half glass. im going to purchase revia tomorrow. my doc would only give me a script for 30, which is fine for trying it out. but if this works, id like a stockpile. he said he'd only give me 30 at a time. how much can a dr prescribe? and out of curiosity, ive looked on the net, but cant figure out how much it costs. wondering if you could tell me. i can only seem to find canadian prices. thanks

Hi Mreagle - Sorry for my delay in replying. I don't get on this board much anymore. The only reason I have Revia is that I ran out of the Naltrexone I was getting from River Pharmacy and asked if someone on the board had any extra I could buy. A member in Canada sold me Revia. It's funny because that was in March of 2012 and by May 28, 2012 I stopped drinking pretty much (still have a couple of glasses of wine when out to dinner after I take Revia). I think she sold me 50 pills and I still have about 20 left, so that goes to tell you that Revia really works. I don't know the answer to your questions, but you are lucky to have Revia since it sure worked for me. Hope your progress on TSM is smooth sailing, and you can continue to get prescribed Revia.

Hi Half Glass,

I'm happy to hear you've pretty much stopped drinking. That is amazing. I'm wondering though, what is the difference between Revia pills and Naltrexone pills? I thought they were one in the same.

Best wishes,

Hi All - Reporting in after nearly 5 months of pretty much no drinking. I have made some observations that I have found interesting. Maybe you will find them interesting too.

When I was struggling through TSM I thought I would never reach the "cured/regained control" status. I kept thinking I needed to delve deeply into what was causing me to drink. I figured I was burying emotions that would come crashing through the blur of alcohol once I stopped. I figured my troubled childhood must have caused all of this and there was some deep dark secret I hadn't dealt with. Well, here's what I have learned.

There was no deep dark secret. There were no stuffed emotions. There were no unrepaired childhood traumas. I just got addicted to alcohol because I started drinking it regularly. I now believe this could happen to anyone. I was never a drinker, and certainly not a daily drinker until a huge crisis entered my life in 2000. I started drinking a half a glass of wine to get some relief from that daily crisis as I was such a lightweight drinker that even half a glass of wine gave me that warm buzz. Of course, after awhile there was no more buzz, and in time I started chasing the buzz. By the time 10 years had passed I had gotten up to nearly two bottles of wine a day and although I still got the buzz it came at great cost to me and my family. You all know that story from your own drinking lives so I won't go into any more detail.

Here I am post TSM and now I don't drink...pretty much (still have a glass of wine out to dinner occasionally). After I stopped drinking my daily wine at home my life returned to pre-drinking normal. There were no big BANGS, big Ah-Ha moments, or anything other than I simply stopped drinking from 4:30 to bedtime in my chair anymore. I had to break that habit and keep the commitment to not go back to it. I still have times where the thought crosses my mind to go get a glass of wine around 4:30-6:00 in the evening, but then I remember I quit and a relief washes over me that I can't adequately describe. I don't have to do that anymore! Thank you dear God.

So, keep on doing TSM and remember it is a physical addiction and a very bad habit that must be broken. TSM does the addiction part, but you must do the habit part. Switch to another type of alcohol. Start doing something else when you would usually drink. Delay your start time for drinking.....do anything you need to do to break the habit and be persistent. It is so worth it as now I am free and have my life back. But remember, it took me 16 months of daily TSM before I was even ready to tackle the habit, so.....don't give up.

Thanks to everyone on this board and to Drs. Sinclair and Eskapa.

Amen! Half Glass, I could not agree more with your last post.

My experience seems to be similar to yours in that there's no big trauma that lead me to drink....it just became a habit. Like you, I too was a "light weight". The mundane daily life of raising a family (which of course is truly a blessing) and the tendency towards dysthymia and living in "wine country" all lead me to start the daily ritual of wine with dinner....which later lead to much wine during and after dinner and then eventually followed up with the vodka night cap....

I agree one has to deal with the addition (which Nal helps to address) AND the habit which takes real focus and work on the part of the individual to break the cycle. I'm now 41 days AF (w/ one glass of wine in there) and am in the process of breaking the "habit".....Having done so, I feel so relieved.

Thank you for sharing your story and for giving the rest of us here some inspiration and support. All the best to you!

Ah, Half a Glass...can't you come up with even ONE "moral defect"??? Now think hard...

No, thanks for confirming "from the other (cured) side" that observation: drinking can get to be a very strong habit...a combination of human nature's tendency to repeat comforting patterns, and reinforced by the physiological effects of alcohol. A dangerous combination that becomes a slippery slope.

Simply based on my own experience w/ alcohol, I've never bought into most of the alcoholic lore and jargon, including disease. Pretty much the only alcoholic trait I'll cop to is probably a heightened sensitivity to the stuff that meshed perfectly w/ some (former) shyness and insecurities. Those traits are mostly gone but the habit went on, until TSM started allowing me to dismantle it.

Yes, praise be to Drs. Sinclair and Eskapa, say hallelujah!

(TGIF)

Hi Half a Glass! Congratulations on your progress!

Hi All - I have come full circle! I started drinking in 2001 by having a half a glass of wine every night to copy with a severe crisis in my life. I ended up here on December 1, 2010 because my drinking of a half a glass of wine led me down the path over ten years to nearly two bottles of wine every night.

Well, what do you know. It is now more than 5 months since I stopped drinking my alcohol of choice at home in my chair every night, which is wine. I haven't been drinking much at all over the last 5 months (only an occasional glass or two of wine when out to dinner). So, I went out to dinner on Saturday night and had......you guessed it........a half a glass of wine! Had the thought on the way home of getting more at the liquor store (maybe one of those tiny bottles that they sell) but it was late and I was too tired. Also, I had a whole bottle at home that someone bought me for my birthday a couple of weeks ago if I really wanted wine.

Long story short............I have only had a half a glass of wine over the last month. I have come full circle all thanks to TSM and am now free of the awful addiction! Hallelujah!

Keep on truckin folks. It works...really it does, so hang in there.

Brilliant!!! So happy for you!!!

Ah, the poetic justice of that!!! Thank you so much for your happy report