Klonopin flare? Please read & let me know...

[asIshallbe]

Hi there,

I was taking xanax and it was really settling down my bladder and nerves, but it is not long lasting, and it also messes with my memory a bit. I swtiched to Klonopin 2 days ago and last night and the last peed, and peed, and peed and was in horrid pain. Has anyone else experienced this with klonopin? I love the way that klonopin helps with my horrific anxiety, but it is normal or have ya'll heard of it irritating the IC bladder?

Any helps, words of wisdom, etc....will be greatly appreciated! :smile tee

[asIshallbe]

anyone at all? I am just wondering cause tonight will be night 3 and I am debating giving it a shot or not. Perhaps it was something else that flared me. Please any insight....

[asIshallbe]

I took a klonopin about an hour and a half ago and so far nada! No pain, no frequency from it....nada! I don't want to speak to soon, but I don't think it is the klonopin that flared me afterall. I am so happy I have given it a day 3 chance. Again, don't want to speak to soon, but so far so good!!! Yippee because I love klonopin. It blows xanax away. Xanax only causes more anxiety, while klonopin works all day and does not make you feel weird like xanax. I'll keep ya'll posted. :)

[Jereme]

I've taken Klonopin before and didn't have any IC problems. Remember IC is a chronic condition and can wax and wane so just because you start a new medicine and have an increase in symptoms doesn't always mean the medicine is to blame.

[purpletomorrow]

I took Klonopin for two years for severe vascular rosacea and it didn't bother my bladder a bit. Could your misery be due to something else? Have you eaten anything suspicious?

[leelee88]

I take Activan with no problems.. You could have ate or drank something that did not settle well with your bladder..

[reesper]

I've personally found that klonopins actually reduce the pain if I am flaring. I've never had any sort of reaction like that. The pills are klonopin and bit of sugar and shouldn't do anything to irritate your bladder. Are you sure that you didn't eat or drink anything suspicious, or do any activity that could make you flare?

[some_guy]

My Doc recently gave me some Klonopin to take at night to help with the pain and maybe make me sleep better. It did help me sleep a bit better the first couple of times but I don't like the drugged feeling it gave me in the morning.

So I did not experience any bad reaction to it but for me it was not worth taking for what little it did and the groggy feeling in morning. I won't take them anymore unless I am in such pain I cannot sleep.


Something to consider and ask you doctor is could the flare be because of the discontinue of Xanax. I know a little about benzo's from a friend who had trouble with them and Xanax is supposed to be the only benzo that you can't just replace with another benzo. Valium, Klonopin and many of the others can be interchanged with no problems but they say Xanax cannot and long tapering is needed if the person has taken them a long time. Definitely worth asking your doctor about this.

[asIshallbe]

Someguy, you are right...it could have been the quitting the xanax. I am not sure. I love the klonopin though as it helps me sleep like a baby and it takes my anxiety away. Aww, alas I can get some sleep! Well, I do have to out a freezing water bottle in between my legs, and I lay on a heating pad....but I have went from sleeping 2-3 hours per night to 6-8. :) That is worth smiling about. Although I am still in pain as I bought a juicer and juiced carrots and celery yesterday morning and excuse my language, but holy S$!t ...I was in a world of pain all day yesterday and peed about 40 times, and the pain just today is subsiding. I vow to never, ever, ever drink carrot juice ever, ever again. And, I know it was the culprit as I did nothing else different but the one cup of carrot juice. It was so bad, I had to do the 'ol, close the door at work and cry, call my mom and tell her I don't know how I am going to do this, etc....speech. She then took me to lunch (IC friendly lunch) and lifted my spirits. Here I am back at work and praying today is better. I need my job. I need my life. It makes me so sad that I feel robbed of being a great worker, wife, mom, friend, human in society. Ugh, enough of that....today is a new day and today is going to be better. I will not live in the past, nor the future, but I will live today for today. :)