This Redhead's Baclofen Thread
Wheee!! :whee: Such a great post, Red. I'm glad you woke up this morning with renewed hope and energy for life. I've been feeling that way on a daily basis for awhile now, and yet your post still lifted me up. :l
As for the titrating down, oddly enough I found that the beneficial SEs returned on my way down. I did 10mgs every 2 days and it worked out beautifully. I still go up and down with my sweet spot. Well, not the AL indifference, that's there whether I'm at 80 or 120, but I like the good SEs so damn much that I do tend to chase them a bit! So I might go up and down by 60mgs over the course of a few weeks. That's the great thing about bac, so long as we're responsible with the titration, we can play with the dose to find what works best for us.
Funny you mention Bronkaid. I just took some this morning, though not because I'm having any issues with wheezing. I'm not making illegal street drugs out of it, but I got it for the ephedrine for when I'm dealing with the backlash from insomnia! I couldn't find it in a pharmacy anywhere around here, so I ordered it from Drugstore.com and had to fax them a copy of my driver's license before they would ship it.
Hope it helps with your wheezing though, supposedly it's really fantastic for that! Good luck quitting smoking, I know it's one of the toughest things there is to do.
Glad you're ok with not going back to school right now. Sometimes I get something stuck in my head that I have to do, like, right now. And I get all stressed about it. And then I realize, it's ok, it can wait, I can relax. Whatever it is will still be there when I'm ready.
I also was over a year late for my last doctor's checkup! He was none too pleased with me, but he got over it, AND prescribed me baclofen! Before I read all of the concerns here about AL use going on your medical record, I'd talked to him about it in order to try Topamax a couple of years ago. I don't know if he'll ever be open to trying bac with other patients of his, but who knows, maybe he'll see how great it's working for me when I have my next check up in a couple of months.
I haven't chimed in on your thread much (was kind of quiet for awhile in general), but I am really glad that you're deciding to stick around here, especially through all of the bullshit of recent weeks.
Murph's right - all of these big changes in your life right now are a HUGE opportunity for you to create the life that you want for yourself. I went through a lot of big scary changes recently too, and I'm so much happier now than I was, I can't even believe I was scared to move forward. You sound like you're in a perfect headspace for what's coming up in your life (and you're sober!!). You'll do great! :h
Wheee!! :whee: Such a great post, Red. I'm glad you woke up this morning with renewed hope and energy for life. I've been feeling that way on a daily basis for awhile now, and yet your post still lifted me up. :l
As for the titrating down, oddly enough I found that the beneficial SEs returned on my way down. I did 10mgs every 2 days and it worked out beautifully. I still go up and down with my sweet spot. Well, not the AL indifference, that's there whether I'm at 80 or 120, but I like the good SEs so damn much that I do tend to chase them a bit! So I might go up and down by 60mgs over the course of a few weeks. That's the great thing about bac, so long as we're responsible with the titration, we can play with the dose to find what works best for us.
Funny you mention Bronkaid. I just took some this morning, though not because I'm having any issues with wheezing. I'm not making illegal street drugs out of it, but I got it for the ephedrine for when I'm dealing with the backlash from insomnia! I couldn't find it in a pharmacy anywhere around here, so I ordered it from Drugstore.com and had to fax them a copy of my driver's license before they would ship it.
Hope it helps with your wheezing though, supposedly it's really fantastic for that! Good luck quitting smoking, I know it's one of the toughest things there is to do.
Glad you're ok with not going back to school right now. Sometimes I get something stuck in my head that I have to do, like, right now. And I get all stressed about it. And then I realize, it's ok, it can wait, I can relax. Whatever it is will still be there when I'm ready.
I also was over a year late for my last doctor's checkup! He was none too pleased with me, but he got over it, AND prescribed me baclofen! Before I read all of the concerns here about AL use going on your medical record, I'd talked to him about it in order to try Topamax a couple of years ago. I don't know if he'll ever be open to trying bac with other patients of his, but who knows, maybe he'll see how great it's working for me when I have my next check up in a couple of months.
I haven't chimed in on your thread much (was kind of quiet for awhile in general), but I am really glad that you're deciding to stick around here, especially through all of the bullshit of recent weeks.
Murph's right - all of these big changes in your life right now are a HUGE opportunity for you to create the life that you want for yourself. I went through a lot of big scary changes recently too, and I'm so much happier now than I was, I can't even believe I was scared to move forward. You sound like you're in a perfect headspace for what's coming up in your life (and you're sober!!). You'll do great! :h
Don't judge. I'll bet some of you have been there too. I couldn't help it. I can only put out so many recycle bins of bottles. As it is, as the only adult living in this house, I would have 3 bins of recyclables every week. Oh, what the neighbors must have thought. 
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