Hi,
I started on Bac about 3 weeks ago and have had generally a good result. It lifted my mood quite a bit, made me require less sleep, made me a bit more motivated and able to enjoy the moment. In some ways it makes me more relaxed but also at the same time a bit tense. I think its made muscle tension a bit worse because I often now wake up with an aching neck. Generally I would associate these effects with an increase in my heart rate and blood pressure and I felt that these may have been elevated although I never checked them for the first 2 and a half weeks. Then I started using my blood pressure meter and it kept saying 'error' or gave some pretty high readings like 155/120. So then I tried my parent's machine and it gave 183/120 after I was just sat at a desk working on a computer and I felt fairly relaxed albeit 'tense' as I described. My pulse was about 80. I tried it later in case it was a one-off and it came back 178/120. So I visited the doctor and was pretty nervous - 'white coat syndrome' or something, and he measure my BP at 195/100. But he wasn't overly concerned about it because he said that my pulse was so fast he would expect that kind of reading and he suspected I had some kind of anxiety disorder. He said that he though that psychically I was fine and may just have a slightly high background BP and an anxiety problem. I didn't tell him I was taking Baclofen, I was going to but he seemed like a bit of an arrogant prat so I didn't bother.
So anyway, I've been taking my BP several times since. That evening it was 150/98 with a pulse of 103 after I was just lying in bed feeling quite relaxed. The next day I didn't take my BP but for about 2 hours my pulse was reading up to 150 after doing nothing except sitting at a desk. Since then the last 2 days its completely calmed down, I'm getting BP readings in the 130/88 range consistently. I have only backed off the BAC dose by 10mg from 100mg/day to 90mg/day. I'm not sure what to do now, can anyone think of an explanation? So far I have contemplated the following:
This was happening about 1 week after my last binge, a time when I would generally have been feeling major cravings but wasn't, but maybe high BP and pulse was the physiological signs of alcohol withdrawal.
I had just started on a new strip of Bac tablets (from the same supplier AllDayChemist), could they have been duds? Maybe I had gone from 100mg/day to 0 because of a dud strip? Come to think of it I was generally getting a bit of a rush after taking the tablets normally but that seemed to be absent those days. I have also noticed AllDayChemist doesn't seem to be selling the 25mg tablets anymore - maybe they had problems with quality.
I got a bit of a head injury about a week before that - maybe some reaction to that. The doctor looked at it and didn't think it was that.
Something else? Seems a pity to stop Bac as it now seems to have subsided. I was also taking Milk Thistle and Natokinase but doubt these could have caused it.
I started on Bac about 3 weeks ago and have had generally a good result. It lifted my mood quite a bit, made me require less sleep, made me a bit more motivated and able to enjoy the moment. In some ways it makes me more relaxed but also at the same time a bit tense. I think its made muscle tension a bit worse because I often now wake up with an aching neck. Generally I would associate these effects with an increase in my heart rate and blood pressure and I felt that these may have been elevated although I never checked them for the first 2 and a half weeks. Then I started using my blood pressure meter and it kept saying 'error' or gave some pretty high readings like 155/120. So then I tried my parent's machine and it gave 183/120 after I was just sat at a desk working on a computer and I felt fairly relaxed albeit 'tense' as I described. My pulse was about 80. I tried it later in case it was a one-off and it came back 178/120. So I visited the doctor and was pretty nervous - 'white coat syndrome' or something, and he measure my BP at 195/100. But he wasn't overly concerned about it because he said that my pulse was so fast he would expect that kind of reading and he suspected I had some kind of anxiety disorder. He said that he though that psychically I was fine and may just have a slightly high background BP and an anxiety problem. I didn't tell him I was taking Baclofen, I was going to but he seemed like a bit of an arrogant prat so I didn't bother.
So anyway, I've been taking my BP several times since. That evening it was 150/98 with a pulse of 103 after I was just lying in bed feeling quite relaxed. The next day I didn't take my BP but for about 2 hours my pulse was reading up to 150 after doing nothing except sitting at a desk. Since then the last 2 days its completely calmed down, I'm getting BP readings in the 130/88 range consistently. I have only backed off the BAC dose by 10mg from 100mg/day to 90mg/day. I'm not sure what to do now, can anyone think of an explanation? So far I have contemplated the following:
This was happening about 1 week after my last binge, a time when I would generally have been feeling major cravings but wasn't, but maybe high BP and pulse was the physiological signs of alcohol withdrawal.
I had just started on a new strip of Bac tablets (from the same supplier AllDayChemist), could they have been duds? Maybe I had gone from 100mg/day to 0 because of a dud strip? Come to think of it I was generally getting a bit of a rush after taking the tablets normally but that seemed to be absent those days. I have also noticed AllDayChemist doesn't seem to be selling the 25mg tablets anymore - maybe they had problems with quality.
I got a bit of a head injury about a week before that - maybe some reaction to that. The doctor looked at it and didn't think it was that.
Something else? Seems a pity to stop Bac as it now seems to have subsided. I was also taking Milk Thistle and Natokinase but doubt these could have caused it.
I hope they get more soon.
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