Hi,
I started on Baclofen on Friday 31st May 2013 after receiving 20 * 10 25 mg tablets from Alldaychemist.com (Liofen 25). The reason I went for 25mg tablets instead of 10mg is that I travel around a lot and don't want to carry so many tablets.
I found the tablets pretty hard to divide. I tried a razor blade to cut them in quarters but this resulted in a lot of crumbling and uneven pieces. I found the best result was just to snap the using my fingers. Splitting into anything smaller than quarters was pretty impossible. So anyway:
Day 1 - took 18.75mg divided between morning, midday and mid evening (1 quarter tablet each time). I was quite hung over that day, there was definitely a noticeable effect - I felt a bit better than I expected considering hangover, a bit calmer and slight spaced out/drugged effect but very slight. (alcohol consumed 0)
Day 2 - Same regime except I took a full 25 mg tablet divided into 4 quarters at 4 roughly equally spaced points during the day - . Felt similar effects to Day 1. Had feeling of not being able to keep eyes open before bed. Had very vivid dreams. Alcohol consumed 0.
Day 3 (Sunday) - Took 37.5mg in 4 doses (doses later in the day higher than those earlier). When I woke up that morning I felt like I needed to take another dose as had a slighly anxious feeling. Anyway this day I had a absolutely massive amount of stress because my wife has some emotional problems and she decided to have an 'episode' this day which culminated with the police being called after she ran out of the house threatening to kill herself in the evening. I handled it pretty well - I didn't get annoyed or shout despite being screamed at. In the morning (after the first part of the argument) I drove for 3 hours after taking one of the doses. Initially driving I felt a bit spaced out. I stopped at the services and smoked a cigarette which really went to my head. After about an hour it settled down and I seemed to get to a 'sweet spot' where my mind was very relaxed without being monged out. I was enjoying driving and just being alive in a way I rarely experience. If I was to compare with another drug, I would say a bit like amphetamines (I am told) are like. I think it must have been something to do with Baclofen, although it was the first really nice sunny day of the year which helped too! (Alcohol consumed - drank a half bottle of Smirnoff after the police episode. I doubt I would have gone out and bought it but it was in the house).
Day 4 - took 50mg divided into 4 doses. Woke up at 7am feeling much better than I had a right to after drinking half a bottle of vodka and having had about 5 hours sleep. A bit later I drove to the airport. These week-days are the real test for me - I travel abroad may weeks to Oslo and stay in a hotel monday until thursday. Many days after work I will so straight to the off-license and get some hard liquor. At its worst I was drinking a bottle (75cl) of vodka or a bit more each night although recently I hadn't been quite so bad. After taking each bac dose I didn't feel wonderful, not awful but a bit withdrawn and tense. Again I experienced a 'sweet spot' some time after taking a dose but not as great as on the day before. I didn't rush to the off-license after work but I did drink with colleagues about 5 pints of lager and then had 2 cans in my room. This is quite a low amount for me in these nights I stay in the hotel. I felt like the alcohol went to my head and had a bigger effect than normal that made me not drink so much.
Day 5 - Took 75mg divided into roughly equal doses but took bigger doses later in the day. In the morning I woke up with a start and felt brilliant for about 1 minute, very alert. Then I saw a shimmering figure like a small boy sat on a stool by the curtains. I thought 'wow nice hallucination' and quite enjoyed it. However soon after I started to feel panicky. I assumed that the bac had worn of and I should take some more which I did and it got a lot better. However this worried me a lot in itself that a drug could affect me this much and I could become so dependent on it so quickly. This day I was teaching a training course. Generally before teaching a training course I take some sort of benzodiazapine (very low dose), but this time I wasn't nervous at all so I didn't bother. However when I started the course I started sweating and stumbling over my words so I nipped out and took 1/2mg of Clonazepam. This took a while to kick in but after about 30 minutes I felt absolutely fine.
In the evening I drank the other 4 beers from the 6 pack I bought the night before.
Day 6 - Took 100 mg divided into equal doses. Felt extremely tired all day and not particularly brilliant - just felt quite uncomfortable in the office. After work, a fair bit to drink. 5-6 pints, a couple glasses of wine and then I emptied the mini-bar before bed (3 miniature bottles of wine together = 1 bottles of normal wine). This amount of alcohol would be fairly typical for me normally (equivalent of about 2 and a bit bottles of wine overall).
Day 7 - Took about 75 mg. I had to get up at 6am to catch a plane. Felt bloody awful in the morning. Slept on the plane a bit and felt a bit better. I started the bac doses like the day before. I wanted to stabilize at 100mg for a while when I was back at home and unlikely to drink. I never got there, in the evening after taking the last dose upto 75mg I started to feel extremely bad. Very agitated, could not sit still, had chest pains, racing and irregular heartbeat, If I did stop moving I kept falling asleep for a few seconds and the waking up with a start again and again. I took 1mg of Clonazepam and felt a lot better after about 1 hour.
Day 8 (today). Decided to carry on but I'm going down to 50mg. I have taken half of it so far. I feel a bit tired today and not finding it very easy to motivate myself but otherwise ok.
I am wondering if it could have been the drinking the night before in combination with the bac which caused my problems on Day 7. I hear people on here talking about drinking quite a lot while on Bac as if its ok, but thinking about it surely it isn't??
I have found that Bac feels almost exactly like GBL/GHB (I also tried it for suppressing the desire to drink a while ago when it was legal in this country). The feeling and side effects are really uncannily similar. Drinking while on GHB can cause death, so why is it ok when taking Bac?
I started on Baclofen on Friday 31st May 2013 after receiving 20 * 10 25 mg tablets from Alldaychemist.com (Liofen 25). The reason I went for 25mg tablets instead of 10mg is that I travel around a lot and don't want to carry so many tablets.
