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 |
| 5 | Sleep after Ecstasy use | Relaxation, sedation and mild drowziness the following day | Valium is a very useful drug, I use this medication after I have taken ecstasy (MDMA). It enables me to sleep very well and keep my sleep pattern for work, otherwise I would go to bed at 5am and wake at 3pm and so on, not good for a 9-5. Be careful as some people have had respitory failure leading to death from doses around 100mg and even lower. You won't get addicted if you use it in the way I do (once a week), taken every day you could, so use in moderation !! | M | 30 | 5 years | 9/16/2005 | 3 | Calm me down | Just feeling real tired | I just feel real mellow and tired, but that is all, it's an ok drug and does help me to feel real calm. | F | 32 | 2 days | 9/6/2005 | 3 | Panic Disorder | Worked when my panic disorder was light/mild BUT TOTALLLLLLY FAILED when it was severe!!! | F | 20 | 6 months | 9/2/2005 | 5 | Panic disorder with agoraphobia. | Daytime drowsiness, forgetfulness (mild), transient dysarthria, mild disinhibition manifested as increased socialisation. Increased libido (interest in sex). Elevated liver enzymes (GGT and ALT). All of these side effects are mild and don't cause me much concern. Benefits outweigh the risks. | A psychiatrist first prescribed me 5mg QID (4x/day) in 1989 for panic disorder after medications failed or had dangerous side effects. I was switched to high dose Xanax later on but Xanax was too short-acting. Tapering Xanax was impossible, so my doctor put me back on Valium and tapered me down to 10mg BID. It is very easy to taper Valium as it is long-acting. I feel calm and rarely have panic attacks anymore. I don't like the sedative effects, but there is no other drug out there that helps my panic attacks without dangerous or intolerable side effects. I'm on a French antidepressant called tianeptine (Stablon) and it works very well for my depression and anxiety. Along with Valium, I feel relatively normal, except that I wish I had some of my motivation back, but I had a lack of motivation prior to being on Valium. Overall, this is a great medication. Much, much less addictive than Xanax. | M | 33 | 15 years | 8/27/2005 | 5 | OCD - Trich (Hair Pulling) | Fatigue | This is the only medicine that has completely cured my trichotillomania, that is, my hair pulling. I take it at night which greatly minimizes the fatigue from Valium, while still working as well. Since I was 14, I've pulled or cut or picked my split ends, sometimes resulting in bald patches, because of my obsessive compulsive disorder. I stumbled across valium after trying zoloft, prozac, wellbutrin, and several other drugs. I was prescribed valium for surgery and has a very pleasant side effect - a complete cureall for my OCD! Do you know what a good feeling it is to be able to grow out your hair again? I am very pleased this worked for me but I don't know why because they do not traditionally prescribe this drug for trich. NOTHING else worked at all. I do not take illegal drugs or smoke, by the way. The last time I've gone this long without pulling my hair was five years ago. I have never been so happy...in five years. :-) | F | 23 | 2 weeks | 8/19/2005 | 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 | 5 | Aniiety Disorder | Decrease in Libido | M | 58 | 5 years | 5/3/2005 | 5 | anxiety | when i was prescribed to take it 3 times a day for a week i was exhuasted and i would get woozy. | it is a godsent. i have horrible anxiety and i have back problems. vicodan gives me anxiety but cures my pain then i have to take valium to keep me from having a panic attack. You have to be careful tho. if you like it too much you can become addicted. i like it b/c it doesn't makeme feel high. | 23 | 3 years | 4/1/2005 | 5 | insomnia, anxiety at bedtime | I cannot tell what causes what, due to a complicated life. I do not attribute my problems to Valium. This is a great drug. | Without Valium my mind would not stop at bedtime. This drug worked perfectly (let me sleep)and let me wake refreshed [5mg at bedtime]. More recently, I developed headache problems that I do not attribute to Valium [maybe overuse of protonix or Excedrin rebound]. I now use Valium for headaches and occasional leg shakes(5 mg at night). Now, I do not take it every day; more like every other day. | M | 55 | 2 years | 3/27/2005 | 4 | | 2/19/2005 | 5 | Exreme anxiety/depression | I have NO negative side effects that I experience. I know people (probaly don't have a anxiety disorder) that a half a pill knocks them out. for me it makes me feel | I had been on Xanax for 2 years taking 2mg. 3 times a day, unfortunatly the life span is only 2 hours or so. I got a high resistance to them, and became EXTREMEMLY addicted. When I tried to stop cold turkey, I can not begin to describe the pain and how sick I felt along with rebound anxiety I experienced. Went back just to feel | F | 40 | 4 days | 2/15/2005 | 2 | | 2/11/2005 | 4 | | 2/6/2005 | 4 | Anxiety attack caused by macrobid | Sleep inducing | The sedative effect lasts just 5 or 6 hours, then I wake up wide awake (but happy) in the middle of the night | F | 44 | | 2/1/2005 | 5 | anxiety, insomnia | none. pleasant calm feeling as intended. i wanted to get a valium rx after noticing how much it calmed me before my many leg surgeries. | THIS DRUG SAVED MY LIFE. i take paxil for chronic pain and buspar for anxiety as well. the combination of the two was making me unable to sleep for days at a time. after being up for four days straight i was seriously thinking about killing myself (i've been housebound due to anxiety and therefore depressed for over a year now). after taking 2 5mg valiums per day, i feel better than i have in years. i've also been able to quit smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol for the first time in ten years. i have my life back for the first time in a decade. literally a LIFE SAVER. | M | 26 | 2 days | 1/6/2005 | 5 | Stress related illness. | Nil,but dosage is low. | A very useful aid to avoid more serious consequenses of trying to cope with extreem social stresses. | M | 71 | 11 years | 1/2/2005 | 5 | Generalized Anxiety & OCD | I don't know if I have had any side effects yet, I just started. | It makes me feel less anixious but I am only on 5 mg. It's not much but it has helped a little. I have heard great things about it from people who truly need it. | F | 26 | | 12/12/2004 | 4 | lower back muscle spasms | sleepiness, constipation, anti-anxiety (GOOD!), teeth grinding, tolerance | I take percocet and a muscle relaxant to ease the pain of a herniated disc. I take a stool softener daily so I won't get constipated. I switch between valium & soma every month or two, once the drug stops working well. Valium makes me more sleepy than somas if I take more than 1 a day. All 3 (percocet, soma, valium) are great for anxiety. | F | 25 | 4 months | 11/15/2004 | 5 | anxiety | None. | It helps a lot. | F | 27 | 2 years | 11/11/2004 | 5 | r | re rr | w | M | 4 days | 11/7/2004 |