when did you stop your anti dep

LittleFlower

well, at first i really resisted taking any meds to feel better.  that was a bad idea. once i started celexa 20 mg and klonopin 0.25 mg i felt SO MUCH BETTER.  i started those meds about 1.5 years ago, when i was finishing up with treatment.  they helped me transition from chemo cancer world, to social world .. going back to work.  So i was very happy to have had them.  the question is... HOW DO I STOP?  or maybe more like.. SHOULD I STOP?  i feel pretty good.  i've gotten down to 10 mg celexa no problem, it's the klonopin i worry about stopping.  i really feel jittery without it.  i almost feel like when i don't take it in the morning, i'm thinking about it, about should i take it now, will i have an anxiety attack without it?  it scares me because i feel very dependent on this tiny little 0.25 mg pill.  the kicker is that i would like to start a family soon.  i can't be on any of this stuff if that's the case.  HOW DO I STOP?  any advice?

LittleFlower

leaf

When people have been on clonazepam chronically, and they want to stop, they normally very,very slowly reduce the dosage and/or very, very slowly increase the time between doses. 

I cannot tell you if you should stop, but if you want to start a family, unless you are taking this for seizures or something like that, they normally want you off of this type of medication.

If you want to stop, you need to stop under medical supervision.  It must be done slowly, so you need advice from your doc how to do this. If you want to reduce your dosage by like 5% or something, you may want to consider doing something like crushing the tablet into a fine powder, suspending the powder in liquid, and taking 95% of the volume to get the desired dose. You will need some sort of graduated container to do this.  You will want to discard the excess.