Starting out on Bac: Questions

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

2100 hrs for last dose.
The latest SE: Falling out of bed onto floor. I've fallen and I can't get up, but only for a couple seconds. Then I got up. I felt like a floppy doll.

[Nutshell]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

These might just be initial siding out the effects that pass, but if they don't, maybe you can try changing the times of your other doses.

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

Yesterday: 15 @ 900, 15 @ 1500, 15@ 2100
Today, I'll finish by 1800.
It takes maybe three hours to peak, am noticing....

[Nutshell]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

That's actually the same as the way I am doing it. I do 08:00, 14:00, and 20:00. How often are you increasing your daily amount?

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

I increase 15-20 mgs after two days of no intolerable side effects.
The worst was uncontrollable vomiting at 15. I backed down to 5, then 10, then 15.
Day 4, 30. I went from 8-10 drinks to not wanting one.
Day 6, 30, wanting a beer. Not terribly, but more than before. I took another 15 and fell out of bed. Day 7, 20 on getting up at 11 a.m. Am contemplating 60 as I don't have to work tomorrow.
It's New Year's Eve and I'm not really wanting to drink.

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

Not drinking, not indifferent. It's more like AL has become aversive. The taste would gross me out, plus I might throw up.
I'm taking Bluto's Bac, which came around 12/20.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

penelope67;1231581 wrote: @ Ne:
"One pill at a time" this will be my new motto

For some of us this became one handful of pills at a time. :H

Pronoia2012;1235763 wrote: I've fallen and I can't get up...
I know it's not funny, but you are funny. Weird-ish things happen when you titrate up on bac. It all settles down and goes away though.

Pronoia2012;1235972 wrote:
It takes maybe three hours to peak, am noticing....

That changes based on the length of time you are taking bac. There's a paper around here somewhere (Terryk found it, of course) about half-life and blahdy-blah. Bottom line? The longer you take it the less noticeable the affects are, in terms of feeling it when you take it. I don't notice at all anymore. It's, as Dr. Levin has suggested it could be, like taking aspirin.

Pronoia2012;1236863 wrote: Not drinking, not indifferent. It's more like AL has become aversive. The taste would gross me out, plus I might throw up.
I'm taking Bluto's Bac, which came around 12/20.

hmmm. Lemme see. It's been several days since you've wanted to drink, right?

I stopped drinking on a Friday. I was kind of surprised about it. And after several months, and many people suggesting that perhaps bac didn't work for me, I really hesitated to call it a switch. And I was still thinking about drinking.
I figured I'd wait a week and then post...After 6 days, I couldn't wait another minute. I called it! Alcohol became less and less prevalent in my thoughts. When I did think about it (often at first) I was surprised at how long it had been since I had my last thought about it.
Bleep called this 'drinking thoughts' vs. 'thoughts about drinking.' (Habitual thoughts vs. craving thoughts is my interpretation.)
Finally, a sure sign of...not caring about alcohol anymore is that it becomes pretty repulsive.
I'll leave it to you to decide when we should throw the party, but if I were you I'd be looking forward to the next part of my life, and not thinking about the booze much anymore. It is...Super Fun.

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

I stopped wanting to drink by surprise, too! Even more surprising was not being able to drink!
Damn, I wanted to go to the pub and get plastered, and that factor took all the fun out of it;-)

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

20/20/20.
Cravings are returning. SEs have just started to abate.
I'm a little worried and would welcome any insight.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

Pronoia2012;1237138 wrote: I stopped wanting to drink by surprise, too! Even more surprising was not being able to drink!
Damn, I wanted to go to the pub and get plastered, and that factor took all the fun out of it;-)
:H I know! It's very disconcerting to want to get drunk and not be able to. Wait until you get drunk and realize that it really sucks to be drunk. That little revelation rocked my world. Not in a good way, either. Ticked me off.

Pronoia2012;1239700 wrote: 20/20/20.
Cravings are returning. SEs have just started to abate.
I'm a little worried and would welcome any insight.

Sorry that the cravings have returned a bit. I'm glad the SEs have abated.
There is a rule of thumb that I still use, even after all of this time: If one level is uncomfortable, go up. Or down. I usually go up. It seems counterintuitive, but it works.

There was definitely an ebb and flow to my feelings about AL when I was titrating up. I suppose there still is. The difference is profound, of course, because now I just don't care about it and don't want to drink. And I can make the choice about whether or not to drink. I often forget how different it was...

And of course, the bottom line is Focusing on the Goal. KOKO. JKTTDP. One pill at a time. And all that other stuff. Pick whatever works for ya'. Rest assured it will work. and :l

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

20 at 500 hrs, 20 at 1030 hrs, 10 at 1400 hrs.
The cravings went away. The headache came back, along with this urge simultaneously to sneeze and almost vomit.
You know that saying "threw up in my mouth a little?" It was like that.

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

I'm at 75. Twenty days, 12 AF.
Am I going up too fast?

[SlipperyPete]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

Hi Prono,

That seems like a decent titration rate. By day 20 I was at around 105 mg, going up by 15 mg every 3 days, but a lot of people seem to go at a slower pace as well. It really just depends on how you're reacting to the bac. It's not a race, but there's no need to drag it on if you're feeling fine.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

Pronoia2012;1240692 wrote: I'm at 75. Twenty days, 12 AF.
Am I going up too fast?

Congratulations on the 12 days! WOOOHOOO! Isn't it lovely to wake up without the hangover and all the stuff that entails? (nausea, paranoia, remorse, regret, ugh. all of it.)

I would agree with Pete's assessment. If you're feeling okay, then you're not going too fast. Or too slow. You're looking for jusssst. right.... right?

[Pronoia2012]

Starting out on Bac: Questions

Ne,
You got it!
Balancing cravings/SE/sleeplessness is getting difficult. I, too, am having problems with more ADD symptoms.