Burning in chest and stomach. Moderate muscle pain in upper back and chest.

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Hello Biddies! I have had severe withdrawal symptoms for 35 days now. I have had some good days, but something new seems to show up every day. I had a steroid shot in my knee on June 30th and things have been awful since then. Along with the burning in my chest and belly, the muscle pain in my back and chest is pretty severe. I also have a non productive cough. My blood pressure is up and down, and I am hyper sensitive and anxious. I just feel awful! Can anyone else relate and reassure me that this us withdrawal? I also made a small cut within the last 10 days. I'm down to 2.1 mgs  of Valium. The only other drug I take is Lisinipril and I have taken it for years. I would be grateful for any input! Thank!

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Hi sjs, I have have had burning and muscle pain as well while I'm tapering. I'm doing with Librim and my current 4mg dose roughly equals yours 2.1V. My muscle pains was quite bad but about 80% of it vanished some weeks ago and I thought that low benzo amount in body caused a relief. Still having burning etc. but not as bad as it was some months ago.

 

How about your muscle paint, burning etc. were before taking stereoid shot? If symptoms were much less and you haven't done anything else different than taking a shot, then obvious reason increasing symptoms is the shot. Do you have similar thinking about it?  I do not know how stereoids impact in general and what is the impact on CNS but I think there is. Maybe someone else know this in more detail.

 

One way to asses the symptoms is wait for week or two and asses if you have less symptoms when time go by. I hope this is the case and you do not need to suffer as bad as you suffer now.

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Thank you, Thomas. I'm starting to feel a little better every day. I'm learning to go with the symptoms instead of fighting them and being afraid. Thank you foe responding. I hope you are doing well.