kelzie7119
09-07-2007, 07:32 AM
OK here's a complex story. I have chronic insomnia and a REM disorder. In 2005 I was taking AMBIEN (only that!) to get to sleep. I woke up bloody, scraped up, and unable to walk. My husband found a window punched out on the 2nd story and the screen also removed. Apparently I had been out on the roof while sleepwalking and fell off the roof! (Previous sleepwalking episodes, but not on the roof.) Turns out I had fractured & compressed my L1 vertabrae. 6 weeks in a brace and it healed. Major back spasms for which I was prescribed VALIUM. No more AMBIEN at night, but instead VALIUM to supress REM until we could figure out what was needed to prevent a reoccurrence. That meant VALIUM around the clock. I managed to stop the heavy doses of VALIUM w/out major significant problems. Was switched to only 2 mg KLONOPIN at night (as back spasms had stopped) for sleepwalking. Now I am trying to taper off KLONOPIN and am now down to 1.5 mgs per night. I have bad insomnia for several days when I go down .25 mgs and, worse, the back spasms come back!.....So, I'm wanting to switch to VALIUM and taper off that instead. How much VALIUM does 1.5 mg of KLONOPIN (actually CLONAZAPEM) = what dose??? I hope this makes sense.