has any one taken temazepam - if so have you done it 3 days on 3 days off?

[Mrs_Somerset]

the doc has asked me to take temazepam 3 days on and 3 days off. I am due to start taking htem tonight but am concerned about the withdrawl symptoms. It is only 10mg so hopefully not an issue but wanted to see if anyone had experience of this medecine please

M

[fenbadger]

I'm probably not the best to answer this. Never had addiction or dependence problem - so no withdrawal. But then a lot of these don't work terribly well. Diazepam, temazepam, codeine mixes, morphine. little or no effect in normal doses. Feel cheated too as I don't even hallucinate where everyone else does. Even talking to pain nurse doesn't help because no one else acts on their advice Sorry.

[Mrs_Somerset in reply to fenbadger]

Hi fenbadger,

thanks for the reply -I think I know what you mean - I apparently have a high tolerance for pain meds and very little works but I do get the unpleasant side effects - nausea, digestive issues etc.

I did respond well to the diazepam ( as in I slept - still had the pain when awake though, sadly no hallucinations of unicorns ) so have high hopes for the temazepam in as much as it will keep me asleep for a few hours, I don't think ( not sure) it does anything for the pain, it is just a sedative that knocks you out so that you do not process the pain signals?

The side effects are novel though - one of them is that I might get up and drive my car whilst asleep - chance would be a fine thing - but hubby has rather cheekily hidden my car keys from me just in cases - LOL.

He knows that even under heavy sedation Iw ould never try to drive his car

[fenbadger in reply to Mrs_Somerset]

Hee hee. Yeah, as a temporary measure if you can only get some quality sleep it sometimes makes other things easier to deal with. I'm not sure about the pain thing because when I'm asleep I don't know if I'm in pain and like you I wake up in pain or even because of pain. Maybe the car should be in a locked garage . . . .

Doctors worry about dependency on some of this stuff and I cant get through that when I had 28 diazepam for something, it did the trick and 14 of them were left in the cupboard so long they went out of date

[Mdaisy in reply to fenbadger]

Hello Fenbadger,

Just wanted to say that I'm the same, no pain relief from opioids (except Tramadol) and no effect from Diazepam either. Due to my inquisitive mind I looked up Diazepam & I personally read up that they think glutamate agonists can reduce the effect of dependence.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/834...

According to research by Dr Clauw people with Fibro have twice as much glutamate as healthy people, could this be with Diazepam has little effect?

But why does this only happen to a few people with Fibro? All very interesting.

The problems faced by people living with only a Fibro diagnosis in relation to opioid dependence are in my opinion, the need to increase the doses so regularly to achieve the same pain relief as when it was first taken. This may be due to the lack of opioid receptors reported in Fibro and therefore people are at risk of possibly becoming dependent.

Incidentally, there is an article by a vet talking about Horses and Fibromyalgia Fenbadger, no joke !

Best Wishes

Emma

FibroAction Administrator

[fenbadger in reply to Mdaisy]

That tickles my laughing bone Emma. I see no reason why other animals should not suffer. Nature doesn't have a NHS so deals with it differently. Survival of the fittest in the wild. I think my little friend Tyson may have it as he's always squeaked at unpredictable times, definitely in pain but the vet can find nothing. He doesn't have to hunt so he gets by. . . .

Needing larger doses does not equate to dependency. My pain nurse said much the same as you. I can't get people to see the 2 paracetamols for my 8 stone 81 year old mum won't work for me, about twice her size and 5 times as active. One of my catchphrases comes to mind. We're all different.

[panda60]

I think Temezapam is wonderful stuff. I had it twice when I was suffering from stress and it really helped. My husband had it when he injured his back and helped him too. Neither of us was on it for very long and didn't suffer any withdrawal symptoms. But if you are concerned the best person to speak to is your doctor or pharmacist.

[Hidden]

They are addictive and a person can be addicted to them as shortly as within 2 weeks.

Perhaps your Dr can cut you down to 5 mg and not give you the 3 days absence....then you could go down to say 2 mg and be weaned off by reducing the milligram dosage rather than 3 days off/ on. I have to say that I think that anything that helps with anxiety or sleep is addictive, however if in chronic pain for example some ppl find it necessary. Good luck

[Jjudith]

I stopped Clonazepam recently, which is in the same group of medicines, 500mcg so like you a small dose. I stopped it by cutting down a quarter of a tablet every other night for a week, and kept on until I was only taking a quarter of a tablet each night, and then stopped.altogether. It took a few weeks but I didn't have any side effects from cutting it down. As I have a paradoxical effect to most sleeping tablets, (I took it for bladder problems) I seem to be sleeping much better without it. I have heard of taking a tablet every other night when you are stopping benzodiazapines, but never heard of the three night plan, maybe its a new idea.