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[vc1234]

This is my first time here, and I need some feedback on the different meds. Last week I drank half a liter of vodka and then cut myself while making dinner. It was so bad I cut two tendons and had emergency surgery. Now I've had enough of this BS. Campral didn't work at all, Naltrexone worked rather well some years ago. Is Baclofen more helpful than Nal? I'm also on Lamictal and Wellbutrin.
I would appreciate any thoughts on this.

[BecomingMeAtLast]

wanting to get it right this time

Welcome vc,

Thanks for posting. While I'm not a medical professional in any way, I'd like to offer you some support. You sound as though you've been struggling with alcohol and depression for a while, long enough to have been on meds for this. Is this correct? Have doctors prescribed these meds for you? You sound determined and mad, which is good.

Let us know more about you, if you'd like, and I'm sure we will do the best we can to help. How's your cut healing? That must have been awful.

Take care,
Becoming

[vc1234]

wanting to get it right this time

Dear Becoming,

Yes, you are right, I have been struggling with depression and bi- polar disorder for years. My psychiatrist has me on klonapin to sleep and she says to take that instead of drinking, but now I am merely hooked on that, too.
Then, she gave me neurontin to take in the late afternoons, thinking that it would lessen the cravings. It doesn't, and now that I am on sick leave for 12 weeks, I want to quit drinking------I read that Baclofen has been, for some people, the most effective of all. My psych. is very sceptical, and I am going to try to convince her again to let me have it. I am willing to take Antabuse, but fear that it doesn't really solve anything in an inner way.
I am 53 years old and have been a high-functioning for about 35 years.
Thanks so much for your reply,
vc

[vc1234]

wanting to get it right this time

Forgot to reply to your questions: yes, my psych. prescribed all of these meds. The Lamictal is brilliant, the wellbutrin just about right, especially as it also enabled me to quit smoking 2 years ago after 2 packs a day since 1969!!
And I am healing well, thank you. It was indeed scary. I bled so much the bathroom looked like a scene from Psycho! I called 911 and they were here in 3 minutes. I have excellent medical care and benefits---one of the very lucky ones.
vc

[A Work in Progress]

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vc, welcome, and you might want to re-post your questions in the section about medications; it might get a lot more attention from folks who have a lot of experience with these meds. Right now there is a lot of interest in naltrexone here on the boards... but other meds, too...

best wishes,

[BecomingMeAtLast]

wanting to get it right this time

Hi vc,

I agree with Work in Progress. There is great interest there about Naltrexone, in a way you may not have used it before. Also, have you told your dr how much you drink? I'm almost 48 so you're in good company here, us olies, huh? LOL. I'm glad you're ok with your arm and benefits that's a good thing. I also recommend reading the My Way Out book, or other books on addiction. Have you abstained for any length of time? I'm finding that as I get older, the alcohol just makes me more depressed. It certainly won't do the job it did 35 years ago, if you know what I mean.

Take care,
Be