Thank you for your question, [...]. I realize I may not have expressed myself clearly, so I will try to explain my point again.
Once the diazepam Intensol solution (concentrate or not) is mixed with food or a liquid it does not dissolve in, like water, it creates a suspension. It is unknown how accurate dosing from this suspension is (i.e. removing some of the liquid for the purpose of tapering) — it may or may not be correct —. In your example (10-fold dilution of the 5mg / 5mL diazepam Intensol solution), when you removed 0.1mL with a syringe, you could have been removing 0.005, 0.01, 0.02mg diazepam, or less, or more. We can’t be certain of the exact amount. This is what I tried to convey in the part of my post you quoted.
Thanks, [...]. You are fine with the way you expressed yourself. These are technical subjects and are often difficult to understand.
I think we are talking about two different things here: your experience/situation
and my experience/situation. I reread this thread over carefully. I knew that you were using a 1mL = 10mg diazepam solution, which is different than the 5 mg per 5 mL solution that I use. I would consider following [...]' excellent instructions for diluting it that [...] posted on the first page of this thread. .01 ml of the mix that [...] described may not be perfectly equal to .001 mg, but it should be close enough to be usable and will allow you to make much smaller cuts than .1 mg which should lead to a more comfortable taper.
Even with pills, there are small variances in the amount of medicine contained in each individual pill. So you are not getting the exact same perfect measurement with each pill.
I found that using the mix of of one part 5mg / 5mL diazepam
Intensol*** solution with nine parts water was easier than splitting 2 mg diazepam pills in quarters as I had previously been doing. The diluted solution I use allows me to make smaller cuts than the method that I had been previously using, and to do so more easily. This resulted in a much more comfortable taper for me.
I previously wrote: "1 ML of the 5mg / 5mL diazepam
Intensol*** solution is equal to 1 mg of valium/diazepam. When you mix 1 mL of that solution with 9 mL of water, you have a mix where 1 mL is equal to 1/10 mg of valium/diazepam. I can easily use a syringe to measure this out to 1/10 of a ml or 1/100 of a mg of valium or .01 mg of valium."
I should have specified that .1 mL of this mix might not be a perfect .001 mg of diazepam/valium, but it is close enough to allow me to more easily make smaller cuts than I was able to do by splitting 2 mg diazepam pills. Likewise, when I am using a 10 ml syringe that has graduations of .1 mL to measure my dose, I might be off by .1 ml by eyesight. But myself and many other people have found it to work well, and worked worked better for us than trying to cut pills into small amounts when we got to lower daily doses of our taper.
Before using the diluted liquid diazepam, I was using 2 mg diazepam pills to taper. I found that when I cut them in quarters to try to approximate .5 mg of diazepam, I had problems because as I got lower the .5 mg of diazepam represented a larger percentage cut in my total dosage. I was fine cutting them in half to allow me to make cuts from 20 mg per day down to 10 mg a day. When I got to 10 mg a day I started cutting the pill in quarters to allow me to cut by .5 mg. As I got lower, the .5 mg cuts represented a larger percentage of my total dose. It became an issue when I got down to about 7.5 mg, and got really bad when I got down to 7 mg and below.
In using the 5 mg/5 mL liquid diazepam, here is how I mix it and dosed it. It might be applicable to your situation, but you would have to adapt the numbers to the proper ratio of your 1mL = 10mg diazepam solution. [...] posted perfect examples of this. I am using the numbers that are in this example for illustrative purposes. I use a 10 ml syringe and a 160 ml jar. I use the 10 ml syringe to draw 10 ml of the 5 mg/ 5 mL liquid diazepam and squirt it into the jar. Then I use the same syringe to draw 10 ml of filtered water into the jar. I do this 9 times with the water in the syringe so that I have a jar with 10 ml of the liquid valium and 90 mL of water. I seal the jar and shake it after mixing, and give it a few shakes before daily use. For my daily dosage, I use the 10 ml syringe to draw the dosage and squirt it into my mouth.
I will typically make a 4 - 5 day supply of this at a time.
**I mistakenly and incorrectly used the word Intensol to describe the wrong brand of solution. It is not the solution that I am using or writing about. My apologies.