My NAL Trip

[brightlite]

Thanks for the encouragement all. I'm not down, I know it will take time. That's the way I figure it too....after trying everything else....if I am going to drink anyway, I might as well take the Nal and hopefully one day POOF.....I'll hit the cure! Like Seeking said.....SCREW YOU BOOZE!! LOL

Keep checking in...we are all very similar on this thread.

[hangingon]

Hi everyone,
It is so nice to hear that we share the same story. I wondered why Ialways feel nauseated around 11:00 the next day. Now I know why. MY honeymoon lasted a week and last night aI drank 1 1/2 bottles of Pino Grigio. I am not happy with myself today but I am hanging in there like the rest of you and praying for a great outcome in the future. The insomnia goes along with the drinking I do believe. Do any of you take any of the other supplements reccomended in MYO book?
Hanging on

[brightlite]

Hi Hanging

I try to take and L-Glut, Fish Oil, Vit D and B-1 and milk thistle. I can't really tell if any of it is working, but I'm sure it can't hurt. I drank my bottle of pinot grigio last night too....tonight I'm going AF, maybe two nights to clear my system out. I think that for TSM to take affect, you need a few AF days. Just my thoughts, maybe someone who is cured can chime in.

Hanging how long have you been taking Nal?

[hangingon]

Thanks Bright, I have been taking it a little over 2 weeks, I have had 4 AL free days. I am hopeful I can go AL free but I have a dinner meeting tonight and everyone always orders bottles of wine, I may take the Nal and have a glass and make it last all evening. Fortunatly I have to take my son to baseball Wed and Thurs. so they may be good AL free days. If I can keep my self busy from 5:00 - 9:00 I can be good. A would love to lose some of this extra weight I have put on in the past 6 months while I was drinking 2 bottles a night....
hanging

[brightlite]

Hangingon,

You sound very similar to me in your choice of poison and administering schedule..LOL I had an AF night last night. Don't you feel soooo good when you wake up the next day and know that you won't feel queasy, guilty or depressed? That is the feeling that I want to feel more and more.....not the sick and tired feeling....Like many on here say, "I'm so sick and tired of being sick and tired"!

Seeking how ya doing girl? Hope you keep us posted.

[seeking1]

Hi, all! Doing great, Brightlite, thanks for asking.

So far my nights have been four drinks, two and 1/2 drinks, 6 drinks, AF. Last night was AF. I am tapering off benzos in addition to starting the NAL (benzos for sleep). I took half my usual benzo dose plus some OTC last night and slept 5 hours (great for me)! I think it's not going to be as hard as I imagined to kick the benzo sleeping crutch and just focus on Al and Nal.

Thank you for your support! How's everyone else doing?

[brightlite]

That sounds like a good plan Seeking. I don't know too much about Benzos. I usually sleep pretty good, unless I am on night two AF...then I toss and turn. I guess I just ride it out...only to do it all over again. I really don't have to want to take anything else to sleep. I do have melatonin and take that sometimes and I think it really helps.

It's 4:30pm.....almost bewitching hour. I took my Nal and I know that I have some Pinot in the fridge. I will have to fight the airlines/airport tomorrow. I'll be visiting relatives and will need to keep my wine consumption in check. I hope that I can do that and I'm hoping the Nal will help. And, my alkie brain says....that I might as well drink tonight, because for the next few nights it will have to be one or two glasses at the most if at all. At least it should be warm and I will get some pool/beach time and relaxation hopefully. Maybe I'll surprise myself tonight and only want one or two glasses, I guess we will see. The craving is not bad at all right now....so I'll wait a little longer and see what happens.

Hanginon, plainvanilla, 8....keep posting.

[seeking1]

Brightlite, you will be in my thoughts. Just remember that even if you have more than you set out to, you're doing the right thing. It's all extinguishing triggers, and if you're triggered and drinking, your body is working it out. Keep us posted!

[seeking1]

Update:

I am not sure how to calculate units, even after reading the book and many posts about calculating.

What I AM sure of is that I will get my life back.

Normal week, pre-TSM: 50 glasses of wine, sometimes AF days, sometimes none

First week on TSM: 20 glasses of wine, 2 AF days

I am feeling self-respect and hope. Lots of anxiety and sleeplessness, but these are to be expected as I rein in my years of self-medicating. I think that in a few weeks I will be sleeping normally as I break my reliance on benzos and booze. I'm sleeping now after 3 or 4 glasses of wine, which I wouldn't have thought possible a week ago. I hope that I will come to sleep naturally on AF days once my body stops relying on one outside chemical or another.

Guessing I'm going to spike this week as my body tries to get its endorphin high (last night was my biggest consumption so far on TSM but still would've been a slow night for me in the past). But I'm ready for it to be good, too! I'll keep you posted....

[Chocolate Mousse]

Well i am on my 4th week now of Nal. I guess i am asking you both this as you both drink wine. the only drink i consume is wine and was very worried when i read about TSM not seeing such good results with wine drinkers, have any of you got any info on this??