hey,can't help you on your tapering dilemma, but I think your right about the zanax. Sounds like you'd be defeating the purpose. I'm trying to think of something else the dr. could prescribe for sleepCentral sleep apnea
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Your withdrawls shouldn't be that bad but you may feel a little strange at times afterwards.Like your sleepingSleeping difficulty may be uneasy at times and possible spans of feeling nervousAged nervous tissue
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Shotsy - got your email and appreciate it. I agree with you completely and didn't know if you wanted me to reply - but write me any time, I enjoy receiving your mail and your presence on the board is appreciated.



Kuebestin,



I am still trying to get your freewheelin to you, hold on : --).

I just don't understand why you are having the problems with Valium at that dose. FirstFirst progesterone mc10
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Xanax xr is what you should be on -it is very good for sleepingSleeping difficulty. Just keep working with you doc and posting. And hang in there. If this is just a physiological vs. psychologicalChild neglect and psychological abuse thing, the symptoms should pass. It is also not unusual for psychologicalChild neglect and psychological abuse issues to come up once you stop a sedative, so this may be an opportunity to "feel" again and grow. Best of luck to you.



And I have been posting fairly regularly, but will be quite tied up the next two weeks so you may not see me as much. But believe me, there is more than enough empathy and talent on this board to make up for the 49 year old perfectPerfect choice master, Valium hubby and relapse ridden hack.



Yours,



FLee

Sure reply's are great. That's one of the frustrating things about this forum for me. Sometimes I ask a question and I REALLY do want an answer,an it doesn't come.But I've noticed that's the sort of ebb and  flow of it. So I've gotten use to it. I hope everything is  okay with  you? So feel free to email me. All I've been getting lately is junk so I get really  excited when someone takes the time to write me. Geez ,I should take  that to heartCongenital heart disease
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Kstuebin: I kind of agree with Frank Lee about why you or your doctor want to take you completely off of the Valium.  5 or 10 mg. is not that much.  As long as you don't feel any tolerance building up.  In my experience, and this might have just been me, XanaxXanax
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Maybe you can switch to KlonopinKlonopin
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Hey - just read your post in the Daniel thread, man you were much more succint and calm than I. Congradulations on that. I lost about a score of my hotmail correspondence when my son was downloading Jimi Hendrix from morpheus during a thunderstorm. He's 16, I'm told this is normal :-/. Anyway, you can send me again or whatever. I am just amazed at how the good folks came out of the woodwork today and nailed the binladen of medhelp. This group really gives me a lot. I logged on today and was looking just to see how everyone was, and maybe for some insights and I read that damn post and just over reacted. You know I think that the 80-90% of the normal folks out there have their synapses just firing away fine and don't freak out like me. Not that their lives are any easier and, oddly enough, I really woudln't change my life for anyone elses, flawed as the 49 year old perfectPerfect choice master is. But the point is, the ebb and flow for the 'normal' is what I think I would like to have. Not this damned around the clock craving.



Anyway Shotsy, you've got mail anytime you want - just send again and have a good eveningEvening primrose.



Flee