I haven't read the entire thread, but skimmed it. Another one for sleep, anxiety, and abdominal pain in my case is Amitriptyline if melatonin does nothing. I know this thread is about Valium but for fucks sake if you are on Xanax or a short acting benzo and your doctor tells you no when you ask for a valium taper please tell him to eat a fucking dick and walk out. Go find a doctor that knows these drugs. My doctor told me no to 30 10mg valium pills for one month - why would i switch you to a longer acting one her said? I explained and he said no, thats not how we do it here. He said they taper on a .25mg per week basis or cold fucking turkey it and put them on baclofen like alcohol addicts at the detox center in the hospital where is office was - fucking asshole. I'm printing him an Ashton Manuel and bringing it to my next appointment.
I was not happy, but I said okay because I had many left over pills. I was only on 1mg per day for 3 years or so. I took it at night for sleep and anxiety/panic. I did .25mg every 2 weeks or so until i was at .25mg. I did not have much WDs so far accept a little irritability and disrupted sleep. Then all of a sudden one night it felt like a hand reached into my back up into my intestines and pushed up on my stomach. I thought it was from the Xanax WDs immediately and put it off for a few days but it kept getting worse and worse to the point that I thought there was no fucking way this was from Xanax...I need surgery or some shit. I could not eat as my food was not digesting. My digestive track basically just froze from the shock. I barely could keep down gatorade and lost 15 lbs in a month. In this time I got a CT scan, upper GI, lower GI, x-rays, gastric emptying study because they thought I had gastroparesis which is an awful debilitating rare disease, and 3 blood panels. Doctors are clueless although my original GI told me to go back to my normal dose of Xanax. I did that but I was still fucked up from the time I ate lunch until i took my dose at night not being able to eat and burping all day long (like 500-1000 burps a day, no joke). Three days ago I decided to say fuck it and I took my nightly dose in the morning after breakfast and then again after dinner so doubled the dose temporarily. My symptoms have drastically improved and I think Xanax WDs are going to be the culprit after all this bullshit. If so I would like to hit my doctor in the face with my cock until valium comes out of his nose. I realize my receptors in my gut must be super sensitive and this is a rare case. I know people have GI problems when withdrawing, but my entire stomach and small intestine fucking froze basically. i seriously thought I either needed surgery or was going to live with a shitty debilitating illness like severe functional dyspepsie or idiopathic gastroparesis. I have spent days in the life of those people and really feel for them if I can fully recover without any nerve damage here. Xanax works great for occasional panic attacks, but fuck that shit for daily anxiety or insomnia use. Never did I think anything like this would happen. Im not even off them and opiate withdrawal is already a fucking joke.
Sorry to jack the thread a little, but just wanted to give a heads up to anyone withdrawing. Peace!
What is the deal with missing benzo doseages? Im really not sure how much I should take either because although im prescribed 20mg a day, i noticed ive got about 110 pills so I havent been taking 20mg a day but I was drinking an awful lot on top of that 
