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[Sammi33]

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No worries at all coming off Nal, but i haven't come off baclofen before, although there's plenty of info around here from people who have.

As far as weight gain i found Nal worked as an appetite supressant for me, and baclofen had no effect either way.

[GingerDust]

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Welcome, Sujo. You've had a ton a great suggestions already. I found both high-dose topa and high-dose baclofen to be no-gos due to severe side effects. It is a bad idea to come off either drug suddenly. You need to gradually decrease dose to come off it. Topa definitely suppressed my appetite. Baclofen made me put on weight but I didn't notice an increase in appetite. The weight gain may have been due to sedation. I haven't tried Nal. I'm starting to lose a bit of weight now on low dose baclofen and antabuse. Baclofen (at low dose) helps with daily anxiety and sleep, and AB keeps me alcohol free with no side effects. At my current dose of baclofen (40 mg a day), I can skip a day without any repercussions.

I hope you find what works for you.

[sujo]

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I've ordered some bac off tinterweb. We see. That's all we can do.

[RedThread12]

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Yea for you, Sujo!!! Bac worked for me. May it deliver you from alcohol hell, as well.

One other thing you can do, that helped me beyond words, is to read waaayyyy back in the baclofen threads to glean all the information and experience that they hold. What's that saying, oh yeah . . . "knowledge is power." That was certainly the case for me when I undertook my bac journey. I felt (and it has proven true) that knowing as much as I possibly could about all of the possibilities that might arise would be helpful. And dang . . . I was right.

Keep posting, keep us informed. You'll find lots of support, experience and wisdom to help you along.

[Heavy Fuel]

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sujo;1282483 wrote: My head is spinning...tempted to try bac but scared of the s/e. Nal also sounds as if it might be good. What about coming off these meds though.
Shallow I know but what about weigh gain?

There is no withdrawal or negative side effect from discontinuing naltrexone. The goal of TSM is to NOT drink every day, and nal is only taken on the days when one drinks. Actually, everything feels GREAT the days you don't take it. On my few AF days, I get pleasure tingles for no reason. I actually have lost weight on nal.

[spacebebe01]

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Antabuse has no se's that I know of and can be stopped anytime, also like Ginger I take low dose bac for anxiety and if I skip a dose its ok. This is a good question tho and very important to think off if you where to go on high dose bac you should always make sure you have enough supply to last you and enough should you ever need to titrate down, the bac guys will be able to tell you more about this

[GingerDust]

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Sujo, you sounded really down yesterday on your other threads. Are you doing any better today? I hope so. I just wanted you to know that I'm thinking about you.

[sujo]

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working on it....

A little. The panic about the future overwhelms me at times. Work - can I ever manage again, do I want to?
My marriage - can it work out, do I want it to?
Over the yrs anything I've been unhappy about I've suppressed.... & drank.
I've isolated myself almost completely, then there has been affairs. Because of alcohol.
I'm in the end of my last affair now. Can't quite end all contact. It's sms/email as he is working in another country now. He left as I didn't leave my husband. Yep another day inside my head.
But day 2! I'm going to activity schedule.... Ah the joy of cbt.

[aspman]

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hiya sujo, GREAT work on day two!
I found the first 3 days the hardest.
MWO was campral, I had great sucsess and minimal SE's. I have a real life mate who had some moderate side effects on campral, we are both counting our yrs sober now

have you read the https://www.mywayout.org/community/f1...box-27556.html
heaps of great tips and info here.

welcome to MWO!
aspy.

[GingerDust]

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Hiya Aspy. I saw your post on another thread about Campral and was wondering if you would post about it here. Thanks for doing so.

And super CONGRATULATIONS on 2+ years being AF! That's just incredible. :wd:

[fennel]

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Sujo, not everybody has terrible side effects from Baclofen. I did experience headache initially, but toughed it out. After two weeks, it resolved. I chose to titrate up slowly, rather than quickly, which has also helped. Hang in there, and congrats on your sober days! :h

[sujo]

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another day.

Day 2! At 6pm a friend asked if I wanted to go out for dinner as she had a voucher. I had no time to worry so just got up & went.
She is a very very modest drinker... Usually has tap water so today I did too. Our bill came to....*fanfare* for the two of us...?10.50!
We felt we'd robbed them, well she did I didn't!
Just remembered, I feel its cheating, but took 2mg of diazepam around 5pm ish, as I was a tad jittery. It helped a lot if I hadn't had it I suspect I'd have said no, maybe another time. In bed exhausted. Night all.

[spacebebe01]

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Well done on day 2 and going for the meal with tap water! I hope you got a good nights sleep and dont worry about the diazepam I dont think its cheating at all. How can you cheat, the aim is not to drink and thats what your doing

[fennel]

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spacebebe01;1283931 wrote: Well done on day 2 and going for the meal with tap water! I hope you got a good nights sleep and dont worry about the diazepam I dont think its cheating at all. How can you cheat, the aim is not to drink and thats what your doing

I agree. You're not drinking, and that's the main thing.