If your not planning to get off of benzos, and want to try something different.. I don't see what the big deal would be to ask your doc, "hey I have been taking valium 20mg for a while now... its not really working too well anymore.. can I try another anti anxiety med?" or something along those lines.. that's how it went with me, when I first was put on klonopin.. I literally told my doc I couldn't sleep, my anxiety was hellish to go through day and night, and I had trouble talking to people because I was so shy... etc. he immediately asked me if I had tried benzos before, and I told him one of my family members gave me a klonopin once when I was freaking out and could not sleep, and it worked great... and he without hesitation wrote me a script for klonopin... then gradually upped my dose from 0.5mg a day, to 5mg a day... then when the klonopin stopped working as well after being on it for over almost 2 years, I asked to try something else, he basically said "what do you have in mind?", and I told him I wanted to try another long-acting benzo like valium, so he gave me 50mg of valium a day instead of the kpin, and I loved it! valium was, and still is my favorite benzo.. out of the common 4: Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, and Ativan.. don't care much for Xanax, but still like it on occasion at low doses, and hate Ativan, I don't even know how its a scheduled drug! it is so weak IME with it, that I took over 10mg with little to no tolerance once and felt hardly any difference.. if that would have been 10mg of any of the other 3 benzos I mentioned, I would have been on my ass, blacked out with the tolerance I had...