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 |
| 3 | muscle spasms | Makes me a little sleepy during the day. Doesn't mellow me out, because feeling sleepy pisses me off. I have too much to do to feel tired. | I can't prove this, but suspect that valium makes me depressed. Anyone else experienced this? Have been blue and sad since taking it, but that could also be from other factors. | 51 | 70 days | 8/8/2005 | 3 | depress | asd | asd | M | 13 | 1 months | 10/26/2004 | 3 | High Stress | I used way too much of this stuff one day but I had a great nights sleep! This stuff only seems to work for me when I suddenly feel stressed. The rest of the day I didn’t feel any effect. It’s a long acting drug and it is less addictive than Lorazepam (so I am told by my psychiatrist). | *SHORT TERM USE ONLY* | M | 16 | | 6/25/2003 | 3 | cant sleep/have broken neck | none | just used it to help me sleep it helped some. | M | 24 | 4 months | 5/27/2002 | 4 | Alcohol withdrawal/Insomnia/Anxiety | Minor memory loss, concentration problems, mood fluctuations (euphoria and dysphoria) | I was able to come off alcohol easily. It helps with insomnia and anxiety. I'm functional at work. It works better than Ativan, Klonopin, Lectopam, Serax and Restoril. Xanax works also well, but I built a tolerance and I became addicted. I was able to stop Xanax with the help of Valium. The only thing I dont like is sometimes I feel down for 30 minutes 1 hour after I take it, but sometimes I feel great. | M | 44 | 6 months 10 mg 1X day | 10/28/2023 | 4 | Stress and insomnia | Stressful period which lead to anxiety and unable to sleep just kept over thinking. Took one pill before bed, calmed me down and helped me sleep. I felt less overwhelmed and was able to focus on work. I still had the anxiety but it just slightly suppressed it. The right amount For me. I only take it twice a week during stressful times and it works well for me. I guess my anxiety is not as severe but it's the only thing that helped for milder anxiety. I also feel if you can't sleep just a good nights sleep helps with the anxiety. | F | 43 | 1 days 5 mg 1X day | 9/21/2020 | 4 | Severe shoulder pain | Drowsiness, and slight disorientation. The biggest side effect is it makes me very horny. Really boosts my sex drive. | M | 37 | 4 days 5 | 10/23/2017 | 4 | Disc bulges causing muscle spasms | I was prescribed 5mg tablets. First time I took 1 it felt like I was moving in slow motion. My cognitive and musculoskeletal abilities were significantly reduced. However I was In extreme pain, bed bound and just put a movie on so it wasn't a big deal for me, It relieved my pain within 30 minutes and it went from a 10 to 0. However after that initial dose I decided to crack the tablets in half and would take 2.5MG before bed. This would really help my spasms and I wouldn't wake up so stiff. It also helped with my anxiety and stopped my racing thought process. I had an exam the third day I took valium. The week before I was super anxious, scored 2/10 on my quiz. I knew the content and am a smart person but when I get super anxious I just can't focus and forget everything I have learned. Walked into the next quiz relaxed, and was able to think logically without sending myself into a panic when I found something difficult. Scored 9/10 that week. The only strange side effect was a loss of | F | 22 | 3 weeks 2.5MG 1X day | 9/18/2017 | 4 | Anxiety | Muscle weakness, unable to think clearly | It is very mild but effective. It won't block a panic attack but it worked really well when I took it at night. It'd relieve muscle spasms and I got a good night's sleep. I no longer take it because it caused muscle weakness and it was hard to think the next day. | F | 40 | 1 months 5 mg 1X day | 7/18/2017 | 4 | anxiety | None | If i take more then presribed, am i wasting it? | F | 43 | 3 years 30MG | 10/15/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | wn they wear off you need more | how control palpitations without Valium | F | 58 | 10 months 5m | 6/2/2015 | 4 | PTSD w/ associated night terrors | None other than a little bit of sleepiness the next day. | I only take this at night, 1-hour before bed. I was unable to sleep and crying uncontrollably and for no reason from a PTSD setback and I also started having horrific night terrors again. This in combination with Zoloft, also taken at night has helped a great deal. I can now sleep again with minimal night terrors and the cry valve has been adjusted appropriately. I now feel I am becoming immune to the current dose I am on. I started at 5 MG and am now at 10 MG. | F | 46 | 2 years 10 mg 1X day | 12/2/2014 | 4 | panic disorder / sleep / mania | None | Note that I wasn't taking 80mg a day every day, just on the days I needed it. I found that valium didn't do anything at all to help me sleep or for anxiety, even when I took pretty high doses. (found that zopiclone is the only med that works for sleep for me, ativan is the best thing for anxiety - again I only take these when needed not every day) However I'm also bipolar and I have found that valium is actually pretty useful in toning down the manic side of it without having to take stupidly high doses | F | 31 | 6 months 40mg 2X day | 6/29/2014 | 4 | neck spasm | Helped relax the spasms. Prescribed for 4 days and pain returned after stopping. | F | 44 | 4 days 5mg | 5/26/2014 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |