Clonidine for Benzodiazepine Withdrawal User Reviews
Brand names: Catapres, Clonidine ER, Kapvay, Onyda XR, Catapres-TTS, Duraclon, Nexiclon XR
- sop...
- Taken for 5 to 10 years
- October 1, 2016
"I've used clonidine 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."
- jim...
- 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."
- KK8...
- November 28, 2013
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
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. Suboxone works as long as you wait until you have some withdrawals before dosing, if not, it puts you into withdrawals, god-awful pain in minutes. Subutex won't put you in withdrawals because it doesn't have the second ingredient, which is a blocker. I realize things tend to work differently on different people. If taken properly, I've never heard of Suboxone 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 clonidine, Motrin, and Tylenol. Several doses of clonidine 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!!"