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    Nalorex and initial side effects.

    A Doctor at the alcohol counseling center I have been going to for several months has finally prescribed me Nalorex.

    I have started on the half a 50mg tablet a day for the first couple of days. Even this low dosage has left me feeling very spaced out and light headed. It feels like I am not quite in touch with reality. I am finding this very unsettling. I am already normally quite a socially phobic and anxious person and this sensation is adding to these effects. I almost feel paranoid.

    Will these disorientating side effects from Nalorex fade away or reduce over time? I know its very early days but any reassurance from someone who has taken Nalorex will help ease my mind. I don't think I can deal with feeling this way in an effort to reduce my alcohol consumption.
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    Nalorex and initial side effects.

    shopkeeper;1545766 wrote: A Doctor at the alcohol counseling center I have been going to for several months has finally prescribed me Nalorex.

    I have started on the half a 50mg tablet a day for the first couple of days. Even this low dosage has left me feeling very spaced out and light headed. It feels like I am not quite in touch with reality. I am finding this very unsettling. I am already normally quite a socially phobic and anxious person and this sensation is adding to these effects. I almost feel paranoid.

    Will these disorientating side effects from Nalorex fade away or reduce over time? I know its very early days but any reassurance from someone who has taken Nalorex will help ease my mind. I don't think I can deal with feeling this way in an effort to reduce my alcohol consumption.
    Hi and welcome

    I'm a bit of a veteran with Nalorex (trade name for Naltrexone). Some people do feel slightly spaced out at first with it, but find this goes away over a week or so. Naltrexone is generally comparatively light on side effects however some people don't react well to it at all.

    You could try cutting down to half a tablet (25mg) for a few days then going back to 50mg as you get used to it.

    For the people it works for Naltrexone is very good. Are you tracking your units and have you found the Sinclair method site?I'm assuming you have been prescribed it with drinking and not abstenance?
    I used the Sinclair Method to beat my alcoholic drinking.

    Drank within safe limits for almost 2 years

    AF date 22/07/13

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      Nalorex and initial side effects.

      Yesterday was my first dose. Doctor did start me off on half a tablet. The spaciness and detached feeling kind of lessened as the night wore on. Still don't feel myself and I had the most horrendous sequence of nightmares last night. At the chance of sounding overly dramatic, it felt like a constant bombardment of my worst fears. Oh well, I have always seemed to have been particularly sensitive to the side effects of drugs, especially as I have gotten older. Booze has been the only drug I can tolerate to any reasonable extent. Hence maybe why my dependence on it.

      I am taking Nalorex whilst trying to moderate my drinking. With the help of counseling I have managed to reduce my intake from about 40 units drinking all day to just under 20, now drinking from late afternoon onwards. No more early morning drinking or when I wake up in the middle of the night. Of course 20 units a day is still a lot but I just haven't been able to reduce it further. Hence the late referral to the doctor.

      Thanks for the heads up on the Sinclair Method. I will certainly look into it. Also thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it and it helped reassure me.

      Btw what do the abbreviations TSM and AF in your footer mean? I have seen them used a lot whilst reading posts in the forums.

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        Nalorex and initial side effects.

        Shop- welcome! I'll write more soon but wanted to let u know that AF is Alcohol Free and TSM is The Sinclair Method.

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          Nalorex and initial side effects.

          skullbabyland;1545972 wrote: Shop- welcome! I'll write more soon but wanted to let u know that AF is Alcohol Free and TSM is The Sinclair Method.
          Yes, and I'm 29 days AF without any issues.

          Two things worry people with TSM;

          It's an excuse to drink (my worry and those of observers)
          It might put me off drinking and I just want to enjoy alcohol

          If you are considering TSM you have to have an issue with alcohol, if being put off alcohol is so concerning than that then that's a bit of screwed thinking or perhaps the addiction putting you off the whole thing.
          The excuse to drink thing, well if you are going to drink anyway why not use something that might just lessen it and most alcoholic actually don't want to drink, they are compelled into doing it.

          If you have already used other methods to reduce your intake I think you could do very well with TSM. Those who are motivated to try exerting control do tend to take off and if I remember rightly the initial study found those using TSM with supplementary therapy saw a good level of success. So well done so far and I hope the side effects (SEs) calm down for you.

          Something else that's just occured to me, normal drinkers do feel tired when they drink alcohol - nal + alcohol has the side effect of tiredness and I just like to think it's bringing us back to a normal response. Just my thoughts. Strange dreams can also be a result of lowering alcohol intake, plus if you are having counselling this might also trigger a few unpleasant memories or simply allow you to play through unfinished business whilst asleep.
          I used the Sinclair Method to beat my alcoholic drinking.

          Drank within safe limits for almost 2 years

          AF date 22/07/13

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            Nalorex and initial side effects.

            Ukblonde;1546071 wrote: Strange dreams can also be a result of lowering alcohol intake, plus if you are having counselling this might also trigger a few unpleasant memories or simply allow you to play through unfinished business whilst asleep.
            The side-effects have reduced significantly. Still aware of a sense that i don't feel as in touch with reality as when I wasn't taking the Nalorex.

            The dreams are just as bizarre. Last night I got caught up in a driveby shooting. Lucky for me I was simply able to lay low and not get hit despite the barrage of bullets. At least I have moved on from trying to beat the crap out of my old man!

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              Nalorex and initial side effects.

              After many years being too drunk to dream our brains are trying to catch up? My dreams are vivid until five minutes after waking and then they are gone completely.

              I never feel threatened during the dreams - more like a very distant observer with no personal interest in whatever the dream portrays.

              Like watching a natural history program from a fourth dimension.

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                Nalorex and initial side effects.

                I was wondering how long Nalorex has to be taken before it begins to help with the cravings? Will the cravings reduce significantly after a certain time or gradually? Was just wondering what to expect and others experience.

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