Hi Trisha,

That is a very good idea! That way I am sure to have no problems at night when sleeping and lose the effectivity of the nal and I don't have to take 100 mg (which I think would be too much). Thank you and Babs for your motivation, I know that being consequent is the only way it works, I just hope that the side effect will subside soon.

Have a great weekend all!

Hi Girl!

Just wanted to let you know I'm rooting for you. We have to let the Nal do its job so we can get better. In my case, that means dropping the antidepressant Tat was just starting to lighten my mood because, unfortunately, it also seemed to negate the effects of the Nal, so I was losing the indifference I had just started feeling last week. So for me, first, get the alcohol consumption down, under control, and the depression will improve naturally as I add more physical activity, and later, I'll relook at the AD aspect.

Hang in there.

Thanks to Trisha's tip I feel that I am in much more control now! I have tried it for two days now, 25 mg's around 6-7 PM and around midnight, so I am sure that I will be covered when I wake up at night and take alcohol to sleep. Already, I feel that at night I feel less like taking more and already more with a little disgust or something (don't know the exact word do describe, not with real disgust, but more neutral), and during the day it goes much slower.

Yesterday I was at a festival, and I have only had 4 drinks between 3 PM and midnight! I amused myself very well, danced my ass off and had a lot of fun with my friends. OK, I had 3 during the night as well because I woke up 4 times (my sleeping sucks, but hopefully that will ameliorate as well). I have holiday soon, so than I can sleep as long as I want and do not have to do anything. Before that, I have 4 stressfull work days, but starting the 16th, I have a threeday music festival, which I am looking forward to a lot, and then I fly to France Tuesday morning for a week.

Feeling a lot better and more hopefull then 3 three days ago, also less nauseous!

Good for you You sound so much more hopeful and cheerful now that you are over the flu and your "bender" of last week. Keep up the good work.

I'm sure you are aware that your drinking in the night is having the opposite effect of what you want. As soon as the alcohol wears off you wake up, you drink more, it wears off, you drink more, etc. etc.

If there is ANY way you could stop this merry-go-round it would be very very good! Anyway you are certainly doing so much better and sound so much happier - that we are all happy for YOU
Babs

Hi Babs, thanks for your encouraging words. I certainly want to break through this merry go round (am very aware of the effects on my sleep), but I am afraid for all the sleepless nights that will follow. But I know I have to do it at a certain moment, because postponing will only make it worse.

I am already using melatonin 3 mg, and have ordered L-Tryptofan, to see if that helps. And I know it is merely psychological, because between October last year and May this year, I slept like a baby.

Speaking of babies, I just went to a baby visit of one of my sorority friends. Most of my friends are getting chrildren now (I am 32), so I know that if I want them myself, I want to have my life in order. I feel good about continueing the compliance.

Will go and work on my powerpoint for this week now, I have to give a big presentation tomorrow to my marketing director...

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Was reading your posts and they ended with this. Update? How are things with you? Did the presentation go well?

I'm new to this, like others here find myself drinking much more than 2 glasses of wine at nite, am hoping to find a way to bring it under control....

Hi Paul and Buena Vista,

Thanks for sharing your experiences with being sleepless and the whole explanation, and also for being interested!

In fact, Sunday night I worked through the whole night to finish my presentation, so did not go to bed untill 0600 AM, and I swear, I will never do that again. I got only two hours of sleep, although my presentation went well I was not there fully. We have to form a total new vision for doing a big deal with a company who helps us organize a congress and a magazine (I am segment marketeer for Private Banking at a bank), my marketing director does not want to stop the deal, but we have to give a better rectification why we spend so much money on it. So, altogether not a bad result, but much more work to come. Not for me in the coming days at least; Friday I am out of the office for one and a half week, going to a music festival in the Netherlands for three days, and when I come back Sunday night, I will have to pack and unpack quickly, because Tuesday morning is my flight to France

I slept eleven hours in the end last night, with breaks, but I felt so bad by not sleeping and so foggy, that I took a sleeping pill and slept through the night. I don't know Ambien, but I googled it and it seems highly addictive with horror side effects when taking it for too long, so that is not for me. I will stick to an occasional Zoplicon that I still have left from long ago.

Buena Vista, your story sounds very heavy, all you have gone through! Hope for you this is the start of the way up. And Paul, you are new, but hopefully, you will find support here and not have too many side effects of beginning with Nal!

I still have enough pills left, the only thing is that they cost me a lot, because a lot of firms are not shipping to the Netherlands, only to England and the US, so I had to pay EUR 300,- for 80 pills... that scares me for the next time when I am going to need them again.

Anyone in Europe another alternative? I don't necessarily want to go to my GP, just have a new one and he does not know of any problems with alcohol in the past and will be very surprised and not inclined to give anything to me, just because he will not think is is serious enough (of course I do not know this, but it is what I might think)...

Good day to you all, I feel rested, in comparison to yesterday, when I felt like crap after not sleeping, even worse than a hangover... I can feel I am not 20 anymore haha, I used to study through the night sometimes, and not sleep at all, and then ace my exam the next day... not imaginable anymore

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BuenaVista,

Time to start Prepping!!

Rich