im severe insomniac, i take clonopan, ambian and trazadone...of which many a week where it doesnt work...
but i now do what they suggest is taper down for a few days...and then go back up..yes i dont sleep...but yu need to make your body used to a lesser dose for the higher dose to work again..
what will happen if you keep going up and up and up?? at some point you will feel horribly ill, it will affect everything....and it wont work at all anymore...
so i feel your pain...i just dont always think increasing is always the best answer /default_smile.png
I was a severe insomniac for probably over a decade from 2000-2012/2013. i still have occasional sleepless nights but lately I've been managing to get a decent amount of sleep which allows me to function normally.Having chronic insomnia is one of the most uncomfortable and emotionally damaging things I've experienced. There were times where I would be freaking out and obsessed with thoughts like is it possible to die form lack of sleep? Honestly on some of my worst days I would say I felt close to suicidal during those times. Xanax and Klonapins helped me get a little bit of sleep in the beginning but my tolerance built up pretty rapidly. I also tried ambien but that too didn't have much of an effect for me. Basically I've just been fighting this over the years and now I am doing slightly better. i think working long hours doing manual labor helps me a bit because when I get home my body is so tired that I have to lay down and rest. Thanks for your response and i agree with you that increasing you medication is not always the answer. I think 4mgs of Clonz a day is a high dose. Okay well I feel your pain too and I hope that you are getting better because I've been there before and I was feeling so depressed and hopeless sometimes, but I'm feeling better now. So don't give up. I think you have to keep tweaking your diet and daily activities to find a nutrition program, and a job or hobby that will take your mind off of your pain.
Good Luck!
My doctor prescribes me 30 2mg clonazepam pills every month. I take them at night to help me sleep, but lately I find that 2mg doesn't help me so much, so sometimes I take 2 of them which is 4mgs. So next time I see my doctor I want to ask him if he can write me a script for 60 2mg Clonazepams instead of 30. I guess I will try to explain to him that I need 4 mgs of it at night. Does anyone here think that this would be a reasonable request, or is it asking for too much? So far my doctor has been pretty liberal with his prescriptions, he's been giving me almost everything I ask for, but I don't know if asking for 60 clonazepams instead of 30 would be pushing it. I guess it can't hurt to ask though right?
Did you have your doctor's visit already? I would explain my situation to him so he won't feel like you are using him. It's a tough call. I personally think that's a lot of clonnies and would rather you get a script for something else like Lunesta but then I don't know your background. Maybe Lunesta doesn't work for you but clonnies, from what I've read are very hard to get off of and are more dangerous than I really realized. Good luck to you either way.
No I haven't, my next visit will be on September 26th. Yeah I think there is a 50/50 chance that he would give me the 60, and I will explain to him that sometimes 2 mg doesn't do the job. I also had a brother that was seeing this same doctor and he was getting 60 2mg klonapins, but he was seeing him for a long time and it took him some time to increase the dosage to that amount. I don't know if Lunesta would work but I can try to ask him about it. If it's anything like Ambien I don't think it would work so well for me. Thanks for your reply I appreciate it.
