My Baclofen Experience

[Bruunhilde]

My Baclofen Experience

I had ketostix but they get old so fast, I thought I was in ketosis and maybe I was last week, but I cheated (wine) over the weekend out with friends, so it took me a couple days to recover. Maybe I'm in ketosis now, I would think so. Maybe I'll buy a new batch at the store today so I can test. How much are you trying to lose? You must be starving going to 1800 from 6000. I thought my body was chewing itself up last week adjusting to low carb. It supposedly ISN'T however, due to the HCG. Well, chewing the fat (haha) hopefully not the muscle.

Also any HCG or HGH will grow existing tumors, they don't originate tumors is the mainstream opinion that I've been exposed to.

[moglor]

My Baclofen Experience

Keeping the fat level up prevents hunger in general, as does keeping the calories above starvation. It's afternoon here and I haven't eaten anything today, and I'm just starting to get hungry. I have around 80lbs to lose. I did low carb when I got sober the first time last year, and I lost about 40 lbs (290->250) in 6 months. My last 4 months of bender gained me back 10. I'm aiming for 180, but won't know for sure what my target is until I get closer to 200 and can better assess my body composition.

[moglor]

My Baclofen Experience

Tomorrow will be 3 weeks AF since my "fall from grace." Still at 150mg/day and doing well at that dosage. Maybe 3rd time is the charm. I feel a lot more grounded and confident this time around.

Of course, if I go back and look through my thread, I probably said the same thing last time...

[Bruunhilde]

My Baclofen Experience

Congrats Mog! I know what you mean about the deja vue thing, or call it Groundhog day. How can something feel so new yet be a rerun? Maybe its not, just don't read back. You should be proud of yourself. Three weeks is excellent.

Before you know it, you'll be sober and skinny and looking to help the poor fat slobs writing you here.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

My Baclofen Experience

moglor;1261824 wrote: Tomorrow will be 3 weeks AF since my "fall from grace." Still at 150mg/day and doing well at that dosage. Maybe 3rd time is the charm. I feel a lot more grounded and confident this time around.

Of course, if I go back and look through my thread, I probably said the same thing last time...

Woop! Yay, Mog!!
Took me more than three times, and I kept at it in part because of you.

I am so thankful that I can go back through my thread (not that I do very often...who's got time for that?) to see where and what and how it really was. The milestones in particular. I am amazed at how naive I was. And how much thought and work...And also, by the sage and timely thoughts of others. Much of which has more relevance now than it did then!

Anyway, it's a whole new world, isn't it? Glad you're bac(k) in it!

You're whole approach this time around seems so reasonable and rational and doable. Does it feel that way?

[moglor]

My Baclofen Experience

Ne/Neva Eva;1262631 wrote:
You're whole approach this time around seems so reasonable and rational and doable. Does it feel that way?

It does feel more like a lifestyle change this time around rather than a "temporary" thing. I think I might have turned the bend in accepting the fact that I can no longer drink alcohol. It's never going to be something I can control or moderate.

Been doing some research on Post-Acute Withdrawl Syndrome too, and I think that's a big source of my ongoing problems with depression (which paradoxically gets worse when I quit drinking.)

[moglor]

My Baclofen Experience

Pretty comfortable with the 150/day dosage, to the point where there is no real physical effect, so it's very easy to miss a dose. I still get "cravings" (I use the term loosely) when I am really depressed, but mostly it's because I have nothing better to do. The thought process is basically: "I am bored and unhappy. Drinking would fix that, but it would screw everything else up." Depression has been VERY bad lately (can't get out of bed.) Days like this weaken my resolve. It sucked being a drunk, but it never felt like *this.*

[Bruunhilde]

My Baclofen Experience

Aw, Mog, I'm so sorry you're depressed. I was just thinking this morning that the low dose baclofen helps me with my panic anxiety, I don't often have those whole body shakes of anxiety when I wake up, which is great. But the depression, whether I drink or not, is something I cannot fight alone. The gabapentin helps tremendously and QUICKLY. For days when you cannot get out of bed, this is a life saver. It also helps with pain, like my sciattica and plantar faciatis. I encourage you to add some of this to your next rx order assuming you order overseas. I can't get my doctor to rx it for me because it is considered a pain med or because it is not shown to help depression? Not sure why. But its not addicting and I go for days without taking it but when PMS hits, it delivers me from hell. The only other thing I can think of that would help with my anxiety and depression is winning the lottery...

I am not the only person using it for depression - my cousin uses it and so does Ifyoulovelife2 and others here.

[RudyB]

My Baclofen Experience

i've used the gabapentin, too, and it's a miracle: instantly lifts me right out of a funk that would've had me dreaming about bed and staying there all day (but if i were to do that i'd have a kid jumping on my head constantly, alas). sorry to hear about the depression mog, but it's great that you're staying away from the beer. things will eventually start to look up again, i'd bet.

[moglor]

My Baclofen Experience

I think I might have mentioned this recently, but I'm finding pretty strongly that I'm gonna need to stay at switch dose for a LOT longer. Every time I drop down because I'm doing well, I end up on a bender that lasts a couple months

[TexasAg]

My Baclofen Experience

Bump

[desperados]

My Baclofen Experience

Tex...what for did you bump it for...as another HDB failure?

[Dosage0]

My Baclofen Experience

desperados;1360845 wrote: Tex...what for did you bump it for...as another HDB failure?

What kind of bitter and nasty person would type something like this? Grow up.

[COSGringo]

My Baclofen Experience

Deperados = asshat

[gratitude]

My Baclofen Experience

desperados= asshat troll