I’ve been on clonazepam for a while now. For the longest time I had a hard time going to sleep because my stomach felt bloated and because of all of my medical complications, I swore something was wrong with my intestines or something. The GI said everything except my liver was okay, so that wasn’t it. A couple of weeks later, I had a full on panic attack/break down due to work. I was working two jobs at the time and getting my master’s. I ended up quitting one job and started seeing a psychiatrist and therapist. My psychiatrist put me on clonazepam. I was so scared at first because I didn’t know how I’d react, but when my stomach problems went away, I was incredibly grateful. 

As of recently, I’ve been tapering down a bit and really only trying to use as needed rather than BID no matter what. Because of this I was able to stretch my last script for almost a week longer than necessary. The problem happened when my doctor forgot to send my meds and I forgot to follow up since I still had extra. When I was down to my last two pills, I called and made sure they would be sending it. Friday afternoon comes and the pharmacy says they still don’t have it. I’d been waiting since Monday at that point and called Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. They had closed early though, so I left a voicemail and waited. I had taken my last pill on Thursday night. I usually do well without it as I’ve once went nearly two weeks without any, but that was maybe a year before so I still was fairly new to it. This time though in just two days I began having horrible withdrawal symptoms. I couldn’t keep any food down, I had restless leg syndrome, I felt like I wanted to crawl out of my own body. I couldn’t sleep, but was fatigued, I couldn’t do anything, but pray that it would end soon. I finally gave in and went to the hospital where the doctor gave me one dose. I was incredibly grateful as in the state I currently live in is extremely picky about giving any medication. But the doctor agreed that I needed a dose and that with everything going on in my life (husband and I were physically assaulted last weekend and had to call the cops because the guy who did it is the maintenance supervisor with access to my apartment and can let himself in plus my health is still deteriorating and I’m only 27), it’s very clear that it would stress and give anyone anxiety. It took a while for my body to feel somewhat normal again when I received a call from the pharmacy saying that my clonazepam was ready. It was one of the voice messages so I called the pharmacy and spoke to the pharmacist himself (super awesome dude who knows my husband and me plus all of my conditions) and he confirmed. 

Now what I’m wondering is if the pharmacy couldn’t find my script (as it has happened before) or if my doctor *did* send it before the weekend. I’m going to give her a call tomorrow to ask when she sent it because if the pharmacy made me go through all of that because of negligence, I’m gonna have to talk to the cool pharmacy dude. I’m hope it wasn’t the pharmacy, but at the same time I hope it was because I don’t want to have to deal with not getting my meds on time because of the doctor. It’s easier when the script is already in the system because they can just fill it. We will see. For now, I’m just going to be grateful that I didn’t have to wait until tomorrow. 

If you read this far, thank you and if you didn’t, I understand.