Klonopin Depression Pills, Antidepressant Drugs, Prescription, Meds, Medications
Posted over a year ago
i take klonopin 3 times a day, per doctor, plus many other antidepression drugs, i think i am addicted, because i cant seem to function at all, help me. i dont know what to do, i am a mother of 2 children, and husband, and i cant even function at all. am i overdosing, my doctor keeps tripleing my perscription on all my depression pills.
Sharon07 - I'm only a couple of years too late in this response but I just found the site. I hope that by now you have found a way out of the mess your doctors have put you in. I have a friend that her doctors were giving her so many medications that she couldn't function. She finally told them that she wasn't taking them any more. The doctors cut WAAAAY back on her meds and she is almost normal now. It took a long time though.
Sharon. dashadow07@aol.com
Avgconsum - Just some info about benzodiazepines for you---I was continually getting sicker and sicker over the course of years taking a benzodiazepine like Klonopin and doctors could not connect the dots- they did not realize I was in tolerance withdrawal which can happen after you have been taking this drug for more than two weeks consecutively. I now know that this drug supresses the HPA Axis (which inturn affects your hormone levels), affects the following neurotransmitters either directly or indirectly: GABA, Serotonin, Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Acetycholine- increases Glutamate levels, blunts CRH in the brain. If you look up 'Benzodiazepine Dependence' in Wikipedia you can read more about it. Another good resource is Pubmed. You may want to go to Benzobuddies.org to find out more information. I was taken off this drug too quickly and was plunged into a physical and mental hell that is litterally indescribable. It has been 19 months since my last dose and I still suffer numerous protracted withdrawal symptoms. Doctors iatrogenically addict patients to this drug then have no idea the withdrawal syndrome even exists past 30 days- and therefore disregard any ongoing complaints from their patients. The United Kingdom is aware of this problem and is the only country actively working on changing the prescribing laws. The Ashton Manual (which you can read on-line if you do a search) is a helpful tool which you can print out and bring to your doctor. It provides clinical informationon the withdrawal and tapering schedules. The Parliament in the UK is using this manual as a guide.
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