I found the tablets pretty hard to divide. I tried a razor blade to cut them in quarters but this resulted in a lot of crumbling and uneven pieces. I found the best result was just to snap the using my fingers. Splitting into anything smaller than quarters was pretty impossible. So anyway:
Day 1 - took 18.75mg divided between morning, midday and mid evening (1 quarter tablet each time). I was quite hung over that day, there was definitely a noticeable effect - I felt a bit better than I expected considering hangover, a bit calmer and slight spaced out/drugged effect but very slight. (alcohol consumed 0)
Day 2 - Same regime except I took a full 25 mg tablet divided into 4 quarters at 4 roughly equally spaced points during the day - . Felt similar effects to Day 1. Had feeling of not being able to keep eyes open before bed. Had very vivid dreams. Alcohol consumed 0.
Day 3 (Sunday) - Took 37.5mg in 4 doses (doses later in the day higher than those earlier). When I woke up that morning I felt like I needed to take another dose as had a slighly anxious feeling. Anyway this day I had a absolutely massive amount of stress because my wife has some emotional problems and she decided to have an 'episode' this day which culminated with the police being called after she ran out of the house threatening to kill herself in the evening. I handled it pretty well - I didn't get annoyed or shout despite being screamed at. In the morning (after the first part of the argument) I drove for 3 hours after taking one of the doses. Initially driving I felt a bit spaced out. I stopped at the services and smoked a cigarette which really went to my head. After about an hour it settled down and I seemed to get to a 'sweet spot' where my mind was very relaxed without being monged out. I was enjoying driving and just being alive in a way I rarely experience. If I was to compare with another drug, I would say a bit like amphetamines (I am told) are like. I think it must have been something to do with Baclofen, although it was the first really nice sunny day of the year which helped too! (Alcohol consumed - drank a half bottle of Smirnoff after the police episode. I doubt I would have gone out and bought it but it was in the house).
Day 4 - took 50mg divided into 4 doses. Woke up at 7am feeling much better than I had a right to after drinking half a bottle of vodka and having had about 5 hours sleep. A bit later I drove to the airport. These week-days are the real test for me - I travel abroad may weeks to Oslo and stay in a hotel monday until thursday. Many days after work I will so straight to the off-license and get some hard liquor. At its worst I was drinking a bottle (75cl) of vodka or a bit more each night although recently I hadn't been quite so bad. After taking each bac dose I didn't feel wonderful, not awful but a bit withdrawn and tense. Again I experienced a 'sweet spot' some time after taking a dose but not as great as on the day before. I didn't rush to the off-license after work but I did drink with colleagues about 5 pints of lager and then had 2 cans in my room. This is quite a low amount for me in these nights I stay in the hotel. I felt like the alcohol went to my head and had a bigger effect than normal that made me not drink so much.
Day 5 - Took 75mg divided into roughly equal doses but took bigger doses later in the day. In the morning I woke up with a start and felt brilliant for about 1 minute, very alert. Then I saw a shimmering figure like a small boy sat on a stool by the curtains. I thought 'wow nice hallucination' and quite enjoyed it. However soon after I started to feel panicky. I assumed that the bac had worn of and I should take some more which I did and it got a lot better. However this worried me a lot in itself that a drug could affect me this much and I could become so dependent on it so quickly. This day I was teaching a training course. Generally before teaching a training course I take some sort of benzodiazapine (very low dose), but this time I wasn't nervous at all so I didn't bother. However when I started the course I started sweating and stumbling over my words so I nipped out and took 1/2mg of Clonazepam. This took a while to kick in but after about 30 minutes I felt absolutely fine.
In the evening I drank the other 4 beers from the 6 pack I bought the night before.
Day 6 - Took 100 mg divided into equal doses. Felt extremely tired all day and not particularly brilliant - just felt quite uncomfortable in the office. After work, a fair bit to drink. 5-6 pints, a couple glasses of wine and then I emptied the mini-bar before bed (3 miniature bottles of wine together = 1 bottles of normal wine). This amount of alcohol would be fairly typical for me normally (equivalent of about 2 and a bit bottles of wine overall).
Day 7 - Took about 75 mg. I had to get up at 6am to catch a plane. Felt bloody awful in the morning. Slept on the plane a bit and felt a bit better. I started the bac doses like the day before. I wanted to stabilize at 100mg for a while when I was back at home and unlikely to drink. I never got there, in the evening after taking the last dose upto 75mg I started to feel extremely bad. Very agitated, could not sit still, had chest pains, racing and irregular heartbeat, If I did stop moving I kept falling asleep for a few seconds and the waking up with a start again and again. I took 1mg of Clonazepam and felt a lot better after about 1 hour.
Day 8 (today). Decided to carry on but I'm going down to 50mg. I have taken half of it so far. I feel a bit tired today and not finding it very easy to motivate myself but otherwise ok.
I am wondering if it could have been the drinking the night before in combination with the bac which caused my problems on Day 7. I hear people on here talking about drinking quite a lot while on Bac as if its ok, but thinking about it surely it isn't??
I have found that Bac feels almost exactly like GBL/GHB (I also tried it for suppressing the desire to drink a while ago when it was legal in this country). The feeling and side effects are really uncannily similar. Drinking while on GHB can cause death, so why is it ok when taking Bac?
Whatever the case, I drank alcoholically while taking baclofen for 4 months and I'm still here and whole (2 years later). I don't recommend it because the hangovers are brutal, but there you go. I suppose the pertinent information is that I stopped drinking alcoholically a little over 2 years ago, because the little pill works. It's not candy, though, and would be wise to bone up on some baclofen basics. 
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