OK, bumped it up to 50 mg and I guess the honeymoon is over. I drank almost as much as ever the past two days. One mistake I remember from when I tried this before is that the AL does not effect me as much and I slow down my drinking quite a bit, but I still don't want to go to bed untill I am good and drunk, so I end up staying up most of the night and slowly drinking as much as ever. Then the probem is getting up and going to work the next day.

I don't know what to do about that. The best thing, of course, is to just go to bed even though I am not tired (because I am slowly drinking and my blood sugar is up) or just hammer down a ton of booze at the rate I always did without the Nal so I can get a few hours of sleep (passed out) before work. Interestingly, I don't feel as aweful now as I did having drank the same amout without the Nal- probably because my drinking was very down for the first five days.

Trying to feel my way here.

OK, here ya go. Get up now. Very slowly. We've got ya. . .that's it. Nice and easy. Let us help keep ya steady till you feel stronger. Remember, just ONE simple rule: Naltrexone+drinking=cure.

Can't sleep? Take a walk after supper, and try a melatonin tablet an hour b/4 bedtime. Stay off the computer and TV, and don't expose your eyes to bright light. If all else fails, I 'do' an Alka-Seltzer plus. Never fails!

Hmmm. . .maybe I should have been a pharmacist?

People on this site don't spend much time talking about what to do with your self with all the time you suddenly have on your hands when not drinking. Every time I have quit, I have real bad insomnia for the first five days or so. After that, I just don't know what to do. My wife goes to bed eary and gets up early. I've never been a morning person, but now might be a good time to become one. I could think of things to do in the morning a lot easier than at midnight. For my whole adult life, the pattern has been to drink until late at night. Rather than trying to come up with late night hobbies other than drinking, I can try to find early morning ones.