Psyber wrote:fisho mcspaz wrote:Baclofen.

Goodbye neck spasms; goodbye low GABA levels; goodbye anxiety. (I hope.)
A useful medication, but be careful with it though:
Abrupt Drug Withdrawal: Hallucinations and seizures have occurred on abrupt withdrawal of baclofen. Therefore, except for serious adverse reactions, the dose should be reduced slowly when the drug is discontinued.
Overdosage: Signs and symptoms: Vomiting, muscular hypotonia, drowsiness, accommodation disorders, coma, respiratory depression, and seizures.
Oh dear. I will have to make sure I don't forget to take it. I don't think I'm in any danger of overdosing though, I'm only taking 30mg a day. That bloke who supposedly cured his alcoholism with baclofen took about 240mg a day.
I wasn't exactly prescribed it either - it's an old script from when I had back spasms when I was playing footy, back in '09. I mentioned to the doctor yesterday that I had some baclofen at home and could I use it as a muscle relaxant when breastfeeding? She said to ring the Women's and Children's and if they said yes then I could use it, but she didn't give me directions. I looked it up online and realised it acts on the GABA receptors and so I decided to give it a go to see what it did to my anxiety. So far, so good.
