taper update
Quick update on labs The completely normal tests are my kidneys, liver function and enzymes, my pancreas, and my full blood counts. My vitamins B12, B6, E, iron, and D are also fully normal and sufficient, along with my thyroid panel, electrolytes, celiac screen, and a clear urine. Some stuff that aren't normal are insulin resistance (not diabetes), elevated inflammation markers, and mildly high folate. My abdominal ultrasound also shows a Grade II fatty liver and a 1.40 cm gallstone. As for my symptoms and how I am feeling, things are incredibly severe right now. I am dealing with diplopia, heavy DPDR, severe OCD, jamais vu, dissociative amnesia, insomnia, profound personality changes, severe agoraphobia, and a hard time processing the outside world. I have altered consciousness, weight gain, and intense brain fog. My eyes, nose, ears, taste, hunger, and thirst signals feel completely muted. There is a fulbody numbness where I sometimes cannot even feel pain, and I wake up with temporary paralysis where my hands cannot move for a couple of minutes. I have total anhedonia, insight blindness, and feel like a completely different person. I cannot feel my gut, and I cannot feel my brain. My heartbeat, breathing, and digestion all feel like they are on autopilot or I feel like I am in autopilot. When panic hits, it feels like I am suffocating inside my own body, along with dizziness when standing and vivid dreams with altered reality., I think the lowFODMAP diet was stabilizing me in March and April, but I'm not sure. I crashed hard after a diet switch, which triggered sudden severe panic attacks at a shop, and now I am stuck inside with severe agoraphobia. My baseline is getting worse and worse daily. I am still using my milk suspension, but I react erratically everysingleday ; taking my dose leaves me feeling intensely overstimulated and sometimes nothing. I held my dose for 6 months last year after the massive shock, but I took a lot of supplements (oandoff B12, heavy thiamine, and colostrum) and just got worse. I quit all supplements in February and have taken nothing else since thenonly my nightly Klonopin. I tried holding another month now, but there is no relief, just getting worse and worse daily. I am not sure if my reaction is paradoxical or not, because all of a sudden it's morning and I somehow still sleep. My gastro suspects SIBO/SIFO is causing these massive digestive issues and food reactions. I am completely lost on what to do with my dosage, diet, or overall schedule to get stable. 24/7 void without knowing what I do, and I don't know how I am existing. Please let me know what I should do to build a routine to stabilize. Thanks for reading ππ
Current: Clonazepam nightly (100ml:1mg, Milk suspension, [16.9,ml REMOVED]
Aug β Dec 2023: Flupentixol/Melitracen. Dec 2023: Cold Turkey (CT). Dec 2023 β Apr 2024: Clonazepam (up to 2mg), Amitriptyline, Chlordiazepoxide. Apr β June: Trifluoperazine + 2mg Clonazepam. June: CT Trifluoperazine. Only on Clonazepam. July β Mar 2025: Tapered 1.5mg to 1.24mg. Apr 1, 2025: PPI + Anticholinergic. CT Caffeine. (Clonazepam 1.24mg became paradoxical). June: Hospitalization. Rapid Taper 1.24mg to 0mg (1 week). June: Reinstated to 1mg Clonazepam.Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec (HOLD) Jan 2026: 0.945mg. Feb: 0.93mg. Mar: 0.875mg. Apr: 0.843mg. May: 0.833mg. Jun: 0.833mg. Jul: 0.831mg.