I quit 60 days ago with the help of disulfiram. I loved it because it gave me no choice; the option to drink was completely off the table. However, I'm still exhausted. Low energy. Not wanting to do much of anything. Still not feeling clear headed. Sleep is improving but isn't great. I know this is a possible side effect of disulfiram, but this also may be expected even after 8 weeks. I'm obviously concerned that this is just my new normal (I'm also perimenopausal). I've read that both acamprosate and gabapentin can help if this is all due to PAWS. I happen to have leftovers of both (acamprosate never helped reduce my drinking and I only took gabapentin for the acute withdrawals). I'm open to suggestions! I've alway skipped the disulfiram for 3 days and no change yet... I was going to give it a week (metabolites should be gone by then but the effect lasts 10-14 days).

Hey y'all! This is a place for you to post your successes, great and small, with the Sinclair Method! Whatever it is that the Sinclair Method has done for you lately, feel free to leave it here!

I'll give a brief snapshot of my own story: I was a binge drinker for 20 years that started at weekend keg parties in high school and progressed to drinking 15 units nightly of spirits and beer near the start of the pandemic. This is the same time period that my first child was born.

I have now taken control of my drinking with the help of The Sinclair Method and this community and enjoy a majority of AF days most weeks. I get to enjoy being clear headed around my children and enthusiastic about experiencing the world as it unfolds to them without the dread of searching for the next drink.

If you've got any similarly positive stories, feel free to share them here! :)

I just took 100mg Antabuse so I won't risk drinking in the coming weekdays, but I would like to drink on Saturday. I've been drinking three and a half days after taking Antabuse earlier without issue, but that was a long time ago. Supposedly it can vary from time to time and from person to person. What are your experiences with drinking 4 days after such a low dose? I'm 39 years old and (so far) in good health according to the doctor.

This community has not been active for the better part of a year and also did not have a moderator, but that has changed now. I was asked if I would consider being a moderator and reviving it so I will be moderating the community and my expertise is in the area of naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). If you have an interest in naltrexone for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) I will do my best to try to get qualified people to address those questions and, with luck, perhaps find another moderator for this community as well. Naltrexone has been making great inroads especially in the treatment of AUD. Welcome to all and please drop a line.

Yeah, so I just wanted to post here because I’ve been alcoholic for a boat 15 to 20 years. It’s been obviously a challenge and I’ve tried stopping like hundreds of times nothing really ever worked. So then taking these peptides for weight loss and the one I’m taking right now is called Reta true Tide anyway I started taking this and I’ve been losing some weight but in a strange way or in a surprising way this Reta has completely eliminated my desire to drink, which is crazy but when you look into it online, there’s a lot of people that say the same thing I don’t know really how to explain it other than to say that I just. I just have no interest in drinking anymore like I have a bottle of vodka in the freezer and I just can’t even drink it. I’ll take a drink and I’ll be like I don’t want anymore or sometimes I can’t even make myself drink we’re just fucking nuts because I’ve been trying to stop for like I said 20 years anyways I just thought I would post this in this thread or in this sub. It’s called Retatrutide. It costs about maybe like 100 bucks a month so it’s not like really crazy expensive and it’s yeah I don’t know. Maybe it’ll work for some of you people. I know that if I realized there was something like this I would’ve been taking it years ago, not even for the weight loss, but just for the the fact that it makes you not wanna drink and it’s not unique to me. It’s like very common and the space that people just lose the desire to Drink.

Hey guys,

I hope this isn't overstepping, but I'm currently finding guests for my podcast that confronts abuse in 12 Step meetings. I'm having a variety of guests, including those who are still active in meetings. I'm looking for people who have gotten sober through TSM, GLP-1s, or anything else.

This is an audio-only podcast. I'm not trying to profit, just to help and bring to light that there are plenty of effective ways to get sober besides 12-step meetings.

Later today I’ll be on day 9 of naltrexone and I haven’t felt an urge to drink and I feel really good. I went to a concert this week completely sober for my first time and it was amazing. I told my husband that I feel like a baby seeing and experiencing for the first time, because before I was under the influence for basically anything social.
But I know it’s feeling too good to be true right now.
Will Naltrexone stop working? Like will my subconscious mind eventually figure it out and say, “ahhh you don’t want that pill. You want booze. Lots of booze. That pill will just make you not feel good..” Or will the pill eventually just not do anything anymore?
I’m hoping to only take it until I no longer have the thoughts to drink and then only take it on the rare occasion where my mind tries to convince me to drink.

I began reading the posts about Naltrexone before starting it. (Taking daily - not doing TSM.)
These posts have been invaluable in helping me know to EAT before or when taking it, to expect (maybe?) nausea or insomnia, etc. Some of the most interesting ones were the comments about feeling the need to stretch and/or yawn.
Welp, I’m on Day Two and the stretching is REAL!!!!! I’m not nauseous or sleepy or anything else but I neeeeeed to stretch a lot. 😂 I stretched and yawned all through last night’s soccer match and it’s already started again this morning. Very interesting medicine, and I’ll take stretching over nausea any day!

I only ever took one 125mg pill 8am on June 18th. It’s June 23rd and I’d like to drink a few beers tonight.

I’m 27F 135 pounds. Last time I had been taking 250 mg of disulfiram (years ago) waited 11 days and had wine with no issues

Following advice from this sub for years and today was the day. My GP totally understands TSM and has many family members who either got clean or cleaned way the F up after doing it.

I’m a skinny dude with good bloodwork, but genetic hypertension. Resting heart rate of 95-135 though. Got a beta blocker too, helps with both blood pressure and resting heart rate.

Start of a new journey tomorrow as I’ve already had drinks today. Excited and a bit scared honestly. My rural area has no SMART recovery options but does have an AA option which I’m considering despite my feelings about AA and experience with it.

