I feel like I can't handle things without using. The orange bottle is the first thing I go to. I've been on Valium for 4 years. Some days I don't take it, but I feel not a full withdrawal but something is definitely off kind of feeling. When I'm in hysterics and crying it helps calm my crying and I can almost relax, I mean not quite cause my mind is going crazy, but my body isn't, like I'm not having a rapid heartbeat or feel like a panic attack is coming on like I did before.
I hate this going to bed fucked up feeling with my friend. I felt like it was one of the few parts of my life I had in control, and now that's gone. I don't have much left. I have my material possessions.
It's going to tear me up tonight and tomorrow not talking to her... until Saturday which is even if she has forgiven me by Saturday.
Having someone who has known you quite literally since you were born and has been there, not talk to me all of the sudden is killing me. This has never happened.
I would say this was the breaking point today. I was coping so to speak with everything else, still depressed, but coping... this now is too much.
as she has bn ur friend for so long, i can genuinely promise u she will come around
as for the valium, u can go days without it cos it has a 72hr half-life
however go longer than that and ull know about it
before i started taking benzos (as prescribed!) i had a love of life, i was a sharp thinker and i knew wat i wanted
wen i went on clonazepam i didnt notice the subtle change but slowly over the yrs i became duller, my cognitive abilities became less efficient, i lost my motivation and i began to get rebound withdrawals from the drug
eventually i had to b switched to valium so i cud b weaned off (as the withdrawals got too much)
then things went from bad to worse - valium gives me nausea and makes me dull and unmotivated.....often i hav to force myself out of bed, force down my food....i just want to sleep all day
not just that, it made me crave opiates so i relapsed on codeine, then oxycodone, then heroin.....so now i hav to stay on suboxone until i come off valium
then ive got to go thru the hell of tapering off that
its going to take me 80 weeks to get off valium cos i was on 40mg/day and im weaning off 1mg/fortnight cos of my epilepsy (got to do it sloooow)
i often wish i cud just take back ever having gone on clonazepam and hav taken a diffrent drug for my epilepsy (thats wat it was prescribed for originaly) but its too late for that now
even dropping 1mg of valium i feel withdrawals - well im adjusting slowly as the fortnight goes on, but at first i was so strung-out, my head hurt, my fingers tingled, my anxiety was thru the roof and i still find it hard to sleep
sorry so long - thats just why i hate valium and wud always warn ppl against it
its addictive (dangerously so), it causes depression symptoms wen used regularly and i wudnt say its too easy on ur body judging by the way my stomachs felt since ive bn on it!