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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR VALIUM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Back pain | People love this drug because they think they can stop taking it and not get any withdrawal symptoms. Diazepam has a half life of 100-200 hours and it builds up massively in your body if you take it every day, or worse still, multiple times a day. If youve been taking 10mg a day for a year then you will have 2000mg-3000mg of it in your body when you quit, so you won't experience any withdrawal symptoms for around a month. This has been scientifically proven. So just because you quit for a week cold turkey and get no Withdrawals, don't think you're past the most difficult phase. | This drug accumulates massively in your body, causes dementia/ brain damage (been proven in recent studies) and will ruin your life once you come off it. | M | 55 | 10 days 10MG | 9/28/2015 | 1 | Wrongly prescribed--depression | Please only take this for a very short time--few days or a week. If you are one one of the large% you will have a very rough time discontinuing use. | Horrible long term physical and mental symptoms for over a year after quitting. | F | 60 | 2 years 20 mg | 9/19/2015 | 1 | anxiety | 1 days | 6/11/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | None | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG OR ANY BENZO'S. I had no idea that I had to be weaned off of 5 mg of Valium. I went into acute w/d and I had terrible anxiety (never suffered any anxiety prior to taking it) high blood pressure, fast pulse, muscle cramps, blurred vision, tininitus, walking felt odd, terrible irregular periods, sweats, short term memory loss, my hair was shedding and breaking for 5 weeks, terrible insomnia, I lost 7 pds in one week, agoraphobic, terrible fear, auditory hallucinations. I am currently off the drug 20 weeks now and most of these terrible side effects have all abated. I am still dealing with short term memory cognitive issues, and a little anxiety. I never had any anxiety prior to taking this drug. DO NOT TAKE VALIUM OR ANY BENZO. THEY DOWN REGULATE YOUR GABA A RECEPTORS AND THEY TAKE A VERY LONG TIME TO UP REGULATE!! What saved me was www.benzobuddies.org. | F | 50 | 4 years 5 mg 1X day | 5/21/2015 | 1 | Sedation for Sigmoidoscopy | Had Versed and Valium for sedated Sigmoidoscopy. The doc told me when I woke up that the Sigmoidoscopy was stopped because I was in danger of aspirating the vomit from the Versed. Second time successful without either drug. | I don't know why I seem to be over sensitive to Valium. Will not take Valium unless absolutely necessary in a hospital setting, where they deal with anesthesia on a daily basis. | M | 39 | 1 days IV | 4/28/2015 | 1 | anxiety due to Claritin-D | HORRIBLE--From the first dose, it CAUSED muscle spasms...I thought I was having a seizure so I immediately took more! Muscle spasms, brain fog, suicidal thoughts, burning sensations of lava pouring through my body, and a burning the size of a grapefruit on the right side of my head non-stop for a month; full body shakes, chills, spasms, complete loss of appetite, severe constipation, and interrupted sleep (only let me sleep 2-3 hours at a stretch), leading to insomnia, severe tinnitus | I wish I had never taken this, and after only 8 weeks, I don't know if it has permanently ruined me. I tried to cold turkey Jan 27, but by a week later I had to take 1 dose, and by the second week I was going to jump out the window...I had been up non-stop for 4 days and nights, and had only slept 2 hours a night the days before that...going from bed to bathtub with severe spasms, complete inability to cope or interact...From the first dose, I started running to neurologists thinking I had some rare disease that caused burning sensations in my body, and I had 2 MRIs, a CT, EEGs, BAERs, EMGs....a $10,000 work up only to be told everything was normal...but how was that possible when I was in this much pain? Finally when the third ENT doc prescribed Klonipen for my tinnitus (which THANK GOD I NEVER TOOK) did I find the benzosupport.org website, and I discovered all my problems were caused by the valium. I am not on week 3 of withdrawal, after re-instating a 4 day taper last week after the failed cold turkey attempt (NEVER NEVER try cold turkey, I do believe now it can kill you). I almost lost my job over this ( I am an RN) and started making scary mistakes at work. Luckily I only work 2 days a week so I could spend the rest of time in bed or the bath. I could see myself losing my family, friends, job everything if I had not figured this out. I am praying my hearing ever comes back to normal, as the ringing gets loud or soft but is always always there and I never had this b | F | 47 | 8 weeks 5 mg 1X day | 2/17/2015 | 1 | Migraine, neck pain | I began taking generic Valium for migraine relief & associated neck pain. During menopause, I had severe migraines almost daily. Valium helped with the intense neck pain & at first it worked very well. However, I kept upping the dose when 10 mgs stopped working and then I became physically dependent. | I reached my max at 40 mgs per day. After 5 years, I began to