Baclofen Titration Thread

[Lowcountryman]

Baclofen Titration Thread

"One other thing I am sure of: If you don't keep taking the pills you will not find indifference. Managing that is up to you."

Thanks K..K..Ka..Nnn..nnn...ne..Dear!.
Well, that kind of sums it up for me. When different people want to be indifferent, they should take the pills.

To make my own contribution:

I took as much as felt safe and listened to my body carefully. Felt happy at 120mg, felt very unhappy at 250mg, and at 400mg the deal was closed. Back to the happy feeling, now at 150mg, my eyes are glistening and a woman has told me that I'm hot.

Don't be a fool and a slave to the schedule. When you feel (very) bad, and experiencing SE's that even here nobody has ever heard of: slow down!!

Insomnia, somnolence, little shaking of the hands/legs, forgetting all things, are annoying but common SE's and are no reason to titrate down IMveryHO. If you titrate down for other reasons (for example: not functioning at work) then that's very understandable, but don't expect to reach the switch. So be prepared.

[ignominious]

Baclofen Titration Thread

More bac in your body, more SEs. Sometimes a surge of Bac, just after your dose will increase these. I have heard that letting your body adjust to the dose will ease the SEs, for me and others that didn't appear to be the case.

Need a unknown (400+ mg?day for some people) amount to reach the switch. That is never going to happen unless you continue to increase your dosage.

You can even out the amount that the Bac fluctuates in your blood stream daily by spreading out the dose evenly. Bleep was taking it every 2 hours. Doomed to failure for someone like me (absent minded and short term memory deficient), so I took my doses approx 6 hours apart. Morning coffee, lunch, dinner, bed time. Didn't get bent out of shape if on occasion doses were 3 hours apart or 9 hours. It worked for me and was easy to remember.

No-one has died from taking too much baclofen yet, you might get close to going cold turkey on it! The point is that although you may have a miserable period with titrating up, it works for the vast majority of people.

My detailed schedule is here: Deleted for being an irrelevant mistake. Hope no-one read through it looking for dtails. Soory

Ignore that. Its here:https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...ous-45179.html

[beatle]

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[Lo0p]

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bump for alexan

[alexan]

Baclofen Titration Thread

Thanks, LOOP!! I shall read now.

[alexan]

Baclofen Titration Thread

Lo0p's is Still Missing

Lo0p's is still not on here ... Its hard to be patient when every day passes like an eternity.

Am at 140mg - 150mg now for a couple of days. Dropped down to 20mg at first when I got freaked by the electric shocks but once that question was resolved came back up again. No real desire to drink for a couple of days now but not sure how I know if its permanent or what?

Lo0p, I PM'd you too. Hope to hear from ya! :thanks:

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Baclofen Titration Thread

My husband is at 140mg/day. Dosing schedule very regular, increasing every 3 or so days, mostly longer though.
Very few negative SEs. Apparently he likes feeling a little stoned. :H Some peripheral visual stuff. Definitely a little clumsier and his speech is a little slower.

Conventional Wisdom, at this moment, says stick with a particular level until SEs dissipate. This was not my experience. My experience was that only by going up or down did the SEs change. Sometimes when I went up the SEs became less manageable, but we all know I made the whole experience particularly difficult on myself. I can't base advice to him on my own experience.

Here's the dilemma: His company just experienced a takeover. Every senior level manager was laid off, except my husband and his boss. (Kudos, right? ) The new company is in the building, but takes over officially next week. You can imagine the endless meetings; the meet and greet get-togethers; the implementation of new policies and procedures, all with a sense of (ridiculous) urgency...

My thoughts are that he should go up this week, to 180mg over the next 6 days, and then go back down if the SEs are too difficult. So far so good, I'm just trying to help him plan ahead...

FTR, his drinking is way down, as is the craving. The change in him is remarkable. It's a gift to watch it happen to another human being. Whatever doubts, concerns, fears I had about this... Seeing the changes in him, how well he's doing and how good he feels, is enough to erase those permanently.


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[moglor]

Baclofen Titration Thread

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[Ne/Neva Eva]

Baclofen Titration Thread

Hey. This hasn't been updated in a while.

I think we'd all agree at this point, (?!) that CONSISTENCY IS KEY.

If you're taking bac, and thinking about quitting, or thinking about starting, please take into consideration that going up and down erratically, or taking your doses unevenly and sporadically, can intensify side effects and undermine efficacy.

At some point I'd like to discuss low dose bac; the usefulness, the applications, the science.