Antabuse Thread

[marbella]

Oh Thanks, yes good idea. I usually wake up around 6 to let my 4 legged kids out, then go back to sleep for an hour. It would be a good time to take it while still half asleep and overjoyed that I don't have a hangover.

I still have the feeling that I am going to 'destroy my crutch' though or something like that. Obviously this is madness and I guess I need professional help, but don't have anyone to go to round here- but all the while I feel this way I suppose I am likely to abort my own efforts.

Hmm...sorry to ask so much but does anyone else feel like this when taking antabuse?

[SpiritGirl]

Marbella, I think most of us feel like that. I do the EXACT same as you have done - take the Antabuse, slowly but surely get healthier and forget the abuse AL did to me. The healthier I feel, the stronger I feel. I then, stop taking the Antabuse thinking that I can control this addiction on my own. WRONG! I end up falling back to my old patterns. Maybe I won't have to depend on it forever - but for now, I need it.

I'm not sure whether or not you need professional help, however I think the very fact that you consider it and that you can admit that this is "madness" speaks volumes. Most people that really need the professional help cannot recognize that they need it. They are in a vicious cycle of denial.

Hopefully we eventually destroy the crutch. Until then, Antabuse is a great weapon against it.

[marbella]

Oh well at least I am not the only one!

Well I have taken it, so that is at least 5 days AF. It is a relief, and takes the white knuckling 'Shall I have a drink or not?' away.

I've just got to keep it up this time.

[Chelle12]

Is it ok to take antabuse with prozac? I think prozac is an SSRI.
Also, how long AF before I take the first dose? Some websites say 12 hours and some say 1 day and some say 2 days.

[marbella]

I have read 12 hours too, but typically I will take a last drink at say 11pm then take the antabuse at witching hour 6pm the following day- therefore its around 18 hours.

I also make sure I take it very easy the day before I start- have the minimum amount of drink I need to get me through withdrawal.

And maybe just take half a tab the first day- this is plenty that you will not be able to drink, but it could prevent you having too bad a reaction if there is still some alcohol in the body.

[Chelle12]

Thanks for that Marbella, Ive decided to choose a day where my other half is around to watch me. It will be so hard to go AF for the 18 hours beforehand, but so much of a relief to know that I simply CANT drink when Im taking them.
Also, I think I'll do what someone else said on the forum and get my partner to give me the pill every morning before he goes to work.. that way he can be assured that I cant drink at all.
Im so excited about getting them! It's going to be such a great deterrent.
BTW I still need that paypal invoice from you. If you need my paypal address again, I'll send it to you in a PM.
Chelle

[marbella]

Oh Yes, thanks with all the drama yesterday with Jack I completely forgot.

I will do it now.

I think both my friends who successfully stopped drinking altogether with Antabuse had it given to them by their husbands- so if your BF can I guess it is the best solution- but tell him to crush it in a drink and make sure you drink the whole glass- another friend who was in AA told me how one lady was given the pill everyday by her hubby and would hide it under her tongue then spit it out!

We can be sneaky folk- us alcoholics

[sami]

Hi all. I'm planning on starting antabuse tomorrow. Going today to have the prescription filled. I don't think I'll want to start taking it tonight b/c last night was a very heavy drinking night and I think I'll need a few more hours to get all the alcohol out of my body. I'm nervous.......but hopeful.

[marbella]

It is actually a relief once you have taken it Sami- you know you will be OK- I find I think much less about drink once I have taken it.

Good luck for tomorrow

[sami]

Thanks Marbella.
Was just trying to clean out my youngest daughter's room. She just graduated high school and instead of going to the college that I had helped her enroll in, she decided in July to move in with another family. She thinks that they will offer her the structure and religious support that she didn't get here. That hurts so much! And I know that I did fail her in many ways because of my drinking. I have made so many stupid, stupid decisions that sometimes I just can't believe this is my life!

It just hurts so much to go through her "little girl" things and then her angry adolescent things, and know that I let her down. And so, of course, I want to drink b/c it hurts....

O.K....will return now to the lavender room of lost dreams and disappointments and try to clear a way for the future.