experience deep muscle and back pain. I never associated this with Valium until I read an article about long term use of Benzodiazepines causing RA-like pain. My back, knees & leg muscles ached constantly. I could barely walk. I began to taper down to 5 mgs a day. My pain did not subside until I began tapering the last 10 mgs. I noticed a marked difference in pain level. The withdrawal was not bad. I barely remember it. Of course, I barely remember anything anymore. My short term memory has been severely compromised. I don't know if it will ever return. It is a definite side-effect of Valium, including the joint & muscle pain. | F | 67 | 20 years 10 4X day | 1/11/2015 | 1 | anxiety | Loss of mobility..dizziness..loss of appetite this drug is good for long term use.has anyone else loss balance from using valium.lm worried about dormant damage..I'm withdrawing from it right now..does anyone know how long its takes to get thru withdrawals? | F | 47 | 1 years 5mg | 12/26/2014 | 1 | muscle relaxer | Hallucinations..loss of speech. Memory loss and loss of peripheral vision | Horrible..took medicine to help relieve spasms and now I cant even remember what I did yesterday .this medicine is poison | F | 39 | 2 months 15 mg dail | 11/7/2014 | 1 | Muscle condition | Withdrawal symptoms were horrific and prolonged. Over a year until I felt better. My doctor did not warn me to stop slowing and insisted that the pills were not addictive. Good news is I am off them and better 2 years later and have no desire to ever take another one | F | 53 | 5 months 3 mg 2X day | 11/4/2014 | 1 | Seizure disorder | Valium was very useful to help me sleep after the birth of my baby and to prevent another seizure. It is however incredibly addictive and as you build tolerance it stops working. The withdrawal is a living hell. Not worth it. | F | 38 | 1 years 10mg | 4/30/2014 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Anxiexty | Was put on valium due to panic attacks and could not sleep. Also other medical problems. Had siezure attacks and got 4 diffirent oppions. Was told phesedo siezures and after 10 years dr reduced and took me off since cant not sleep and back to mid say attacks If i knew that trying get off this would cause more problems would never started. | M | 46 | 10 years 10mg 2X day | 9/22/2012 | 1 | Anxiety/Panic | Withdrawal is hell. Dry mouth and eyes, still having anxiety, shaking all over, jaw pains, agoraphobia, and many more | NEVER EVER use benzodiazepines. If I had known in the beginning when my Dr. prescribed first Lorazepam, then Ativan and now valium for withdrawal, I would never have used them. My Dr. now has yanked me cold turkey off of Ativan and had me start on valium. I'm down to 1 mg. at nite and the side effects have worsened 100%. | F | 68 | 6 months 5 mg. 3X day | 6/22/2012 | 1 | before having an MRI | Had a life threatning reaction from having ingested one tablet from the prescription I was prescribed. Bed ridden for seven months . Very bad pain in the head. It was like a migraine magnified 50x, sense of space very distorted,dizziness, very bad tinnitus, very bad pain behind eyes, heart complications,panic attacks morning,noon & night, suicidal because of the untolerable pain I had to endure with the pressure and pain in my head the list goes on. Had one tablet. Believe I may have had an unforgiven batch. | Should come with a black box warning. You never know when you are going te end up with an unsafe batch. It may be a life saving medicine until one receieves a contaminated, tampered with or unsafe batch. My husband also had one tablet from the same batch and had a heart attack. Coincidental- No. What does one do when you get an unsafe medicine that causes so much harm??? | F | 1X day | 5/11/2012 | 1 | Facial Tick | This drug is nothing short of EVIL. It's all good when you're taking it, until you start feeling numb, depressed, fatigued, etc. Eventually, when you decide to stop, get ready to put your life on hold for many months or even years. It took me over TWO YEARS to recover from the neurological damage done by this horrible drug. Doctors who prescribe this drug for long-term use should lose their licenses and be thrown in jail. | Please take 10 minutes and read my story at www.drjudyforgason.com before taking this terrible drug. | M | 34 | 3 years 5 mg 2X day | 10/29/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Upon discontinuation, I lost my balance, got tinnitus, blurry vision, halucinations, aches and pains in all my joints and muscles...to many symptoms to even list here | Doctors are unaware of withdrawal with benzodiazepines and will not only never tell you about it, they don't believe you when it happens. It took over a year to feel better again after stopping this drug the withdrawal was so bad. Research it! | F | 48 | 1 years 20 mg 4X day | 10/28/2011 | 1 | anxiety | dont let valium make you think all is well ,ive taken them on and off for years and wish id never layd eyes on them, getting of valium the first time i didnt sleep for 6 weeks and then i went mad, im stiil on them now years later and if i try now i feal as if im haven a hart attack,stay well clear of them. | M | 36 | 10 years 5 mg 4X day | 4/5/2011 |