So I'm curious if anyone has had a need to increase dosage?

The "Honey moon" Period was amazing, It made me not want to drink at all. It's over a month later now and i feel like Nal is doing nothing to me. I'm unsure if I should Increase dosage or anything like that.

In any case, I've decided to make goals and try to reduce my drinking each week. I used to drink 70-80 drinks a week, currently down to 60's. I'm planning for under 50 Drinks this week and try to go lower every week.


But back to my original question - Is there a time to increase Dosage while on TSM?

From those numbers, it looks like you're doing great! Your new weekly goals are a great next step for you. The best thing for you at this stage would be to keep going just like you are and have patience! Remember: it took time to get into this habit and it's going to take time to get out.

There's no hard and fast rule for upping the dose. I would only suggest a higher dose if after several months your drinking had hardly changed at all. Neither of these factors apply to you.

If you are on 50 then I would just stay on that.....you are very early days yet. This IS a slow process....just keep following the Golden Rule !

Hugs, Maggie

50mg is thought to be optimum for most people and no need to increase dose unless you are really, really struggling. Week 6 is half way to the optimistic cure point length, and I can see from your log that your numbers have reduced and quite significantly so I would say there is no need.

Thank you guys, again, for the encouragement and responses.

It recently has been getting tough to believe that I am improving as my S.O. decided to rant at me again for "not trying hard enough to drink less." I keep wanting to explain my problem to her but she doesn't want to hear it and feels like I have full control over this issue and just not trying. Needless to say, we either argue a lot about it, or just dont bring it up. She is, however, excited that I do see a problem and am taking steps to fix it. But just sux trying to vent to her.


This morning on my way back from a Work event I stopped at my usual liqour store. I could not believe how expensive my fav brand of alcohol has gone up. Yet another reason to slow down.


I dont know if anyone else experiences this, but On Saturday I was working as part of a Church fundraiser. It was a Very Very long and stressful event. once I realized that we would be done about 10 minutes till the end of the night, I suddenly had that urge again. Its that feeling of "Good job, now when you get home it is time to reward yourself." I did exactly that, and even forgot my Nal before the first drink. Made me pretty upset how easy it was to fall into that. At least 4 drinks later after nal I was so freaking tired I poured out the rest and hit the sack..


Anyways, Thanks again for the encouragement here.
-GuyJeb

GuyJeb: It must be very tough that your SO thinks you aren't trying hard enough. Hopefully she will hang in there with you and you with her. This is not something (more than likely) that you can solve over night. And it seems to me that it is probably very hard for those who haven't experienced it to know how it feels to want to stop but not be able to. That's why we are doing TSM. If we could just "try hard" and stop we would not be doing this.

Hope things get better between you. xoxo Newlife