Sorry your having such a bad day. Remind yourself that going of meds, its normal to feel worse at first. I would recommend trying to find something to do to help you relax - like watch tv, take a bath, go for a wqlk - if you have pet, snuggle up with it, unless you have a cat like my old one and want to get through the day without a bunch of scratches on top of it all!!!

Amy I ask why you are getting off the klonopin? I hope you are doing it slowly--very slowly. If you have been on it a while, it is going to take some time to get off it, so don't rush--and NEVER just stop it--you could get a seizure. Be careful and go slow. Hormones do influence the way you feel on some days of your cycle, so don't worry about it, it will even out once your period starts.

I am trying to get off of clonazepam(klonopin) because I am tired of taking pills.I know I am addicted to the stuff and I have been taking it since I was 15.I don't believe that taking a drug for that long can be good for you.Interestingly enough as soon as I took a pill the symptoms almost all left.I have gotten myself down to 1mg a day from previously 6mg a day.On top of everything else I don't want to be an addict and as terrible as it is to say I am.I have to be honest finally with myself.

I understand that you are tired of taking pills. But you need to have a plan in place about what you will do once you come off the pills. If you have had this condition for years, it isn't going to just magically go away because you "got tired of taking pills". You still are sick, and you still will have this disease even if you get off the klonopin. Are you working with a psychiatrist on this? A regular doctor? A therapist? You will need some support to make a transition off of a drug that you have been on for so long--it will be very difficult for you to cope without the drug, because your body is used to having it. You will probably need other drugs to take the place of klonopin and you shouldn't feel upset about that.

Panic can be a lifelong condition for many people, just like high cholesterol is --people can change their diet, exercise, and they STILL have to take drugs for the rest of their life to keep the cholesterol down. It doesn't mean that they are weak, or defective, or anything else---they have a MEDICAL CONDITION, and so do you. So don't worry so much about being "tired of taking pills". EVERYONE with a chronic illness is tired of taking pills...no one wants to have to stay on medication, but if you have to, you have to, and there is no shame in that.

Please try to work with a good, caring doctor and psychiatrist on finding you the right combination of drugs that can treat all of your conditions and give you the life you deserve to have. It will take work, but you can do it--but you can't do it alone, and you can't rush it.

Always before my period I am extra "bad" as well ugh ... here is something I read daily it helps so much .. Claire Weekes Hope and And Help For Your Nerves;

Hope you feel better .. you will it will pass ; ) xoxo

Do's and Don't
1. Do not run away from fear.Analyze it and see it as no more then physical feelings. Feelings are not facts, do not be bluffed.
2. Accept all strange sensations connected with your illness. Do not
fight them. Float past them. Recognize that they are temporary.
3. Let there be no self -pity.
4. Settle your problems as quickly as you can, if not with action, then by glimpsing and accepting a new point of view.
5.Waste no time on "What might have been" and "If only..."
6. Face sorrow and know that time will bring relief.
7. Be occupied. Do not lie in bed brooding. Be occupied calmly , not feverishly trying to forget yourself.
8. Remember that the strength in a muscle may depend on the confidence with which it is used.
9. Accept your obsessions and be prepared to live with them
temporarily. Do not fight them by trying to push them away. Let time do
that.
10. Remember your recovery does not necessarily depend "entirely on
you" as so many ppeople are so ready to tell you. You may need help.
Accept it willingly, without shame.
11. Do not measure your progress day by day. Don't count the months,
years you have been ill and despair at the thought of them. Once you
are on the right road to recovery, recovery is inevitable, however
protracted your illness may have been.
12.Remember withdrawal is your jailer. Recovery lies on the other side of panic. Recovery lies in places you fear.
13. Do not be discouraged if you cannot make decisions while you are ill. When you are well, decisions will be more easily made.
14. Never accept total defeat. It is never too late to give yourself another chance.
15. Practice don't test.
16. Face. Accept.Float.Let time pass.
If you do this, you WILL recover.

The above has helped me so much thank DR Claire Weekes!! read it over and over it will help it is with in you.