My Naltrexone Journey

[brightlite]

My Naltrexone Journey

Hi Mamazum,

It takes some time....and I'm not a success yet, but keep going and hopefully you will experience success.

[Chocolate Mousse]

My Naltrexone Journey

Yeah

Hi MamaZum just wanted to say :welcome: and the best of luck. I am now on my third week of starting Nal and for the first time in my life I feel hope as I do not want to go to AA. I have nothing but the highest respect for those that go and put in the work but I don't know but this is a route that i am trying to avoid, I wonder why May be it is because with AA it is the fear of just having one drink and all is lost and I don';t want to go through life with this fear. if Nal works for me I will not have to have this fear, well here's hoping :l

[brightlite]

My Naltrexone Journey

Hi CM...

I hope it works too. Keep us posted.

[brightlite]

My Naltrexone Journey

Here's a shout out to Crown....where are ya?? Check in when you can.

[crown86]

My Naltrexone Journey

snowed in and sober..limited internet access...man I am sick of snow

Chocalate Mousse - I know the feeling about AA and the 1 drink fear...I am SO GLAD I went the TSM route for myself...I no longer fear the beast called booze

[TakeHeart]

My Naltrexone Journey

Snowed in and Sober

Crown 86, I grew up where you live now. For the most part Dover, but every since I can remember we've owned and rented homes in Rehobeth, Fenwick Island, Dewey and of course, Cape Henlopen (one summer even was a lifeguard there, as well as being a Lyman Beach girl on the other beaches). And...am also a Realtor...AND....almost finished a 100+(okay, maybe not quite that many drafts) draft of a screenplay with a German Shepard..LOL...can your dog act? LOL!

Although my family is all back in the mid- Atlantic, I live in Los Angeles. There are so many things I want to ask you.Number one would be why you chose Nal over Bac? Getting ready to start one program. I read things about one plrogram and think, "yes"! That sounds like it will be best for me. Get on another thread and I 100% change my mind.

Not my happy self now, apology.

BUT! I'm thrilled for you

[crown86]

My Naltrexone Journey

Takeheart

When I decided on Nal and TSM it was actually the first pharmocalogical method I came across...I tried it and it worked for me big time...as far as Baclofen I have zero experience with it. I know when I found TSM I was desperate to quit get control whatever it took...I ordered the book the Cure to Alcoholism and ordered the Naltrexone the same day from River Pharamacy...I figured what the hell I had nothing to lose...side effects smide effects for me I reasoned with all the booze I was dumping in my body the side effects couldn't be any worse than alcohol. I am so glad I didn't run the naltrexone through my insurance as I am hearing of quite a few people having insurance issues and even one with driving liscence issue and he had no DWI's no arrests etc. - out of the blue because he had taken naltrexone.

I know TSM works for a lot of people and I hear baclofen does also...if TSM didn't wok for me baclofen would have been next.

German Shepherds are awsome..LOL..we have a lot in common eh..including booze..LOL

Good luck in your fight

[brightlite]

My Naltrexone Journey

Hey all TSMer's.....AF last night and although I'm snowed in again...I'm feeling good! I have to dig my car out today to get to the airport tomorrow. Hope I can make it to Florida...The snow is getting a little annoying!! A weekend in the sun with my family will do me good. Hope I can keep my wine drinking to two glasses per night.

Crown...as you know I am self-employed and getting insurance is not easy. I learned my lesson long ago...only go to the DR for annual stuff. Don't get any prescrips other than for an infection. Like a kid in school....everything goes on your permanent record....when you try to change insurance companies due to rate increases....they will look at everything and either charge you out the wazooo or deny you. It really sucks. Thank god, I found this site and the River Pharmacy. I would have never ordered drugs online, if I hadn't been forced to.

Are you back in your Beach Town or snowed in....in DC?

[crown86]

My Naltrexone Journey

brightlite

Yep stuck in DC ...Can stow away with you guys on the plane to FLA...LOL I am sick of the snow and cold.

Nice to be snowed in an sober eh? No worrying about getting out to the liquour store because you ran out and wondering if the store is even open..

[MamaZum]

My Naltrexone Journey

WOW!!!!

