I suffered from social anxiety for many years. I found diazepam controlled it but i only took it a weekends to try and not become dependent.
I eventually did become dependent and took it every day. The dose needs to be upped however to keep it working.
This runs out of control so I was just taking 10mg a day and was anxious as ever.
I drank to control anxiety and became an alcoholic. I researched and found the drug baclofen to treat alcoholism.
It really worked, i've been taking it years now and I can still have a social drink with friends but never have the urge to drink.
When I first took the baclofen I noticed it calmed social anxiety also.
The best thing about Baclofen though is that tolerance doesn't build to it.
And even better it somehow acts to prevent diazepam tolerance building.
I moved to 20mg diazepam and settled on a dose of 140mg baclofen daily (split between morning and nightime dose) after hitting the high threashold that you need to stop alcoholism (abouve 300mg daily).
So for the last two years I have been on that same dose of 20mg diazepam daily and 140mg baclofen daily and my social anxiety is completely cured.
And I rarely drink except to socialise with friends, and I used to be a full blown alcoholic.
This combination should be made available to anyone with bad enough social anxiety to need medication.
Thanks.
I eventually did become dependent and took it every day. The dose needs to be upped however to keep it working.
This runs out of control so I was just taking 10mg a day and was anxious as ever.
I drank to control anxiety and became an alcoholic. I researched and found the drug baclofen to treat alcoholism.
It really worked, i've been taking it years now and I can still have a social drink with friends but never have the urge to drink.
When I first took the baclofen I noticed it calmed social anxiety also.
The best thing about Baclofen though is that tolerance doesn't build to it.
And even better it somehow acts to prevent diazepam tolerance building.
I moved to 20mg diazepam and settled on a dose of 140mg baclofen daily (split between morning and nightime dose) after hitting the high threashold that you need to stop alcoholism (abouve 300mg daily).
So for the last two years I have been on that same dose of 20mg diazepam daily and 140mg baclofen daily and my social anxiety is completely cured.
And I rarely drink except to socialise with friends, and I used to be a full blown alcoholic.
This combination should be made available to anyone with bad enough social anxiety to need medication.
Thanks.
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