07-07-2016, 02:01 PM
It's so wrong what they are doing to patients here in the UK with regard to benzos, Diazepam in particular. I've been taking Diazepam most of my adult life, half of that being prescribed by a GP who introduced them to me, the other half buying them first from off 'the street', and then then from various iops.
It was really annoying that these people were getting loads of pills from thier GP for free, just for the soul purpose of selling them on at extortionate prices, whilst I couldn't get what I actually needed from my GP! I've not found a GP(in the last ten years), that will give me a maintanence prescription(one that carries on in-definitely), I've only been offered a reducing script. Even though I became physically and mentally dependant on them when GPs in the UK handed them out like cookies!
They are VERY adictive and are dangerous to suddenly stop taking them, my GP will only offer me a reducing prescription because of just how dangerous it is to stop taking them without a gradual, controlled reduction, my GP has told me that you can actually die from seizures if you stop abruptly taking Diazepam! Understandably, that's probably why they wouldn't give them out to new patients, especially if there are other medications for there particular need.
For me personally, I'm gonna be on them for the rest of my life, that's a personal desision I've made for myself. The last time I tried living without diazipam was about 6/7 years ago, they were absolutely hell on earth to stop, even after a reducing precription the physical withdrawl carried on and on for months.
Mentally, I ended up lost, and didn't leave my house for 22 months after that. I could not even go to my front gate to put out my bins, if I had not had a very good friend living with me I probably wouldn't be writing this now, I just wouldn't have coped.
I'm only posting this as some people have very real medical reasons for needing Diazipam in higher doses, and yes partly because of tolerance build up. I'm never going back to the place that nearly beat me, the one the NHS put me into in the first place!
The NHS has left me and many others out to dry, quite litterly! ?
But hell, and screw 'em! - I don't need the NHS and their excuses! I have a great iop (he's on here and he's the best, even more understanding than my own GP, and she knows my medical history!?!). I actually take less some days than what I was first prescribed all those years ago, I'm free now to take what doseage I feel I need on any given day... Happy days indeed! ☺
Izzy xx
It was really annoying that these people were getting loads of pills from thier GP for free, just for the soul purpose of selling them on at extortionate prices, whilst I couldn't get what I actually needed from my GP! I've not found a GP(in the last ten years), that will give me a maintanence prescription(one that carries on in-definitely), I've only been offered a reducing script. Even though I became physically and mentally dependant on them when GPs in the UK handed them out like cookies!
They are VERY adictive and are dangerous to suddenly stop taking them, my GP will only offer me a reducing prescription because of just how dangerous it is to stop taking them without a gradual, controlled reduction, my GP has told me that you can actually die from seizures if you stop abruptly taking Diazepam! Understandably, that's probably why they wouldn't give them out to new patients, especially if there are other medications for there particular need.
For me personally, I'm gonna be on them for the rest of my life, that's a personal desision I've made for myself. The last time I tried living without diazipam was about 6/7 years ago, they were absolutely hell on earth to stop, even after a reducing precription the physical withdrawl carried on and on for months.
Mentally, I ended up lost, and didn't leave my house for 22 months after that. I could not even go to my front gate to put out my bins, if I had not had a very good friend living with me I probably wouldn't be writing this now, I just wouldn't have coped.
I'm only posting this as some people have very real medical reasons for needing Diazipam in higher doses, and yes partly because of tolerance build up. I'm never going back to the place that nearly beat me, the one the NHS put me into in the first place!
The NHS has left me and many others out to dry, quite litterly! ?
But hell, and screw 'em! - I don't need the NHS and their excuses! I have a great iop (he's on here and he's the best, even more understanding than my own GP, and she knows my medical history!?!). I actually take less some days than what I was first prescribed all those years ago, I'm free now to take what doseage I feel I need on any given day... Happy days indeed! ☺
Izzy xx
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