Re: [TMIC] Bladder

[john snodgrass]

I wish baclofen made me sleepyi am taking 100 mg a day. maybe i should take more. pluse i am taking 2400 mg of neurontin and 3 hydrocodone 5's and 2 ativan .5's   lose the bladder control every now and then but nt often enough to mention. i reckon i was blessed in that TM didnt rob me of those functions.   still depressed and dont want t talk about it.   maybe in 3 more years.   --- On Sat, 2/12/11, Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net> wrote: From: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net> Subject: [TMIC] Bladder To: "TMIC-LIST" <tmic-l...@eskimo.net> Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 2:42 PM Hi!!      Seems like things have been really quiet with our group.          Hope it isn’t because of health, just busy people.     Just wanted to tell those of you still having problems with the bladder that, after 4 years, I am definitely improving.     I am having some “dry” nights – not always, but definitely more than before.    Actually some are dry and some are drier.      There is always hope.    Those of you who are worried about the “2-year” improvement time, the improvement still happens after the 2 years.                     Actually, I wonder if some of the problem is the baclofen that many of us take to ward off the leg spasms.     We need the baclofen to be able to sleep, but it puts us into a deep enough sleep that we can’t feel the urge to pee.  And, the urge to pee now feels different than the urge did before I got TM.       I, for one, am not going to stop taking baclofen.    Couldn’t sleep without it and the frustration of the spasms is not worth a “dry” pad.    Oh well, just wanted to let you “newbies” know that improvement keeps coming – we just have to be patient.   Janice