Tapered 4mg Clonazepam to 1mg then stopped. Help/advice would be appreciated.
Please don't come for me, this is hard enough already.
For context I am in the UK, although my GP originally gave me 0.5mg clonazepam in 2020 to deal with Burning Mouth Syndrome, they stopped it soon after as they were concerned about addiction. But it worked so I started getting it from elsewhere which the GP doesn't know about. Since then I went up to 4mg daily until a few months ago when I went down to 2mg with no issues. From then I dropped to 1mg but only for a short period before stopping completely 12 days ago.
Had been experiencing every withdrawal symptom and am off sick now, my boss has been great and they aren't expecting me back any time soon so I have time to do this properly now. I have taken 1mg today as the tingling in my feet and legs were getting unbearable. I feel like I've ridden most of the wave now but if I can do the rest properly, even better.
I have a couple of questions.
- I like the look of the Ashton withdrawal schedule and swapping Clonazepam for Diazepam. But I don't have any Diazepam. Do you think if I tell my GP I was buying them basically from a third party I will be flagged in some way - as I am a Civil Servant so need to be careful and also I have children and I don't want them getting Social Services involved if they see me as someone illegally buying drugs. Or do I just say this is where I am at and I need help as you gave it to me in the first place!!!
Thanks all.