Posted by Hugh on April 11, 2016, at 22:26:55
In reply to Anxiety, posted by J Kelly on April 10, 2016, at 9:59:08
If your anxiety is being caused by tolerance to Klonopin, then it's possible that switching to a shorter-acting benzo like Xanax could make your anxiety even worse. The following quote is from The Ashton Manual.
http://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/
Tolerance to the anxiolytic effects develops more slowly but there is little evidence that benzodiazepines retain their effectiveness after a few months. In fact long-term benzodiazepine use may even aggravate anxiety disorders. Many patients find that anxiety symptoms gradually increase over the years despite continuous benzodiazepine use, and panic attacks and agoraphobia may appear for the first time after years of chronic use. Such worsening of symptoms during long-term benzodiazepine use is probably due to the development of tolerance to the anxiolytic effects, so that "withdrawal" symptoms emerge even in the continued presence of the drugs. However, tolerance may not be complete and chronic users sometimes report continued efficacy, which may be partly due to suppression of withdrawal effects. Nevertheless, in most cases such symptoms gradually disappear after successful tapering and withdrawal of benzodiazepines.
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