Taking Baclofen with supplements

[eight days a week]

Taking Baclofen with supplements

Greg;801347 wrote: I would repeat my advice to take a new substance in a small dose to begin with to be on the safe side. By all means do as much research as you can before taking something new, and yes I agree we are all different.

Reggie thanks for that tip about magnesium oxide and valerian allowing good sleep while taking bac. I'm by far and away the main whinger around here about not being able to sleep when taking bac anywhere near bedtime so I'll definitely be trying this.

Excellent advice Greg!

As I understand it Valerian takes time to build up in your system to really do its 'job'. Some have suggested it can be used as a benzo replacement for tapered withdrawal (i.e. as the amount of benzo is slowly reduced, valerian is introduced, and increased).

St. John's Wort has been mentioned, but I've read warnings about using it with alcohol, so I take 5-HTP instead, which works really well for me. I guess that's a question for the Holistic Healing forum, I shall check it out!

I suppose the main question is, are people wary of, or have serious concerns about, taking supplements which affect Gaba alongside Baclofen, even if they are naturally occurring substances, which are derived from food in diet, for example?

[Virgil]

Taking Baclofen with supplements

eight days a week;801457 wrote: As I understand it Valerian takes time to build up in your system to really do its 'job'.

Hi again, 8!

I currently take 450mg valerian root as, and when, required; I take it when getting into bed. It does seem to help me get off to sleep and I have not found it necessary to let it build up in my system. However, I'm now beginning to wonder about taking valerian with baclofen (and alcohol). I'm going to look into this. One of the problems is that my alcohol addiction specialist is very knowledgeable about medications (as one might expect!) but knows very little about supplements. A tricky one.

V.

[beatle]

Taking Baclofen with supplements

If you have liver issues, you might want to check into valerian and the liver.

All this stuff has been taken up over and over again in the Holistic Healing forum -- except baclofen with supps.

[eight days a week]

Taking Baclofen with supplements

A very useful tip beatle, thanks

Although this topic is indeed about taking supplements specifically with Baclofen, it's good to see any other issues addressed if they pop up, and it sounds like directions to the Holistic Healing section are very helpful.

[beatle]

Taking Baclofen with supplements

eight days a week;802663 wrote: Although this topic is indeed about taking supplements specifically with Baclofen, it's good to see any other issues addressed if they pop up, and it sounds like directions to the Holistic Healing section are very helpful.

I should just mention that the Holistic Healing forum has been pretty sluggish for a while, and many of the discussions of these topics -- sleep problems and advice, as well as supplements -- took place a long time ago. So you will need to do some searches to find them.

I'd do the searching for you, but I am apparently search-challenged (on this site only)

[eight days a week]

Taking Baclofen with supplements

Many thanks again beatle I've never been on a forum where the search function worked properly, strange eh?! All the rest of the code almost always works fine, but search? Forget it!!

I really must make a visit to Holistic Healing, but as you say this thread is so important because we seem to have entered completely uncharted waters here - Baclofen taken with supplements.

I do so hope people will post their experiences here, good and (though hopefully not) bad. We can only learn from each other.