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Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 58 | Make sure they wean her VERY slowly off of the Klonopin. My dad did cold turkey after a fall and he was totally delerious and diagnosed with dementia when it was really Klonopin withdrawal. It took weeks for them to give him back the Klonopin and then to take it away again slowly. It is nasty stuff to come off of.
Caregiver to husband David, non smoker. Dx 1/06 SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV, neck nodes involved. Surgery/Chemo/Rad. Treatment finished 5/06. Waiting. Recurrence in lung, Aug07. 6 months Cisplatin/Erbitux. Spots shrinking after 3 Cisplatin tx.
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