I’m taking 3 0.5mg pills a day. How do you ask your doctor to increase the dose? My preference is taking 3, 1 mg daily or at best 1mg in the morning and 0.5mg two more times a day. I have the worst panic attacks in the mornings. They literally wake me up between 4AM - 6AM. I believe the doctor started off slowly and that is fine with me. However, after 4 months my morning attacks are better but not gone. I am still having issues. The doctor quickly jumped to me withdrawing in the AM because I take the last dose at 6PM. Yet I was having the attacks in the early AM before I began taking Klonopin. So I don’t think that’s the problem. Doctors can be so skittish about benzodiazepines that it makes it difficult. I want to get to a good place where the panic feelings are more at bay. Yet it’s never good when the patient asks for a change up. So what is the best way to address the issue?
Benzodiazepines, Klonopin?
Question posted by Technovore1 on 8 Oct 2023
Last updated on 8 October 2023 by WildcatVet
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Hi, Technovore!
Have you tried a long term solution such as antidepressant/anxiolytics like Lexapro, Paxil, Zoloft, etc., either alone or preferably in combination with CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)? Or an anti-anxiety medication such as buspirone?
Doctors are skittish about prescribing benzodiazepines because of the dangers of addiction and the potential for long term side effects including increased depression and anxiety and cognitive dysfunction. They are sedatives which mask the symptoms instead of addressing the root cause of your anxiety disorder.
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