Whilst every bone in my body wishes to be my usual impulsive self and go ghetto on this issue by dosing up ultra fast to get it over and done with, and whilst I'm impressed/in awe of Murph's story where he took baclofen increasing in 300 mg increments over a lazy afternoon and woke up the next day cured (well, perhaps that's a slight exaggeration ;-), I'm for once in my life going to try to do the right thing- partly because others have reported very different experiences, partly due to drug safety issues and (oddly enough) partly because of the legal aspect- If I'm going to be flying around the US carrying anything with a phenethylamine substructure in the middle of a meth epidemic, I think I wanna have my name on the package!!!
with this in mind, I called Dr. L tonight, and we now have an appointment to speak during his office hours later this week....Scary.
Predictably, the act of picking up a phone and speaking, with my real voice, name and phone number to an actual human being was not as easy as posting on here whilst highly inebriated. That said, I'm giving myself an attaboy for deciding to call him today and /actually/ calling him today- thanks to the poster who PM'd me his number- I know it is on this thread anyway, but a PM sorta gives you that push you need. I think that tells me that I have at last TRULY acknowledged that my drinking has to be sorted out- god knows, I've been in a state of semi denial since my frickin' teens!!
I will report how my discussion goes, and in fact that might be an appropriate time to start a diary.
I'm pretty pleased at the prospect of getting actual, known-dose-known-formulation FDA approved Bac rather than taking my chances with whatever comes (or doesn't come!) from online pharmacies, literally ALL of which have several reviews accusing them of at best non delivery and at worst serious credit card fraud!
I hope this new thread isn't totally pointless- the reason I posted it was just in case other US based posters find that these reasons also sound compelling to them.
On a related note, many posters complain about what a nightmare it is being pioneers of this treatment. In terms of certain issues (most concerningly the potential for long term side effects), I feel quite the same.
That said, another part of me thrills at hopefully being able to add yet another datapoint to the growing stockpile of Baclofen success stories and hopefully helping with awareness of this treatment- which is currently low, even amongst alcoholics: I know that I had been reading about (and being thorougly depressed by) AA online for a year or more before a random Google search related to Antabuse led me to Naltrexone, which in turn led me to Baclofen.
Cheers,
Paul.- in good spirits!
p.s. Speaking of good spirits, by great irony I'm going out tonight with a Texan colleague who drinks like a fish. And so it goes- speak to a doctor about my alcoholism, have a shower, hit a large variety of bars.
p.p.s. I frequent 3 other discussion forums that use this same software. Anyone else ever experienced the moment of "OH SHIT I hope I posted that to MWO rather than [xyz]?
with this in mind, I called Dr. L tonight, and we now have an appointment to speak during his office hours later this week....Scary.
Predictably, the act of picking up a phone and speaking, with my real voice, name and phone number to an actual human being was not as easy as posting on here whilst highly inebriated. That said, I'm giving myself an attaboy for deciding to call him today and /actually/ calling him today- thanks to the poster who PM'd me his number- I know it is on this thread anyway, but a PM sorta gives you that push you need. I think that tells me that I have at last TRULY acknowledged that my drinking has to be sorted out- god knows, I've been in a state of semi denial since my frickin' teens!!
I will report how my discussion goes, and in fact that might be an appropriate time to start a diary.
I'm pretty pleased at the prospect of getting actual, known-dose-known-formulation FDA approved Bac rather than taking my chances with whatever comes (or doesn't come!) from online pharmacies, literally ALL of which have several reviews accusing them of at best non delivery and at worst serious credit card fraud!
I hope this new thread isn't totally pointless- the reason I posted it was just in case other US based posters find that these reasons also sound compelling to them.
On a related note, many posters complain about what a nightmare it is being pioneers of this treatment. In terms of certain issues (most concerningly the potential for long term side effects), I feel quite the same.
That said, another part of me thrills at hopefully being able to add yet another datapoint to the growing stockpile of Baclofen success stories and hopefully helping with awareness of this treatment- which is currently low, even amongst alcoholics: I know that I had been reading about (and being thorougly depressed by) AA online for a year or more before a random Google search related to Antabuse led me to Naltrexone, which in turn led me to Baclofen.
Cheers,
Paul.- in good spirits!
p.s. Speaking of good spirits, by great irony I'm going out tonight with a Texan colleague who drinks like a fish. And so it goes- speak to a doctor about my alcoholism, have a shower, hit a large variety of bars.
p.p.s. I frequent 3 other discussion forums that use this same software. Anyone else ever experienced the moment of "OH SHIT I hope I posted that to MWO rather than [xyz]?
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