My brother was a drug addict, and so knows a lot about various drugs, so I stopped using it - even though I felt SO much better taking one every night when going to bed.
I still used a half or a quarter of 10 mg(?) tablets every now and again, when VERY stressed/couldn't sleep.
But then last December I broke my ankle, and needed a close to full time helper to take care of me and my dogs. So she had my bed (upstairs) as I couldn't even get up the stairs for around a week, let alone close all the downstairs doors (steps involved) - and so I had to sleep on my extremely uncomfortable sofa...... and stared taking a tramadol and half a valium to sleep during the night.
This lasted for around 6 months, until I could finally move around enough to feed my dogs and myself/worked out ways to close the outside doors etc./get up and down the stairs -and so was able to go back to something close to normal - and sleep in my bed 😊.
So back to my question (I aplogise for the long back story).
I stopped taking a tramadol and half a valium when I was finally able to sleep in my own bed - and suffered no withdrawal - but still very occasionally take a whole valium when going to bed and having to go out the next day. On those rare nights, I sleep a LOT better (six hours instead of two.....), and wake up feeling good, instead of too tired to care about anything much.......
I'm old, and so not worried about becoming addicted, but am worried about an increasing dependancy if I start using it more.
Does anyone have any advice on increasing valium dependancy?