Medical bad news = ED good news

Since this isn't a medicual forum, I shall spare you the details of my miserable suffering. But there is the good news. My medical doc prescribed 10 mg of baclofen to be taken 4x/day. I had heard that baclofen has been useful for stopping the cravings for alcohol, but never once expected that it would have the same effect on my [strong] desire to b/p.

Nothing else in my miserable life has changed. It's not like I'm trying to abstain. I still go to the store to buy the binge food. But when I get there, I just can't see myself eating the food, so I leave.

FYI - Here's what I pulled from PubMed:

"Both preclinical and clinical research studies have shown the GABA(B) receptor agonist baclofen represents a promising treatment for alcohol dependence. Preliminary clinical studies indicate that baclofen is able to suppress withdrawal symptoms in alcohol-dependent patients affected by the alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Moreover, baclofen has shown efficacy and safety in promoting alcohol abstinence in alcohol dependent patients in two placebo-controlled trials including one in alcohol-dependent patients with liver cirrhosis. These trials also demonstrated that baclofen was associated with reductions in withdrawal-related anxiety and alcohol craving."

Wow- seems like its working for you! I seem to have the reverse problem; shopping for food is my biggest issue; I go from shop to shop buying random things, things that seem low priced enough or on offer. I have no desire to eat those things (but I do) I have often gotten to the end of the shopping trip/s and wish that someone would snatch all my bags or offer to buy everything back from me. I've no idea how it works, but just know that for me the biggest issue/dependency/problem I have is the shopping. It would be great if they developed a pill for that or even if there was more of an understanding of consumerism or food "bargain" shopping. I wont say I've ever not gone shopping for B/P and wanted everything I'd bought, but maybe that happens about 5-10% of my shopping trips. I wish I had the guts to deal with how I felt when I didn't B/P or the inevitable weight gain (despite reducing my b/p replaced meals to a bowl of soup and added a few steamed mushrooms) but am not there yet...

I'm on Prozac atm, trying it because I feel like I've been set upon by all the professionals around me so am aiming to get them off my back by trying it (it seems like they're asking me to gamble what improvements I have made because they seem pretty pointless in the face of things). So far; not helping!

That's awesome that they found a med that affects b/p for you.

I found that my reaction to prozac was the one that stopped my appetite & that was the start of my first experience with serious anorexia. It was a serious trigger

Know where your coming from! I have AN and BN and whilst my diagnosis with AN stands, it's something which I manage and am OK with and I try to keep my weight within a health-ish range and eat enough to do that. The thoughts and feelings wont go away, I just manage them.

However, with no appetite- when I eat and I don't feel hungry, it really throws me! Yesterday I just felt I'd had enough and it resulted in an episode of bulimia. Why? Because I was so fed up with feeling full and I just wanted to feel empty.

I worry that the feeling of having eaten when I am far from hungry is wrong and worry about weight gain....it feels like I'm not getting anything from the Prozac. I had thought the lack of appetite would be the only plus point- I struggle when my appetite feels too much and it can push me into a bulimic episode because my body is saying "don't eat" but my brain is telling me I should eat something by now.

I get that it would be easy enough to follow the feeling, not eat, drop some weight, but I'm trying to keep myself safe. I don't want a full relapse of anorexia- it's something I work carefully to manage. It wont ever go away because I lean on it too often but I don't want to end up back in a hospital bed because of it. However, I really really do not want to put on any more weight and my body sending out strong feelings to not eat? I just feel so confused!

I'm hoping I manage to get a better grip on this because right now I feel really messed up with this pill!

Vyvance was my miracle drug. It's for ADD but was approved for BED. I was from BP'ing up to 6 times a day, down to 3 a month. I totally wiped out my cravings. I even ordered a pizza, took 2 bites and had to stop. It is a stimulant tho so it makes you a bit jittery and uppity at first. On the bad side, I can feel my Ana tendencies sometimes coming out.

Dx: BP2, PTSD, bulimia/anorexia
Seroquel 300mgs
Lamictal titrating at 75mgs
Buspar 45mgs
Ativan 1mg PRN
Vyvance 50mg PRN

Interesting! Did you ask for Vyvance or did doc prescribe it for you? And if doc, did he/she know about Ana tendencies?

My Pdoc wouldn't, but that's ok b/c I'm a lot like BlueGreen in that I keep myself on the edge towards BN so as not to tip into AN, so though I toy with wanting a stimulant, I'm actually too afraid to try it.

IT doesn't help that I'd probably love it, and so I'm even less likely to want to try it for fear I'd soon be hanging on street corners trying to sell myself for a hit. Of course, I'd have to make change for all those that stopped by

Totally get this . It is such a tightrope. Too hungry is bad. Not hungry enough is bad. Eating too much is bad. Not eating enough is bad. AARGH. Why can't it just be simple?! Just once, if I'm not hungry, I'd like to wait until I was instead of wanting to either stop eating for like the next 8 months or eating despite not being hungry and then wanting to b/p for like the next 8 months.

My pdoc brought it up to me. He doesn't know about my Ana issues too. I try and eat good inbetween doses so I do t get bad

Dx: BP2, PTSD, bulimia/anorexia
Seroquel 300mgs
Lamictal titrating at 75mgs
Buspar 45mgs
Ativan 1mg PRN
Vyvance 50mg PRN