Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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ellomalley 05/13/2018

so i just want to go off klonopin. but thats dangerous. i wanna get on something for my anxiety other than benzos. because i have bipolar also. i am allowed to take vistaril for it. but any suggestionsto get off klonopin? im on .5 a day right now been taking that since january.

Shyghy 05/14/2018

Vistaril(or hydroxyzine) works quite well for me; its what they prescribed me to get off klonopin myself. They initially gave me buspirone but it had very little effect on me. I use my anxiety meds for sleep as well so hydroxyzine really helps for that too.

ellomalley 05/14/2018

ok. im gonna ask my psychiatrist if i can use it to help get off the klonopin bc i know that vistaril is not addictive. she gave me remeron for sleep. so that works well. thanks tho

badchoice1962 05/14/2018

I was on Xanax for 22 years and recently got off of it. Klonopin was the alternate my doc wanted me to transfer to but I was sick and tired of being on the meds every day. I was on the meds for anxiety but the effort to get them just stressed me out more. The pharmacy caused so much stress in filling this medicine I couldn’t stand it.
I started weaning off over a 6 month period and even though my dose was 1 mg a day the weaning was not fun. Finally after about 8 months I am completely off and hopefully never will get back on them. Sleeping isn’t as easy but I am working on it. Just be patient and take it very slow over a long time. Resist your bodies fight for you to just take one and feel better. I am confident that you can do it

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