Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

[Virgil]

Hi Folks,

I tried to set up a poll elsewhere on this forum but I was unsuccessful, so this is (hopefully) an alternative. Simply indicate in your reply at which one of the baclofen dosage ranges below you experienced the 'switch' for alcohol reduction:

Less than 30 mg per day
30 - 50 mg per day
60 - 80 mg per day
90 - 110 mg per day
120 - 140 mg per day
150 - 170 mg per day
180 - 200 mg per day
210 - 230 mg per day
240 - 260 mg per day
270 mg or more per day
Gender:
Weight:
Maintenance Dose:
Drinking History:

Probably the easiest way to indicate your choice is to copy and paste the whole list - then highlight your dosage range in bold, e.g. 60 - 80 mg per day. In response to requests below, please also indicate gender (M or F) and weight (kg or lb). On a separate thread, tm1210 feels it would be useful to know what maintenance dose you're on and for how long have you been on it? tm1210 has also suggested the introduction of another factor - alcohol abuse level prior to starting on baclofen; this has been added above as 'Drinking History'. Factors to include here are:

[1] How many units consumed per week? Please indicate whether these are USA, UK or other units.
[2] For how long (months/years) have you been consuming the figure in [1] above?
[3] Are you a binge or daily drinker?


Hope this works!

V. :thanks:

P.S. please let me know if you think I've made any mistakes in the dosage list above.

[tiptronic_ct]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Less than 30 mg per day
30 - 50 mg per day
60 - 80 mg per day
90 - 110 mg per day
120 - 140 mg per day
150 - 170 mg per day
180 - 200 mg per day
210 - 230 mg per day
240 - 260 mg per day
270 mg or more per day

Male, 78kg

And we can tally the "score" as we go along...

[muchthought]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Thank you for doing this - I hope people respond!

:goodjob:

[mrblue]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Less than 30 mg per day
30 - 50 mg per day
60 - 80 mg per day
90 - 110 mg per day
120 - 140 mg per day
150 - 170 mg per day
180 - 200 mg per day
210 - 230 mg per day
240 - 260 mg per day
270 mg or more per day

[harry]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Less than 30 mg per day
30 - 50 mg per day
60 - 80 mg per day
90 - 110 mg per day
120 - 140 mg per day
150 - 170 mg per day
180 - 200 mg per day
210 - 230 mg per day
240 - 260 mg per day
270 mg or more per day

early 40's male....75kg.

[Brave Hearted]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Less than 30 mg per day
30 - 50 mg per day
60 - 80 mg per day
90 - 110 mg per day120 - 140 mg per day
150 - 170 mg per day
180 - 200 mg per day
210 - 230 mg per day
240 - 260 mg per day
270 mg or more per day

Female 47 120lbs started taking bac Aug 09, now on maintence dose of 25mg daily with occassional prn dose of 25mg.

[Brave Hearted]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

know i am being a pain cant peole put their weight etc so that can be assosiated to ???

as it would be intereting to see if it had a bearing on doseage ?

[christyacc]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Thank you for doing this Virgil!

[Virgil]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

muchthought;789993 wrote: Thank you for doing this - I hope people respond!

:goodjob:

Hi muchthought,

Well, we're off to a good start but I do hope a lot of people respond. Then, we'll have a statistically-significant sample from which we can form useful deductions. When we've got, say, another fifteen results, I hope to produce a bar-chart showing the dosage distribution. But, I'm hoping for a lot more than a further fifteen results. I would like to think this information would be valuable to anyone starting out on baclofen. Only time will tell.

V.

[Virgil]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

BH and Zenstyle,

Thanks for your feedback.

I have taken on board your comments and modified my original post accordingly. Should those that have replied already wish to do so, they could edit their replies to include the additional information.

V.

[PhoenixRising]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Less than 30 mg per day
30 - 50 mg per day
60 - 80 mg per day
90 - 110 mg per day
120 - 140 mg per day
150 - 170 mg per day
180 - 200 mg per day
210 - 230 mg per day
240 - 260 mg per day
270 mg or more per day
Gender: F
Weight: 150

I was still drinking at 180, but had reduced desire. Going to 190 seemed too much for me to handle, so I have titrated down to 100 over the past 10 days or so to give myself a break. I can't honestly say I hit my switch. I am going to titrate back up more slowly and see how it goes.

[Virgil]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Hi Folks,

There must be others out there that have had success with baclofen. If so, please add your support to this thread by sharing your data with us. P-l-e-a-s-e!

Thanks in advance.

V.

[Brave Hearted]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Hi Virgil , seems a shame you are not getting a better response. There is mixed feelings on here about it but a guy called Dr Phill has got a web site on baclofen that may be of some help to you to gather this information . Just out of interest can I ask what you plan to do with this information ?

[Marshy]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Virgil,

I think you can set up a bar chart on here but you need to be a subscriber. You could ask a friendly subscriber to do it. Dunno how detailed they can be though - ie, whether or not you could factor in weight/age/gender or whatever.

[Virgil]

Baclofen Dosage 'Poll'

Brave Hearted;790822 wrote: Hi Virgil , seems a shame you are not getting a better response. There is mixed feelings on here about it but a guy called Dr Phill has got a web site on baclofen that may be of some help to you to gather this information . Just out of interest can I ask what you plan to do with this information ?

Hi BH,

Yes, I was hoping for a better response but perhaps you can help me here. You say that "There is mixed feelings on here about it...". As I'm still relatively new to this forum, it may be that I have made an error of judgment. I guess it's possible that people think I may have some ulterior motive for starting the thread. If so, I need to explain myself.

Quite simply, I am concerned that I have not derived any benefits whatsoever to date from taking baclofen. It has not helped my anxiety disorders nor has it reduced my alcohol intake. I am currently taking 100 mg per day and this I understand is the maximum dose that can be prescribed under BNF guidelines. I think I'm right in saying that BNF is the British National Formulary. So, if I want to exceed this dosage, I may have to resort to buying baclofen online, something I have always resisted. But I want to be sure that I don't abandon baclofen if it would be beneficial to increase my dosage.

So, although I have read many of the posts on the baclofen threads, I have found it a bit difficult to obtain the dosage at which people hit the 'switch'. From a newcomer's point-of-view, it is a daunting task. Consequently, I thought it might be useful to set up this 'poll'. It had never occurred to me that I may be entering into territory that others might find unacceptable. I am more than happy to accept an error on my part.

I should perhaps add that one person initially was opposed to my setting up the poll. To which I offered to delete the thread and then that person explained that it was OK for me to leave it - so I did.

I trust this explains my position.

V.