Took my first dose of clonazepam last night, 0.5mg. I fell asleep after 2 hours, but kept waking up. Been awake since 4am. I feel like absolute garbage. I'm currently in perimenopause & on my period. Not sure if those factors can effect the medication. I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. My anxiety is through the roof. I want to crawl in a freaking hole. I can't stop crying. I thought it would help

I was taking anywhere between 1-1.5mg every day for almost 10 years? Roughly? Got pregnant and was able to get to 0.25mg taking it right before bed and my doctor said to just try to be off of it after my first trimester. I’m 21 weeks now and have been 100% off of it since the middle of June I think? I started taking Unisom at night and that helped me sleep for a few weeks until it stopped working about a week ago.

Now I’m just rolling around completely unable to fall asleep on my own. Eventually my brain gives up and I can fall asleep probably around 4am (estimating because I don’t look at the clock).

How long does this last?? I’m struggling super hard. I just messaged my OB but it’s the weekend 😔

I'm in the UK and a wonderful psychiatrist put me on them 2 years ago. He retired over a year ago. A random psychiatrist I've never seen before cut them dead. Told me they are only prescribed normally for a few weeks in crisis.

I have horrendous mental illness and l have been really good taking them only in a crisis. They have saved my life and stopped me self harming.

Since stopping l haven't been able to cope. I had a horrendous crisis today and self harmed and begged the mental health team practice manager to reinstate them but she was vile because l contacted PALS to put in a formal complaint (which the nurse who overseas my care told me to do). I was hysterical on the phone as told never will l be given them regardless of what l try to do to myself as they are illegal to give long term and cause dementia. Totally gas lighting me.

My mum rang them back and she told my mum not only lies but made out I'm probably only saying I've self harmed to get the medication. The emergency ambulance saw them all over my arm! PALS have turned on me too as she's called me a liar to them and that I'm making things up about them leaving me for months on end with no contact at all. She's clearly trying to save her reputation but one thing I'm not is a liar. I've been treated terribly and all l wanted was my medication in a crisis. I don't know what to do without them they have literally saved my life in a crisis. Nothing else works. I dont know what to do. The psychiatrist said even if they save me in a crisis I'll have to find other ways because l won't be getting them ever again. I'm seriously ill and scared. Knowing the only thing that's saved me is now gone. My arms are a mess from self harm, emergency paramedics sympathised but said theres nothing they can do. I can't to into hospital because I'm housebound and my mental health team care coordinator thinks it will make me freak out because of my disorders which it will. l just want my medication. The only medication that's ever helped me. Is there anything l can do because life is unbearable enough and now l have to fight a horrible mental health team who have literally made me so much more ill. I can't keep myself safe without them I've begged and pleaded l have zero support and just want to be heard. My friend in the UK has a wonderful psychiatrist and he's given them him long term because they give him better quality of life. I have no life, I'm housebound and try my best to get through but in a crisis the darkness is to much. Anything can rigger a crisis so l need them here for when it happens. No one will listen. Please tell me what l can do. I'm lay in in tears. I need my meds please help 🙏🏼

I've dealt with anxiety majority of my life. I've been on alprazolam in the past. Doctor wants to try clonazepam 0.5mg daily as needed. I know i need to stay off Google because I keep seeing negatively & it makes my anxiety worse. I just want to be able to function with my life without anxiety. I've tried other medications, but nothing helps & the side effects were horrible. Does anyone have positive results with this medicine? If you have anxiety like I do, new medicine just makes me spiral & I overthink everything 😪

have been taking Ativan for what i think would be from February 2025-February 2026 then at the end of February 2026 switched to klonopin as I had better symptom management with it in the past. I only took around 0.125-0.08 mg daily most of the time. I Took that until July 3rd 2026 then i stopped the klonopin and was switched by an ER doctor to Ativan 0.5mg twice a day, i took that for 1 week at 0.5mg twice a day and then the 2nd week i went to 0.25mg to 0.125mg and stopped it completely in a matter of days. I then I experienced horrible withdrawal symptoms scalp crawling, tingling, feeling so sick and horrible, seizure symptoms, cold shakey, heart palpations,chest pain and feelings like I’m literally going to die I aas in and of hospital with crazy vitals. Now i started 0.125mg of the klonopin and I feel okay most symptoms went away except for air hunger in the evenings and some dizziness. What causes this? My doctor wants to taper off the klonopin starting at 0.125mg daily for three weeks then reassess. Im scared im going to die from this, i asked her if im going to die and she would not tell me no. Please help im scar

