So I notice that it has been forever since my last posting. One factual reason for that is that since May 2014 I have been living in Ecuador building a hotel at the beach. We are now open and the hotel is almost finished, wow what a lot of work that I did not anticipate.

For the immediate future I am back in Florida tending to medical checkups and taking care of our home here is SW Florida. I had a message that someone had made a comment about my last posting so I checked on that and decided to update my personal experiences.

It has now been around 23 months since I began my experiment with alcohol after my many years of abstinence. I can report that I went from drinking occasionally to whenever I want. I only drink beer and wine now and have resisted trying anything stronger. I am now actually believing that after all of this time that I have returned to the life of a normal person, I can have my drinks and not get drunk and I never have hangovers or any adverse effect, it is as though I have been given an opportunity to return to my younger days when alcohol did not control my life.

Someone reading this posting may think that I am lying to myself and rationalizing and perhaps to some small degree I am. But for sure I believe that my life is good again and I don't fear alcohol as I did in the past. So I thank this forum and the knowledge I gained from it for my good fortune.

sailorbox, I am grateful you updated this thread. The Buddhist in me finds it most auspicious. Your thread popped up right after I took my first 25mg of Naltrexone. I, too am approaching this as abstinent for the prior eleven months and have been scouring this and the other forum seeking other abstinent TSMers for months. Tomorrow will be another 25mg without alcohol and then Tuesday my first glass of wine. So again, thanks!

Are you still taking Naltrexone?

Bardo,

No I am no longer taking Nal, sometime after I started the program the Nal began to make me a little bit ill, dizzy and an almost drunken feeling. So I switched to Baclofen and used that for many months. I now do not take anything on a regular basis. I don't recommend what I am doing but for over a year I find that I must have been "born again" and I attribute that to the long period of abstinence.

I caution anyone reading not to follow what I have done but for me it seems that the changes that I made in my environment and personal family situation sort of put my body back on an almost equal footing to when I was younger and had not yet abused myself with alcohol.

Good luck with your experimentation.

Thanks for updating us sailorbox. Newlife

As do I. And Barry.

Don't do it. Nal is for life.