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How should you slowly decrease your klonopin (clonazepam) dose?
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Your doctor: Your doctor will recommend a tapering dose to minimize adverse effects of medication discontinuation.
Answered 12/29/2013
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With your doctor: It depends on your dose, how long you've been on it, how you are with the condition it was helping to manage, etc. I suggest you talk about this with the physician who's been prescribing Klonopin (clonazepam) for you.
Answered 6/26/2014
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