Christyacc's Bac diary

[christyacc]

This is basically my 3rd try on Bac. I originally bought online, and it worked AMAZING!!! However, I ran out....I ordered more, but it must have been from a different online pharm, because the effects were different. Since then, I have gone to my family doctor who is very excited about this. I have titrated up rather quickly but the side effects haven't been overwhelming. I know these meds are working as I have heard myself snoring !!!!! I sleep like a baby!!!

I am up to about almost 100mgs daily. I try to take more in the evening as this is when I drink most--except for weekends.

I have been drunk a couple times since being on the Bac. It seems to affect me differently. I drank Friday evening, only 4 beers, and I drank last night, 6. Though when I thought about drinking, it didn't matter to me. I think I drank because it was there. This week I am aiming for AF and I will see where the weekend takes me.

My goal is a total indifference to AL. I will try to keep a goal to post.

Thank for listening!

[Jenn]

Thanks Christyacc for posting this info... I am thinking of trying to titrate up a little faster than the schedule recommended. I started on 1/23 so this is day 15 and I am at 50 mg total/day... no real side effects, tho' serious insomnia the last 2 nights (but that is a lifelong issue) How fast did you go up to 100 mg??
My goal too is simply to be indifferent, so I can have a glass of wine when out with friends, not an entire bottle! Time will tell...
Be Well,
Jenn

[christyacc]

Hi Jenn!

I am the same, I would like to be able to have a couple drinks and be able to stop! If I have to not drink at all then so be it.

Honestly, I have titrated VERY quickly. I was taking relative uneffective Bac that I ordered online. However, my dr gave me a script Jan 26th and I think I started Feb 1st. So pretty much in a week, I have jumped up to almost 100mgs.

20mgs in the AM (approx 8am)
20mgs approx 2pm
30mgs approx 6pm
30mgs at bedtime

I am a big girl though...I expect to have to go higher.

Female, 38 almost 39
200lbs

[beatle]

A lot of other people have mentioned in other threads here that taking bac at bedtime increases anxiety/insomnia at night. For me, it had done the opposite (nice sleeping!) until I got up to 80mg/day (I am a little girl, so this is a fairly high dose for me). Then my life-long insomnia reappeared. When I heeded the advice to not take baclofen for at least a couple of hours before bedtime, the insomnia faded, and I am sleeping well again.

[christyacc]

I wonder if it is totally necessary to take a bedtime dose......I mean if you are sleeping, you aren't drinking. Thus we can use more in the times of need, like for me, dinner to bedtime, and pretty much all damn weekend!

[beatle]

Originally Posted by christyacc

I wonder if it is totally necessary to take a bedtime dose......I mean if you are sleeping, you aren't drinking. Thus we can use more in the times of need, like for me, dinner to bedtime, and pretty much all damn weekend!

I think this is the conclusion most of us have come to. I used to take it whenever I woke up at night. But in retrospect, that seems unnecessary.

[WaitingToExhale]

OK - what did you order from where - that was "different" ?

[christyacc]

Originally Posted by WaitingToExhale

OK - what did you order from where - that was "different" ?

Well love....I think you normally order from River and it wasn't there. I honestly can't remember which place because I ordered originally from one place and they worked awesome, but then I ordered from another place after I stupidly ran out, and it wasn't as effective.

I can send you all I have since I now have a script, if you want. My tolerance seems to be higher.

Have you started?

[eight days a week]

Hey christy, I think I may recognise your name from another forum?

Anyway, sorry I haven't yet chimed in here, I am so looking forward to reading your progress

I'm a fellow-traveller (sorry American English spellchecker, we use doubled-up consonants in the UK for words like that!) and am only up to 65mg~ per day (along with Nal) so can't wait to hear how you're doing. Please do keep us all posted

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[christyacc]

Thank god for bac....I am too tired to drink!!!!! Day 3.......going on Day 4