Taste is one big reason why the container advises to "dilute before using to enhance palatability."
Simple suggestion for dilution.
Get a clean jar and a 10 ML syringe. Here is one on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JJYMOP6/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1Use the syringe to draw 10 ml of liquid diazepam/valium and spray it onto the jar.
Next use the syringe to draw 10 ml of water and spray it into the jar with the liquid valium. Do this a total of 9 times so that you have a total of 90 ml of water in the jar along with 10 ml of liquid valium. Cover it and shake it and it is ready to use. For each unit of valium you need to take you draw 10 mls of the solution.
Longer answer follows:
You dilute it with water for several reasons.
1. As you found out, the undiluted the liquid valium is very harsh tasting. Once diluted to a 9 to one ratio of water to liquid Valium it tastes like mild
cough syrup.
2. The liquid valium is quite sticky and if you take it directly a small amount might stick in the syringe.
3. Most importantly, diluting the liquid valium gives you a solution with a lower concentration of valium. This allows you taper daily by a smaller amount.
I use a 10 ML syringe that has markings down to .2ml and a 1 ML syringe that allows me to easily make cuts of .1ml. .1 ML of the solution is
equivalent to .01 mg of valium, that is 1/100 of a milligram. If the liquid valium was undiluted I could not make these smaller cuts This works better
for a daily liquid micro taper.
Just because it is a commonly referred to as a daily liquid microtaper, does not mean that you have to reduce the amount every day. You can reduce the amount every other day or hold at the same dose when you need to.
Here is how I mix liquid Valium/Diazepam with water to create my daily solution. I make a large batch that lasts me a week or two and I draw from it on a daily basis. This is much easier than trying to mix one dose at a time every day and it is easy to measure the larger amounts of liquid Valium and water than it is to mix small daily amounts.
I use a 10 ML syringe that I bought in a batch from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JJYMOP6/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1I also bought a jar from amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076DJHYK4/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1You can use a different jar, the most important thing being that it can seal tightly. I bought several of the jars in case I break one.
I use the 10 ml syringe to draw out 10 mg of liquid valium/Diazepam and spray it into the jar. I do this again and draw an additional 10 ml of liquid valium and spray it into the second jar with the water. The jar now has 20 ml of liquid valium/diazepam in it.
I then use the same syringe to draw 10 ml of water and spray it into the jar. I do this 18 times so that the jar now has a total of 180 ml of water and 20 ml of liquid diazepam in it.
By drawing the water into the same syringe after I used it to draw the liquid diazepam and spraying it into the jar, I make sure to wash out any of the liquid Diazepam that might have stuck in the syringe--although none is visible to me. You can also use a 50 ml syringe to measure it, but the 10 ml syringe works best for dosing because it has gradients or measuring marks as low as 2/10 of an ML. This allows you to taper by 2/100s of a ml of liquid valium when the liquid valium is diluted with the water.
I now have a jar with 200 ml of solution with the water at a 9-1 ratio with the liquid diazepam. At this point I close and shake the jar. I also shake it every day before drawing my daily dose.
Another thing that I do is pour a bunch of the liquid diazepam out of its container into a glass jar and use that to draw from to make my mixture.
I do this for two reasons:
1. It is very hard and awkward to draw the liquid diazepam out of its container while it is much easier to do so out of a jar since the jar has a wider top to
get the syringe into and is smaller and easier to work with.
2. I am afraid that I might wind up dropping or spilling the liquid diazepam container if I am trying to tilt it to draw liquid out of it with a syringe.
When taking my dose, I shake the jar with the mixture, open it, and use the 10 ml syringe to draw out 10 ml of the mixture. Then I spray it down my throat.
Remember, Each 10 ML of the liquid I mixed consists of 9 ml of water and 1 Ml of liquid Valium/Diazepam.
I take as many 10 ml doses as I need for each mg of Valium that I take.
The 10 ML syringes have 4 markings between each individual ml mark to allow you to measure .2 of each ml. This allows you to gradually taper. Each of these .2 ml marks represents .02mg if you have diluted the liquid valium with 9ml of water for each ml of liquid valium.
You can also get a smaller 1 ml syringe to incorporate in your taper. This allows you to easily make cuts by .01ml, which is the equivalent of 1/100 of a mg of valium if you use the solution that suggested, which I originally read on this messagebaord and am grateful to [...] for explaining and detailing.
