mabelee's bac

[mabelee]

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[craving]

mabelee's bac

mabelee,

Love to see that you made the jump and are looking seriously into Baclofen. It is a powerful medicine and has helped so many people. I am sure it will help you too!!

It surely is a life saver!

All the best!

[Virgil]

mabelee's bac

mabelee;808275 wrote: Hi! I know some of you from the TSM forum.

I'm female and weigh 50 kg and any suggestions on a titration schedule are welcome!

Hi mabelee,

Great to see you on MWO! I remember you from the TSM forum.

I did a quick search against 'titration schedule' (select Show Threads) on here and it found the following:

https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...ind-39421.html

https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...ion-34919.html

And there were another 25 results from this search. Plenty of reading material.

A very warm :welcome: to MWO.

V.

[mabelee]

mabelee's bac

Thanks for the links Virgil...there is a lot of information on this site, that's for sure. It will take a while to mine it all out.

I took another 5 mg this morning at 9:00 a.m. and it's made me a little sleepy, but no other side effects. I slept very soundly last night and had to take a couple ibuprofen this morning because I had a headache from sleeping so hard. Taking ibuprofen is something I rarely do even with a hangover!

So far, so good!

Also, thank you craving, for the support!

mabelee

[christyacc]

mabelee's bac

Hi there. So are you doing both?

[mabelee]

mabelee's bac

Yes, since I did see some reduction with Naltrexone, I plan on staying on that for at least a while.

[craving]

mabelee's bac

there is no problem with using Naltrexone before drinking - in combination with Baclofen. In fact if you are still drinking that is a wise thing to do.

make sure you constantly up the Baclofen dose as you can - and do not reduce Baclofen until you hit the switch.

[mabelee]

mabelee's bac

Today was a good day. I took 5 mg x 4 times (9 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 8 p.m.). I am having no side effects (very happy about that ), other than a little drowsiness this morning. I was only going to take 3 doses today, but because I was experiencing no side effects I took a fourth. Last night I felt a little euphoria and I don't feel that so much tonight, just relaxation. I'm not sleepy in any way.

mabelee

[Funny Girl]

mabelee's bac

I'm new to all this - what is TSM??? Sorry if that's a dumb question.

[beatle]

mabelee's bac

mabelee -- great! my best advice is if you are committed, to take it slowly, but keep it up. It helps right away, but you want to avoid the side affects.

[Virgil]

mabelee's bac

Funny Girl;808868 wrote: I'm new to all this - what is TSM??? Sorry if that's a dumb question.

Hi Funny Girl,

It's not a dumb question.

TSM is The Sinclair Method. Try googling "The Sinclair Method" and this will take you to a lot of websites that will fully answer your question.

V.

[mabelee]

mabelee's bac

I had another really good night's sleep last night and haven't slept this soundly in years. There is one side effect I'm noticing today, though. I'm a church organist and this morning while practicing for tomorrow's service I had a lot of trouble focusing my eyes on the music and notes were swimming all over the page. I hope it's better tomorrow! I was thinking about using the same schedule as yesterday, but might forego the 8:00 p.m. dose tonight so that I am clear headed tomorrow morning.

[mabelee]

mabelee's bac

I took 15 mg on both Saturday and Sunday, continuing to sleep very hard. I'm going to go up to 20 today, 5 mg at 8:00 a.m., 10 mg at 1:00 p.m. and 5 mg at 5:00 p.m.

Before I started TSM I drank 6 - 8 drinks per night. After the first few months on Naltrexone, I came down to a consistent 4 drinks per night and could never get below that. The funny thing is, I get as woozy on the 4 as I did earlier on the 6-8, and if I ever go beyond 4 drinks I get a pretty good hangover. I've heard others have had similar experiences on Nal.

Well, last night I only had three drinks! Hopefully the bac will continue what the Nal has begun!

[craving]

mabelee's bac

mabelee;810419 wrote: I took 15 mg on both Saturday and Sunday, continuing to sleep very hard. I'm going to go up to 20 today, 5 mg at 8:00 a.m., 10 mg at 1:00 p.m. and 5 mg at 5:00 p.m.

Before I started TSM I drank 6 - 8 drinks per night. After the first few months on Naltrexone, I came down to a consistent 4 drinks per night and could never get below that. The funny thing is, I get as woozy on the 4 as I did earlier on the 6-8, and if I ever go beyond 4 drinks I get a pretty good hangover. I've heard others have had similar experiences on Nal.

Well, last night I only had three drinks! Hopefully the bac will continue what the Nal has begun!

so TSM changed you in a 4 drinks maximum a night? That is great - so now let Baclofen do its magic! :goodjob:

it works!! 38 AF days and counting, and tip just celebrated his 6 months AF ... also because of Baclofen.

[mabelee]

mabelee's bac

Just an update on my first week on Baclofen. This is my progress so far:

Day; mg of Bac; US units
Day 1; 10 mg; 4
Day 2; 20 mg; 5
Day 3; 15 mg; 5
Day 4; 15 mg; 3
Day 5; 20 mg; 4
Day 6; 20 mg; 3
Day 7; 25 mg; 2

Baclofen is doing what I hoped it would, and that is resuming the progress I initially had on Natrexone. I'm still taking Naltrexone every day. This is my lowest weekly total since starting Naltrexone in May.

Side effects: Sleeping VERY soundly, in fact I wake up in the morning quite stiff because I don't think I'm moving at night! But a cup of coffee and a hot shower take care of all that.