I am posting this here, in addition to the Baclofen for Alcoholism site. Thank you so much to those who post frequently and start/maintain such excellent threads on both sites. In particular, thank you to Ne/NevaEva for the Sweet Success thread and to Ignonimious for the Half Life of Bac thread. They are helping me so very much at the moment?.I have been on 160mg of bac/day since 8/21/13?
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I spent part of the sleepless night reading the Consolidated Baclofen Studies Research & Information links on this (B for A) site. Only part of the night because the vertigo was so bad that reading was a problem. Still is this evening, also typing. So, I followed the link to the MWO ?Sweet Success? thread & read all of it, & it is so very heartening! But I do notice that some folks backed off the bac for a while due to SEs. I then googled half life of baclofen and got another MWO site with lots of info I wish I?d looked up two days ago?.. cuz it looks like it?s going to take a couple more days to get enough of the bac out of my system for me to function. I am, as of today, reducing my dosage down to 140mg/day. Looking at my personal journal, I was last comfortable on a dose of 130mg/day, but increasing vertigo, insomnia, neuropathy of my hands, & stuffy headache at 140mg/day. I thought the headache was my allergies, and the neuropathy a return of my carpal tunnel syndrome. So glad I had the time to read more!
So hoping that a reduction to 140mg/d will suffice to make the SEs tolerable and move on again, slower. The past 2 days and intervening insomniac night have been scary, I live alone, I try to keep my phone on me all of the time just in case, but I am so airheaded right now? It?s not over yet, but hopefully will improve soon. I believe I should post this, just in case anything untoward happens, as the people on this forum are the only ones who know that I am taking baclofen, much less that I have the disease of alcoholism. I am also going to post it on MWO, in the meds thread. I apologize if any of this sounds short and terse; I am just not doing well at the moment.
Grateful for this site, and MWO, and Dr. OA, and baclofen,
Be Well,
Jenn
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I spent part of the sleepless night reading the Consolidated Baclofen Studies Research & Information links on this (B for A) site. Only part of the night because the vertigo was so bad that reading was a problem. Still is this evening, also typing. So, I followed the link to the MWO ?Sweet Success? thread & read all of it, & it is so very heartening! But I do notice that some folks backed off the bac for a while due to SEs. I then googled half life of baclofen and got another MWO site with lots of info I wish I?d looked up two days ago?.. cuz it looks like it?s going to take a couple more days to get enough of the bac out of my system for me to function. I am, as of today, reducing my dosage down to 140mg/day. Looking at my personal journal, I was last comfortable on a dose of 130mg/day, but increasing vertigo, insomnia, neuropathy of my hands, & stuffy headache at 140mg/day. I thought the headache was my allergies, and the neuropathy a return of my carpal tunnel syndrome. So glad I had the time to read more!
So hoping that a reduction to 140mg/d will suffice to make the SEs tolerable and move on again, slower. The past 2 days and intervening insomniac night have been scary, I live alone, I try to keep my phone on me all of the time just in case, but I am so airheaded right now? It?s not over yet, but hopefully will improve soon. I believe I should post this, just in case anything untoward happens, as the people on this forum are the only ones who know that I am taking baclofen, much less that I have the disease of alcoholism. I am also going to post it on MWO, in the meds thread. I apologize if any of this sounds short and terse; I am just not doing well at the moment.
Grateful for this site, and MWO, and Dr. OA, and baclofen,
Be Well,
Jenn
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