My first sobriety date was April 6th 1993. I had been drinking heavily and smoking a lot of meth. I came out of my first rehab ecstatic at the prospect of a new life. I went to meetings most days, attended sober bowling leagues, dances, parties and just really stayed hooked in. when you brother died of AIDS about a year later, 8 days after his partner's (and out best family friend passed away), I was ready to get loaded.
But I called my sponsor abnd he said to o to the next meeting available. It was a leather-clad bikers meeting. those guys took care of me and I put 4.5 years of sobriety under my belt.
then I decided I hadn't had enough consequences to qualify like my fellow 12-steppers and picked up a drink. since then I have put together a few one and two year intervals. Lakely, it's been every 6 month cycles. 7 rehabs. over 15 working the steps. Probably 13 or 14 sponsors. Each time my hope diminished.
then Amazon put "One Little Pill" on my suggestions list. Thanks so much to Claudia!!! I ordered Naltima (India Naltraxone). But tomorrow I go see the ONLY ONE TSM Dr. in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex I could find.
Here has been my journey so far
Week Units
1 129
2 111
3 97
4 99
5 94
6 75
7 54
8 59
9 66
10 62
11 62

I look forward to the journey with you all.

Harmonicaman
North Texas, USA

Best of luck! Sounds like you're doing well with it already!

Hi Harmonicaman
how are you going with it?
yeah i spent years in and out of AA. Basically because I didn't know what else to do. As sooon as I discovered tsm it made sense to me straight away.
I hope you're still having success with it it looks like you have been. Make sure you keep informed and ask any questions. I first started tsm with 50mg and had little success. then i went off it and now im back on taking 75mg. and in 3 months i've seen way more progress. ive just about halved my booze intake.
it sounds like you have been a very heavy drinker so it's something to keep in mind if you don't see much improvement. if you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism, which im guessing i do, then you may need a stronger opioid inhibitor.

anyways best of luck

charles
week 1 to 13
40,40,38,40,26,40,40,25,34,26,19,23,20