Benzos Could 1mg Valium (diazepam) per day cause addiction or any kind of withdrawal?

[Branggen]

Would 1mg be enough to cause a dependence if taken for say years or months, could it or its active metabolites build up in your body at this dose? How about at .5mg/day?

 

[AnythingEverything]

I guess so?? That's an extremely low, 'why bother?' dose for one day, let alone a year so i dont know if it will be easy to find anyone who can give actual experiential evidence.

I've had withdrawals from short term (about 2 months) lowish use <50mg / day that lasted a couple of weeks so I guess it's possible. But I think it would be exremely mild if anything as even thought its am extremely low dose, you're still taking SOMETHING away.

Interested to see the replies

 

[barada]

That's a pretty low dose of valium. The concerning part is that you've been dosing for a good amount of time, so I would imagine it has built up in your system.
I'd think even a low dose like that, you will still have discomfort coming off. People have nicotine WD from just smoking one ciggy a day. Horrible comparison, I know, however it shows the body has developed a dependency.
I wouldn't imagine you would have severe WD like seizure watch or anything like that... but your body will know something is missing.

 

[keeping]

i guess, eventually, yes.
i mean its a pretty sensible dose but even patients prescribed that amount will end up 'dependent ' on benzos, rather than 'addicted'

 

[Gyrospeck]

Absolutely. I'm on 2.5mg/day and can feel even a slight drop. 1 mg can still have strong effect; subtle, but strong.

 

[opiatekrzy]

I find it very hard to believe that one milligram of Valium everyday will cause any sort of life threatening withdrawal however if there is any withdrawal I'm sure that some I knew you wouldn't even consciously realize. As far as Klonopin and Xanax for example a former doctor had told me that if you keep it under 1.5 milligrams a day you will be out of the life-threatening withdrawal Red Zone meaning you'll still have withdrawals but not where you need hospitalization anything above according to him should need monitoring. To back that up I have detox off of 1.5 milligrams daily without needing hospitalization at all I cannot speak for Valium however look at a dose conversion chart and compare the doses to 1.5 milligrams of Xanax

 

[Methacodone]

Are you fucking for real? Taking 1mg of Valium/Diazepam is like taking nothing.. Lol even a benzo naive person wouldn't feel 1mg (maybe a tiny bit of something if anything at all)..

There's no way you would notice ​ any kind of WD by taking 1 fucking mg of Valium/Diazepam a day.

 

[keeping]

I find it very hard to believe that one milligram of Valium everyday will cause any sort of life threatening withdrawal however if there is any withdrawal

no.

1mg of diazepam a day over the course of several months will result in addiction/dependence, a minute one, but it'd be a habit nonetheless. a grand-mal from withdrawals really only happens for the most severe addictions. a 1mg daily habit yeah you'll get some anxiety and a maybe a couple days of insomnia. i mean, there;s always a chance that that could happen but that would be weird af and probably related to some sort of underlying medical condition

 

[Branggen]

thanks for the replies Ive tapered down from 35 to 1 over a few months and after staying at 1mg for 2 weeks and then stopping I did not really notice anything

 

[opiatekrzy]

I still believe a detox from something as minute as 1mg will be not noticeable at all

 

[Slow_Mobius]

Diazepam has a very long half life, so taking 1mg daily can cause some accumulation of plasma concentration. That said, 1mg is such a small dose that I doubt it any WD symptoms would be more than an annoyance