VALIUM Reviews (DIAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.9 (415 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare VALIUM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR VALIUM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Dystonia caused from amitriptyline | Slowly lost all muscle control. It only took 2 months till...i Could not hold head up or walk or speak. Tongue is a muscle so I could not enunciate words. Had to put towels under the door to block food smells because I had sever nausea. Went from 115 lbs to 105 lbs. Drs had no idea why I was so sick. They ran blood tests etc. They said there was no was 5mg could be making that sick. They were clueless. The Neuro transmitters were so flipped ..i was a strict vegetarian that could now only eat meat, I crawled because I could no longer walk. I was in hell.it took a doctor friend that heard my growls for words on the phone to realize it was the valium and he said to stop taking it immediately. It took months and months for my brain to heal. All benzodiazepines should only be used a few weeks. | I would only take it for a day or two . And never drink or drive or text on this medication. You will look normal but it won't be you | F | 48 | 2 months 5mg | 7/18/2017 | 1 | Stress Anxiety from divorce | Blurred vision, brain zaps, horrendous fatigue, sensitivity to light & sound, muscle cramps, muscle pains & joints pains, muscle spasms, tinnitus, dry skin, chemical sensitive can use moisturisers, nosebleeds, numbness or tingling, apathy, ANXIETY, depression, rage, despair, hopelessness, hullucinations, depersonalisation, derealisation, FEAR, PANIC ATTACKS, jitteriness, unable to concentrate, nightmares, paranoia, scared of leaving house or doing things, social phobia, rapid mood, eye twitches, feels like spiders biting my skin or splinters, walking uncoordinated, neck & shoulder pain, HEADACHES, muscle wasting, weight loss, servere headaches, vertigo, dizziness, high blood pressure, hypertension, shivering & always cold, HEART PALPITATIONS, trouble going to urinate, constipation, diarrhoea, nausea, stomach cramps, no libido, PAINFUL MENSTRUAL CYCLE, irregular periods, most bedridden periods know pain shooting down legs & sciatica pain, heartburn, night sweats, rashes, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, memory loss, no confidence to do things, disturbia in general life at lack of abilities lost. | I would not recommend this to anyone unless it was a life or death situation. A single one off dose. You will become dependant within 9 days & have protracted long term w/d symptoms as above mentioned. Everyday for me is hell & in so much pain & anxiety like I have never know I know have PTSD because of this drug. It is unforgivable that it is prescribed knowing the rebound defeats any short term benefit. I consider any benefit forfeited for the pain too withdraw if your strong enough & don't kill yourself trying to survive wave after wave of horrendous w/d tolerance symptoms. Please do reconsider any Benzodiazepines as you about to destroy your mental & physical health, it's a long road years back into healing, something the medical profession won't tell you, only victims of this drug. | F | 43 | 2 years 20mg | 7/12/2017 | 1 | panic attacks | Every single side effect | Run as fast as you can from this poision...you want to know what hell is??? Start with drawing from it... The devils skittles | F | 4 years 8 mg | 7/9/2017 | 3 | Anxiety | Trust me. Valium is candy compared to xanax and klonopin. These two are twice as hard to get off. Reduce from valium 5mg per month if you are a long time user I was on 2mg klonopin for 17 years Finally fried my memory so I transitioned to valium Much more mild and easier to taper but you may have to be on maybe 2mg a day forever All benzos are rat poison. Use clonodine and gabapentin to help with taper Good luck | M | 50 | 4 months | 5/2/2017 | 3 | Anxiety and panic attacks | With generic i am having muscle pain and headaches. Brand name is great | If you need or want to get off Valium, Benadryl will really truly work, they even use it for anxiety in dogs. But will make you sleepy and groggy, so only take it until your withdrawn from valium. And it is not addicting. If you want to get off Valium with energy and lifted spirits, Tramadol pain meds were once an anti anxiety anti depressant. You will get your life back, but take with milkshake or yogurt because its hard on stomach, it is addicting and hard to get off of, but its longacting, so if you stick to 1 in the morning and 1 at night you will have your life back. I unfortunately had to stop taking it