Clonidine for Benzodiazepine Withdrawal User Reviews
Brand names: Catapres, Clonidine ER, Catapres-TTS, Kapvay, Duraclon, Nexiclon XR
Clonidine has an average rating of 4.8 out of 10 from a total of 4 reviews for the off-label treatment of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal. 25% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 50% reported a negative experience.
- sopra...
- Taken for 5 to 10 years
- October 1, 2016
"I've used clonodine for benzo (Xanax) detox and really all it did was keep my legs from having involuntary "jumps" and helped me get an hour or two worth of sleep at night during the detox.Other than that. It doesn't seem to help much but I still have bottles of it that I keep for sleep,headache prevention and for opiate w/d"
- jimbo
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- December 8, 2023
"Decided to go off 10 mg/day diazepam, which I had been on for years. Doctor set up a taper schedule which would take me off the medication in one month. Bad move. Realized I'm not psychologically addicted, but I'm physically addicted. I have high blood pressure already, and one of the withdrawal symptoms was/is high blood pressure. Despite being on valsartan, amlodipine, and 81 mg aspirin, pressure is still high. Doctor put me on 0.1 clonidine twice a day, and I found it quite effective but not long-lasting, maybe 6 hours of lower pressure before it begins to rise. Definitely helps keep my pressure down."
- KK80
- November 28, 2013
Catapres (clonidine) "I used Catapres to get off 2mg Xanax 3 times a day and it worked very well. I didn't feel 100% but felt about 90%. It lasted about 7 days and the withdrawal was done."
- Anonymous
- Taken for 2 to 5 years
- May 30, 2012
Catapres (clonidine) "I also used it while weaning myself off of oxycodone. 10mg three times a day, and am now off. At the moment I am using a 0.2 Patch and it helps a lot."
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"I have had a decade long experience with opiates and all the so called remedies for withdrawals . Suboxin, works as long as u wait until u have some withdrawals before dosing if not it puts u into withdrawals, god awful pain in minutes..subutex won't put u in withdrawals bc it doesn't have the 2nd ingredient which is a blocker . I realize things tend to work differently on different people. If taken properly I've never heard of subox not working. I want to be clean of it all ! Recently hit rock bottom and was able to find a free detox center which gave me Clonadine/ Motrin / Tylenol . Several doses of clondine made my vision fuzzy but once my withdrawals kicked in the pain was unbearable. My legs hurt so bad I wanted to cut them off !!"