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DLMT'd V from 15-12.75mg, nausea, need advice


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I've been tapering valium .04mg per day using liquid and pills. I started at 15mg and have gotten down to about 12.75mg. At my current pace I would be able to get to 10mg by the summer.

 

I'm starting to have bad days of nausea, exhaustion... I have to force feed myself. Sleeping about 5 hours a night without an additional sleep aid, although I occasionally take Remeron or Hydroxyzine to get more sleep.

 

Should I slow my taper rate? Hold the dose for a week or so? Or is it okay to taper through the kind of symptoms I'm having?

I'm a professor and my spring break is just ending. I start teaching again next week. I took a job as a supervisor at a summer camp that would start in June, but given how I feel now, I'm thinking I should pull out of the summer camp job. I would be living at the camp, working 6 days a week, 10 hours a day, overseeing 50 campers (with special needs) and 15 counselors in the Summer heat - probably the opposite environment you want to be in when in withdrawal.

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Do a short hold, and take an OTC anti-nausea med.

 

Most tapers, no matter how well planned and executed, will occasionally cause some sxs.  Address them with common OTC meds, or Rx where appropriate.

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Do a short hold, and take an OTC anti-nausea med.

 

Most tapers, no matter how well planned and executed, will occasionally cause some sxs.  Address them with common OTC meds, or Rx where appropriate.

 

Thanks, Builder. I will try a short hold...

 

I look at your signature lines and see it took you 2 years to go from 9-0mg. If that's the sensible pace to go by, I have 2+ years of tapering ahead of me. I was hoping to be done by June 2020, but I know I know throw the timeline expectations away and listen to my body - so goes the conventional wisdom on BB. It's just hard to reckon I'll be drinking this poison for so much longer. :-/

 

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Do a short hold, and take an OTC anti-nausea med.

 

Most tapers, no matter how well planned and executed, will occasionally cause some sxs.  Address them with common OTC meds, or Rx where appropriate.

 

Thanks, Builder. I will try a short hold...

 

I look at your signature lines and see it took you 2 years to go from 9-0mg. If that's the sensible pace to go by, I have 2+ years of tapering ahead of me. I was hoping to be done by June 2020, but I know I know throw the timeline expectations away and listen to my body - so goes the conventional wisdom on BB. It's just hard to reckon I'll be drinking this poison for so much longer. :-/

 

My parameters were tolerability and functionality, over speed.  And there were probably periods in my taper I could have gone fasster.

 

And if you look a little more, there were actually about a total of 3 months where I was doing convenience holds.  I held at even tablet doses prior to scheduled travel plans so I didn't need to bother with my taper when travelling.

 

I probably could have done the whole thing in about 18 months, but as I said, that wasn't a priority.

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Great thread you two, just what I needed. On Diaz Seroquel Pregabalin Mirtazipine ugggg

I am Diaz down from 17.5 taking 1.25 off daily per week to start.  I am not afraid to go slower.

Paradoxically I feel less anxious on less diazepam, but more somatic symptoms.

In extremis I take prochlorperizine 3 mg. 

The mirtazipine causes midday muscle tension so hope to drop that from 15 to 7.5 during a valium hold. I would not use mirtazipine for sleep as you can feel the serotonin surge unless it’s my imagination.

Keep up the good work Builder

Dickie

I have done CT thirty years ago from 30 to 6 mg without pain, but as Bob Dylan says

“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”

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