is taken valium as a med playing with fire?

[pillpopper187]

i have been benzo dependant for years, it sucks, since my accident in may, i have been under medical care. so i get 1mg of kpin x3 a day. before this, i woud get a month supply and go through it in 2 weeks and deal with wd every month.

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

I usually took my 8mg as prescribed because I didn't want to deal with withdrawals. Some days I may have doubled my dose but not too often.

 

[kanucme]

do you benzo heavy guys notice any cognitive effects?

I have a friend who used to take allot of k-pins, like all day everyday for like 4 years, and he will constantly forget what he was talking about, hes actually a smart guy and when we have a technical convo about something I have to remind him 5-6 times what he was saying over the course of the convo. you guys notice anything like this?

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

do you benzo heavy guys notice any cognitive effects?

I have a friend who used to take allot of k-pins, like all day everyday for like 4 years, and he will constantly forget what he was talking about, hes actually a smart guy and when we have a technical convo about something I have to remind him 5-6 times what he was saying over the course of the convo. you guys notice anything like this?

Yes, especially when I smoked weed with them. "What was I talking about?" haha Classic line, said it plenty

 

[TheTwighlight]

Oh yeah. My friends used to get upset with me because I would either repeat myself many times, or like above...what was I talking about?

 

[phatass]

It really depends on your self control and disciplin when taking this medication

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

Hard to have discipline with benzodiazepines.

 

[bronson]

It's my opinion that as long as you are within your prescribed dose and still feeling benefits from them towards your anxiety then there is nothing wrong with taking them.

Reason for concern begins with you are taking them for non anxiety reasons, and/or are taking more than you are prescribed to still attain some benefit from them.

Used responsibly they can greatly assist with anxiety problems for a long time. But it can quickly go the opposite direction and make the whole situation worse.

With a medicine like this, you need to just be frequently assessing the benefit you are getting compared to the risk of withdrawals and rebound anxiety. Know when to cut back and you should be fine. Some people really do need something of benzo strength to deal with their anxiety.