I've been on Valium for a very long time at 15mg from a traumatic experience with the diagnosis of mild depression and severe anxiety but when I became an intravenous user (heroine mainly) I became a dual diagnosis patient to my psychiatrist and when she connected me with a methadone clinic my Valium dose And methadone dosages were raised through a series of relapses to 107mg of methadone and 30mg of Valium and have remained at those dosages for almost 3 years. Being clean of all illicit substances for 2 years I felt comfortable enough to begin dropping my methadone dose with the assurance from the clinic Dr. And my Psychiatrist that the dosage of methadone dropped from the dosage I was at with the Valium would "make the decrease almost unnoticeable" from 107 to 100mg. 5 days have gone by and While I've gone through much much worse symptoms as far as opiate/opioid withdrawals are concerned, the anxiety and mental disturbances that the Valium was initially prescribed for have made mild appearances: Weird dreams that almost fall into the nightmare category, grinding or clenching my jaw, and a weird feeling that something isn't right (if that makes sense.) My concern is the methadone and Valium were taken together for so long that the taper off methadone is simultaneously decreasing the effects of the Valium. The withdrawal feeling is almost gone but the symptoms of my prior anxiety are still lingering and about 2 months ago I noticed the a change in the way the Valium took effect but it felt more of like a tolerance issue or maybe just more subconscious stress with work and parenting.
I'll continue to keep you posted since I'm on a 2 week methadone take home schedule. I'm an open minded person and don't think there's such thing as a wrong answer...unless it's somewhere in the stratosphere. But I guess I'm asking if changing medications or adding something I haven't thought about could help or if what I'm saying has more to do with my mental make up or is something more common
Thank you for taking the time to read and I hope I can get some advice.
I'll continue to keep you posted since I'm on a 2 week methadone take home schedule. I'm an open minded person and don't think there's such thing as a wrong answer...unless it's somewhere in the stratosphere. But I guess I'm asking if changing medications or adding something I haven't thought about could help or if what I'm saying has more to do with my mental make up or is something more common
Thank you for taking the time to read and I hope I can get some advice.