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    baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

    Hi, I'm new here and I'm panicking. I have been on Baclofen 140 mg/day for the last 7 months and I have 50 mg left (decreased 30 mg last 24 hours). My order I placed
    back in 12/26 didn't get here yet. It might be lost, I'm not sure. I have been suffering with tachycardia (dr didn't figure out why) before I started baclofen
    and I'm afraid something very bad might happen going to the bac withdrawal. I just don?t know what to do. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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    #2
    baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

    You need to go see a physician ASAP and explain (I assume) that you've been self-medicating and need an emergency script. Look up TerryK's profile. He has already gone to the trouble of computing how much bac you should have on hand at all times to prevent these kinds of emergencies.
    In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrased

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      #3
      baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

      Thank you guys. I have about 40 mg for today. I'm shaky already due to the fact that I had only 60 mg yesterday compared with 140. Didn't sleep all night. There is still a chance the package arrives today but if not???? At what point in time do I go to emergency? If I go now with not to many symptoms will they take me serious?
      Is there any chance I can ride this on my own? Thank you!!!!!!

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        #4
        baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

        Sureia;1614415 wrote: Thank you guys. I have about 40 mg for today. I'm shaky already due to the fact that I had only 60 mg yesterday compared with 140. Didn't sleep all night. There is still a chance the package arrives today but if not???? At what point in time do I go to emergency? If I go now with not to many symptoms will they take me serious?
        Is there any chance I can ride this on my own? Thank you!!!!!!
        Riding this out on your own is extremely risky. You could have a seizure. Especially given how long you've been on it. If you have a regular GP that you trust and think would be sympathetic, I would go that route first. As in today. Before the weekend. If you can't, and your symptoms get worse, you need to go straight away to an emergency room. Explain that you've been self-medicating with bac and be upfront with them why. They will have to write you a script, because unlike booze, other drugs or benzos, the only way to stave off bac withdrawal is more bac.

        If you start feeling nauseous, agitated, confused, disoriented, etc. etc., get yourself to an ER immediately.
        In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrased

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          #5
          baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

          Thank you Alky. I just got off the phone with the InHouseFarmacy and they confirm that the package is lost. they will refund the money but I don't know any other web site that sells baclofen. Do you know any that can send them asap?
          So far today I have taken 10 mg at 7 am. I'm little bit unrested and scared for what's to come. Do you know when to expect symptoms. My plan is to head to ER since I don't have any other option. Do you know how much they give you there, for how long?
          I'm really going crazy.

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            #6
            baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

            Sureia, I can't say anything about withdrawal symptoms since I have not experienced them myself. But like I said in my earlier posts, if you experience anything like nausea or disorientation you need to go to an ER, because you can't call 911 if you're having a seizure.
            In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrased

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              #7
              baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

              How are you doing? Many people here buy bac from riverpharmacy.ca, but it won't be fast. One of our former members (sadly he passed recently) used to sell liquid baclofen. There is another member who's since started making his own. I will send you his username in a personal message. He might be able to help you out in your current pinch.
              In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrased

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                #8
                baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

