I think I've finally adjusted to my new, lower dosage of klonopin. I took 3mg a day for the last 20+ years.
Reduced to 2mg a day. Had about 2 months of mood swings, Possibly withdrawal syndrome. Or just adjusting to the anxiety with less meds.
Anyway, that's finally over, and I am back at my (medicated) baseline anxiety. I hope to decrease even further in the future. My goal is to take nothing.
Klonopin is especially difficult to get off of because of the withdrawal symptoms, which are (not a big surprise) increased anxiety, as there's a rebound effect. [I was on it for a few years for the PTSD.] Other benzodiazepines have similar difficulties, but Klonopin is apparently one of the worst (according to a friend who is a pharmacist).
To reduce the dose or get off of it with minimal withdrawal effects (with the approval of your doctor, of course), try cutting back by MUCH smaller amounts than what it sounds like you did. I was on a very small dose (injured brain was very sensitive to it), and cut it back by about 1/6th (or less) of my dose until I felt 'normal' again. Then cut it back by another tiny amount. Each drop was for about two to three months, which apparently is what you discovered for stabilizing afterwards.
Yes, dropping it by much smaller amounts will result in it taking much longer to reduce it or get off of it, but minimizing the withdrawal symptoms was - to me at least - a far more important consideration than time. And that withdrawal time will have much higher anxiety levels than what you will have once you are normalized after the higher dose is out of your system and your brain has re-adjusted. So they will go back down. It isn't "just adjusting to the anxiety with less meds".
If you are on 2mg now, if it is two 1mg tabs, I'd go with maybe 1/4 of a tablet less for each dosage drop (for a month or two or three for each drop). If a 2mg tab, then 1/8 less for each drop. Yes, that small a drop each time, as you've experienced how disruptive larger drops are.
Good luck with that. I hope it works out.