Hi Lone,
To the best of my knowledge, no TSM trials have been done on anything but 50mg of Nal. I was the opposite to you, 50mg made me too sick and spaced so I experimented with 25 mg and I've been taking 25 mg for over two months and it's perfect for me. I have often wondered if physical size/weight, gender and duration and severity of drinking would make a difference to how much Nal we need...
I think for Naltrexone to be bad for your liver you need to be taking 300 mg/day. Here is the FDA information about it :
http://www.drugs.com/pro/naltrexone.htmQuote:
Hepatotoxicity
Naltrexone has the capacity to cause hepatocellular injury when given in excessive doses.
Naltrexone is contraindicated in acute hepatitis or liver failure, and its use in patients with active liver disease must be carefully considered in light of its hepatotoxic effects.
The margin of separation between the apparently safe dose of Naltrexone and the dose causing hepatic injury appears to be only five-fold or less. Naltrexone does not appear to be a hepatotoxin at the recommended doses.
Patients should be warned of the risk of hepatic injury and advised to stop the use of Naltrexone and seek medical attention if they experience symptoms of acute hepatitis.
Evidence of the hepatotoxic potential of Naltrexone is derived primarily from a placebo controlled study in which Naltrexone hydrochloride was administered to obese subjects at a dose approximately five-fold that recommended for the blockade of opiate receptors (300 mg per day). In that study, 5 of 26 Naltrexone recipients developed elevations of serum transaminases (i.e., peak ALT values ranging from a low of 121 to a high of 532; or 3 to 19 times their baseline values) after three to eight weeks of treatment. Although the patients involved were generally clinically asymptomatic and the transaminase levels of all patients on whom follow-up was obtained returned to (or toward) baseline values in a matter of weeks, the lack of any transaminase elevations of similar magnitude in any of the 24 placebo patients in the same study is persuasive evidence that Naltrexone is a direct (i.e., not idiosyncratic) hepatotoxin.
A possibility might be to try 75mg later when you feel that your drinking is under control.
In the mean time you could ask to have blood taken to see if you liver is ok, without going into details about TSM or Nal.
Curi