Baclofen and the man on mars
I'm adding 6 mg every 3 days, roughly, but I am starting to feel like the individual doses are what's important when it comes to SE's, rather than the total daily dose. Meaning that if I can tolerate 38 mg in the morning, I should be taking the same dose in the afternoon and evening, too. My pattern has been to first add 6 mg to my morning dose, then add 6 mg to my evening dose, and finally add it to my afternoon dose until I am taking the same amount each time.
+6 mg every 3 days is +14 mg every week, meaning that if I'm at 100 mg tomorrow, I'm still 14 weeks away from 300 mg at that rate. Which is late August, when the summer is almost over. I want to reach indifference before the summer really gets underway. I don't want to waste yet another summer spending my free time getting drunk instead of being outside. We get an amazing but brief summer where I live, and then we slip into dreary weather for the other 9 months of the year (and 16 hours of darkness per day at the winter solstice) during which I long for the summer continuously. I don't want to blow it on alcohol again and have to wait another year to truly get to enjoy a summer!
Thinking about trying out a more aggressive titration. I could add 6 every day instead of every third day, following the same pattern I've been following. Or I could add 6x3 every third or fourth day. I have 25 mg pills, so breaking them roughly into quarters is why I'm doing 6 mg increments. If I add a quarter of a pill times three, twice a week, that's 38 mg/week. Very aggressive, probably unmanageable, but at that rate I hit 300 mg by the end of June. I'd need to start breaking it into 4, 5, and eventually 6 doses. 6x50, taken at about a 2.5-interval, as the goal, and higher if need be.
I'm adding 6 mg every 3 days, roughly, but I am starting to feel like the individual doses are what's important when it comes to SE's, rather than the total daily dose. Meaning that if I can tolerate 38 mg in the morning, I should be taking the same dose in the afternoon and evening, too. My pattern has been to first add 6 mg to my morning dose, then add 6 mg to my evening dose, and finally add it to my afternoon dose until I am taking the same amount each time.
+6 mg every 3 days is +14 mg every week, meaning that if I'm at 100 mg tomorrow, I'm still 14 weeks away from 300 mg at that rate. Which is late August, when the summer is almost over. I want to reach indifference before the summer really gets underway. I don't want to waste yet another summer spending my free time getting drunk instead of being outside. We get an amazing but brief summer where I live, and then we slip into dreary weather for the other 9 months of the year (and 16 hours of darkness per day at the winter solstice) during which I long for the summer continuously. I don't want to blow it on alcohol again and have to wait another year to truly get to enjoy a summer!
Thinking about trying out a more aggressive titration. I could add 6 every day instead of every third day, following the same pattern I've been following. Or I could add 6x3 every third or fourth day. I have 25 mg pills, so breaking them roughly into quarters is why I'm doing 6 mg increments. If I add a quarter of a pill times three, twice a week, that's 38 mg/week. Very aggressive, probably unmanageable, but at that rate I hit 300 mg by the end of June. I'd need to start breaking it into 4, 5, and eventually 6 doses. 6x50, taken at about a 2.5-interval, as the goal, and higher if need be.
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