I posted earlier that I was determined to not end up being sent to AA or counselling and that I wanted to try the meds, and that I live in the UK. So after managing to get my intake halved about 3 weeks ago and having visited my GP I've ended up on a waiting list of 4-8 weeks to see a "specialist" (or in intelligent circles - a 12 stepper who sees no other valid approach). Naturally, I've slid back into heavy drinking and ~the last 10 days I've been wasted every night (sober now though).
However I have ordered the kudzu and L-glutamine from this site, and today is the 7th day since I placed the order. I remember someone from the UK saying to expect 1-2 weeks for the stuff to arrive. So my main question is do I need to have built up a period of reduced or zero intake before starting these supplements in order for them to have a chance of working, and if yes how long? Will they go to the post office if no-one is in when they get here & I'm also worried about customs as I read something somewhere about them asking for money if the order was over ?18, but there again I don't know if it applies since these aren't pharmaceutical drugs. If customs do want money how do I give it to them?
OK enough about kudzu etc. I don't think campral will work unless I've managed some time with zero use and if I'm honest I don't think I'll do it. I don't think naltrexone is available in the UK and I don't fancy being violently ill in front of new housemates trying to cease use through disulfiram. But I hear that topamax doesn't need a reduction to zero to start having an effect. I have just been to my doctor for a prescription for something unrelated and I noticed that some of my recent medical history is incorrect. I've also noticed in general that when you move doctors here they always seem to have great difficulty in tracking one's medical history. When I went into the chemist to collect the stuff I said that my mother used to get migraines and that she found topamax useful (utter bullshit), and I'm getting awful ones at the moment, so I intend to ask my doctor for it and do you stock it here. They said yes. So it sounds like it's possible to get it at NHS prescription costs rather than the outrageous prices from abroad (not including customs charges and the possibility of being scammed).
So kudzu/L-glutamine is strategy 1, holding out a 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000001% hope that the "specialist" won't waste my time is strategy 2 (actually maybe that's a little optimistic) and strategy 3 is move doctor if the others fail and complain of migraines and ask for topamax, maybe even say I've built up from, I don't know 25mg to 150mg or something random, and that I moved doctor because I find some of the staff rude at the other surgery (any old bollocks will do). Is this likely to work? That's an I will do it with brazen confidence because it can't lose, but I want it to have the best chance of winning so I'm looking for unforeseen mines. Is it best to go with it worked for my mother, so can I have some too approach, or I'm already taking it so can I have more (maybe someone with inside knowledge of the system, GP or not, could answer this)?
Cheers for reading.
Mike.
However I have ordered the kudzu and L-glutamine from this site, and today is the 7th day since I placed the order. I remember someone from the UK saying to expect 1-2 weeks for the stuff to arrive. So my main question is do I need to have built up a period of reduced or zero intake before starting these supplements in order for them to have a chance of working, and if yes how long? Will they go to the post office if no-one is in when they get here & I'm also worried about customs as I read something somewhere about them asking for money if the order was over ?18, but there again I don't know if it applies since these aren't pharmaceutical drugs. If customs do want money how do I give it to them?
OK enough about kudzu etc. I don't think campral will work unless I've managed some time with zero use and if I'm honest I don't think I'll do it. I don't think naltrexone is available in the UK and I don't fancy being violently ill in front of new housemates trying to cease use through disulfiram. But I hear that topamax doesn't need a reduction to zero to start having an effect. I have just been to my doctor for a prescription for something unrelated and I noticed that some of my recent medical history is incorrect. I've also noticed in general that when you move doctors here they always seem to have great difficulty in tracking one's medical history. When I went into the chemist to collect the stuff I said that my mother used to get migraines and that she found topamax useful (utter bullshit), and I'm getting awful ones at the moment, so I intend to ask my doctor for it and do you stock it here. They said yes. So it sounds like it's possible to get it at NHS prescription costs rather than the outrageous prices from abroad (not including customs charges and the possibility of being scammed).
So kudzu/L-glutamine is strategy 1, holding out a 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000001% hope that the "specialist" won't waste my time is strategy 2 (actually maybe that's a little optimistic) and strategy 3 is move doctor if the others fail and complain of migraines and ask for topamax, maybe even say I've built up from, I don't know 25mg to 150mg or something random, and that I moved doctor because I find some of the staff rude at the other surgery (any old bollocks will do). Is this likely to work? That's an I will do it with brazen confidence because it can't lose, but I want it to have the best chance of winning so I'm looking for unforeseen mines. Is it best to go with it worked for my mother, so can I have some too approach, or I'm already taking it so can I have more (maybe someone with inside knowledge of the system, GP or not, could answer this)?
Cheers for reading.
Mike.
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