Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

[ignominious]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

Sounds just like bac to me.

I'm a bit of a control freak which eased up considerably with bac to the joy of my kids and the detriment of my work!

Now I've tapered down to 60mg my old behaviour is coming back :upset::nutso:

[ignominious]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

Sounds just like bac to me.

I'm a bit of a control freak myself which eased up considerably with bac to the joy of my kids and the detriment of my work!

Now I've tapered down to 60mg my old behaviour is coming back :upset: but without the booze.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

Murphyx;1129777 wrote: We passed a man with his dog and I nodded a cheery hello and he replied “doesn’t look like it’s going to stop does it?”.
...
However, while he did chuckle, he also replied “no you didn’t did you, you silly ”.

This has been bothering me for a couple of days now. I wish that you'd had Murphy on that morning. Your response would've been brilliant; equal measures of offensive and insightful. He would've known himself for being vulgar, crass, insensitive.

Or even Ne. She would've said, "you know, what you said really bothered me. Sometimes all a person needs is polite acknowledgement. A chuckle. A wink. Not negativity thrown into the universe for all to swallow! Plus, you may think that word is synonymous with twit but it is misogynist and is highly derogatory and offensive. You clearly need baclofen. Because you're a sick fuck." Or something like that.

And he is. And it's true (all except the part about baclofen, obviously.) But it's very tiresome. So I've got something to lighten the mood.

Ed has a new SE. He woke up with a swollen big toe. Really. He can't put any weight on it. While I suspect that this is a ploy to get out of doing anything productive off of the never- ending-honey-do-list, he apparently was quite concerned. He plopped himself down on the couch, waving both feet in front of me to compare the distorted digit to the rest. "Sure enough, babe, it's swollen." He waited expectantly. This from a man I had to drag to the doctor for stitches for a particularly nasty wound related to a stubborn steak or something. I asked, as nicely as I could, "I guess that means you won't be on the ladder cleaning the gutter today, doesn't it?"

I honestly think he was disappointed it wasn't an SE! And it may be, sort of, because he's clumsy now, at 220mg. Very agile normally, suddenly finding things get in his way. So I got him some ice, and an ibuprofen... And the chore list grows.

Hope it's a good day, folks!

(and yes, Curly, some inertia can be a real-live SE! It was very frustrating after I got sober enough to start really hating watching tv. What to do then??? Sit on the couch and stare at the wall? Fortunately there is MWO and like most SEs, it didn't last long. Cheers on your progress!)
:l
Ne

[Murphyx]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

Ne/Neva Eva;1131309 wrote: This has been bothering me for a couple of days now. I wish that you'd had Murphy on that morning. Your response would've been brilliant; equal measures of offensive and insightful. He would've known himself for being vulgar, crass, insensitive. But I don't think he meant to say it. I don't think he even realised he'd said it. It would have been very poor form to pick him up on it if that were the case.

Long ago in a place far far away (well actually about 15 years ago in Ascot but it seems like another life), when I was still in contact with my foul family, I was having a discussion about politics with my mother and three sisters. I accidentally referred to Margaret Thatcher as "that c**t Thatcher". A sudden silence befell the room. I thought I could see tumble weed roll passed the window and hear a single bell slowly tolling in the distance. The C word isn't normally part of my vocabulary, but I think it's use is justified when referring to evil, right wing politicians who made it their life's work to destroy my country. However, I would never deliberately say it in front of a woman, even when referring to Thatcher....the evil old c**t!

Perhaps it just slipped out and he later realised what he'd said and was mortified. If not, and he says it all the time, well that just makes him a complete wanker. And nothing I could have said would have changed that.

People get away with a lot more now I'm on bac. And unfortunately, a lot of sheds remain unpainted. I don't mean that literally; I don't actually have a lot of sheds. I was just using Curly's shed as an allegory or is it a fucking metaphor?

Ne/Neva Eva;1131309 wrote: Ed has a new SE. He woke up with a swollen big toe. Really. He can't put any weight on it. While I suspect that this is a ploy to get out of doing anything productive off of the never- ending-honey-do-list, he apparently was quite concerned. He plopped himself down on the couch, waving both feet in front of me to compare the distorted digit to the rest. "Sure enough, babe, it's swollen." He waited expectantly. This from a man I had to drag to the doctor for stitches for a particularly nasty wound related to a stubborn steak or something.

Well Ed is obviously a proper bloke. Doctors? offices are full of sick people and the chances of catching something from them are high, likewise the doctors, who are generally filthy idiots. A real man only visits a doctor when there is no alternative. He ought to wait until the toe turns black and is about to drop off before he has the quack look at it. The only ones who rush to see doctors for trivial matters are women and the feeble minded.

