Progress thread for ne

[terryk]

Mother-Fucker, my link deffo worked, I checked it in the preview pane ( i did not want to look stupid to tk) - Some fucker has mod status here and Im pretty sure I know who it is (no im not telling)

Regards


Bacman

No, the search ids just expire quicker than I thought or are only visible to the user who made the search.

https://www.mywayout.org/community/search.php?searchid=276138

Edit:^^ this one still works for me.
-tk

[Baclofenman]

Ha Ha

Too slow Terry

Best Regards


Bacman

No, the search ids just expire quicker than I thought or are only visible to the user who made the search.

https://www.mywayout.org/community/search.php?searchid=276138

Edit:^^ this one still works for me.
-tk

[terryk]

Ha Ha

Too slow Terry

Best Regards


Bacman

No, that search id link still works for me right now - but doesn't work when I sign out of my account and try to use it.

[Baclofenman]

TK

AFAIK they last about an hour as a standard default set up - Judging by the admin set up used here I would expect the Admin team to not know how to effect a hack to this

I suspect the ID's are being changed manually

Regards


Bacman

Ha Ha

Too slow Terry

Best Regards


Bacman

[Ne/Neva Eva]

I suspect the ID's are being changed manually

Huh? I'm confused. No matter what I click on, any of them, I still can't get to what you guys are seeing. I see this: (Let's see if I can do this!)

Dinner time and I'm out for the night.

[Baclofenman]

No, that search id link still works for me right now - but doesn't work when I sign out of my account and try to use it.

MMM - you might be right about the search id relating to the user who made the search - I have never set up a vB forum so I am not sure tbh

Ignore my PM - I still maintain there is a strange smell around

Regards


Bacman

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Very frustrating. How come it's so small?

[Baclofenman]

Very frustrating. How come it's so small?

Pnar Pnar....

[Baclofenman]

Here Ne - Have a good night

Bacman

Huh? I'm confused. No matter what I click on, any of them, I still can't get to what you guys are seeing. I see this: (Let's see if I can do this!)[ATTACH=CONFIG]2156[/ATTACH]

Dinner time and I'm out for the night.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

I have an update of sorts. I want to continue the story I started a couple of weeks ago, and bring it up to the point where I titrated WAY up on baclofen (to 420mg) and was still drinking. Which made me decide to go way down, completely to zero, and start over again.

I can't be sure why I was still drinking despite the fact that I was taking 100mg more than my original switch dose. Was it stress? I was going through some really dramatic changes in my life. (And still am, in a way.) I am taking several medications that I've never taken before. Maybe they were interacting with baclofen and keeping me from reaching indifference? I'm delving into a lot of really uncomfortable stuff with my therapist, so maybe that's a part of it. Part of it's past history. Part of it's present conditions.

My relationship with Ed is rock strong, but that doesn't mean we're having an easy time of it right now. We're not. He's finding his voice, through his own work with a therapist. And between us, it seems like we go back and forth being pissed off at each other. Nothing life-shattering, but uncomfortable and disconcerting. He is drinking very little, and probably wouldn't be drinking at all, if there wasn't so much booze in the house. I am drinking a lot more, and despite the fact that it isn't completely out of control, it's really hard for him. Understandably. He gets angry. Then I get angry at him for being angry with me over something about which I (we) feel I have very little control. There's more, too. And some of it's good stuff, but still stressful. Like the fact that I've decided to keep going to school, almost full time, in order to get my PhD. He supports that, but it ain't easy...I really didn't expect him to, honestly. I expected him to be like, "WHAT THE HELL WOMAN! GET A DAMN JOB!" lol. And he was. But he also knows that this is my life's calling...And I'm one hell of a lucky woman in that he just said okay. He's got my back. How amazing is that?

Also, I want another dog and he doesn't. We argue about that almost daily. ha. We've decided to leave it to the "Spirit of the Universe" (my words) and if the right dog comes along, we'll get her/him. So I'm sending out fervent wishes and I bet he is doing the same for the opposite result.

Anyway. All of those things, combined with the fact that I was really uncomfortable taking that much baclofen in general, made me decide to start over. So I did on January 1st. I'm not going to post my titration because it's different when you've been taking this stuff for 5 years. And I'm not very consistent about it, though I am desperately trying. (Just this morning I forgot to take the damn pills despite my phone alarm. <sigh> Must go do that now.)

So that's the end of the history. I'll try to keep up to date about what it's like. I will say that I couldn't drink more than 2 glasses of wine last night. Not sure what that's about, but maybe it's baclofen?

Cheers, peeps.

[nicnak68]

Where are you with the Bac no be?

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Where are you with the Bac no be?

I'm going to interpret that to say, "Where are you with the Bac now, Ne?" lol

I don't really want to say, Nic, because my titration up has been really fast. Much too fast for anyone who hasn't been on baclofen for a long, long time. You know? And if there is one thing we all seem to have trouble with at one point or another, it's taking too much baclofen too quickly.

That said, I'm taking 180mg. I haven't experienced any SEs at all, and the moment I do, I'll go down a bit and stay until it's a good idea to go up again. I have experienced really awful SEs in the past, and have no wish to revisit those. I am even sleeping through the night. I'm not experiencing sleepiness during the day (though this could be because of some of the other medications I'm taking for depression.)

I rarely drink more than 8 beers throughout the day, and I often have my first beer around noon. (This is very embarrassing to admit. I really hope I don't get a bunch of flak for being honest about this.) But that means I don't get drunk. Usually. Four nights ago I did. I don't know how much I drank, but it was a lot of both beer and wine. I hadn't eaten all day. I had a drunken phone conversation that I'm still mortified about. I also fell down some brick stairs (just two) and bruised my shoulder and my ankle. The fall woke up my husband and he was furious with me. I was also still on the phone, so my friend heard everything, including him telling me that I was too drunk to be on the phone and needed to come to bed right NOW.

So it's not all rainbows and unicorns, obviously. Drinking alcoholically never is. Which is also obvious.

Then, yesterday, I couldn't stomach the idea of alcohol at all. I poured a glass of wine with dinner, finished that and poured another. Then ate some ice cream and didn't finish the second glass. I'm hoping it's the baclofen kicking in. But it's only 11am here, and I'm already thinking about when I can have my first drink...

Sucks.

[Spiritfree]

I have an update of sorts. I want to continue the story I started a couple of weeks ago, and bring it up to the point where I titrated WAY up on baclofen (to 420mg) and was still drinking. Which made me decide to go way down, completely to zero, and start over again.

I can't be sure why I was still drinking despite the fact that I was taking 100mg more than my original switch dose. Was it stress? I was going through some really dramatic changes in my life. (And still am, in a way.) I am taking several medications that I've never taken before. Maybe they were interacting with baclofen and keeping me from reaching indifference? I'm delving into a lot of really uncomfortable stuff with my therapist, so maybe that's a part of it. Part of it's past history. Part of it's present conditions.

Also, I want another dog and he doesn't. We argue about that almost daily. ha. We've decided to leave it to the "Spirit of the Universe" (my words) and if the right dog comes along, we'll get her/him. So I'm sending out fervent wishes and I bet he is doing the same for the opposite result.

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[Ne/Neva Eva]

Spirit, why are you doing that? It's kinda annoying.

[nicnak68]

NE
I had gone up quite quickly before and I found it ok,I also came down at breakneck speed and it did me no harm.We are all different.I hate that I'm drinking again.But seeing alcohol services on Friday so going to ask about Nalmefene