Obtaining bac and other meds, too

[Ne/Neva Eva]

And once again!

Hiya everybody! This has come up privately a couple of times now. I thought I'd give a sum up, especially since there is kerfuffle related to online pharmacies.

Dr. Levin's information is this:

Home: 312-642-5803

This is the number that he prefers. Call between 7 and 9pm Central Standard Time. He's in Chicago, Illinois. He takes overseas calls, and calls from doctors, too. Also, he is VERY good at straightening out reluctant or belligerent pharmacists. (Though there are other ways around this, if it does actually become an issue.)

His office number is: 312-236-6675
He always answers this, even if he's in a session with a patient. Someone posted recently that it's called the baclophone.

He's a nice guy. Very, very nice guy. Without any real agenda, as far as I can tell. And I've been calling him for a looooong time. (More than a year. Seems long to me!)

There is also a thread where you might be able to find a local doctor. It's not very extensive as people are reluctant to share the info of a doctor on the WWW. Which I totally understand. I would encourage those who have information related to this to post that they know someone in such and such area (or even region!). Think about it, peeps. There are a lot of us who are desperate. We are all relatively reasonable. The ones who are not reasonable are very unlikely to try to follow up with a doctor. It's true. And we all deserve a chance to recover. That's my take on it, anyway.


For the official record, I have no vested interest in how or whether anyone obtains bac. (I shorten the word to keep it from google searches.)

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...ion-47247.html

Anyone give any advice as to how else to obtain bac?

(No shills, please. If you are affiliated with, or profiting from, the sale of bac, please state this fact. Thank you.)

I am not. Profiting from, or affiliated with, any sale/manufacturing/promoting of bac. Nor have I ever received free bac from anywhere.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

Finally, if you've been on baclofen for a while, have been cut off from your source of baclofen, and can't get any, there are several people around here who can help. Don't run out! PM someone!

[spacebebe01]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

I have some baclofen if anyone in the UK needs it you can pm me I will get back to you.

[Doggygirl]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

Ne, I'm really curious why all of a sudden things seem to be changing with the off shore pharmacies. What are you hearing about that, if anything? I'm sure there are some general guesses we could all make (i.e. drug sellers in the US hate when people are able to get what they need on their own from outside the country), but I'm wondering if you've heard specifics of some recent change in the climate?

DG

[NoWayOut]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

Hmmm.. I wonder if Dr. Levin would be able to help me (or anyone) find a local doctor who prescribes bac.

I need to find a doc soon, I'm sick of buying online and worrying if the bac is real or safe to take.

I just got my bac from virtuous about a week ago, I haven't taken any, thank god. Now I'm just going to throw it out after hearing all this shit.. what a waste of money that was.

Anyway.. If Dr. L ever helped anyone here find a local doctor please let me know. I don't want to call him up and waste his time if he cant help.

[Greg]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

My first suggestion to anyone is to try calling Dr Levin and ask him these questions, but make sure you ring him at the times suggested here. I don't know if a script issued by Dr L is actually valid in normal shopfront pharmacies in other countries, here in Australia for example.

As for online pharmacies and all these problems with the ones that ship from India, it's due to tightened regulations by Indian authorities from what I have read. This forced the pharmacies based there to ask for a prescription, although I later heard that one said it's ok to just supply a name and details of a doctor you know of, and that they were trying to get a doctor of their own onboard.

I have ordered medicines from Inhouse Pharmacy in the past, and have just placed a baclofen order with them. They have been accurate and fairly quick so far; I will post again to say how and when my baclofen arrives. They have a doctor working with them to cover the prescription aspect, or at least paperwork to this effect supplied with orders seems to be saying this.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

I don't know, DG.

I have picked up from other threads these internet pharmacies that seem to still be delivering to the US:

Inhouse.com
Alldaychemist.com
RiverPharmacy.com

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

Noway,
I don't know about that. I've never heard of him offering the name of a local doc, but he may know of one in your area. It's certainly worth asking. I've never heard of him not helping when he can, either. (Okay, once, but I'm not sure what happened there...)

I know for fact that he has spoken to other physicians, both general practitioners and psychiatrists (pdocs) in order to share with them information about baclofen. One as far away as New Zealand. (In fact, if you are in New Zealand, there are a couple of docs prescribing bac in two places. You can contact Susiesmum to find out where. She will help you.)

I think the best bet is to find a doctor first. I've heard that some docs, just based on the evidence (which there is now quite a bit of) will prescribe up to 80mg/day, the FDA approved amount. With time and trust this is likely to grow. Trust being key to success, imho. I'm working on it here myself, and hope to have a local pdoc on board before the end of the month. (Cross your fingers for me. What a pain in the foot. ugh. But I agree, it's important. At least to me.)

Have you taken a look at the list of doctors that we know of? Generally if you're in a major metro area, the chances are pretty good. Good luck!

https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...bac-53892.html

https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...ion-47247.html

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

Noway, I thought you were getting your bac in Canada from your treatment place?

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

Ne/Neva Eva;1239596 wrote:
I have picked up from other threads these internet pharmacies that seem to still be delivering to the US:

Inhouse.com
Alldaychemist.com
RiverPharmacy.com

I checked out those sites and it looks like River is the only one that is still carrying bac to the U.S., or bac at all.
Very interesting, since I think all of the bac is actually manufactured in the same places. (Right? Vanuatu, and I don't know where else. Germany, maybe?) Has anyone googled to find out why the change? I haven't but have been meaning to...

Good luck, everybody. And reach out if you run short and need some lickety-split (in a hurry). Stopping cold turkey is NOT a good idea. Really. It's not. And benzos will not help withdrawal. (There is cold hard science to this fact. They don't. really.)
We have bac-ers from America to Zimbabwe. I'm pretty sure someone, somewhere, will help you out.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

A reminder in case people are cut off unexpectedly.
There are some other places that you can order from.
Redthread12, tiptronic_ct, sprat all order from overseas. (US, South Africa, Asia) I'm pretty sure that covers at least 3 of the four corners. If you are trying to find your way around ordering, you can certainly reach out to one of them to find some answers.
Good luck!
(It's really, remarkably easy. And safe. No one will be breaking down your door, at least not for baclofen!)

[RedThread12]

Obtaining bac and other meds, too

This is somewhere between on and off topic. Early on, I took my book, my print-outs (from the awesome Consolidated Baclofen Information Thread) and my story to a D.O. who had been a student of mine even before she went to medical school. She "kinda'" got it, but because she knew me, was willing to write a script for 80 mg/day. Which helped, even though I was taking (and she knew it) far more.

Since then I've gotten a script from Dr. L. I got "off" on times to pick it up when I was overseas last summer, and finally got around to calling the pharmacy to re-fill and find out how many re-fills I have. Well, (laughing emoticon - they're still on strike), between the generous prescription from Dr. L, the length of time I have failed to pick it up and the generous # of refills remaining on said scripts, I will be f'in floating in bac for a good long while.

Meanwhile, said D.O. has sent the 3rd patient to me, to "team" with her to manage titrating, SE's, etc. So far, each of these patients has found, if not complete "indifference," total cessation of craving and mostly AF days at 80 mg or below. And no one has had SE issues for more than a day. I'm making titration schedules, recording variances, taking notes on SE's, etc., extensively to show the Dr. how it works differently. I think there's a fairly good chance that she will be willing to prescribe HDB before too long. Note, though, we're 3 years into this process.

But I have only good things to say about ordering it online, too. That's what saved my life. Best of luck to all bac-seekers. It's out there!!!