Hi there,

This site was recommended to me by a friend. I have been reading about Naltrexone and it sounds great. I am 44, I live in Ireland and I have been drinking too much really on and off for the past 20/22 years. My vice is wine. I quit over 2 years ago and stayed sober for over 7 months. I have been drinking/sober on and off since then. I am not too bad since before Christmas (memories of previous Christmases prevented me from drinking too much). My husband gives me sheer hell for drinking. He wants me to stop permanently and drink nothing. He said I was a different person when I was sober for 7 months. We had 3 brilliant holidays and he hates what drink does to me. The truth is I had 2 awful holidays and one nice one when I was sober. One of them was hell on earth and I can still feel the pain, anger and feeling of chronic deprivation at not drinking (it was 10 days in France with wall to wall wine everywhere and memories of 8 previous holidays here). I would normally drink 1.5 to 2 bottles of wine on Fri and Sat night and 1 on Sunday. Occasionally I would have a few vodkas too. Say 3 years ago I would drink midweek too but recently it is just weekends and I dont even have a thought of drinking midweek no matter what.

I am worried as I am not too bad at the moment but I know it will creep up again. I start dreaming of wine at 2pm on Fri and once I start I cant stop. After 2 glasses I am drunk but I still continue drinking. I generally fall asleep shortly after drinking and next day I have no memory of the night before at all. Hubby thinks the wine is at the root of the problem as I am not too bad on vodka or beer.

I am a Mum of 2 - the kids are at a very impressionable age and I dont want them to remember me as a drunk - asleep on the sofa. I suppose it makes sense to outline what I would like from the Sinclair method.

Ideally I would love not to drink and for it not to bother me - but it does - so the best I could hope for would be to be able to go out and have a few glasses of wine with dinner or have a glass or 2 at home and not panic - wondering where I can get my hands on another bottle fast.
I want to be able to take it or leave it.
I want to be able to stop when I start getting a 'buzz'
I want the blackouts to stop.
I want to stop obsessing about alcohol at weekends.

I know Naltrexone is not a magic wand to stop all these deep set problems but if it helped it would be great.
I know there are problems having it delivered to Ireland - but I am going to USA in 2 weeks - and my hotel has agreed to take in any packages for me. I was going to order through All Day Chemist to-day.

I have been reading so many encouraging stories - I really hope this will work for me.

Hi Andrea,

Glad you found us.

Google Natima, its probaly just another brand.

Mario

Andrea,
If you want to get rid of it all together, than Baclofen is the way to go. It gets rid of all the urges and constant thoughts of having that a drink. I used to obsess about drinking from the time I got up in the am until I got it in me and didnt care what I had to do to get it. My kids too are at an immpressionable age. After 4 short days on bac, I have given up al completely and have no desire or cravings for it anymore.

Wow, four days on Bac and you are cured of cravings? I know very little about this drug.

I will say that for many of us, naltrexone and TSM completely eliminates obsessive thoughts of alcohol and you can take it or leave it. But it takes several months to work. However, almost immediately after starting I no longer suffered blackouts or acted foolishly when drinking on naltrexone so the multiple month journey was not nearly as bad as the six months of drinking pre-TSM. No where near it, in fact, night and day difference -- for me and most others here.

Welcome Andrea, Well I can sympathise with everything you say, Wine is my demon also. I would just love for there to be no more blackouts, obssessing about alcohol and like you be a social drinker with no bad results from my drinking, I think the only difference between us is I have no children to make an impression on. I am now starting my sixth week on Nal and pray that it will have a good effect on me.

Best of luck