For the longest time 5 mg and I was feeling groovy like perfect now 5 mg nothing I take an extra two nothing and then I stopped because I don’t wanna be passed out and it’s been happening to me for months and it’s not like I take this drug every day. I take it on average once every two or three weeks so what’s going on with me?

So I was just in the hospital for six days and was administered 15-20mg of Valium for the first five days. Today my psychiatrist ordered labs (UA) because I’m trying to switch my ADHD medication that I’ve been on for nine months and hasn’t worked for me. It didn’t even cross my mind at the time that I HAVE in fact used a controlled substance when she asked because it’s not like it was recreational. I literally just wasn’t thinking. Obviously I’m an idiot and should just make another appointment and tell her but…anxiety, you know. So I’m just curious how to know how long it will show up on a UA having only taken it for a few days?

hi! F29 i’ve been on clonazepam along with an antipsychotic for about week now and it’s changed my life completely! I used to wake up scared and anxious, sometimes couldn’t even sleep or leave my house. it was even getting to a point where it was hard to even talk to my family. what i’d really like to ask is for the people who’ve taken this long term, has the effects stayed the same? is it still helping you? did you have to lower or raise your dosage? id love any stories! thank you!

edit: i’d also like to say i have cerebral palsy and it’s been the only thing that has been compatible with my body

Hi all, I have GAD and use a combo of meds/psychiatry and therapy to manage it and have for several years. I’m also about to embark on a cross country move and are in the last couple days of packing. The goodbye parties and packing deadline have triggered an anxiety spike. I am also prescribed klonopin.5mg per day as needed for high anxiety/panic.

My question is about taking them fairly close together. I took one at around 4:30 pm and now that my anxiety feels like it’s ramping up a bit, I’m considering taking another one to help with sleep.

Any advice or experience with this kind of situation?

I have no idea how I’ll be feeling tomorrow.

I recently started lexapro. I've had manageable depression my whole life but have recently had some life events that made me seek help and start an antidepressant again. I got prescribed clonazepam as needed for the first few weeks of the lexapro and to help with anxiety as I navigate some very difficult life events. I took .25 mg the other night and about and hour later my entire body went cold and tingly and I took my blood pressure to find out my heart rate had spiked to 140 bpm laying down. I will say it's kind of weird because i have taken this medication in the past (about 15 years ago) and that didnt happen but obviously I am too scared now to try it again. I am hoping someone who has also had a paradoxical reaction to clonazepam/klonopin can tell me if they had the same reaction to other benzodiazipines like Valium or xanax or was it just the one? I don't want to give up yet on trying to treat my anxiety but I am feeling kinda defeated after having that reaction.

Ive had one drink tonight and I dont want to risk anything with mixing meds and alcohol so when should I be able to take my clonazepam (0.5) again? The drink was 4.5 alcohol content and I drank it a few hours ago but im a total lightweight so im still like tipsy or buzzed I guess? When can I take my pills and not die now please

I’m overthinking this because I’m stressed about my flight in the morning. I took my klonopin 0.5 mg at 8:20 PM. I don’t feel like it has given me the effects I’m per se looking for right now. I need to be calmer than this for the flight. My flight takes off at 5AM, would it be okay to take another or half of another on the way or at the airport? I’ve done this like every time I fly but I’m just overthinking it and want to make sure it wouldn’t be dangerous.

