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    #1

    Your maintenance dose?

    So I know this will be all over the place but wanted some feedback.

    I've been at around 200 give or take 20 mg's for a long time. I am titrating down now. I think I am ready. Also, I just would like to take less pills. It's kind of obscene.

    I will be down to 170 by next week. Doing about 10mg's about every 4 days.

    Judge all you want, I did hit a switch but did not stick with it. My goal was to have control back and lose the desire. So, I do have wine with dinner. No, not a bottle. 1-2 glasses. I am fine with that. That was the goal more or less for me. I have my reasons.

    Anyways, I am wondering percentage wise anyways how much folks dropped from their high point to where they are today?

    Thx.
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    #2
    Your maintenance dose?

    Hi Cos

    Hi Cos -thanks for the post.

    I am at 220 +/- . I am going back down to 180. I truly believe that is where my high side dosage is for now. I'm just glad to have a choice now -as you say. Furthermore, I have dropped as much as 20mg in a day and have noticed any withdrawal effects including need to return to alcohol. Not going to press the switch at this time though.

    Good luck to you. Sounds like you are doing really great.

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      #3
      Your maintenance dose?

      Thanks Spirit.

      220 was about my real switch. Maybe 230? I really lost any taste for even wine. I also had quite a bit of SE's at that dose even when I stayed with it which was part of the reason I dropped down.

      20mg I could drop but I would not drop it contiguously as that would be a problem. 10mg is a safe zone for me. Hate those SE's!

      And ya know I think I am doing great. I can't remember my last hangover, no pun intended. Every now and then I stop and think wow how awesome is it not to have those in my life anymore?!

      Sounds like you are doing well so glad to hear it!

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        #4
        Your maintenance dose?

        My switch is at 90 and my maintenance dose is (was) 50.
        That would be 55%
        I went down 10 mg every month, till I came to 40 and mild cravings returned. Corrected to 50 and no cravings.

        A maintenance dose of 50% of your switch dose seems very common, but some people need more or can do less. The only way to find out is trying.
        Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

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          #5
          Your maintenance dose?

          Thanks Xadrian.
          I think I would be pretty happy if I could get down to 100mg / day. That's a lot less pills.

          Really hoping for those CR/ER versions of baclofen to come out in the near future. Hopefully my insurance would cover them. Perhaps not.

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            #6
            Your maintenance dose?

            Hey COS,

            Mine seems to move around a bit. Currently I'm on 200, and it's just not enough, so I am heading back up to see where it's at. I switched at just under 400, and then was able to come back down to 240 without anything bad happening on the drinking front the last time.

            It is a boatload of tablets, there's no doubt. Seriously consider the liquid, it is in my mind vastly superior. And whatever the number happens to be, that's just what it happens to be, to my way of thinking. Not much you can do about, unless total abstinence is in your future.

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              #7
              Your maintenance dose?

              Good point bleep. I was thinking more the liquid once I am lower.

              I don't seem to be getting the SE's like I used to. I do have vivid dreams but honestly I am on a pretty hardcore pain killer right now due to my back. I can't rule out that it's running out of my system at night and causing.

              I guess though it makes more sense to blame the baclofen since that was always an SE. One I can deal with though.

              I like your point of view though, whatever the # is, so be it. God bless you and the 400 mg!

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                #8
                Your maintenance dose?

                My switch was at 80 mgs. I went down to 40 and started having anxiety. So I went to 50 for a few weeks and now I'm at 60 mgs and feel good. No SEs that I'm aware of. I do still have thoughts about alcohol here and there. For me I think the thoughts are habit and I treat them that way.

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                  #9
                  Your maintenance dose?

                  Thanks, and lucky you! I can only pray my dose will be that low. Sounds like you are doing great.

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                    #10
                    Your maintenance dose?

                    COSGringo;1525832 wrote: Thanks Xadrian.
                    I think I would be pretty happy if I could get down to 100mg / day. That's a lot less pills.

                    Really hoping for those CR/ER versions of baclofen to come out in the near future.                     Hopefully my insurance would cover them. Perhaps not.
                    This would be a dream come true for me. I read a study, in the US of a clinical trial to make baclofen a "real" treatment program. Unfortunately, the study doesn't end until 2020 (still open for particpants). The doseages i read in the literature were small compared to this forum, but it seems the idea is catching on. Xanax was out forever before an XR version came out, so there is still hope.

                    My maintenance dose after 2 years of being on baclofen is between 100-150. I find it alternates and isn't consistent, then again i use it for more than alcohol. I want to get high if i feel anxiety and boredom, or shitfaced drunk. Be careful drinking while on baclofen, that's a good way to get into trouble if you're in public (easily can cause psych problems and waaaay lowered inhibitions, your normal levels of anxiety keeps you out of trouble). Best to do that at home anyway. At 300+ i would refuse any drug or alcohol vehemently. At 100-150 it's easy to avoid it but a 6pack or a couple glasses does cross my mind, among with other things.

                    I'm not a very good example to take from, as I use drugs to escape my problems and not just alcohol. At 300+ i spoke to a psychiatrist in the ER because of my traumatic wreck 120mph and bodily damage, he offered me all kinds of goodies and i flat out called him a drug doctor and told him i didn't want his drugs. He got offended and said they're medications, not drugs. You'd have to understand my mentality, otherwise i would have went along with him and got all the dope i could and been thinking about getting out of the ER so i could sit back to a 30pack. My tolerance was so high on alcohol before i started bac that i could drink 15 beers back to back before i passed out. On occasion, i would finish an entire 30 pack, sipping all day. It's a wonderful drug, every other drug induces polysubstance abuse in me and makes me want to get higher. Baclofen makes me content at 150, at 250-300 i absolutely refuse any other substance.

                    With some self control, i can get by on 80-100 pretty easy (managing my anxiety and making me feel like i don't need anything). But at night ( my trigger) it gets harder. I'm used to getting fucked completely up just to go to bed.
                    I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

                    Life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy

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                      #11
                      Your maintenance dose?

                      COS--320mg in 2011. After jumping around a lot in the first year, went to ~200mg. Then to 140-160mg. 80mg for the last 6 months.

                      Sorry it's not going so well. Hang in there.

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                        #12
                        Your maintenance dose?

                        Thanks Ne.
                        I am fine overall. I am guessing I will end up around 140 myself.

                        We all have bumps in the road. Could be worse, I could be a raging alchy like in days past. Phew...

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