Help with a dosing plan

[thomas m]

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[Xadrian]

Help with a dosing plan

Thomas,

Here's a prescribing guide as used by French doctors. It includes a dosing plan:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59463672/Prescribing-Guide-for-Baclofen-in-the-Treatment-of-Alcoholism-Don.pdf

[thomas m]

Help with a dosing plan

Thanks Xadrian.

I had a very long post wrote out last night under the influence of a right few beers and when I read over it, it just seemed like a bunch of garbage. Hopefully I'll explain myself better at a later date.

[Colin]

Help with a dosing plan

You did well thomas. How about someone making a short film of you when you are legless? I bet that would help your motivation when replayed at a sober moment.

[thomas m]

Help with a dosing plan

True Colin


What I was really trying to get at was that I had a 3 dose plan set out. I have 25mg tablets. After accustoming my system with small doses of Baclofen I was planning on 12.5/12.5/12/5 for 3/4 days and adding 12.5 every 3-4 days. I really don't want to rush things and would like to take it as steady as possible. I really can't be walking about like I'm zoned out.

Is it best to stick to certain dose for 3 or 4 days to let the drug take effect? I know there's lots of different opinions but any help would be appreciated. I'm in it for the long haul so I'm in no rush although the sooner it might work the better.

Also, is it general practice to split your dose into 4 if and when the time comes that you might have to reach towards 200mg?

Again, thanks for the replies.

[Xadrian]

Help with a dosing plan

For me personally, the peak effect of any increase or decrease in dose would express itself in 3 to 4 days. Others have the same experience.

So you could say that the effect of any increase or decrease has a delay of 3 to 4 days.
If you go up faster (some people do and some of them got away with it), it's possible that as soon the effect shows, you're already beyond the dose that created the effect.

It's better to go up slowly. You didn't become an an alcoholic overnight. Although I understand that you are eager to be cured, don't expect it to be overnight also.
Like others here said, it's a slow process, even after you hit the switch.

Baclofen will repair your hardware, but you yourself have to deal with the corrupted software.

There's a lot to repair after we fucked up our lives for so long. Materially, physically, mentally, emotionally, relational, at home, at work.

Just remember, it's a slow process, but it will get better. But only slowly. You still will have your ups and downs, but overall it gets better.

I have taken baclofen for over 15 months now (after in retrospect a not so smart total tapering off of baclofen) and I'm finally at the moment that life really begins to feel good.
I'm also better in handling the negative things in life. After many years, live feels alright. Not great, but just alright. And that's more than I had hoped for.

A few weeks after starting baclofen, I already noticed I could better relate to problems and make a distinction between small problems that always looked so big, big problems that I could to something about and problems I could not do anything about at short notice. That really helped.

[thomas m]

Help with a dosing plan

Thanks Xadrian.

I'm in no rush. If it takes months so be it. I actually might give each dose a full 4 days to take effect even though the timeline might be that bit greater. I tried Bac before and it was a total disaster. I thought I was some kind of super hero taking hero doses and ended up like a little boy not being able to leave my room with border line psychosis I'll not make the same mistake twice.

Again... Thanks for taking the time out to reply.

[skullbabyland]

Help with a dosing plan

Thomas,

Sounds like your last go-round with bac was really tough- I think you're right to go quite slow this time around. For what it's worth, I actually go up doubly-slower than most- I sit at each dosage for a whole 8 days before adding another 10mg.

I've found that the SE's are pretty well minimized when I give my body this much time to adjust to each dosage increase, and I haven't had any problems with depression/anxiety at all. Though, that could also be because I am at a relatively low dose (100mg/day at the moment).

See my thread for more details if you're interested. Whatever you decide, best of luck!!
Skullbaby