                Hi there,
                Thank you Alky for checking on me. I'm sorry I didn't get back to you. In that day I had to make up my mind and go with it.
                I have decided to let it be until it is time to go to ER. That was it. If I would have got bac enough to make it last until I order more
                I would have been fine. Instead here is what happen:
                I'm alive thanks God. This was a miracle.
                So to back up - on 01/17 I took 20 mg in the morning and 10 mg at noon. I took some glutamine and some other vitamins
                In the afternoon I started to feel nauseous and little bit woozy. Then little bit by little bit the panic feeling start to take over. That was the scary part.
                My breath was shallow like I couldn?t get enough air. Thanks God no heart palpitations. I would have gone to the hospital right away
                I felt that something bad was going to happen, scared, I couldn?t do anything, concentrate on anything, shivering. My daughter come over and cooked some soup for me.
                My stomach was like a rock. Couldn?t think and look at food. I force myself to drink electrolyte and vitamin C, taking some milk thistle and l-arginine, glutamine
                I felt I needed love around me and assurance like never before - I just wanted to hug and cling to my husband and my daughter but I couldn?t stay put. No delirium or anything like that but miserable - scary miserable. I can't believe how people suffering of depression ca leave with such feelings day in and day out.
                Then the night came - I took 10 mg of bac I had saved for the night (the last one) and curl up but couldn't sleep - it was a agony and scared for the next day.
                In the same time I was trying to convince myself that is not so bad but I was afraid for the day to come. I don?t think I slept more than 2 hours that night.
                Next day 01/18 although I was a vegetable shivering and scared I forced myself to get off the bad and walk as nothing happened. I was still sick but I had a plan in mind.
                If this is how is going to go down I made myself somehow presentable and head to the urgent care. I was shaking and I told the dr that I'm having a anxiety attack (had one a year before) and explained my symptoms (after I read them in the medical book), so he gave me what I wanted "Alprazolam"0.5 mg which I think is XANOX two time a day for seven day.
                I want home and from the first pill I felt a difference, it calmed me down little bit and little bit more after the second one. In other words it took away the part where you are scared that you will die.
                Didn't sleep that night also, maybe 1 or 2 hours and cling to my husband. He tried to comfort me as much as he could. Tried some bogus night pills over the counter - didn't do anything.
                Sunday, I keep them at bay with the help of the above prescriptions, glutamine, vitamin. Still couldn't eat. Maybe two bites every 5 hours.
                By afternoon I was asking myself if this is it or the worst is to come. With that in mind I went to my primer dr and told her about the previous medication from the urgent care explaining that that medicine just took the edge off but I'm still unrested, shivering and shacking and still not being able to breath. Well she give me another medicine which I think is better : "CLONAZEPAM" 0.5 mg to take two a day for 7 days and then as needed (total of 30). And she gave me the slipping pill. These ones I loved the most as I had to go to work today. I would have been in a lot of trouble skipping work specialy that I?m a manager. I was little bit scared if my head or hands were to be shaking but was OK. Tried to stay in my office and do my job.
                Now the thing that amaze me is that I don?t feel the need to drink. I haven't touch wine from 01/16 (MY Birthday) ironic or what. I'm wonder if I might have reached my goal while in bac but due to the inertia of habit I was still drinking. Or maybe the supplements I was taking made the withdrawal easier. I have to recognize that under the bac, glutamine and kudzu my drinking good down - I could see it.
                It is true that after you come across the bridge you find yourself with a big time hole as far as what to do with your time. Need to change your life (I went for a run the other day-felt really good). Is little bit work around this ?..
                I made up my mind; since my goal for bac was to free me from addiction but with intention to be able to enjoy a social drink, not to become abstinent, I will stay clear of alcohol for a month or two and with my husband help we will try to look at it as social occasions and eventually on weekend dinner. But this time we will have a firm hand.
                I'm frustrated that I got where I got knowingly step by step (reading neuroscience books, discovering that the addiction takes place when is a repetitive act ?.and so more. And what I did? I tried but couldn?t do it. It was too late ? beyond my power.
                It sneaks and gets into your blood and brain like a "B".
                I was measuring the bottle and saying to myself - hey this is too much, but?.well maybe tomorrow?and so on
                Just for your info - I was drinking about 3 glasses of wine every evening between 6 pm and 10 pm, weekends more, for about three years. Less prior years (about2).
                The stress push me little bit by little bit and a glass of wine was handy to calm me down. Then builds tolerance and is not enough and you go higher and higher until you can?t control it anymore. I know I wasn?t so lost but could have been worst.
                Anyway, I was impressed of your genuine care for others and I wanted to write my experience for you and others that will need help. I will check in later on. We will keep in touch.
                I know this is too much to read but for a desperate person is hope.
                THANK YOU AGAIN ALKY! Keep these guys hopes up. We need people like you. Thank you! Sureia

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                  #9
                  baclofen withdrawal urgent advice needed

                  Sureia, I didn't have any advice to give as I don't know anything about the meds, but I am so, so glad you are OK and that you let us know!

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