I actually dont notice any difference, physically or mentally, whether I have nal in my system or not but I would still ideally
want to be in a possition where Im just drinking and naling two days a week, thats my goal really.

Nothing much has changed this week. Still pretty much at the same levels. Its a long weekend in Ireland, prior to nal I would drink every night. Drank a bottle of wine on Friday night and had one glass of champaign. Yesterday even though my county team were playing and got slaughtered very unexpectedly I didnt think of drinking all day and pretty much decided to wait untill tonight. I did the shoping a couple of hours ago and got a bottle of wine and am looking forward to it later but not the old chomping at the bit type of feeling. Alltogether quite happy with nal. I need to be carefull though because alcohol is giving me no real problems these days I m starting to get careless and sometimes dont wait the full hour and one evening when we went for a drink after work I took it WITH my first drink which is very stupid when I know all nal has done for me. How could I be so stupid as to risk a reversal?. However Ive had a chat with myself and it wont happen again.

glad to hear you're continuing to progress Mario.

Commisserations on the result - I didn't realise you were from the kingdom

Yep this is definatly working. Daughter is away for the week and hubby normally goes for a pint or two most nights and is asking me to go with him. I have had absolutly no craving whatsoever to go with him in the last three nights. Prior to nal I would have been mad looking forward to it and I would have had a few sneaky ones before we went and then had 4 or 5 more at the pub which would have started a row because he woouldnt understand me wanting to drink that fast. He would have his couple and I would be pissed and wake up in the morning hungover and hating myself yet again. I have promised him that I will go tonight though and Im NOT looking forward to it. The pub is so quiet midweek that we will sit there on our own for an hour and a half with two drinks each and I have to be up at 6.30am but its his first day off in 6 weeks so I feel I have to go. I am finally acting like a 'normal' person and would be much happier for the two of us to stay at home and eat chocolates.

nice!!!!!! I love hearing this kind of news!

That's great, Mario. I think you're getting to where most of us would like to be.

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Had a pretty good weekend drinkwise,3 glasses of wine on Friday night over many hours, a half a beer on Saturday night and a glass of baileys and 3 beers last night. Sometimes I miss getting drunk but the prospect of drinking enough to get to that point just isnt appealing and I get bored half way through. Im pretty much in controll of my drinking now and its certainly a worry thats almost completly lifted from my shoulders. I got another piece of potentially very good news financially for us this morning. This was another one of my pet worries. I was thinking afterwards 'what am I going to fret and worry about now, if those two main worries are gone?(I dont even like writing that down in case it tempts fate). Certainly geting the alcohol monkey off my back is the bigest relief of all, there will always be up and downs money wise.

Mario, too funny I had just posted my weekly progress and mentioned the monkey climbing off my back and then I read your post with the same analogy. I've read through some of your posts and it sounds like you are doing great.

Had a pretty bad weekend unit wise. Friday night I had 3.5 glasses of wine, saturday just one can of cider but yesterday I tore the arse out of it alltogether. I had 5 big glasses of wine(about a bottle and a half I would guess) and a glass of champaign. Craving was acute around 8 or 9. Felt I just wanted more and more. Woke up fed up and worried that tsm had stopped working. I know thats just panic but it wasnt a pleasant feeling.

Ironically Ive often wondered about the legitimacy of online meds BUT yesterday was the first day I took the nal that my sister got over the counter at a pharmacy in France. In fact it felt like it wasnt working at all to the point that when I got up this morning I checked to make sure that I had taken my tab from the correct box and not paricitamol or disprin by mistake. For the last 6 months Ive only been taking nal from two different online pharmacy's.

Anyway onward I march with nal