Valium Withdrawal Symptoms

[mkt71]

Hi All,

I'm new to this group so apologies if this has been asked before!

I was on 5mg of Valium per day for 4 months for anxiety following a traumatic birth of my daughters. I decided I wanted off it so weaned over a couple of months which was hard but managed to stop 3 weeks ago. The first week was fine but I seem to be getting my anxiety back again, is this just normal withdrawal/rebound behaviour and how long is it likely to last?

Symptoms are extreme tiredness, constant headaches, sweating, sore chest/back/shoulders, nasty taste in mouth, aggravated burning skin (feels like sunburn), spaced out feeling and eye floaters....I pretty much has this, though worse, at the height of my anxiety.

I suffer from high BP since having my daughters 10 months ago and on meds however it had stabalised and was weaning slowly off these, the returning anxiety has made it elevate again momentarily an times which exacerbates the anxiety too!

I need to work out whether I ride this out as it is temporary or whether I look at going on non addictive meds like SSRIs so, any advice appreciated...thank you

[mnaha]

You will be riding out for awhile.. I came off of it .. weaned off of 5.mg almost a year and then slowly down to 1.5 and then none.. got sick.. loss of appeitite .tachycardia, tremors ,shakes,anxiety so bad I couldn't think straight and every imaginable thing you could think of and this was a long taper.. even way longer than the woman that wrote the book on benzo withdrawals even stated doing it.. God help you I hope you don't get it the way I did..I tapered such a long long long time and then when it was completely out of my system it hit me like a ton of bricks but that is just me.. so nothing might not happen to you but I wouldn't count on it..good luck
..you will sure need it!

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---------- Post added at 21:00 ---------- Previous post was at 20:59 ----------

You will be riding out for awhile.. I came off of it .. weaned off of 5.mg almost a year and then slowly down to 1.5 and then none.. got sick.. loss of appeitite .tachycardia, tremors ,shakes,anxiety so bad I couldn't think straight and every imaginable thing you could think of and this was a long taper.. even way longer than the woman that wrote the book on benzo withdrawals even stated doing it.. God help you I hope you don't get it the way I did..I tapered such a long long long time and then when it was completely out of my system it hit me like a ton of bricks but that is just me.. so nothing might not happen to you but I wouldn't count on it..good luck
..you will sure need it!

---------- Post added at 22:49 ---------- Previous post was at 21:00 ----------

Forgot to tell you .. I had to beg the doctors to put me back on it and they were hesitant about doing it but did.. now I feel like an addict because I have to take it probably the rest of my life.. sorry.. but true.