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    #16
    Daily dosing record - beatle

    I'm feeling much better now, after only a couple hours. Thanks for the advice, bleep.

    I did go to sleep for a while and woke again in classic bac style. This certainly is not a new experience for me.:no:

    UK, I wonder if your experience could have been alcohol withdrawal, since it happened in that time period of stopping drinking one might experience withdrawal symptoms. And especially if you stopped taking baclofen at the same time (not sure if you did -- can't tell from the post). Stopping, either or both, of them abruptly could trigger those reactions. In my case, I was drinking at exactly the normal rate, so that option could be ruled out. The only explanation is that I messed up on the doses and took one extra. Yet another lesson in how important it is to keep to a tight schedule, and not deviate from it. If I know I will be drinking (which I do every night, albeit the amount has been slowly and naturally decreasing), then I have to have a foolproof system in place so that I don't mess up doses like I did (I'm pretty sure that's what happened).
    Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

    Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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      #17
      Daily dosing record - beatle

      Now, back to sleep.
      Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

      Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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        #18
        Daily dosing record - beatle

        beatle;1064712 wrote: I'm feeling much better now, after only a couple hours. Thanks for the advice, bleep.

        I did go to sleep for a while and woke again in classic bac style. This certainly is not a new experience for me.:no:

        UK, I wonder if your experience could have been alcohol withdrawal, since it happened in that time period of stopping drinking one might experience withdrawal symptoms. And especially if you stopped taking baclofen at the same time (not sure if you did -- can't tell from the post). Stopping, either or both, of them abruptly could trigger those reactions. In my case, I was drinking at exactly the normal rate, so that option could be ruled out. The only explanation is that I messed up on the doses and took one extra. Yet another lesson in how important it is to keep to a tight schedule, and not deviate from it. If I know I will be drinking (which I do every night, albeit the amount has been slowly and naturally decreasing), then I have to have a foolproof system in place so that I don't mess up doses like I did (I'm pretty sure that's what happened).
        No this all occured whilst at a doses of 100-150mg which was not a reduction in Baclofen at all, and I carried on taking it throughout. I've stopped bac at various points and not have any problems, same with alcohol during this period.

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          #19
          Daily dosing record - beatle

          Glad it's over, it's no fun at all!

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            #20
            Daily dosing record - beatle

            Stick with it if you can Beatle! :goodjob: I am here for you and I wholeheartedly support your plan.
            100%

            No doubt in my mind you are doing the right thing. Keep going. Don't back off now.
            :nutso: I take pride in my humility :nutso:
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              #21
              Daily dosing record - beatle

              Thank you Lo0p! I did (stick with it) and I will NOT give up.

              In fact, I took 10mg bac at 3:00 a.m., and 20mg at 5:00 a.m. -- just to make sure the bac doesn't drain out completely from my system.

              I will get back on schedule when I wake up (hopefully I'll sleep 4 hours now).

              I will map it out more rigidly... no more feel and go (unless the SEs get to be extreme -- then instead of prolonging the dose intervals, I will decrease the dose).

              I am also 100% certain this is the way to go.

              When I think of all I've suffered in the last 18 months while I've been on bac (although these have been the best 18 months in terms of alcohol in the past 10 years), with what I know today, I would have saved myself that pain a hundred times over -- no, a thousand times over-- if I had just put up with the suffering for a little while.

              I have been trying really hard to keep the whining about SEs at a minimum lately (and I think I have). This felt like a crisis and I sincerely wanted /needed help--not to whine and feel sorry for myself, or to get attention.
              Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

              Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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                #22
                Daily dosing record - beatle

                And anyway, this is MY thread. I made it so I don't have to feel so self-centred when I want/need to whine. anties:
                Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

                Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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                  #23
                  Daily dosing record - beatle

                  WOW! YAY!

                  Look, don't worry about posting about freaking out. It's part of the ride. It's universal. This is not to be undertaken lightly. It's a commitment. And it's not our decision about whether or not someone decides to go this route. The early people that posted here had terrible experiences. Didn't stop me.

                  As to dosing and the stuff we talked about last night, beatle, all things in good time. You do you! Posterity will always be there. I am extremely excited for you.

                  As to how much you took and when. I think being a little hazy on that fact is also pretty universal when you're titrating up. It is incredibly frustrating and downright frightening but it doesn't, imho, undermine the process. It REALLY messed me up when I started taking doses in the middle of the night, though. There were a couple of times when I had mid-day freak-outs from too much bac. And a couple of days when I couldn't take enough at the witching hour and so drank too much. I know that Otter suggests keeping a constant level of bac in the body at all costs, and god knows, HE knows. But my experience is that sleep is more important. I can TELL when I don't have enough bac in my system. If I miss my morning dose by a half-hour I know it. But overnight? Not my experience.
                  Hang in. You are most certainly not a wimp. The very thought makes me laugh out loud and completely pisses me off. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? 18 months, sister. NO ONE ELSE would have that kind of commitment, fortitude or strength. Just kttgdp. And write often and without editing on your own thread. This is where the end starts, I promise.
                  :h:h:h:h
                  Karen

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                    #24
                    Daily dosing record - beatle

                    And you have earned the right to post any damn place you want, wearing sexy skivvies or granny panties or whiney whatever.

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                      #25
                      Daily dosing record - beatle

                      Ne/Neva Eva;1064786 wrote: And you have earned the right to post any damn place you want, wearing sexy skivvies or granny panties or whiney whatever.
                      100%. Let's start seeing more of those posts please.

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                        #26
                        Daily dosing record - beatle

                        I agree, let's see more beatle pouring out your feelings on the page and sharing. If we can do that on our own threads, I think that means we are truly in a safe place.

                        Let's see more expletives from Ne! (Thanks!)

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                          #27
                          Daily dosing record - beatle

                          I kinda wanna see the grannie panties , but I'll settle for just reading about your journey.
                          :nutso: I take pride in my humility :nutso:
                          :what?:
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                          Trolls need not apply

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                            #28
                            Daily dosing record - beatle

                            thanks all. giggling about the panties, because I don't wear panties. Just saying.
                            Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

                            Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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                              #29
                              Daily dosing record - beatle

                              It's MY thread, remember?
                              Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

                              Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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                                #30
                                Daily dosing record - beatle

                                My new dosing schedule

                                Mind you, I worked this out this morning, and I'm already off target... but only because I had to decrease some doses, which was part of the plan, remember? Oh, I think I haven't filled you in about that plan. Well, later. Here is the schedule. (Alarms have been duly set and pill recording dutifully followed.)

                                And note that I take a lot of supps and 2 other meds, which have to be worked in here at different times -- some to be taken with meals, others between meals, some at night, some in the morning, some in the middle of the night... yeh, it's complicated

                                Bac/supps/meds schedule:

                                5:00 Levaxin 100
                                7:15 bac 25
                                8:00 Aminos
                                9:15 bac 25
                                11:15 bac 25
                                Breakfast/lunch, Vitamins
                                13:15 bac 25

                                Between meals:
                                MT/LV52
                                Thyroid/Gaia

                                15:15 bac 35
                                17:15 bac 35
                                Dinner, Vitamins
                                20:15 bac 35
                                22:15 bac 25
                                23:15 bac 25

                                Pre bed:
                                Lamictal 200
                                Bac total: 255 + 20 in middle of night?

                                So already this morning (by my 4th dose), I had to go down to 20mg 2 times. Ready for 25 at 16.15 (oops, that's now, my alarm just went off...brb)
                                Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

                                Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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