I have been on diazepam for four months and the thing nobody warned me about is the memory gaps.
Withdrawal symptoms are not the same as side effects, and conflating them wasted a year of my life.
Sleep is the variable that moves everything else. Bad night, worse day, more memory gaps.
Rebound anxiety at the end can outlast the taper itself, which is why the last bit takes as long as the first.
Curious how others here structure the day around it.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Same here.
I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do.
Same here.
Memory gaps was my main issue with diazepam too.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.