Naltrexone + drinking may equal cure, but, let's face it: it suuuuuuucks!

It's like my exciting (and abusive) best friend had a lobotomy. We're still hanging out, but now she just sits there and drools.

Sorry for whining. I'm going to a party tonight. I'm glad that I won't be getting loud and obnoxious, falling into the pool, having sex with a stranger and wishing I were dead tomorrow morning, but I'm not thrilled about the alternative. I know that I'm going to eat some chip and dip, drink two beers, get sleepy and want to go home. Ugh.

On the upside, I know that I'm committed to this, because I'm going to take the damn pill.

Anyone else want to whine?

Lol, not gonna whine, but gonna wish you a good time. It might not be that bad. In fact, you may like drinking on nal like I did . You may rediscover things that are very special. Some things that the alcohol previously covered up. Follow the golden rule, protect yourself and have fun! Peace

Magda, that's what the NAL does to me also. Like plantpro says, I ended up having a better time by not drinking like I used to.

It took me a while to wrap my mind around that concept, but I did, and I would never ever ever ever ever think of drinking like I used to at any event.

Give it time, there's some great success stories on here.

BTW. Alcohol is not your friend, once you quit associating with it every day, that becomes pretty clear

Hi Magda, I'm new here (~six weeks in) and I know what you mean. I'll find myself drinking a third and a fourth (and seventh and eighth) chasing the buzz and then finally realize it's not going to happen, get bored with the whole idea and just stop. Kind of a letdown. But then today I woke up, did the coffee thing, and realized after a couple of hours that my first thought of the day had NOT been about alcohol. Around 11 a.m. I took a NAL because I was thinking I might want a drink with lunch, but then I totally forgot about that too. A while later ended up on the beach with my dog, digging my feet into the sand, and that felt so much better than a drink would have ... As I write this it's late afternoon and I've had a couple of drinks and I just feel blunted as opposed to buzzed, but I'm remembering the pebbles under my feet and craving that instead. Weird and kind of amazing. Maybe it's just a matter of (re)learning to appreciate different sensations as much as we once did the booze? Like I said, I'm just a newbie so your YMMV, but I'm hopeful that life in general will start to fill the pleasure-space that alcohol did. ~Kate

The party might be fun just for its own sake. I hope so, at least, since you're probably there right now.

Alcohol is a friend like your crazy high school acquaintance on Facebook is a friend -- fun from a safe distance with no actual connection, but a real relationship would just jerk you around and screw up your life.

Thanks so much for the replies, gang! I'm touched, really.

You guys are all right. I ended up having a decent time. I got that now-familiar horrible frustration, but it eventually passed. After my third beer I gave up and switched to soda. Had a good time from there on out.

I've decided to view the frustration of drinking on nal as a good and healthy thing, like feeling sore after exercising. Feel the pharmacological extinction burn!

I'm so glad that you all are here.

Good work C !!

Awesome Magda!

Absolutely. That's a great model.

It gets a lot easier after the first couple of times. After you've done this a few more times, the dying addiction won't make nearly as much noise.