How To Cope Up With Valium Withdrawal Side Effects?

Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2015

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Question : I am tryong to get off 2.5 mg of valium I started at 10 down tp 5 and now at 2.5havinf a hard tome been on 2.5 for a month
I didi not start at 19 and have been slowly tapering from 5 mg to 2.2 and sometimes 2 mg I am on clonidine .1mg and diovan160mg for my blood pressure

Answered by Dr. Dr. Muhammad Sareer Khalil (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
2 mg valium can be stopped

Detailed Answer:
Hello and Welcome

I appreciate your concern

2 or 2.2 mg is a small dose of valium. You can stop it right away. It will not increase your risk of withdrawal effects significantly. Even if there are some undesirable effects , you can take half the dose for a week and then stop it altogether.

Wishing you best of health

Thanks

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