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 |
| 2 | Meiners, panic attacks, anxiety | First time I took 5mg felt better, after 2 months up to 10mg then up again to 17.5mg after 5 months. This drug has done nothing for my anxiety or panic attacks. It makes me feel like I'm drunk upon waking, memory loss, concentration problems gave me social anxiety it's been 14 months and dr still won't take me off of it just wants to keep adding more mg's. I had less anxiety before I started it but it does keep the vertigo at bay. | F | 44 | 1 years 17.5mg | 4/25/2014 | 4 | Anxiety/Panic | No real side effects, felt relaxed and put me to sleep within an hour or two. This is supposedly the easiest of all benzos, but also the weakest and it has a long halflife. | Tolerance builds fast for me, took 4mg once and it did great..Few days later, 5mg did nothing. Doctor switched me to Ativan because of the shorter halflife and less issues with Seroquel xr, haven't needed to take it yet so who knows. It's good to have these pills for the occasional moment. | M | 32 | 2 weeks 4mg 1X AN | 3/30/2014 | 5 | Severe Cerebral palsy | I have been on Valium since '92. It has calmed me down from the worst muscle spasms. The biggest side effects are, at least to me, sleepiness and memory loss. You'll remember but it may be fuzzy the day after. | F | 28 | 10 years 5 to 10 mg | 2/22/2014 | 4 | pulled muscle in neck; neck spasm | none -other than possible sleepiness, but he took it at 11 pm at night. My 7 year old got a dose of 2 ml (2mg) of liquid valium to help with severe pain from pulled neck muscle-- He was unable to move his head /neck without screaming. - Along with motrin, it seemed to help him tremendously and we didn't need to even fill the prescription - (drug stores don't typically keep liquid in stock, and by the time it would have arrived, the pain was much better anyway) One dose was enough, which he received at the ER at night. | The next morning he woke up and was dancing around feeling great, but later in the day he got a little sore again, so we just gave him 1 100 mg tablet of motrin. Day 3: can tell it is still just a little stiff based on his head movements, but no need for ibuprofen. | M | 7 | 1 times 2 ml /2 mg 1X day | 2/10/2014 | 5 | insomnia/night terrors/stress | Sometimes dry eyes during sleep. Easily remedied by an eye ointment or drops. | I have taken it off and on for 40 years. Sometimes I have gone as long as 6 months without taking one (perhaps to prove I am not addicted ). Sometimes I take a 10 mg to sleep, I have insomnia and night terrors. The beauty is I don't need to take them every day. When my mother was dying of cancer, Doctors put me on every type of anti-depressant, each gave me a horrible side effect. They made me sick and did nothing to relieve anxiety, actually they made me feel more anxious. Valium has been the only drug that not only helps me sleep, but relieves the anxiety. Actually,it proves to me that "nothing horrible will really happen", so I can deal with life's dilemma's without taking anything. It has been a type of "behavior modification". Doctors and laypeople have a tendency to give this drug a bad connotation, even so far as to accuse us of being "drug addicts". I know this has been a "lifesaver" for the victims of horrible traumatic experiences. It has allowed us to function as "normal individuals" and not dwell on the unfortunate. | M | 61 | 40 years 5 0r 10 1X day | 1/23/2014 | 5 | anxiety | well rested no anxiety or anxious | F | 22 | 2 days 20mg | 12/27/2013 | 3 | generalised anxiety/panic | no adverse side effects, just a bit of somnolence during the day | Klonopin/Xanax XR gives you the long-acting anxiety relief. Ativan and Xanax far more effective for short-term immediate-release anxiety treatment. Yes, Valium is the most sedating of these anxiolytics, however, I was up to 45 mg (15 mg 3X a day) of Valium, quite a high dose, and it just never did the trick for me. I took more and more and my anxiety wouldn't be quelled. Depending on your own situation, I would recommend Klonopin or especially a combination which I am now on of Xanax and Xanax XR for effective anxiety treatment, which, while less sedating than Valium, is a great mixture of long-release and immediate-release relief. | M | 29 | 3 years 15 mg 3X day | 12/22/2013 | 4 | Anxiety : stress at work initially | Initially valium / diazepam was helpful it was a great calming feeling ; yet that passed & I got totally reliant : I still got relief yet I got dependant & had many painful detoxes : I initially didn't detox & came off them not by choice I lied to myself took more than I should & had a terrible fit when I suddenly stopped / I finally got the correct help yet my need to take them is v strong I relate to so many things I have read : I want to be free of tablets I have gone this time 5mgs daily to nothing & I'm fighting with myself to not get them again I feel very spaced out luicid tingly fingers : yet it's awful but I can't stand the dependency : dr