I could very easily not have bothered including the words ?women and? in that last sentence, but I did so to prove what a nice, philogynistic sort of a chap I am. :H

[ignominious]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

Ne/Neva Eva;1131309 wrote: This has been bothering me for a couple of days now. I wish that you'd had Murphy on that morning. Your response would've been brilliant; equal measures of offensive and insightful. He would've known himself for being vulgar, crass, insensitive.

Or even Ne. She would've said, "you know, what you said really bothered me. Sometimes all a person needs is polite acknowledgement. A chuckle. A wink. Not negativity thrown into the universe for all to swallow! Plus, you may think that word is synonymous with twit but it is misogynist and is highly derogatory and offensive. You clearly need baclofen. Because you're a sick fuck." Or something like that.

JeeZeus, I thought you were talking about me for a moment before I read Murph's amusing little anecdote. Anyway just goes to show that my fight or fight response is getting back into full swing.

Just thought I'd share that!

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

:H
thanks for the chuckle, Ig.

[LittleLessBoozin']

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

I?m surprised no one has picked up on this. It was before my time here but I think I?m right in saying Dr Phillip Thomas (known here as Dr Phill) has been rather discredited. I?ve never heard of chewing bac before and wouldn?t decide to do it based solely on his advice. Oh and btw he?s no longer allowed to practise as a doctor in the UK and shouldn?t be describing himself as one.

On my soapbox here. "Dr." Phil is someone I came across whilst researching baclofen (I searched on youtube, hoping to find an English interview of the magic frog himself, but he was nowhere to be found at the time).

Instead, I was confronted with the repulsive image of an apparently naked man spouting bollocks at me: "http://www.youtube.com/user/DrBaclofen#p/u/11/lqEc_XL9I7Y"

Sometimes there is just a clash of styles, but I have checked back a couple of times since out of morbid interest, and from what I can tell, the main purpose of this guy's channel seems to be a mixture of 10% catharsis and 90% trying to drive people to his websites (which, btw, look as though they were designed by 4th graders) so that they can buy his book talking about the side effects of baclofen.

WTF?! To me, shelling out $40 books to read that Bac has shitty SEs, when these can be readily found on these forums seems bizarre. IMHO, the only new things that need to be published on baclofen are:

- The results of clinical trials
- Papers authored by addiction specialists in well respected, peer reviewed journals
- A Prescribers guide

Sorry chaps, I really have not been impressed by "Dr." Phil.

Paul.

p.s. Murph- was in stitches about your "You silly twat!" story.

[RudyB]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

ed's toe makes me think of my hand and my foot. the good news is that i can almost clench a fist, after almost 3 months with minimal ability. (good thing i don't have a knob that needs attention.) weird news is that it took soo long. i wonder if bac has a delaying effect on healing. or if it might cause problems of the knuckle variety.

[Murphyx]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

LittleLessBoozin';1131443 wrote:
Instead, I was confronted with the repulsive image of an apparently naked man spouting bollocks at me: "http://www.youtube.com/user/DrBaclofen#p/u/11/lqEc_XL9I7Y"

Jayzuz Paul, you're right. The man is naked and wild eyed. AND you don't get to see his hands at all. I suspect he's actually pleasuring himself on camera.

[Murphyx]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

RudyB;1131510 wrote: ed's toe makes me think of my hand and my foot. the good news is that i can almost clench a fist, after almost 3 months with minimal ability. (good thing i don't have a knob that needs attention.) weird news is that it took soo long.

If you did have a knob and couldn't make a fist, it wouldn't be news that it took so long.

[curlygirl7]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

You guys are the best (and the funniest). I sometimes get a little freaked out that I'm doing this whole bac thing alone without medical supervision. I haven't even told my husband. It is unbelievably reassuring to have such great support and input from all of you. I moved my final dose of bac to the middle of the night when I inevitably wake up. I think I feel a little better. in my energyI just hope I don't sleep through the night and miss a dose!

The shed goes unpainted for yet another day, but the sun did shine today and it really made a difference in my energy level.

I'm still confused about "bollocks" as I've heard it used a few different ways on this thread. I think I'm going to start using it whenever I have problems with word retrieval, which is all the time with bac. It seems like a user-friendly word and nobody in the U.S. knows it so I'll give it a whirl.

Have a good night everyone.

[RudyB]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

oh my god, curly! i can't believe you're doing this without your husband knowing! and why not tell him? i can't imagine that. do you live with him? how can he NOT KNOW? what dose are you on?! good golly, i'll have to re-read to find alla this out, as i'm sure you have your reasons and you might've said, but please do give me/us the broad strokes to save the thread-combing time.

[ignominious]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

You're welcome Ne.

[LadyLush]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

Curly,

Back in the game here. "Bollocks" to me means "Bull Shit" in America.
LA-TE-DA on punctuations!




Lady:l

[RudyB]

Murph’s Baclofen (or should that be BacloFUN) diary

what's an allegory? i forget, too. and what the heck is philogynistic?