Celine Dion took up to 90 milligrams of Valium battling stiff person syndrome: ‘It can kill you’
nypost.comnew interview with NBC News’ Hoda Kotb that she was prescribed Valium to be able to perform and control the symptoms of the autoimmune neurological disorder.Dion said on “Celine’s Story,” the hour-long special that aired Tuesday night, that she gradually built a tolerance to the drug, and at one point, she was taking 90 milligrams a day. “We tried a lot of things.
Trying a lot of things when you don’t know what you have can kill you,” she said. “I did not know, honestly, that it could kill me.”Dion continued: “Ninety milligrams of Valium can kill you.
You can stop breathing. And at one point, the thing is that my body got used to it at 20 and 30 and 40 [milligrams], until it went up.
And I needed that. It was relaxing my whole body.”“But for how long?” she added. “For two weeks, for a month? But then it doesn’t work anymore.
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