Hi all. Hope everybody is ok. Sorry for only few words but I am typing on my phone. Took first 25 mg dose today. 3 beers in 5 hrs!!!!! Can't wait for tomorrow. Xo MZ

[crown86]

My Naltrexone Journey

Week 12 ending Feb 13

Verdict - Cured or in complete control whatever you want to call it and on the road to abstinence

I am ready to add myself to the cured list. I spent the last week snowed in at friends house out of town. In the past this would have meant while eveyone was shopping for bread and milk I would have been stocking up on half gallons of whiskey at the liquor store and beer. Lets see for a solid week of being snowed in That would have been 4 half gallons and 3 30 packs and a fifth or two or some cordial for shots. This storm I bought a six pack for the week...LOL me buy a six pack? My friends are drinkers and they partied..me I had like 1-2 beers per day to be social. I had no intention of getting drunk. I enjoyed the company completely sober and never felt I was missing something by not partying.

My guess is I will be abstinent in a month...beer is last to go. I can't an no longer drink whiskey as I get sick eveytime I try it. I tried a glass of wine last week an was sick during the first glass - thank god based on all that I have read here about wine and TSM...it was never my thing anyways..whiskey or any hard liquour was my thing. 98% of the time beer is unapealing and the 2% of the time it actually tastes good anymore I never drink more than 4 over about a 3 hour period.

When I first found TSM I couldn't even imagine abstinence. Now it is coming with ease and I feel zero pressure to quit...it's like it's a natural thing to do. I am hand and knees greatful this treatment exists and worked as well as it has for me. I remember back in november reading the posts here and thinking I am glad it's working for some but it probably won't for me with my luck... I remember reading AJ's weekly progress and how fast things happened for him and thought man that would be like winning the lottery..the odds..me..lol will never happen...damn if it didn't. It worked from day one and just kept destroying my tolerance and obsession with alcohol. It was the honeymoon that never stopped. My drinking never returned to my normal levels...it dropped by 2/3 thirds and went lower from there until it to the point I can no longer drink hard liquour on the rocks without vomiting.

Right before I started TSM I had friends and family suggesting rehab detox the works, which of course I refused. These people are all in shock over how little drink when I drink now...I am still in shock to an extent. I stopped therapy and anti-depressants around the time I started TSM figuring once I got a handle on booze I would resume both, but in the interim figured with my drinking I was wasting my time with both. I feel I don't need therapy nor anti depressants at all at this point. I am not oppossed to either but with booze no longer destroying my life and killing me my life fell right back into place. Same BS and stress of life is still there but oh so managable now and actually challenging and fun again. The biggest thing for me with booze gone I am relatively happy and content and have peice of mind back. I still have a hard time beleiving a paper back around 20 bucks and some pills online for 200 something bucks "fixed" me. I would like to say thank-you to all of you who have participated in this forum as it as been invaluable to me.

[MamaZum]

My Naltrexone Journey

Fantastic news Crown,

Congratulations!!!!!!

[GettingBetter]

My Naltrexone Journey

crown86;806298 wrote: Verdict - Cured or in complete control whatever you want to call it and on the road to abstinence

That's great news, not just for you but for all of us following the Sinclair Method. It's nice to hear that it works first hand.

[brightlite]

My Naltrexone Journey

So envious! Don't ever let your guard down though.....AL's a tricky B**tard.

[crown86]

My Naltrexone Journey

brightlite

You WILL get there one way or the other I bet....you sound very determined to overcome it.

Don't let the guard down - thats what I love about TSM my guard is I keep two in my glove box of my car two in my wallet if the urge hits to drink, I take my naltrexone wait an hour then drink. The bizzare urges and cravings have truly stopped, meaning I have zero desire to get banged up drunk anymore. The thought of it makes me sick.

The other thing is the more days between naltrexone and not getting drunk...naltrexone has an even more powerful effect on me when I do take it. Beer is the last to go but never go past 4 in 3 hours. If this was as good as it got with TSM I would be satisfied. I prefer abstinence based on the hell alcohol caused me BUT one of the biggest things I have gotten out of TSM I NO LONGER live in fear of alcohol. A lot of times now I take the pill and then don't even drink...I know the pill doesnt help with craving at all read way to much research about it...the urges just goes away in the hour wait.

I really beleive what has happened to me, like the book "The cure to Alcoholism" states , my brain has been re-wired to a pre-alcoholic drinking state after 3 months of drinking on naltrexone. I seriously feel just like when I started in my mid 20's..I am now 42.

Brightlite - I know you are going to beat this monster...good luck