Can this still be happening?

[[ev...]]

It is now well over 18 months since I took any drug. My taper from Valium ended on Aug 13th 2010. Yet I am still having mysterious aches and pains throughout my body some days. This week has been bad. I had a virus which involved coughing which the doctor said should have gone away after a couple of weeks. In my case it lasted nearly two months. Given that there were symptoms with it I was not sure if I was still suffering from the effects of all the benzodiazepines and other psychiatric drugs I took for two and a half years. Now it seems I am.

 

Are other people still enduring symptoms this far out?

 

Thanks in anticipation.

 

Ivan

[[Th...]]

Hi Ivan

 

I am 37 months out and still experiencing symptoms albeit about a dozen left out of 60+ but they are challenging everyday and hinder normal daily living ...

 

Mike

[[ro...]]

Hey Ivan,

Well you are not alone,I am 22 months out and still feel misrable most days.I developed what I thought was a bad cold in mid Oct well now March still have a soar throat,headaches,ear pain,enlarged tonsil, on top of all the other symptoms compliments of Benzo usage for a few months.

It seems any illness takes 10 times longer to heal from while in withdrawal- go figure!

 

Any way you have company,hope you start feelin better soon,

 

Rondo

[[ev...]]

Thanks for your replies. I made the mistake a couple of days ago of allowing myself to drink a bottle of Japanese beer. It tasted very nice. However, having googled alcohol and benzodiazepines I suspect that this could be the cause of the dire feelings I have today. Even after such a long time free of Valium it seems that therre is every potential for any alcohol to inflict misery on me. So I won't e doing that again and I hope this awful feeling I am experiencing today will pass. The message I am getting from both of you is that it takes a long time to get fully better and that one should take care.

 

Thanks again for your promt replies. And I wish you the best of luck.

 

Ivan.