to feel the least bit more comfortable, I remind myself how easy it would be to just take my previous full dose and have all of this over with. Just go back to normal. Sure, I'd become a slave to this drug again, but I'd have my sanity and my comfort back.
I've been on klonopin for 7-8 years. I didn't want to get off of it. My psychiatrist insisted. I thought about getting a new one. The long-term effects scared me, but so did the withdrawals. Now I'm in limbo. I have been since March 1, 2023. I'm frustrated.
To give up is so tempting.
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TW…suicidality
I guess exhaustion makes my lips looser because started talking about increase in ideation and a flare of resentment around having to turn over my klonopin stash seven years ago. Took me months to build. The best plan I ever had…ruined.
Sooo…T wasn’t too thrilled about this spike and why I’m thinking about my stash all these years later (I still think about it, but not with anger usually). Part of it is definitely the insecurity around my program. He also thinks it might be anniversary related because in a couple weeks, it will be two years since my last inpatient and partial. And for over a decade, my average is two years between inpatient and/or partial. So I’m aware of the two year mark coming up…
Idk. T said I am one to return to the familiar. Maybe it’s just that…
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just ate 4mg klonopin n im out of k wtf i thought i had more but anyway. ill get more when i get home bc i have it prescribed daily so yeah lol
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Can't sleep since yesterday at 5am.
It's 5am again. Klonopin is making fun of me.
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personal journal
tw drugs
i got my klonopin filled plus my ambien and i have a shiiit ton of weeeeeeed
i'm so fucking chill rn and in minimal pain
absolutely faded
i love you guys sm
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