Started Lioresal (baclofen) eight months ago for pain and I am trying to work out whether what I am feeling now is tolerance or something else.
Withdrawal symptoms are not the same as side effects, and conflating them wasted a year of my life.
I have tried three of the alternatives and side effects was the problem with two of them.
Curious how others here structure the day around it.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time. Side effects was my main issue with baclofen too.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.
Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the start. It changes the appointment.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write. How long have you been on baclofen?
Function over score.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.