Valium and feeling sick

[fd11]

I started the valium 13 days ago, crossed over from the Klonopin.  Is it normal to feel like you are getting the flu.  I went to my doctor today and she said that i am not sick with the flu or cold.  I feel like my throat is soar and I am aching.  Does anyone know what it could be.  Thanks

[waylander]

how much do u take aday?

[AJWS6]

I crossed over to valium from Klonopin and had flu like symptoms, your system is trying to adjust, it will go away with time.  

[fd11]

I am on 10MG at night and thanks.

[level]

Interesting. I was on valium for 5 years then went to klonopin for 2 weeks and went right back to valium. I think it threw me all out of whack, then throw in the change of ssri at the same time also. Hard to say if it's the cause or not but I feel little icky also but throw in allergies, cold weather, etc., it's really difficult to say.

[fd11]

Are you on anything now?  If you don't mind me asking.  I need to get off this stuff.  Thanks all.  

[jo929]

you dont say why the Dr gave you valium I do know that it is to calm one down and there has been a lot of sucess with it any change of meds will affect you to a certain degree as soon as your system adjusts this may go away if that is the cause of the symptons you are having before quitting it is most important that you check with your dr or there could be a lot of problems   lots luck   jo

[fd11]

I was put on the valium to come off the Klonopin.  I just have an issue with these doctors because they are so uneducated when it comes to the weaning process.  That is why I come here to get a liitle advice.  Thanks and lots of luck to you as well.

This is my story:


My story started about 16 months ago; I was not taking care of my self like I always would. For a good year I was working 13-16 hours a day 5-6 days a week (while drinking at night so I could do my work, this was 3 months prior to my panic attack I never drank a lot usually once every 3-4 weeks with my wife and friends), taking a diet pill (for 2 months), smoking cigarettes (7 years) and doing chewing tobacco (4 years) on top of it. I would get 3-5 hours of sleep a night (for about a year with sleep like this) and then go to the gym in the morning around 5 am.  I also drank 3 cups of coffee a day.  I decided to quit smoking (19 months now without a cigarette) but kept on going with the other nonsense (currently I don't do any of the above stuff for the last 14 months). Then it happen, one night after my in laws left from having dinner and I continued to do work. My chest felt like it was going to explode and I felt like I was going to die. My muscle got so tense that I felt like my muscles were actually getting bigger.  I was rushed to the emergency room where they said that I was having panic attacks and gave me 2 Xanax and sent me home after 4 hours. So a week went by and I had to take a 3 month leave of absent from work, I would just lie in bed crying and was afraid to drive and go out of the house. My primary physician (we did every test you could imagine and I am extremely healthy) and I decided that I should see a psychiatrist and every psychiatrist I went to wanted to give me a medicine, telling me I have a panic disorder. So I found a doctor I was comfortable with (so I thought); we started to do sessions once a week. I was trying this without the meds and I felt ok but not my self, so I know of some friends who have taken Paxil in the past and I asked my doctor if I should go on Paxil. He said sure and I started to take Paxil (they give this stuff out like it is candy).  I took this stuff for 9 months and hated it. The side affects were killing me. I kept telling the doctor that I need to get off this stuff and he said that it wasn’t side affects it was my panic disorder. I was trying to explain to him that this was not anxiety. So he finally said that I could wean off of the Paxil and I asked him if I should take the pill every other day and he said yea lets try that. When I tell you the withdrawal that I went thought was unbearable and I literally just wanted to end my life.  Needless to say I found a new doctor and he weaned me off the Paxil within 10 days, right before my wedding, the only problem was that he put me on Clonazepam. Now I have been on this for a little over 6 months and I want to come off. Even thought I was only taking .5 MG before bedtime (for 2 months before I started to come down), I fell like this is a nightmare; muscle aches, tension between my eyes, blurred vision, my balance is off, back and neck pain, my legs always week and depression. My doctors told me just to stop taking the medicine and I new from different forums that this was not the thing to do so I asked him if we can wean off the pill. His response was sure, dry cut the pill ¼ every 10 days until I am off. Well obviously this is too quick and I started to have withdrawals. So I went back up to ¾ of the pill and started to wean off of the Clonazepam again by dry cutting the pill ¼ every 5 weeks and I  was stuck and ¾ of .5 MG for 5 weeks.  I started the water titration 3 weeks ago and went down from .375 MG to .348 MG.  Then I had a mild panic attack 4 weeks ago (the first one in 11 months) and I decided to go up to .353 and hold there for the last 3 days.  Since that attack, I have not been able to catch my breath (bought so nose strips and it has been better).  So that is why this doctor is saying that my Panic disorder has return.  I truly believe that these meds do more harm then good, your body should be able to heal itself.   I have now crossed over to valium for the last 14 days at 10MG before bedtime.  Hopefully this will work and make it easier to taper off.