Re: Klonopin for pain. I was originally prescribed this medication for anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress (they both amount to the same thing: paralyzing anxiety), but I've found that they also do help me with some awful lower back pain.
Also, I get attacks of vertigo a couple of times a year, and recently had a bad bout, and I found that the benzo helped lessen the vertigo.
It wasn't until I went onto the internet to do some research on inner ear problems that I found out benzos are sometimes prescribed to treat these conditions. So now I understand how they've helped me cope with vertigo and when that improves, just the general dizziness that remains. If I don't take the clonazepam, I'll experience more severe dizziness.
I need to go get my ears checked, but in the meantime, this medication is helping me with my anxiety and also my inner ear problems...and my back pain. I suppose with my back, the benzo relaxes the muscles, and keeps them from seizing up. Makes sense. So I guess in some ways benzos are helpful for managing pain if the medication hinders whatever it is that's causing pain in the first place.