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    Found Baclofen and it helped

    I started taking baclofen about 6 weeks ago starting at 30mg a day for the first week and then went to 50 mg a day for a week I ended up at 80 mg before I hit my switch last week. I am know at 60 mg a day as of two days ago. I know from the blogs I have read my dosage was pretty low when I hit my switch. I can honestly say today after leaving an AA meeting I was thinking about vodka and wine (my drinks of choice) and they both sounded horrible to me. I even went and bought a half pint of vodka and had half of it and it did nothing for me and I dumped the rest of it out. That would have never happend before! Even without the cravings I still bought the vodka out of plain curiosity and to my suprise I could not finish it nor did I want to. I guess I want to know If I should stay at this dosage and for how long? I dont want to start cravings again if I go back down. Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
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    Found Baclofen and it helped

    Your maintenance dose, all being well, is the dose where you have no problems with side-effects and no problems with cravings. If you get to that stage stay with the baclofen for the rest of your life, if necessary. In any case stay at that level for a long time. A psychiatrist told me that it can take as much as a year for all the effects of alcohol to disappear from your system. If you have the beast under control don't mess with success.

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      Found Baclofen and it helped

      Are you looking for abstinence or controlled drinking? There are plenty of people here who seem to be able to drink moderately with baclofen. Here is a paper copied in Ameisen's book :- SUPPRESSION OF SYMPTOMS OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE AND CRAVING USING HIGH-DOSE BACLOFEN which suggests that moderation is a viable option.

      I'd give a lot to know how Bucknam's patient is doing now.

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        Found Baclofen and it helped

        Great news! My understanding is you should not go down especially if the switch does is not causing you problems. Stay there for awhile and and after time you make the choice to go down.

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          Found Baclofen and it helped

          I plan on staying at my current dose for a few weeks and then trying to get to 30mg a day. ! Hard to believe that a drink does not sound good to me anymore! So glad I found baclofen...Its exactley what I needed to take the craving away and thats what always led me to drink again. Thank goodness for science I also do AA and believe in the program and the steps but I dont think I could have followed through without baclofen taking away the craving.

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            Found Baclofen and it helped

            michelle602;1419207 wrote: ! Hard to believe that a drink does not sound good to me anymore! So glad I found baclofen...Its exactley what I needed to take the craving away and thats what always led me to drink again. Thank goodness for science I also do AA and believe in the program and the steps but I dont think I could have followed through without baclofen taking away the craving.
            :goodjob:

            You might consider staying at switch dose for a while if you're SE's aren't bad.

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