I Took Klonopin Again Last Night

[unico_love]

I had been feeling anxious and panicky, though in a quiet sort of way, but I think it was making me nauseated. I have overall been doing better, but I still get these random flahses and emotional outbursts (though I am a naturally emotional/emotionally expressive person to begin with, usually). Sometimes when I am anxious and overwhelmed, though, it's like expression would require more energy than I have at the time, because I'm getting weak from the intensity of panic. Klonopin did help with my stomach, but instead of calming me, it made me simply expel all my panic and emotions outward and I didn't really feel any better for it (though it did exhaust me sufficiently physically to sleep). I get super verbal on it. I don't even know what I'm saying/writing half the time. I just keep having bad experiences with it, though, so I'm wondering if I should stop taking it entirely. Maybe I can try xanax; I was made to take it before for a little while to sleep and nothing bad happened. I'll have to see. I have a headache now. I just hate the day after I take klonopin. I swear I now start feeling like I have a hangover when I take it.

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"I just keep having bad experiences with it, though, so I'm wondering if I should stop taking it entirely."

I'd say that would be the only rational thing to do.

"Maybe I can try xanax; I was made to take it before for a little while to sleep and nothing bad happened."

Maybe you can get off benzodiazepines entirely before something bad (http://www.recoveryconnection.org/drug_index/benzodiazepine.php) does happen. There's a recovery support group (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/benzo/) on Yahoo; you might like to check it out. Good luck!

[unico-love.livejournal.com]

I don't need to go into recovery. I rarely take them.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

That's good, but you might want to read what the people in that community have to say about their experiences anyway, because it might help you sort out what's going on with your side-effects. You have good reason to be concerned about this, because the reaction to the Klonopin that you describe sounds like a paradoxical reaction (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/489358), and you need to tell your doctor about it:



You're on the autism spectrum, therefore are more at risk of anomalous drug reactions and, specifically, disinhibition (http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/26/12/460), than the general population:



Anyway, your prescribing physician needs to know in detail about what's been happening to you on Klonopin before you ask for another benzodiazepine, especially Xanax. Given your family history, it seems reasonable to suspect you may have a genetic intolerance to this class of drugs. If your doctor's a GP rather than a psychiatrist, he/she may know little more about these drugs than what the drug-company sales reps had to say, so it's up to you to educate yourself about them (http://www.breggin.com/bzbkexcerpt.html) if you intend to keep on taking them.