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Incredibly well said Dr Phill, I would say. I don't know MaryAnne personally (yet, god willing) but you do so well.
I'm shocked but not alas entirely surprised that some have picked up on MaryAnne's situation to make Baclofen into a scare story, when you explain so well that it was the cocktail as a whole, and if I understand it right, especially the sleeping pills added to the mix with alcohol, that made things so very dangerous:
thesinclairmethod.com • View topic - PLEASE TAKE HEED - WARNING RE BACLOFEN
You are always in my thoughts MaryAnne, and in my prayers too that you will get better very very soon. I cannot wait to meet this incredible lady that everyone is talking about!!
Much love,
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Dr Phill;794998 wrote: About six, maybe eight weeks ago, MaryAnne told me for the first time about the drugs that her doctor had been prescribing for her alcoholism. He / she refused to let her have Baclofen (a perfectly safe, but admittedly untested medication in this arena). So, for her "anxiety alcoholism" she was prescribed Clonazepam (klonipin), even though her doctor knew that she was getting her own Baclofen. She was also taking "sleeping tablets".
What a horrible cocktail. Especially if you are still taking the odd drink.
She said that she only took the clonazepam when she felt she had to. Even worse!!
I went absolutely ballistic.
She decided to stop the clonazepam in a controlled way. I made her promise me that, after that, she would throw them away. I guess she didn't.
Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever died of a Baclofen overdose. A long sleep is about all that happens.
Clonazepam is a totally different beast.
You may consider that this thread, at this time, to be wholly the wrong place for this discussion. I know in my heart that MaryAnne would wholeheartedly agree with me that this is precisely the right place at precisely the right time.
The next sound she and I want to hear is the sound of a thousand toilets flushing. Flushing away all the unnecessary dangerous lethal drugs that many of us have in our houses. The most vulnerable people get prescribed the most powerful of medications. And often with little or no supervision. It's a medical paradox. Or a disgrace, if you will.
So, my friends .....
If you need it, and a doctor has prescribed it, you MUST take it.
If you don't take it, and are generally OK, and your doctor is OK about it, get rid of your surplus.
Don't store dangerous "brain-altering" drugs away for a 'rainy day'.
People like you and me have more rainy days than most. And we're tempted more than most.
That should be MaryAnne's mantra to us all.
I mean no offence. Ask her when she's well. She'll tell you.
Pip xx
What a horrible cocktail. Especially if you are still taking the odd drink.
She said that she only took the clonazepam when she felt she had to. Even worse!!
I went absolutely ballistic.
She decided to stop the clonazepam in a controlled way. I made her promise me that, after that, she would throw them away. I guess she didn't.
Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever died of a Baclofen overdose. A long sleep is about all that happens.
Clonazepam is a totally different beast.
You may consider that this thread, at this time, to be wholly the wrong place for this discussion. I know in my heart that MaryAnne would wholeheartedly agree with me that this is precisely the right place at precisely the right time.
The next sound she and I want to hear is the sound of a thousand toilets flushing. Flushing away all the unnecessary dangerous lethal drugs that many of us have in our houses. The most vulnerable people get prescribed the most powerful of medications. And often with little or no supervision. It's a medical paradox. Or a disgrace, if you will.
So, my friends .....
If you need it, and a doctor has prescribed it, you MUST take it.
If you don't take it, and are generally OK, and your doctor is OK about it, get rid of your surplus.
Don't store dangerous "brain-altering" drugs away for a 'rainy day'.
People like you and me have more rainy days than most. And we're tempted more than most.
That should be MaryAnne's mantra to us all.
I mean no offence. Ask her when she's well. She'll tell you.
Pip xx
I'm shocked but not alas entirely surprised that some have picked up on MaryAnne's situation to make Baclofen into a scare story, when you explain so well that it was the cocktail as a whole, and if I understand it right, especially the sleeping pills added to the mix with alcohol, that made things so very dangerous:
thesinclairmethod.com • View topic - PLEASE TAKE HEED - WARNING RE BACLOFEN
You are always in my thoughts MaryAnne, and in my prayers too that you will get better very very soon. I cannot wait to meet this incredible lady that everyone is talking about!!
Much love,
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