Hi could really do with some support right now. My GP prescribed me with diazepam in 2009. Oh how I wish I'd done my research before taking it and threw them away the day she gave them to me. I suffer with anxiety and at that point in 2009 was waking up with panic attacks and was in a bad way. However I was never told they were addictive and only supposed to be taken short term only. This poison was put on repeat prescription 2mg three times a day. However I only ever took 2mg a day, 4mg once in a blue moon. The last year I only ever took 2mg a day, first thing on a morning when I first wake with that awful morning anxiety.
I never knew about tolerance and never craved the drug or had any urge to take more. About a year ago I started feeling unwell despite taking the 2mg each morning. I was getting pins and needles in my feet and waking up with dead arms during the night. Felt like I had nerve pain in my arms and feet, joint pain, muscles were always in a tight knot, especially around my neck area. I was having digestive issues, eye sight was blurry, chronic fatigue and developed health anxiety as a result. Saw neurologist, rhumatologist, eye specialist, gastrointestinal consultant, heart specialist and nobody could tell me why I was having so many problems all at the same time. Had scans, x rays, bloodtests, er admissions. Rhumatologist diagnosed me with fibromyalgia.
I never put all these symptoms down to the diazepam because I was only on 2mg. I was in tolerance and this was making me incredibly sick.
So angry that I have been given this drug not knowing how incredibly sick it can make someone when they hit tolerance. My options were to increase, and always have to increase when tolerance strikes again or get off this poison. I read online from the webpage benzo buddies so many people suffering as I was with exactly the same symptoms.
I broke my 2mg tablet in 4 and slowly since December started to taper down. Did this by dropping 2 mg to 1mg waited two weeks, dropped again to 0.5mg waited 2 weeks and dropped again to 0.25mg then 18 days ago stopped completely after 7 years of this drug. It's been hard and had loads of withdrawal symptoms but knew I had to get off this and hopefully begin the healing process. I know it can take months/years in some cases to heal. Would love to hear if somebody reading this has successfully come off diazepam? How are you now? How long did it take to heal? Anyone reading this going through withdrawal right now? Let's encourage and support each other through this nightmare.
My withdrawal symptoms presently are
Blurred vision
Nerve pain
Numb feet/toes
Swollen buring hands
Temperature fluctuations
Extreme fatigue
Increased anxiety
Joint pain
Tight muscles
Digestive issues
Overactive bladder
Bladder irritation
Brain fog
Short term memory loss
DP/DR
Isolating myself
Food intolerances
Vitamin intolerance (especially vit b)
Skin changes
Histamine problems
Insomnia
Rls
And probably loads more but due to brain fog can't think right now 😩
I've read it takes about 30 days to be out of my system but scared how long these horrible withdrawal effects are going to last. There's now way I'll take it again and take no other Meds. It's wonderful to be med free, just want to heal now and guess this is just going to be a time thing now.

Please share your experience with me and anyone thinking of taking Valium in the future please do your research first and don't take for longer than a couple of weeks max!

Michelle