I had to have a 2oz vodka just to make the 10:30am appointment without shakes. We shall see how this goes.

Advice appreciated and I’m not easily offended. A career in the motorcycle industry will result in this.

Hey y'all! This is a place for you to post your successes, great and small, with the Sinclair Method! Whatever it is that the Sinclair Method has done for you lately, feel free to leave it here!

I'll give a brief snapshot of my own story: I was a binge drinker for 20 years that started at weekend keg parties in high school and progressed to drinking 15 units nightly of spirits and beer near the start of the pandemic. This is the same time period that my first child was born.

I have now taken control of my drinking with the help of The Sinclair Method and this community and enjoy a majority of AF days most weeks. I get to enjoy being clear headed around my children and enthusiastic about experiencing the world as it unfolds to them without the dread of searching for the next drink.

If you've got any similarly positive stories, feel free to share them here! :)

Hi everyone, I took my NAL for 7 days and was doing quite well. I saw major reduction in my drinking, I was down more than half the drinks I normally consume on a regular night. Well Saturday I forgot to take my Nal and went to my boyfriend's house. I was offered beer and said it won't be a huge deal. Well it was not good. I was off to the races and drank over 15 drinks and barely remember what happened- caused a huge fight with my loved one and I feel so ashamed.

I am now wondering if the medication isn't for me and maybe I need to do full abstinence which is so depressing as much as I want to love the AA program, they are all so supportive. I am looking for any advice. I am going to IOP tomorrow and going on the shot too.

Thanks for reading this.

Oooooh boy am I dizzy, feels like my belly is upside down, took something for the nausea my doctor prescribed with it, but i'm seriously asking myself how I'll be able to take it and drive normally.

Really does not make you crave anything tho.

my first ever vivitrol shot was 2 months ago. it was preceded by a very bad relapse involving me emptying and hiding dozens of bottles behind the tv and then in the attic over the course of 2-3 weeks, drinking all day and all night just like i used to before i had to come back home and get put on sobriety watch in the first place, except this time trying to appear sober all the while and actually managing to continue holding down my 2 jobs and cooking dinner and keeping my responsibilities straight (at least so i thought). i had thrown the $94 breathalyzer out my car window and because of that i felt invincible, like no one would ever find me out, like i could drink my way all the way down to the oily round undersurface of that big ol handle of vodka in the sky.

well, i got caught, actually with a fifth of jack daniel's in my hand, i cried, i pleaded, i confessed that i hadn't taken my oral naltrexone 300 mg in over a month, i'd just been flushing them down the toilet, and just like that, the gavel came slamming down, i was issued the sentence of monthly vivitrol for life. fuck. i hate needles! i hate needles so much that even though i spent almost a year abusing meth earlier in my life i never once shot up. i'd rather deal with the god awful, devil raping your throat esque drip that comes after snorting tina than with a needle of any kind. and now here i am, having dug myself into a deal i would now have to revisit monthly.

i got my first shot on 4/21. i actually didn't drink for a while after, just smoked weed, indulged in a little adderall here and there, but after my second shot on 5/21, it was game over. i had a court appearance 2000 miles away on 5/23 and i was going all alone. i knew the city the court appearance was in like the back of my hand, that city used to be my kingdom, my temple of substance abuse and debauchery and spectacular impulsivity, and i made up my mind to pick up a couple half pints of vodka after court as soon as my favorite liquor shop opened. well, my uncle owns a liquor shop up there as well, and i was staying at his house, and holy shit does his house have a fuck ton of alcohol lying around for belonging to a man who doesn't drink, so even before i got to court i was sufficiently buzzed. i had looked up a graph of vivitrol levels in a recipient's bloodstream over the course of a month and found out that in the first few days after the injection, levels are still pretty low, and decided that the vodka was well worth the $5.50 i'd pay for it for any chance that it might work. the alcohol i stole from my uncle's reserves was just a bonus.

i remember very little after court. i know i boarded a train to grand central, i know i was chatting it up with this girl around my age who sat across from me and let me hit her vape and then my next memory is coming to in a bathroom stall underneath grand central with 4 or 5 very attractive cops standing in the doorway looking down at me. then nothing, then my next memory is me sitting at my gate at laguardia utterly perplexed how i got there. i drank as much as i would normally drink and it created this time lapse hyperdrive spaceship event recollection mess that left me with zero idea what i did and what was going on.

fast forward to now, i drank again a few days before getting my third vivitrol shot because i knew my levels would be low enough by then, and once again, my last memory was taking the last few sips around 5 pm and my next memory was waking up on the couch downstairs at midnight and making my way back up to my bed. and now... now it's the day after my third shot, i'm drinking again, and i'm almost entirely sure i won't remember any of this tomorrow besides the moment i wake up.

I started naltrexone- 25mg- two months ago. After the initial nausea and general emotional numbness wore off- I have been tolerating it really well. Previously was drinking 4 drinks a night and likely 1-2 times a week more. This had gradually risen over the years and I knew where I would end up unless something changed. For the first six weeks I was drinking a drink sometimes with my wife. Never alone. In the last two weeks, I find myself wanting it more and drinking thru the naltrexone and having the same effect as before I started- without the compulsion to keep drinking till I fell asleep. I am starting 50mg now. Any other advice? Previously I had wanted just to have a better relationship with alcohol. Now I am wondering if that is a realistic goal.

Doc switched me to campral today
Anyone had success with this?
Looking for positive stories please- so I can keep the hopeful energy going. Thank you!

Hi, just like the title says, I don't want to get roped into an online consult and expensive monthly Rx delivery. Has anyone just done the assessment online and given a Rx they could fill on their own?