I've been on a steady 180mg dose of bac for around 6 months now after titrating up using Dr. L's schedule. The immediate relief after white-knuckle sobriety was amazing. All of a sudden my obsessive alcohol thoughts disappeared. Then 3 sober months into that 6 month period I decided to have a microbrew with some friends. It slowly re-awoke the beast and though I'm still drinking much less (used to be 3/4 of a fifth of whiskey, now it's around 1/3) alcohol is once again something I look forward to and use as an escape and reward. Obviously not indifference.
Now I know there aren't doctors here and I'm not asking for or expecting medical advice. But if anyone's ever done a plateau that led to 'less' addiction or known anyone else that has? Should I just start going up from 180mg by 20mg in weekly increments and hope to get closer to indifference? Should I titrate down to zero and then start over?
The only other thing is this week for some reason a crippling anxiety came back. I think it was having trouble running out of bac, on top of some work issues, and then the just devastating news in the U.S. I'm also on Lexapro so haven't had this happen in a while so I'm wondering if it's the increased drinking on top of bac. I have taken a couple .25mg alprazolam pills here and there so I'm also worried about getting addicted to those.
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