Bilbobeth,

Unfortunately for all of us here, LPR is for life. In most circumstances, it is controllable to various degrees with 2 doses of a PPI each day.

Are you certain you need to stay on the Valium? There is some thought that Valium and its fellow benzos like Xanax can actually make LPR worse - because they have muscle-relaxing properties.

Prior to being diagnosed with LPR (main symptom was chronic cough), I was put on Xanax - the doctors thought the cough was psychosomatic. It tooks a year to sort out the LPR condition and get off the Xanax - which actually required 3 days in a detox facility. However, as I am financially fortunate, I had checked myself into one of the best facilities in the county that was experimenting with using depakote to get people off of benzos. The depakote made the detox almost painless. I went in expecting the worst, and was shocked by the ease of the detox.

Hi
Thanks for quick reply. Valium has terrible side effects when coming off. I know cos I been on and off it for over two decades. If you take quite a lot they even liken it to coming off heroin. It has to be extremely gradual which is what I have started. I am doing 0.5mg about every 10-14 days. I am taking up to 9 or 10 mg a day so you can see its going to be a while. I was on depakote a while back (mood stabiliser?). Maybe I should ask about it but I know they will still want me to come off valiium very slowly.

Thanks for reply