Holy crap!! Here in the USA they saw I was on 18mg Clonzepam, by the same doctor, for years, and wouldn't give me more than 5mg Dizepam at a time!! They said 40mg is the max dosage allowed, even though they knew I was on insanely high doses of Clonzepam and could die (their own words). I told them I'm still twitching every few seconds and they gave me one last dose, and I still was having spasms/twitching/etc. But I never had them via IV route before, so I started to laugh randomly sometimes (not around the doctors or nurses of course just when alone listening to music). But I was still in WD at same time. Weird. They told me the IV dose was equal to 5mg Dizepam orally, that's all they would give me -- which both the medic and Doctor knew that wasn't even close to 4mg of Clonzepam X 4 to 5 daily. They knew 5mg Dizepam was equal to like 0.5mg Clonzepam, but that's ALL they would give me!! Knowing I could die from seizures (the ER doctor said this) but nope, that's all they gave me. It didn't even stabilize me hardly at all. It did prevent a deadly seizure, but I felt like death. Then they sent me home with 5mg tablets to take 1 every 12 hours, what a joke. I went through the bottle in 1 day needless to say.
Valium/Dizepam is NOT long Acting. I heard here on Bluelight someone explain it in detail, and said Dizepam is actually the shortest acting Benzo of the long acting ones, lasting only 6 hours. I can say that's VERY ACCURATE. As I can take them before bed, and wake up in WD... Dizepam halflife of 100 is a lie!! Or it's inactive junk. I remember many people saying Dizepam is actually a short acting med, not long acting.
On Clonzepam I could go 48-72 hours before WD. After over a month of being on Dizepam 40mg (sometimes 40-70mg) and if I go say 16 hours between doses I get bad WD, and muscle twitching, etc!! If I take, say, 120mg Valium (all at once) it feels like it last a good 24 hours before wearing off. So maybe the low dose of 40mg isn't enough to build up in my system?? Or maybe Dizepam is short acting like many swear it is.
And damn, I got like 4mg of a Sub left. I cut it into 4 pieces. For months I was on 600mg Tramadol a day, so I thought 0.5mg Sub (strips) would work. Nope. I needed 1mg to 2mg to stop the WD, and the Subs only lasted about 6-10 hours before wearing off!! Wtf!?! I thought it's half life was like 24+ hours? NOW... These strips did expire in 2014 I believe, so maybe they lost potency. I even took 1mg now and an hour later I'm still in WD, it stops the worst WD's, like the urge to vomit nonstop, etc. But chills, pain, headache, etc are still here in full force.
I swear even if I take a full 1.5mg, I feel it work, but it wears off in 6-10 hours and the WD's come back and I'm on the verge of puking, crazy chills, etc if I don't re-dose 2-3X daily..... My metabolism is insanely fast, I can eat a FULL meal and be hungry again 2 hours later. So maybe that's why the Sub's suck, I dunno, or maybe because it expired years ago.
I was on roughly 140mg daily of Hydro or Oxy before switching to 500-600mg of Tramadol, which 600mg of Tramadol stopped ALL of the withdrawals from a 140mg Hydro/Oxy daily usage, even better than Subs do.
Only once when I took 2mg-3mg of Subs on accident I felt fine all day, and woke up not feeling sick for the first time in 6+ years. I just didn't expect I would need a full 2-3mg of Subs to stop Tramadol's opiod withdrawals. I guess Tramadol is way more potent than people give it credit. Way more.