Hello,
I was prescribed clonazepam due to debilitating anxiety when my son was just shy of 2 years old. I was breastfeeding him at the time this medication was prescribed and he is still breastfeeding today (3x daily). I began this medication last March by taking .5 to 1mg daily for a few months, but decreased down to .5mg daily for the most part and am currently in the process of weaning myself even more so I can be off of it completely at some point. I’m taking .25 to .5mg daily and hope to be down to a consistent dose of .25mg daily in the next month or so. I have been having horrible guilt that I ever took it to begin with and have gone down the “Google Rabbit Hole” and feel horrified that this medication may have built up in my toddlers system. He will be 3 in a couple of weeks. He’s never had any side effects from it from what I could tell. My question is this: I am hoping to wean him from breastfeeding soon, but I don’t want to put him at risk of any sort of withdrawal symptoms from the medication since he has been getting 2 to 3% of my dosage for a year. How can I safely go about this process. I think weaning him would do wonders for my mental health, but I also want to go about this as safely as possible for him.
Thank you for your time.
I was prescribed clonazepam due to debilitating anxiety when my son was just shy of 2 years old. I was breastfeeding him at the time this medication was prescribed and he is still breastfeeding today (3x daily). I began this medication last March by taking .5 to 1mg daily for a few months, but decreased down to .5mg daily for the most part and am currently in the process of weaning myself even more so I can be off of it completely at some point. I’m taking .25 to .5mg daily and hope to be down to a consistent dose of .25mg daily in the next month or so. I have been having horrible guilt that I ever took it to begin with and have gone down the “Google Rabbit Hole” and feel horrified that this medication may have built up in my toddlers system. He will be 3 in a couple of weeks. He’s never had any side effects from it from what I could tell. My question is this: I am hoping to wean him from breastfeeding soon, but I don’t want to put him at risk of any sort of withdrawal symptoms from the medication since he has been getting 2 to 3% of my dosage for a year. How can I safely go about this process. I think weaning him would do wonders for my mental health, but I also want to go about this as safely as possible for him.
Thank you for your time.
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