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Jack, So good to hear from you. I happened to buy some book a few years back on "Overcoming Anxiety without tranquilizers" by Edward H. Drummond, M.D., psychiatrist. At that time I never knew that this book will become a reference point in treatment of anxiety. As we all have some type of anxiety from time to time, I thought it is good to have this particular book in our library. (Now, I am almost superstitious!). He does talk a lot about use of benzodiazepines, and one of them is klonopin. In my opinion, it would be nice not to have these drugs on long term basis.Basically, this psychiatrist is talking about to take a charge and get better without anti-anxiety pills. In our particular case, my husband is very vulnerable at the present time, without any PD drugs that such step to fight and/or undergo psychiatric treatment (cognitive or behavioural therapy), would be difficult to undertake. We will have to discuss the situation of phobia/anxiety with the doctors and then decide if paxil or klonopin can be of temporary help to my husband. Thank you, Jack, for your thoughts and help. Emily ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: "Emily and Julian Brinac" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:08 AM Subject: Re: Claustrophobia/Ed Grskovich > Emily: > > Jeannette has been taking Klonopin for about 10 years. We have even talked > about taking some during the day to keep her dyskensia down but have not > proceeded to do so. > > She takes a 1 Mg tablet before bed time and except for use of the bathroom > at night, she sleeps well. > > Klonopin is a brand name for Clonazepam. > > Jack > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn