Has any one found medicine that can help with the withdrawal off of Clonazapam (klonopin)? I'm currently down only a quarter of a pill (take 4 x .50 a day) but they were given me by my moronic doctor as a sleep aid, so i usually, with rare exceptions, would gang it all up at night. 1mg at 10 pm, and 1 mg at 4 or 5a.m. when I would wake up (I suffer from MVPS which is very sleep disruptive).
In begining my withdrawal 2 weeks ago, under the advice of a friend with medical background, i started to take .50 (1 pill) in afternoon, and 3 pills at night (1.50), slowly decreasing the afternoon dose. for 2 weeks now i've cut that back 1/4 , following the ashton method of 5 - 10% every week or two...
Anyway, the decrease of my night dose has caused very chopped up sleep. I tried Lunesta, which helps for about the first 5 hrs (short half life). Then it's wake/sleep/wake. My dr. said it was rebound insomnia, since the clonaz. was used as a sleep aid. He gave me Trazodone - what a terrible drug!! groggy the whole next day (not to mention the bizarre side effect of night -long erections!). I'm looking for something that will help me get a full night sleep - is there anything you folks know about? maybe i'm asking too much. by the way, i exercise every day, 20 - 30 mins.

Hey thanks for the suggestion. I looked up seroquel and see it's an anti - psychotic and it's often used off label as a sedative, which makes me doubt it'll work for me - based on my experience with trazodone (also used off label as sedative, actually an anti depressant) i guess i'm wondering more about all these new sleep aids like Lunestra - i can't take Ambien presently 'cause it's too similar to the Benzo i'm trying to get off of. But thanks.