Nerves/Anxiety & Diazepam & Lorazepam

[discovery_journey]

My nerves are shot. Seem to constantly be jiggling my leg and feeling anxious. It's really unpleasant.

I used to be on a shed load of diazepam for years (40mg/day plus prn) but managed to come off it in september last year - slowly, i might add.

But things are creeping up again, and my sleep is bad too. I mean I went to sleep about midnight and woke up at 3.30am tonight, it's been like that recently unless I've been medicating with lorazepam or diazepam.

I don't know what else I can do.

I know the usual stuff for calming yourself down before bed and am tried and tested at it.

What I find difficult is the anxiety hitting me during the day.

what do I do? I'm not used to feeling the anxiety and it's starting to stop me from doing stuff like going to certain big shops and seeing people.

any tips gratefully received.

thanks.

[LaurieR]

Can you speak to your psych about this? They may prescribe you with an anti-anxiety drug and sleeping tablets that are not in the same class as diazepam or lorazepam. Those might help.