Long term Naltrexone users - how are you faring?
Making this post as I’ve been taking Naltrexone in line with the Sinclair method since March. Which was a 2 week 12.5mg induction period, followed by 4 week of taking 25mg every day. Following this, I just take 25mg on days where I’m going to drink and it has varying results:
- the taste of alchohol is less appealing to me now
- I find I give into cravings less and have fewer binge drinking incidents compared to the beginning of the year
- I do sometimes drink to excess and regret it (I think this has to do with needed to unpick the need to numb extreme emotions)
-I am able to eat on Naltrexone now whereas before I couldn’t
- I have lost about 10lb though this could be down to spending 10 weeks travelling in a hot country and not eating much as I only weighed myself before and after the trip
- generally I feel safer knowing I have Nal in my toolkit, however it’s not been a fix all for me.
I am considering increasing my dose to 50mg if I’m able to get it in the country I’ve recently emigrated to.
Everyone else who has been on it for 1+ months, how is your experience?