I've Started Taking Valium Every Night

I have no idea. Would, naturally, be interested.

Think of this as a mere bookmark. I have a bias or two but not sure I'm right.

Osso's got some nice Johnny Walker Blue. You could switch off every other night.

Ha! Didn't see osso's post as I was typing.

nah I anm currentlyenjoying it with a Mondavi reserve Syrah...

wine and valium.... you should sleep like a baby.

yup... without it I awake at 3am like clockwork with anxiety attacks...

Well, sure, Mondavi, I'm fine with that. It's valium I don't know about, see me as ignoramus. I had one half of a librium a friend gave me when when I was going to drive my agitated father across the US, forty years ago.. I could hardly raise my arm. Glad that wore off. Tough trip in any case.

And that's it with my experience of this kind of drug.

I do gather drugs interact fairly often, alcohol counting as a drug. Lotta people have plotzed on combos. Ask your md....... or maybe there is some website that goes into all this.

You know the breathing with anxiety attacks, right?

honey if you knew how I lived in the 70's ( and 60's and 80's) you'd know that a little alcohol and valium holds no fear for me...

Eleventeen.

Is the anxiety about anything specific that could be dealt with?

it's abot you brandon.... stop haunting me....

I will, but I'm serious. Is the subject of the something you can deal with, or kind of general?

not to be a dick..but i don't want to share that info.not just withyou... anyone. it will come out eventually i have a feeling, which is one of the causes of my anxiety.

Good luck.

along the same lines as osso's breathing suggestion, there are also meditation techniques before bedtime that are effective with anxiety. I prefer scotch.

I can't describe the breathing suggestion, since I too prefer scotch.

But many here can. Or just look up panic attack.

I am not one who says everything has to come out and be dealt with - I'm sort of ambivalent on that. But I'll go with dealing with stuff that pops to the surface.

A whole bunch of us are wrapped in wire, don't feel alone, please.

Lithium was the thing. Valium is ok. You may have a hard time giving it up though!

Not to come across as too much of a street pharma, but so long as your doc says it's okay on the health front (anything else you may be taking, complications, you know stuff like that) - if it gets you through and you are feeling relatively ok and functioning during days - well. ...I guess regular old dope doesn't do the trick?

I hope you feel better soon. Anxiety is not fun.

I really don't recommend having a booze chaser though. Stay well!

(I know this because back a few years ago, the bf took valium/lithium - lithium mostly - to sleep, complicated but one day I did have some to 'calm down' and it knocked me on my ass! One beer later I was a total space cadet and not feeling so well....)

I don't know that it will keep working. Eventually you'll be waking at 3am again, even with the valium.