because im on oral chemo and the combo ate holes from my esophagus to my colon and caused diverticulosis. The chemo is hard on the stomach lining so tramadol makes it worse. Im really bummed out about this because opiods are great for cancer pain but they can make you sleepy and depressed and unmotivated. But I thank God for them in my condition. I could not continue my chemotherapy without them. So you can get off Valuim without truama with these two pills. Maybe tramadol in morning and benadryl at night. But once on tramadol, you wont want the benadryl. Ask the doc prescribing your valuim to try it. Tramadol was many years ago prescribed as an antidepressant antianxiety, why they stopped for so long i will never know. Its just now beginning to be prescribed for anxiety and depression again. Much luck. I promise you will be able to get off valium following th | F | 58 | 7 years 5 | 3/19/2017 | 1 | Anxiety and panic attacks | The most horrendous drug ever. My life is ruined...I would NEVER have taken this if my doctor had been knowledgable about this highly addictive pill. Now I can't get off it and believe me I've tried everything. My life is in pieces due to the horrific side effects. I spend my days alone and in constant detox pain. | The side effects when your body needs more, and it will, are crushing. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. | F | 54 | 8 years | 3/3/2017 | 5 | arthritis | sleepy after eating a large meal. | After trying numerous other (and less safe) medicines, this definitely works the best. Can do most athletic activities now and was in constant pain before. | M | 63 | 15 years 10 mg 3X day | 10/20/2016 | 5 | pain and anxiety | calms me following a 5 month taper of zoplicone now off them 5 mohths completley and take an average 2 mg valium a day as needed only no more | it relaxs me and takes away pain i hope to do taper off it asap | M | 71 | 1 years 2mg | 10/11/2016 | 1 | Anxiety/depression | This is a follow up to a previous review. The other review I mentioned that a co worker offered me some valium after saying I was dealing with depression/anxiety. This was a very big mistake and my fiance did have some control issues and wasnt keen on me taking this...I really should've listened to her though. My dr was the main problem since he was careless and would leave patients on meds for way too long and made the mistake of tapering off myself after reading an angst filled site that pointed out that valium can cause tinnitus and quickly went off. This drug really was only intended for short term use, some might have to be on it for longer perhaps but that isnt the norm. It works well but the low rating is the problems it might cause when the prescriber is careless. Never should I have taken any meds for my condition since they do not get to the root of the problem. Thanks and be safe! | M | 41 | 2 years | 10/9/2016 | 1 | Xanax taper/anxiety | Headache,nausea,fatigue,panic attack,upset stomach,acidy stomach,heartburn,heart palpitations,sweating,acne | Worst medicine I've ever been on, was put on this medicine c/t to taper Xanax worst decision I let my doctor at the time make I've had nothing but severe health issues from taking this medicine I'll leave it at that | M | 26 | 5 days 12.5 | 9/1/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | Joint pain and muscle weakness. | Highly addictive, never touch it | M | 64 | 8 months 10 | 8/4/2016 | 1 | Dr was an imbecile | Memory issues, zero rem sleep, fatigue, tolerance and withdrawal | A coworker offered me this after I mentioned I was dealing with depression/anxiety...that was the second biggest mistake of my life. The first biggest mistake was being in a relationship with a controlling fiance that ruined my life, how I didn't see the red flags from the start and ditched the relationship will forever haunt me. I started dealing with depression/anxiety not long after the relationship started and I don't usually take crap from anybody but this person was a professional manipulator and I was an unsuspecting victim. My Dr at first wouldn't prescribe it saying it was addictive and after giving me something else that made me worse he gave me a bottle of over a hundred pills and kept me on it over two years. After awhile the drug did nothing and had to increase my dose...this was a sign to stop. After awhile I developed tinnitus and came across a terrible website ran by a person that despised big pharma, the site said value can cause tinnitus and right away I started tapering off without telling my Dr which wasn't the best idea but I was sick and tired of my Dr leaving me on meds forever. Two weeks