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Miss Grace · 26-03-2010, 06:23 PM

Is anyone on Klonopin (Clonezapam)? I'm finding that the amount that I used to take for my anxiety attacks isn't working nearly as well. Has anyone experienced that, after being on it (or any other benzodiazopines - valium, ativan, Xanax) for a while, that your tolerance increases and you require more to calm you down? I know these types of meds can be addictive, so I don't want to take more unless I need to. And I tried talking to my doc about it a few weeks ago, but he just said "let's re-evaluate it next time"...) Well, I'm having anxiety NOW. Arrrrgh.

26-03-2010, 06:23 PM	#1
Miss Grace A Work in Progress RYL Sponsor Join Date: Mar 2010 I am currently:	Klonopin (Clonezapam) Is anyone on Klonopin (Clonezapam)? I'm finding that the amount that I used to take for my anxiety attacks isn't working nearly as well. Has anyone experienced that, after being on it (or any other benzodiazopines - valium, ativan, Xanax) for a while, that your tolerance increases and you require more to calm you down? I know these types of meds can be addictive, so I don't want to take more unless I need to. And I tried talking to my doc about it a few weeks ago, but he just said "let's re-evaluate it next time"...) Well, I'm having anxiety NOW. Arrrrgh.
	Mental illness is no different than any other disease. Just as the diabetic did not ask for diabetes, or the leukemic did not ask for cancer; we did not ask for this disease. But we must fight it just as we would fight any other medical diagnosis and accept that it is not our fault that we fell ill. We, too, can survive.