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Originally Posted by raspberrytorte
@ Rosi700
I'm on 30mg of diazepam, scheduled. I don't abuse it. I'm so used to it that it doesn't really feel like it does anything except keep me from having anxiety and withdrawal. No high. Nothing. Seroquel feels better. Have you ever been on gabapentin? I take that too. It feels quite pleasant. ☺️ And it helped stop my clonazepam withdrawal when I had a POS psychiatrist take me off 4mg in two months. Propranolol is nice too. I also take that. |
I got them for tension in my muscles around 40 years ago. I was a student with children, and Diazepam should help me to relax so that I could function in my roles as both a mother and a student.
I am sure it was well-meant.
(Concern for my total life-situation).
I have never used other medication usually prescribed for anxiety patients.
The attitudes toward diazepam changed among doctors as time went. Some acted toward me and others, fooled into using, as if we were some sort of dust in their eyes, the trash at the bottom.
The last years I have had a GP who understands the problem with being on these medications for such a long time. I am now on a low doze, and I am on them because that is what my body needs to live a normal life. Since the doze is so low, it is easy to pass the border for what is allowed if I take some extra.
I want to be honest and stay on that low dosage in cooperation with my GP. (Nowadays a GP who prescribes too much Diazepam, where I live, can lose their right to prescribe). I am very grateful for this GP and the low doze!
I know that I will be able to figure out my triggers for the extra use and how to cope with these triggers without using diazepam
Thank you so much for your concern!
PS. I want to see my lowering the diazepam doze over time down to an accepable dosage as a huge VICTORY!
That there are nasty GPs around who fail to see the total situation for their patients, has to be placed on their sholders, not mine or others in the same situation. Moralistic and selfsentered. DS.