Quick update...no real change in units(maybe a small uptick). However on the bright side:
1. No blackouts
2. No drunk talk
3. Minimal hangovers. Even thought today my friend the "nervous hangover" has paid a visit. Cant stand it when I get that feeling. However this to shall pass.

My wife has been very supportive but she really doesnt realize how much I drink. I usually go to get a beer. However I slam one down before I come back with the one beer. So I really drink twice as much as she thinks(Im an expert in bottle management ). So there are nights where I may only have 3 or 4 and for me thats real good. For her its the usual. So that is a hurdle I need get over at some point. If things start to improve with TSM to where that is the norm...I may just fess up to it.

On the Dr front Im not sure what to do. Currently getting NAL thru RX which is great. However at my last visit he hinted that "you dont need to be on this the rest of your life". So I may have to have a discussion with him on the protocol. He seems to think it is like taking wellbutrin for smoking. However is is a great Dr so Im hoping he will agree.

Thats it for now.

Other than that Ill just keep with the program.

Hawkeye, good luck with the doc, go in with a really positive attitude about tsm and arm yourself with the tsm facts on why you have to be on Nal for life and if he's as good a doc as you say it sounds like he'll listen to you.

Good luck
corkit

Let me start out by saying Im 3 weeks into this new state of mind. However over the last 3 weeks I have had 2 units total!! I have had pretty much zero interest in drinking. I actually went to the liquor store last night(wife wanted some wine) I walked around aimlessly for probably 8-10 minutes in a place I know better than the back of my hand. I just had zero interest in buying anything to drink for myself. I actually came home and discussed it with the wife as Ive never had that moment in my life. She says "maybe that medicine actually does work". She has been supportive initially but skeptical after the 6 month mark. Im very exited but cautious. I started this journey on 6/25....to think may be crossing the finish line makes me verrrry happy

Hawkeye,

Wow. This makes my day. Thanks for posting!

-wort

hawkeye I'm so happy you posted, I've been on Nal for 6 months and a little discouraged but after reading your post it has given me a lot of hope.

Keep posting and thank you
corkit

Hawkeye,

Thank you thank you.....I think I'm somewhere where you were when you were discouraged,..thereabouts a few months back....... So like other posters,...This really gives me hope that as an older(not that old) long term drunkard, that I may too be crossing the finish line....I feel glimmers. Like an overwhelming feeling of confidence,...but I am certainly no where near cured. I have to watch it tonight as I'm going to do an airport pickup ...Thanks for the update....wondering what to buy at the liquor store.....wow...i know mylist well,...Jim Beam, Vodka, and some brew and a bottle of wine. Yeah I cover it all.....but seriously,...I can feel a boredom setting in as I think about it all....

That is awesome!!! I hope to be where you are in the next few months.. progress is so slow in my case that I'm just giving it a year - until June 25 - and then see where the chips have fallen..

so happy for you -

Virginia

Not sure what happended but I had a whole post and it disappeared . Jim you hit the nail on the head. At about the end of January I noticed I was getting bored with drinking. It just really didnt interest me much. So I decided that was going to give up drinking for lent(Im a good catholic boy ) However I started to stop a week earlier. Now I have done this before but lasted no more than a week till I was back to the usual. Well... there are a few days in lent where exceptions needed to be made. We were going to a concert and who goes to a concert sober??? Definately not me I had it all planned out. The wife would drive. I would start the festivities at home. Well the night came. I decided I would drive. Had 1 drink at the concert. It shocked me as well as my wife. The the liquor store incident. i just didnt feel like getting anything for myself. Went home...had 1 glass of wine with dinner. Didnt want anymore. Im not sure what changed...there were no neon lights flashing or church bells ringing. Its as if that flame has been put out. Im hoping the finish line is near.....because it sure feels like it....

Congratulations Hawkeye!

Your experience is similar to mine. At about six months I was getting frustrated. A short time after I tried to go a week without drinking and did so with NO effort. I would recommend that for those of you hitting six months or so, you should attempt a little purposeful cutback -- see how many AF days in a row you can go.

Great news! Let me know when I can add you to the list. I might also add there was no "light switch" moment for me but a gradual, falling out of love with alcohol.