I've been lurking for a while whilst reading up on the brilliant information on Bac that is to be found on here. My first order from Inhouse arrived after seven days and is waiting at the Post Office to be collected tomorrow morning.
I discovered and began to research Bac in, perhaps, an unusual way.
I'd been prescribed Lyrica (Pregabalin) for anxiety and found, to my astonishment, that once I'd upped the dosage to a level that helped with the anxiety, my drinking moderated without effort. Rather than six cans of strong lager on a work night I'd be having two. At the weekends, rather than blacking out, I'd go home drunk but at least remembering! I was still a drinker but felt so much better.
Unfortunately, after a year my doctor had changed and he called me in once my repeat prescription for a year had come to its end. The idiot told me straight, I was to come off it and wouldn't even let me taper it down. A week of hell followed, coming off Lyrica hurt so much I couldn't even drink! But after a week of pain I was back on the booze like the old days and seriously knocking it back.
I thought I'd investigate getting Lyrica online but the price put me off, I was looking at about ?9 a day. I considered Lyrica's weaker brother, Gabapentin, but it was still pricey.
I knew that the way Lyrica worked was related to Gaba so I decided to trawl through all the reasonably(ish) priced drugs on Inhouse to see if I could find one that might have some sort of similar effect.
After a while I came to the Baclofen, googled it, noticed the Gaba-B thing on Wiki and then the possible help with alcoholic... eureka!
A bit more googling got me here and I think I've read the entire forum.
After the help I got from Lyrica, I'm really hopeful that I can cut out the booze for good with Baclofen. To be honest, I can now imagine, with what I've learnt on here,that if I could've upped my dose more, Lyrica could have led to 'the switch'! Who knows.
Anyway I start tomorrow. Wish me luck.... and thanks to everyone that has ever posted on here, you've given me such hope and optimism!
I discovered and began to research Bac in, perhaps, an unusual way.
I'd been prescribed Lyrica (Pregabalin) for anxiety and found, to my astonishment, that once I'd upped the dosage to a level that helped with the anxiety, my drinking moderated without effort. Rather than six cans of strong lager on a work night I'd be having two. At the weekends, rather than blacking out, I'd go home drunk but at least remembering! I was still a drinker but felt so much better.
Unfortunately, after a year my doctor had changed and he called me in once my repeat prescription for a year had come to its end. The idiot told me straight, I was to come off it and wouldn't even let me taper it down. A week of hell followed, coming off Lyrica hurt so much I couldn't even drink! But after a week of pain I was back on the booze like the old days and seriously knocking it back.
I thought I'd investigate getting Lyrica online but the price put me off, I was looking at about ?9 a day. I considered Lyrica's weaker brother, Gabapentin, but it was still pricey.
I knew that the way Lyrica worked was related to Gaba so I decided to trawl through all the reasonably(ish) priced drugs on Inhouse to see if I could find one that might have some sort of similar effect.
After a while I came to the Baclofen, googled it, noticed the Gaba-B thing on Wiki and then the possible help with alcoholic... eureka!
A bit more googling got me here and I think I've read the entire forum.
After the help I got from Lyrica, I'm really hopeful that I can cut out the booze for good with Baclofen. To be honest, I can now imagine, with what I've learnt on here,that if I could've upped my dose more, Lyrica could have led to 'the switch'! Who knows.
Anyway I start tomorrow. Wish me luck.... and thanks to everyone that has ever posted on here, you've given me such hope and optimism!
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