Want to cross over to valium

Insomnia is a big issue for me so I don’t wanna start with the night dose yet.  By the way what did you do when you crossed over to Valium?

I started with 1/2 of my nighttime dose. Daytime anxiety is my big hurdle.

It was definitely bumpy for a week or so.

More physical symptoms in my case - lots of body tingling. So odd.

Has microtapering helped you function still?

So far MT has made my symptoms in tolerable state.

But it flares up sometimes.

 

Could you still function / live life while tapering?

I sometimes hardly function, sometimes it's little easier. It's so unpredictable. But i think crossing to valium is making things easier relatively.

Yes I can stay functional if I taper even slower, but i prefer to go through pain and get benzo free in a certain period of time, I'm still going slow but not that slow like a guy said 5 years of taper.

But if I had bills to pay then I may prefer long time taper, but I'm in no such compulsions. I have a house and i get food to eat, so i think the big ambitions can wait.

How is your crossover going?

I'm in the 4th step and except benzo flu I'm feeling fine.

SC, you're going to be just fine.

Scaredcat,

 

How are you feeling?  Has it been better than you thought?

Never want to talk positive till I recover from the benzo thing, but I feel way way better than when I was in etizolam.

 

Oh man, thats good to hear. I understand your reservation. I also had windows and thought, well I have had the worst and ride it out. I never could be more wrong.

I think the constant changing serumlevel in the blood with short acting benzo's is to much for our nerves, even when dosing 3 or 4 times.

 

Hope you keep fine and have a more gentle taper!

 

I have asked my dr. for V too.

Is Valium making you feel more calm?

It's making me super calm. I think the equivalent table could be wrong. 1 mg E may not be 10 mg V, it's probably 5 mg V.

Question is are you feeling better?

I am 8 days into switching from 1mg daily to valium.

Dec.30 I woke screaming and crying to my hubby as Ive been  slowly tampering from 2mg to .25mg of ativan. It was done too fast..less than 1 week.

Dec.31 my hubby made some calls to freinds and got some valiums and kpins.

Jan1. I took 2mg ativan and 15mg valium at once.

Jan2. 15mg valium

Jan3. 12.5 valium in am and 2.5 val pm.

Jan.4 12.5 valium

Jan5. 10mg valium am and 5 mg valium in the pm.

Jan6. 10mg valium and 1mg kpin.

Jan7. 10mg valium and 1 mg kpin at same time in am.

So far so good and I hope to only use the kpins every once in a while and transition to the valium and slowly descrease.

Why are you using Klonopin?

I think it's best to switch to valium as all do, and then taper.

Somewhere I read, valium despite being a long half life may still give interdose, so i will continue to dose 3x a day after I cross over to valium fully.

Once Valium builds up in your system you should not have any interdose issues.

How are you feeling now on the valium?

I'm feeling good.

Great.

 

Can you let me know what crossover schedule you followed?

Today morning I had chest burning, restlessness. It has decreased a lot since then but still a wierd chest sensation continues. Feeling faintly nauseous too.

I am currently in my 5th step and in comparison with etizolam withdrawal I'm far better.

What dose of Valium?

0.26 Etizolam to 2.6mg Valium