I have posted before about anxiety recently but it got where lately I am getting up nauseated everyday all day long...I dont feel well in my head and dizzy...also suffer from fibromyalgia....but I have been on clonazepam for 4 years now at .25mg 3 times daily....its got where it doesnt work any longer but I hate to increase it because i know how addictive it is and how horrible it is to ever come off of it....I have read nightmare stories about it...about a month ago my dr took me off clonazepam cold turkery and started me on xanax...I said shouldnt I be weened off the clonazepam since I have been on it for years and he said no...
Well about the 2 day I started having panic attacks all day long...I called him and he said to increase it so I did...it still didnt work...I was having severe attacks of panic all day ...I was so scared I was wanting to go to the hospital so I called Vitaline and they suggested i go to the ER at the hospital unless i wanted to call my dr...it was the weekend and I called him and told him I was about to have a nervous breakdown that something was wrong, so he said well get off the xanax and go back to the clonazepam....He said I think you are just scared of taking it...I said I am not but I am having sweats and rapid heartrate and couldnt sit down...I had to call my family over to be with me it got so bad...
I went in to see him that Monday and he said I have never seen anyone ever get anxiety over an anxiety medication...I said I think its because you took me off the clonazepam cold turkey and put me on xanax, and of course he said that had nothing to do with it cause he was replacing it with another benzo...but after about the 5th dose of the clonazepam my body calmed back down but of course I still have alot of panic just not as bad as it was on the xanax....I am getting nauseous as I said on a daily basis now and was just wondering if clonazepam can build up in your system and make you start feeling sick like this...I feel terrible everyday and I know anxiety can reek havoc on your nervous system but how do you stop the anxiety if you cant take the anti-depressants and clonazepam is all there is ...I hate to increase it more cause then in about another year it will be to increase it again and again as my body gets use to it..
I heard of passionflower but not sure I can take that with the clonazpam and i hear it makes you so sleepy also and I have a hard enough time staying awake now after sleeping thru the night....any suggestions would be appreciated....thankyou...any suggestions for nausea would help to...dont want to be on phergan cause it cause drowsiness also...i stay tired all the time...blood work came out fine except for the Vitamin D that was 21 so they have me on a supplement for that but it was so strong 50,000 units that it hurt my stomach so I had to stop that...I have never been able to tolerate drugs at all...even now my head is spinning from the vertigo which they have found nothing causeing that either....but I did get a post from Diane here and it said that people with fibro can have chronic dizziness...oh well I will stop for now...thanks for any suggestions...Karen