relaxation001
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I've been on valium on and off for the past 12 years for anxiety. For most all of those years it was 2.5mg maybe twice a week, sometimes 3 times a week, sometimes every other week. Only for major attacks I would take a full 5mg. Over the past 7 months, anxiety has increased because of a bad episode in my life. So I was taking it more frequently. Then my Dr. increased my estrogen dose too high and that sent me over the edge!! Major anxiety, nausea etc.... I have a fear of vomiting so that makes anxiety 100 times worse!!!
Dr. said I needed to just wait for the estrogen levels to come down - usually a week. I was in bed for 2 days. Couldn't eat anything, just felt like I was going to die.
At that time, I was taking 5mg of valium 3 to 4 times a day to get me thru. And it wasn't even working anymore. No more calmness at all. Dr. prescribed xanax XR to get me thru this bad time. Hated it. I just slept, couldn't function at all. So now I'm feeling better - estrogen doses are down but of course I still have some anxiety. I've been having some stomach cramping along with some diarrhea. I don't have the flu - this feels different. More like anxiety related.
It has now been 48 hours since my last valium. And I feel like I want to take one but then I think, well, it probably won't work anyway, so why bother. So, I"m holding off. Dr. wants me to try effexor. Not ready to go that route yet.
Too afraid of the side effects. So being on a low dose valium for that many years, off and on, but then heavier in the past 7 months, could I be going thru withdrawals? I've been reading to not go cold turkey and to maybe go on a shorter lived benzo to help. I have some ativan and took .5mg a half hour ago. I really hate the xanax!! I don't want to take that. The ativan worked like the valium used to (don't know yet, it's not doing anything yet) just a calm feeling. But not tired.
Dr. said I needed to just wait for the estrogen levels to come down - usually a week. I was in bed for 2 days. Couldn't eat anything, just felt like I was going to die.
At that time, I was taking 5mg of valium 3 to 4 times a day to get me thru. And it wasn't even working anymore. No more calmness at all. Dr. prescribed xanax XR to get me thru this bad time. Hated it. I just slept, couldn't function at all. So now I'm feeling better - estrogen doses are down but of course I still have some anxiety. I've been having some stomach cramping along with some diarrhea. I don't have the flu - this feels different. More like anxiety related.
It has now been 48 hours since my last valium. And I feel like I want to take one but then I think, well, it probably won't work anyway, so why bother. So, I"m holding off. Dr. wants me to try effexor. Not ready to go that route yet.
Too afraid of the side effects. So being on a low dose valium for that many years, off and on, but then heavier in the past 7 months, could I be going thru withdrawals? I've been reading to not go cold turkey and to maybe go on a shorter lived benzo to help. I have some ativan and took .5mg a half hour ago. I really hate the xanax!! I don't want to take that. The ativan worked like the valium used to (don't know yet, it's not doing anything yet) just a calm feeling. But not tired.