Diazapam - Thoughts

[Dazza2024]

Diazapam seems to have mixed results online & everyone is different to how the drug affects them.

Please share your Positive & Negative results & thoughts, if you have been taking this drug.

If you could also give a bit of in a depth detail reply to the Positives & or Negative results you experienced.

If you felt it reduced the Tinnitus loudness or calmed the brain down on focussing on it, could you also try and scale the difference it made, like 50% or 25% Reduction etc...

Kind Regards

[SeashellSara]

My son's experience of this medication is unrelated to tinnitus. He was prescribed it for psychosis then progressed to clonazepam 2mg equivalent to 40mg diazepam. It was effective at the time in keeping him safe however as he was taking it regularly the effects dulled after a while. When he came off it it was a titration - tapering case, very slowly, then going back to diazepam then slowly over 9 months. These benzos have their place, but be aware they can be addictive and some withdrawal effects can be disturbing such as brain zaps. He continues to get withdrawal symptoms occasionally even though he's been off them for months. If your tinnitus is so bad you are offered diazepam if it was me I would try not to take it too often but just when desperate. That's just me though.

I know some of us have a worse time than others, T can be insufferable especially if it interferes with sleep.

I'm not sure if this is helpful.

Good luck

[Jimbob7]

I can only say that Diazepam was of great assistance to me when I got Severe Tinnitus suddenly. I was in and out of hospital for CT scans, etc and sent from ENT to Audiology, etc, etc.

The Diazepam my GP prescribed for the first month was invaluable (5mg/ day) - it allowed me to slightly stay one side of the tinnitus whilst grappling with my coping strategies and management of the condition going forward.

If I was a doctor I would not hesitate to prescribe it for the first few weeks for someone who has suddenly acquired this most horrible condition and is in mortal fear of thier santiy - as I was. It quite simply allowed me to be calmer about things and to get much needed restful sleep.

Now, the downside is after a few weeks use you're dependant and must taper gradually - preferrably on to a light Sleeper of some kind to transition yourself further forward - whilst all the time working away at coping/ managing the condition on a daily basis.

I have nothing but good things to say about it because I don't know where I would have been without it - probably in some neurological ward somwhere groaning and absent on a trolley I suspect. I honestly think it saved my sanity in those earliest days. Obviously it is not a long-term drug - but it's efficacy in early coping of severe tinnitus should never be discounted by hesistant GP's and their NICE guidance. It's benefits far outweigh its risks IMHO.

[Ray200]

Can everyone be aware of how chemically addictive Diazepam can be. I was prescribed it for severe SAD four decades ago at a time when little was known how to treat SAD. It was the opposite to what I needed, which was an occasional anti depressant when I was completely washed out by SAD. I was reliant on Diazepam for a full 7 years thereafter. Chemically dependant on the stuff. However, I eventually came good from the lottery that is who your GP was (at a time when you had just the one GP allocated you). This new fellow knew enough about SAD by then.

[Britomartis29]

I was given it as a rescue medicine for Ménières Disease attacks, which did include bad tinnitus. So I only used it during severe attacks. It knocked me and my vestibular system out, which stopped the attacks. But it took me two days to recover. Yes, the tinnitus stopped, 100%. But it returned. 100%.

I know it is highly addictive so of course I only use it for the severest attacks. Even then I worry. It puts me unconscious. I would not want to use it regularly.

However once I had to take prednisone for a lupus flare and it stopped the tinnitus! After tapering off the medicine, the tinnitus returned. And prednisone is also not something to take long term—terrible serious effects on the heart and brain and weight and all.

Good luck everyone—T is awful.

[Whiskey12]

It make’s absolutely no difference to my tinnitus