Has Anyone Here Taken A Mega Dose Of Klonopin?

[user27357]

I am prescribed 2x .5 mg.daily for sleep and have Xanax for worse occasions. Today was the last time I will give my therapist a shot at helping me, yet another in a long line od T's has failed to make progress and given up before I did, Oh well.

I don't want to check out but I do want to forget for awhile, that's what alcohol and other drugs are there for, everyone else has the legal right to use them but I am limited by a history of hep c and liver cirrhosis, clean now, the hard way back before it got profitable and now you can take a pill with no nasty side effects.

Marijuana is legal here, a nice escape for those of us not bound by federal restrictions in our jobs.

My drug of choice today is the only one left in my arsenal and the research I did lead me to believe I could take 8 mg. and be fine, I have some resistance to it and I am a BIG guy, 6' 300lb and fairly active, my recuperative abilities are the source of family legend.

Weigh in....have I screwed up? 1 hour in and I am typing pretty well, going to go do my math homework if this is all I am going to get from this.

Not a cry for help, not a suicidal experiment, Cries for help happen in theER and suicidal actions involve ropes, rafters, and 5 gallon buckets. This is neither, this is just me wanting what everyone else wants, a day off and some diversion.

8mg. a scary amount? not so far, not so far. What do your say?

 

[Deleted member 30740]

I take 2 1mg Klonopin it helps me sleep. One time i took one Klonopin during the day time i fell sleep.
well it depends on person really. But Klonopin is powerful pill. I have heart disease Supraventricular tachycardia.
I think it not scary amount for you anyways.

 

[Weemie]

I've taken a significant amount of Ativan (a whole bottle) before with few physical side effects. I had some wicked amnesia and out of character behavior, though. Given your weight & frame if you had optimal hepatic function I would say it's fine. If you are HCV, are your LFTs stable? Stay safe. Peace. :hug:

 

[shimmerz]

I was prescribed 8 mg per day of Klonopin, with the option of whatever I needed of sublingual ativan. I worked up to it and I sometimes shake my head and wonder how I could have functioned with that much in me (2 years of scripts for that amount). Now I take .5 mg and 'feel different'. Back then? Didn't seem to affect me at all. So yes, 8 mg is do-able. I think they list 10 mg as the absolute highest dose one should take in a day. I suggest one not do a rally run as I did as most people would be addicted and that is a bitch to kick as I understand it.

 

[sun seeker]

It's concerning me that the OP took 8 mg. all at once though. Isn't 8-10 mg supposed to be the maximum dose per day? Divided into several doses?

@enough, How about calling a pharmacist or a nurse's hotline and asking them?

 

[Ocean5]

I'm a slim guy. Given 2mg daily with new p-doctor. Old doc had me on .5 then up to 1.5 mg daily (huge mistake increasing me to 1.5mg!) I was doing so well on .5 mg

I won't take more than 1 mg now since I already know my body is dependent, and serious withdrawals when I reduced. Take withdrawals into account (including seizures) when you start reducing. Reason I am keeping dose to 1mg. Withdrawals for some are hell....

 

[Queen Boudica]

My sister would zone out on klonopin. Then she died. No one here is a med specialist

 

[The Albatross]

"a history of hep c and liver cirrhosis"... combined with a history of abuse ("clean now") and taking a prescription medication for the purpose of getting high instead of the dosage prescribed all send red flags to me. I'd say bad idea.

 

[user27357]

"clean now" referring to having done the interferon regimen and being clear of the hep c virus. and I am now at 10mg. (10 times my daily dose.) and seem to be quite lucid. Very disappointing.

My T only had the following suggestions after 6 months of hard work:

Move from my home of thirty years because being here where I worked as an EMT just feeds me with bad memories daily

Quit my job since it is a stressor(no longer an EMT)

Divorce my wife of thirty years because she is never going to develop empathy or a sense of responsibility to a relationship or a sense of partnership with me, all things I value greatly.

I am not doing those things, I can't imagine the loss of my home and my marriage and my career as anything but a disaster. So I walked out today without making another appointment.

And came home and researched the lethality and half life of Klonopin and decided to get me some escape from this long dark tunnel.


It isn't working, I should have said screw the cirrhosis and drank a bottle of wine and thrown up later.

thanks for the concern Sunseeker and The Albatross. Nice to interact with even total strangers that at minimum show concern for someone other than themselves. I wish it was a quality I could find in the people I see in real life.

 

[The Albatross]

Ah, gotcha... my assumption for which I apologize... though of course I was thinking booze.. Benzos are addictive and are often misused as well.

 

[The Albatross]

Well, for what it's worth... I'd not be inclined to do what your T recommended either... but if it isn't "act/actualize a change" it's accept... so how bout boning up (studying) some Radical Acceptance?

P.S. You're welcome (about the concern)... take good care and don't fry your liver.

 

[user27357]

Radical acceptance.......Thoreau? Most men live lives of quiet desperation?

That works if you are an innocent man in a prison, you find a way to survive and although radically different than what it should be or could be it is what it is and you cannot change it, you accept the radical situation.

I have boned up on it and reject it in most situations.

I can expect my job to be better and watch for legal ramifications for the innequities I suffer there. Radical acceptance fails.

I can try to explain the basic tennants of partnership to my wife, hoping that eventually enough spaghetti sticks to the wall to make a meal of it. Radical acceptance means we starve ourselves of a partnership relationship.

I can distract myself from the memories I am surrounded by here, staying busy, listening to music while driving. planning routes and travel times. Radical acceptance means fearing every drive but muscleing through it, no thanks, I will do what i can.

One of my worste triggers (from being a firefighter EMT) is looking for things in the dark with a flashlight. Flashlights are a necesary thing, without them I would be blind in the dark. Should I accept that using a flashlight will cause me fear and panic? should I lock up all the flashlights ? In this rather simplified metaphore it seems obvious that ACT/actualize a change and radical aceptance both fail to meet a necessary goal, being able to use a flashlight without fear.

I sing while I use a flashlight. People think I am nuts but they laugh and when I sing into the back end of the flashlight like a microphone, shining the light in their eyes and to the sky during the crescendoes, I get by. And I find what I am looking for without remembering the horrible things I have found in the dark on other nights.

And one more thing- taking that much klonopin has left me fealing weak and somewhat nauseus and wondering if I need to seek professional ahealth before I try it again with something stronger. Wondering Hell. I know what I have to do now.

don't try it at home kids.