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@chinchuck- Right now it sounds as if you are in a vicious circle, which is really making your anxiety worse. These cycles are the pits, right? You say that your CNS is shot. Did something happen, or did you have a disease that made it so? I hadn't realized that Valium made someone agoraphobic until you mentioned it. And boy was I! What stage are you in weaning off of valium? How long have you been at this? I need you to calm down first a foremost. I know that what you are feeling is horrible. Please make a list about how you can calm your anxiety down if it isn't the valium and how you will deal with it if it is. There are just some withdrawal symptoms that we have to put up with. What are AD's?
If you can walk please just push yourself to get out of the house and bring someone with you who you trust and feel safe with. The feeling of agoraphobia will lessen as the valium leaves your system.
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Thank you Merry. I am trying to get off Valium now at 2.25mmgs from 4mgs as it has never worked for me and once I realised it is dangerous and addictive taken longer than a couple of weeks or so. I knew I had to get off it, but the battle to do so has been awful. It is the worst thing I have ever gone through in my life, even though I am tapering so slowly. I fear what the result will be as already I have anxiety far far in excess of my original condition, It gave me agoraphobia, massively increased tinnitus, internal shivers , huge weight loss, lack of appetite, sleep gone. I am so very scared and wish I had not taken even one. I never had a problem with food till the Valium, now I am so sensitive to any sugars and carbs. I am at a loss, what to do to get my life back. I had thought maybe something like mirtazapine at a very low dose may help me, but am scared to take anything. I just want me back. Desperate to survive