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    #1

    How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

    I just started my second month on Baclofen and I am up to 200mgs per day. I have had great success in ridding myself of other meds :happy: - no more ambien or xanax!

    I am on my 4th day AF, which has been pretty easy. I only had one day when a cold beer sounded real good after a moto ride in the hot sun. My question is, "How does one no that you hit the elusive switch?". I feel like I am getting close and don't want to continue titrating up if I don't need to.

    Thanks in advance for your response.
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    #2
    How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

    It doesn't sound like a good idea anymore. It doesn't taste good. It doesn't feel good. It doesn't weigh on one's mind. It's effortless not to drink. And takes effort to drink.

    I don't know. It took a while to settle in that I was actually free from all that. I waited 6 days before I was sure enough to announce it here.

    Doesn't mean it doesn't cross the mind though. A friend (bleep) called it "drinking thoughts" vs. "thoughts about drinking". I still don't know what the hell that means! :H Except it's just that it takes a loooong time to realize that having a thought about drinking (or booze) isn't a trigger for actually drinking.

    When on a hot day after a moto ride you would rather have a lemonade. And when you care as much about whatever you used to love to drink as you do about...a jelly donut. (ugh. Maybe that's a bad example?)

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      #3
      How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

      For me it was like a lightning bolt, or as if a magic fairy waived her wand and after that I was cured. Or just... a normal person.

      I could literally stare at a bottle of wine and a little feeling of repulsion a gag reflex even) would creep up sometimes. Sometimes I could drink a little bit, sometimes not. Other times I would try and find my beer at a party 4 hours later with a single sip taken out of it. Sometimes if I really tried and had other people encourage me I could drink enough to get drunk.

      It didn't matter though, I'd never think about it the next day.

      I was going to say: "Trust me, you'll know." But I'd have to contrast that with Neva's experience above.

      I knew instantly.
      :nutso: I take pride in my humility :nutso:
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        #4
        How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

        Lo0p;1458855 wrote: For me it was like a lightning bolt, or as if a magic fairy waived her wand and after that I was cured. Or just... a normal person.

        I could literally stare at a bottle of wine and a little feeling of repulsion a gag reflex even) would creep up sometimes. Sometimes I could drink a little bit, sometimes not. Other times I would try and find my beer at a party 4 hours later with a single sip taken out of it. Sometimes if I really tried and had other people encourage me I could drink enough to get drunk.

        It didn't matter though, I'd never think about it the next day.

        I was going to say: "Trust me, you'll know." But I'd have to contrast that with Neva's experience above.

        I knew instantly.
        I think that's a lot like what I experienced! I just wasn't sure...I didn't believe it could be possible and I couldn't believe that it was absolutely and totally effortless.

        My husband said that he felt like Cinderella. :H The fairy godmother came and waved her wand and he got a whole new life.

        It's magic. Except it's not, of course. It's medicine. That makes magic happen.

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          #5
          How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

          Lo0p/Ne,

          Thank you so much for your responses. I guess that I am going to continue to titrate up, albeit at a slower pace, since I am sensing that I am getting very close.

          Have a great weekend.

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            #6
            How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

            I knew it. There really is a baclofen fairy. We need an illustration, by someone talented...like an over sized oaf from somewhere in the UK where it's not only appropriate but a sign of manhood to copulate with sheep. Someone like that with a penchant for MS Paint and stick figures.
            :nutso: I take pride in my humility :nutso:
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              #7
              How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

              Although not currently on high-dose baclofen treatment, if I were, I would be happy if I still thought of drinking sometimes but was not obsessed with it or compelled to do it. After all, our minds are still likely to think of things now and then, even things we don't want to do anymore. If I reached such a state of mind on baclofen, that would be good enough for me to call it a "switch", as the addictive compulsion that normally follows the thoughts would no longer be there.

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                #8
                How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

                I would like to quote Steven Tyler to describe the switch"

                "Its amazing. With the blink of an eye, you finally see the light.
                It's amazing. When the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright"

                It's from the Aerosmith song "Amazing"
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LKD-XQjEHs[/video]]


                Funny detail is that at the end of the song some music from the 1945 song "Who threw the Whisky in the Well" is played.
                Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

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                  #9
                  How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

                  Lo0p;1459441 wrote: I knew it. There really is a baclofen fairy. We need an illustration, by someone talented...like an over sized oaf from somewhere in the UK where it's not only appropriate but a sign of manhood to copulate with sheep. Someone like that with a penchant for MS Paint and stick figures.
                  Well, if I wasn't presently staying in a dwelling without a scanner I would oblige. However, my "baclofen fairy" would probably be deleted by the mods.
                  "My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." Jack Kerouac

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                    #10
                    How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

                    I felt it happening and it was like a light switch had turned off. One day I could drink four beers (as had been my habit for some time), the next day I could only drink two before nausea set in. And the next day I was hung over as hell from those two beers, and I couldn't even imagine drinking. It was miraculous!

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                      #11
                      How do you know that you hit the Switch on Bac?

                      _serenity_;1536261 wrote: I felt it happening and it was like a light switch had turned off. One day I could drink four beers (as had been my habit for some time), the next day I could only drink two before nausea set in. And the next day I was hung over as hell from those two beers, and I couldn't even imagine drinking. It was miraculous!
                      Wow, that sounds great... I sure hope when I hit my switch it feels like this!

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