High dose baclofen taper
Hi yall. I got prescribed baclofen about a year and a half ago for “alcoholism”. I put that in quotes bc I wasn’t really a full blown alcoholic or anything and I didn’t actually need this prescription but was basically forced into taking it. It’s a long story. Regardless after starting it I realized how amazing it was and helped with my anxiety and adhd surprisingly. I would tell everyone how wonderful it is. I kept chasing that feeling, with doctors approval increasing as needed. Fast forward to today and now I’m taking about 160mg a day, all at once, and it is causing me a multitude of issues and I have to get off of it asap.
Obviously the doctor did not tell me to take my doses all at once and yes I am very stupid for starting doing that at some point. I have recently tried splitting the doses up again and I can’t without issues.
Has anyone else had to taper from this high of a dose a day and how did you do it without it affecting your day to day life? The main problem I run into is I am a restaurant server and baclofen helped me a ton being more sociable with my tables. But when I drop down even 10mg I become way too emotionally flat, feel very weird, and more antisocial and get bad brain fog and stuff and my job performance noticeably decreases. I feel like I am trapped because I need off of this drug so bad. it’s negatively affecting my blood pressure, my sex life, mental health etc. But I’m worried that the process of getting off of it will affect my life even worse. I tried talking to my doctor about it and her solution was she was just goin to give me 15mg pills instead of 20. Which would be way too big of a taper.
TL:DR: I need off of this nightmare drug and I don’t know what to do without making my life worse.