For those of us who could use more help.

I have a terrible time sleeping if I have not drank enough in the evening, I think it is like depending on a sleeping pill?
Anyway I bought some Melatonin Ultra with 3 mg Melatonin, Theanine & Gaba. I will take that once in a while but also take 100 mg of Gabapentin most days for my Hot Flashes and if needed another 200 mg at night for Night Sweats.
Just having a hot flash now, arghhh!

Cheeto: Yikes! Is that AL related or regular female stuff? Do you feel the gabapentin working?

Hey Mason: How are you doing with DHM? Lots of people interested lately.

Laughed at Steven asking about the hot flashes - mine are way worse when I drink - Cheeto - if I drink I do NOT sleep - plus I have not slept well since starting Nal - like last night - fell asleep around 10, woke at 1.30, stared at the ceiling until 3.00 then the alarm went off at 5.00 ! And I had not had a drink for a few days ! Tonight I have had a drink - in fact I am on my 4th but will not have any more - so MIGHT sleep better - if I had more, then I would not sleep .... I can take Melatonin and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I bought some Calms Forte two days ago and have been trying those - as you can tell from last night they do not work too well!

I took the Thrive (900mg DHM) with my Nal this afternoon - and felt quite calm - it was weird - not sure if that is the norm for it or not. I did PM Mason but have not heard from her ....I will be interested to hear how she is doing with it. I have to admit that the urge to drink is not the same .... but time will tell.

Hugs to all - and I feel for you with the hot flush Cheeto !!!

Hugs, Maggie x

Well, I honestly have to say that I do notice a difference with the Thrive - I took my Nal and a Thrive at 11.20 and started clockwatching (I tend to be an afternoon drinker - stopping around 4.00 or so) - when the hour was up I did not want a drink - but was very sleepy. Yesterday I got sleepy too - anyway it is now over two hours since I took both tabs and am going to pour a drink - not sure that I really want one but old habits are VERY hard to break!!!! This is definitely interesting !!

Hugs, Maggie x

Have just been to read the ingredients - nothing to make me sleepy BUT the serving size is three tabs so I am only actually getting 300mg of DHM - same as if I had bought the DHM on its own ..... curious. I am wondering how much of this is psychological possibly ?

So Maggie did you take 1 or the recommended 3 capsules of Thrive?

I just took one Cheeto - I did not realise the serving size was 3. I had my first drink at 1.30 and it is now 5.30 and I have had three - really do not want another but am thinking about having one - LOL Had some not very good news today - SO much going on in my life as usual - I just want life to go back to being calm, quiet and boring !!!

Hugs, Maggie x

So, my THRIVE plus and a big bottle of GABA came yesterday (Friday) afternoon. It was about five so I went ahead and took my nal, three Thrive plus and one GABA. I then had a glass of wine and two cosmos (my husband makes them and they are pretty strong, so probably about 1.5 US units each) over the course of the evening. That is not a HUGE amount of drinking, but it is at what I certainly want to be my upper limit.

I have to say, I like the effect of the THRIVE. I felt way less inebriated, and this morning I woke up early with NO SIGNS AT ALL of having had any AL the night before. Also I probably would normally have wanted another cosmo after dinner while we settled down to watch a movie, but yesterday I didn't. Quite amazing.

But I guess my fear is this: if the THRIVE continues to work this well, won't it just give me a license to drink?

Newlife

You're supposed to get bored with it due to lack of effect. You have to kill the Hand to Mouth and social habits yourself. The pills can't slap the glass out of your hand. Any side effects from all that stuff? DHM sounds handy for "those times".