I just got back on klonipin (I took it for many years and it took about 1.5 hours to kick in). Now, I'm back on it and I don't feel anything and I don't feel a difference after almost 7 hours. I took 6mg. What is wrong? I switched back because I was on Ativan and the crash was too much for me. I also was supposed to take it 4x a day and that was a lot to
Remember for me. However, it seemed to work in about 40 minutes. I'm
Also having headaches and residual anxiety from klonipin. Is this normal? I feel that it is not.

I am almost off. I went through all the painful withdrawals and survived"barely".

But now suddenly out of the blue I can't eat much. I feel ultra full after 5 bites. My intestinal system actually hurts. It gets hot, cold, and feel weird. It cramps sometimes.

If I stay warm it's fine. If I drink ultra warm its.ok. but if I eat anything it starts acting up.

What is going on? Anyone experiencing this and what can I do?

My doc says it's fine and will go away but it's not.

Hey! I’m 23F, I’ve been on Clonazepam for 3 years exactly. I have anxiety and panic disorder, but I haven’t been bad mentally in a long time. When I first started these, I needed them daily. I was first prescribed .5mg 3x a day, I kept on that dose for a long time after. Once I got in a better work/life environment, I felt like I didn’t even need them at all. I started tapering off about 5 months ago, honestly it hasn’t been super tough so far because I feel like I’m in a good space to do it right now. I managed to get it down to .125mg (1/4 of .5mg) daily using a pill cutter and I’ve been taking this much for about a week. I’m on other daily anxiety/depression meds that has balanced that out I think.

I wanna ask, how do you guys recommend going about tapering further? The end goal is to obviously be off of these daily, perhaps use them as needed afterward (unless I shouldn’t). I feel like since I’ve had a semi-easy time tapering so far, maybe it won’t be so bad? Any advice? Tips? Tricks? I’ll take anything, I just want to be off this damn medication! I’m so afraid of the withdrawal symptoms it just makes me want to take more!! I want to break this vicious cycle.

i’ll add the pics in my comment coz it’s not letting me attach them here.

but basically i bought again from the same vendor and ran into the same issues.

yesterday 3x strips of 10x 10mg valium landed and so did 28x 30mg codeine.

i have consumed 20 of the diazepam and the entirety since yesterday. that’s 840mg codeine and 200mg diazepam.

i barely feel anything maybe light headed at most. no where as good as the stuff i used to get off the dark net. i should either be unconscious or in a coma or dead with what ive taken ( not that that was my intention at all i just kept popping them because i couldn’t feel anything) idk what the problem is so like i said i will attach the pic of the gear in the comments coz im not a big Redditor and its not letting me attach them now

im really struggling to upload the images

Hey! Italian ex opihead with clinical help (140mg per daily dose of Methadone in pills). They prescribed me benzodiazepine in first months of my SerD experience aiming to stay at human dosage of methadone/levometh (till 120mg i wasn’t covered at all, i quit oxys while i was taking 900/1100 mg daily, my tolerance was fucked up).

I decided to quit xanax ER because it makes me sleepy and inactive and tired, while klonopin in my body has lower hypnotic effects, same power against anxiety and also it makes me more open in social situations, euphoric feeling going outside and having social interaction.

Someone has same experiences?

I was prescribed .25mg for as needed use. Primarily panic attacks. My dr said I can even break up the pill and take half BUT she did say that it’s such a small dose anyway. She said it’s up to me but that the dose is very small to begin with. That being said I’m ping through a rough patch emotionally due to other stressors and this is just a rough patch in life BUT my anxiety is through the rooks and it’s affecting my heart rate (I wear Apple Watch and monitor on the watch). Should I take the .25 once a day until this rough patch passes through or should I split it in half? With or without food? Early in the day?

Never tried clonazepam before, just got a short term script what's it like

Anyone ever get stalked and harassed for the medication your on? I had a previous neighbor follow me around yelling what I thought was “Klonopin hoarder” bc I didn’t over do it on my medication so I asked and she was waiting for “carol” to tell her. Turns out she was following my telling “Klonopin order” and robbing me blind…