refuse to prescibe them were I live it's there rule no tranquilisers so it lead to buying them which is awful DR should prescibe carefully as I went from Dr who saw them as good in the 1990's to a absolute No : what I totally stand by is detox at the patients time it's not a race : | F | 42 | 2 years 10 | 11/30/2013 | 5 | For epilepsy &. Panic attacks | Makes me sleep good! | 52 | 1 days 20 mg | 11/16/2013 | 3 | always angry | I was drinking and taking valium.not as an addict,but to just forget about all the wrong decisions i made in life,having 3 kid, i realised i was starting to loose my concept on life this went on for nearly 2 years.i was still able to workout and be employed.but i started to strugggle towards the end. i quit drinking cold turkey.and weened my self of the drug.try to keep away from it for to long..it.starts to kill you slowly in many ways, especialy in your mind.… | M | 39 | 1 years 5 | 11/16/2013 | 4 | anxiety, tension, panic | None so far. I just hope it works. | I restarted taking 5 mgs of valium daily for anxiety and panic. I have been taking it for 6 days again. I have tried to come off of it but feel so bad until I had to restart. I hope it works. It is weak compared to some of the other benzos. I wish I did not have to take these drugs. Overtime, they start to work less for some ppl due to tolerance altho a few people don't seem to experience tolerance and the drug seems to work for a lifetime in these people. Please e-mail me and share your Valium experience. How long before this drug accumulates enough in the bloodstream before you start to experience relief. It may take a little while in my case because I have been suffering a longtime and have resisted taking anything but doing nothing is not working....just suffering day after day with no relief in sight. | M | 50 | 6 days 5 MG 1X day | 10/18/2013 | 2 | Muscle spasms | None | Didn't do anything for me, not even made me drowsy. 2 MG probably too low a dosage. | F | 60 | 5 days 2 mg 1X day | 10/14/2013 | 1 | sleep | Lose of control, disyness lack of cordination. Sleep far too long. Better just using lavender in a bath | M | 35 | 1 days 10 | 8/12/2013 | 1 | Muscle Cramps, Anxiety due to CFS | To start with my Dr Alan Broome (NZ) did not tell me about the Withdrawal syndrome. So I had great results in relaxation, less cramping of muscles, less stress. Of course it did not cure my CFS but helped it greatly for about 2 years. He kept me on it at doses ranging from 15-40mgs per day and never mentioned the nightmarish withdrawal syndrome. | DON'T TAKE IT! It is so easy to become addicted as it becomes part of your brain and very being. It clamps down on your emotions and turns on you after a while so you just have to take it to avoid w/d syndrome. After 12 years I tried coming off it and after 9 months had got down to 1mg, then 0.5mg, then all living hell broke loose in my body. Imagine a heroin user and think worse! Shaking, chills, cramps, no sleep, showers hurt my body, vertigo, nausea, fatigue, anxiety, terrified of the world, sexual blunting. Imagine hell and call it diazepam withdrawal. I HAD to go back on it as I was raising my daughter alone and my mother had cancer. I hear from patients that have finally got off it that even up to 7 years later they are impaired mentally and still suffer. PLEASE DO NOT CONTINUE THIS EVIL DRUG. It my have it's place in a hospital setting but should NOT be prescribed to ANY NEW PATIENT. Evil does come in a bottle. | M | 47 | 20 years 40 2X day | 8/8/2013 | 4 | Anxitiy, Insomnia | after waking up in the morning, I felt as if I had gotten wasted the night before. Like having trouble walking because of staggering/ having trouble with balance. When I would lay down to sleep I usually sleep for 7-9 hours, It helps a lot with sleep. | F | 21 | 4 days 15mg 1X day | 6/29/2013 | 4 | Lower back muscle tear | Instant severe drowsiness and dry mouth | My doctor added this to the standard pain meds to help with the back spasms. It works pretty good to calm down my back spasm attacks. However, sleeping for 3 hours is the result of taking a pill. So cutting them in half works to some degree to prevent instant sleep. 5 mg instead of 10 twice a day. | M | 33 | 3 days 5 2X day | 6/11/2013 | 4 | Anxiety | Dizziness Calm and relaxed Sleepy | M | 5 days 20 mg | 4/11/2013 | 1 | Anxiety | Permanent brain damage from withdrawal of drug. Spent 5 years completely non-functional -- next 5 years trying to regain my life, left with permanent perceptual/emotional dysfunction and memory loss. | This is a very dangerous drug that Roche knows about--it can cause uimaginable suffering for those who are susceptible to a permanent down regulation / alteration of the brain's GABA network---I am one of those as are many, many others. | F | 68 | 7 years 5mg 1X day | 4/8/2013 | 5 | Anxiiety | A little sleepy | F | 70 | 1 months 5mg | 4/4/2013 | 5 | severe nerve pain | It takes away pain, helps me be able to turn my head & gives me energy. | F | 53 | 2 times 5 mg | 3/22/2013 |