after a one month taper I started having severe w/d and didn't realize it was from stopping the valium since I stopped it weeks before. I mentioned to my Dr that I needed something for anxiety and he never asked about the valium! The other pill was too short lasting and I ended up getting much worse.My Dr wasn't paying attention to meds and was beyond careless. | M | 41 | 2 years | 6/27/2016 | 1 | Panic attacks | None | I take 2.5mg twice a day.been taking them 3 years now and I go 2 to 3 days without on the weekends. Don't have any side effects that I know of. | M | 3 years 2.5mg | 6/12/2016 | 1 | Social anxiety disorder | None while on the medication except for occasional loss of memory. Worked wonders for my anxiety. | THIS IS POISON! DO NOT START TAKING IT!!! Yes, this worked wonders for my anxiety, in fact, it's the only thing that really works for me; however, if and when you decide to get off whether by choice or because you've reached tolerance, you will go through absolute hell because of withdrawal. Be prepared to experience hell on earth for about 18 months after you stop. DO NOT stop cold turkey. You can have seizures or die. Talk to your doctor about tapering off but even then you will go through hell. Valium is meant to be prescribed for temporary use (no longer than 2 weeks). My doctor and many other doctors prescribe benzos (Valium, Xanax, klonipin, Ativan, etc) for months or years. Benzos are dangerous!!! Do your research before you put this poison in your body!!! | F | 34 | 3 years 20mg/day | 5/8/2016 | 1 | Anxiety from depression | Lack of deep sleep,memory issues,fatigue and tolerance. | A coworker offered me some valium one day when I made the horrific mistake of mentioning I was dealing with depression/anxiety. Never should he have offered me any and taking it was retarded. Right after I took it I had a severe headache and my coworker, said maybe it wasn't for me. I should've brought the rest of the pills back the next day!!! Instead three weeks later I decide to take another one and no headache and almost coma like calm. I asked my Dr for valium and he refused saying it was addictive and gave me something else that made me much worse. I then went back to my Dr saying a coworker gave me some valium and right away the Dr gave me a massive bottle of pills...I guess it wasn't addictive after all. Dr kept me on it for over two years the fool and I ended up taking myself off and went through delayed withdrawals and my Dr never even asked about the valium!!! Don't take this stuff, never! You read good things about this but when you go off good luck, these drugs should be banned and the inventors behind them sued till they end up taking them themselves. Thanks Dr Sloan for ruining my life. DO NOT TAKE BENZOS,YOU WILL BE VERY SORRY, I wish I never touched any big pharma med...EVER! Peace | M | 41 | 2 years | 3/21/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | Its terrible. Severe anxiety attacks. Twitching. Exetremely emotional. | If you plan on using it, please ask a doctor first. It didnt help with my anxiety at all. | F | 14 | 1 days 10 | 3/18/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | Its terrible. Severe anxiety attacks. Twitching. Exetremely emotional. | If you plan on using it, please ask a doctor first. It didnt help with my anxiety at all. | F | 14 | 1 days 10 | 3/18/2016 | 2 | Muscle spasm for sleep i sclerosis | Anger | Make me sleep without grinding my teeth | F | 38 | 1 days 5 mg | 3/13/2016 | 5 | Anxiety Attacks - Panic Disorder | None | This is a wonder drug for anxiety sufferers, if it works for you, if it stops your panic, then take them and get back to living your life!! I was agoraphobic and thought I was seriously losing my mind, then Valium was prescribed 3 X a day and wow!! I got my life back! I stop taking them for periods of time, I've never been addicted to them. I can go months without taking them, then take them daily for a few weeks, then off them cold turkey for a year! It's just as needed really....... I have just been switched to Ativan (Lorazepam) 1mg twice a day as I'm relocating interstate and my panic is back badly. So will see how I go on this new med | F | 32 | 10 years 2.5 | 3/8/2016 | 1 | GAD/Meiners/panic attacks | It helped with the vertigo but doesn't help the anxiety or panic attacks at all. I had a huge panic attack driving today and I've already taken 10mgs. | I was never told this drug would have to be tapered and I'm stuck having to take it. I have read all the forums and with my anxiety I'm scared to try to taper reading all the bad reactions ppl have with it. | F | 46 | 3 years 20mg | 3/2/2016 |