Just sharing an experience here. Been struggling to stop with so many relapse. Longest i went was 30days and each relapse was worse than before.
Then I watched this Ted talk which introduces the sinclair method. I went online and bought some from indian pharmacist.
Prior to that i went dry for 10 days. On day 11 i took a tablet an hour before and went drinking with a bunch of friends. Initially i felt nothing, the first two glasses of wine felt great…then it kicks in. The nauseating feeling…no significant feeling of high…and for the first time in my life…i left a full glass of wine unfinished. Paid the bills and left. The wine experience was awful.
Amazing little pills. Help you ‘erase’ the memory of how good the high is.
I too was relapsing every month or week or however long i could last for a long time. I also saw this method and was very close to starting it but I decided to try AA first as my “second to last resort”. Happy to report I have been attending meetings daily, have a sponsor and working the steps. My desire to drink has dissapeared and I have met so many interesting, sober people that understand my struggles. I finally have some peace and hope. My Wife is pretty pleased as well, much happier on many levels. Lots more work to do i know, but that will continue until they put me in a pine box.
I’ve been on naltrexone for 4years for opiates and I have had no side effects from it. I take it daily but when I leave the country for vacation I don’t and that’s the beauty that there is no withdrawals or sleep issues it’s just a great pill
Do you find that it eliminates cravings? That’s the reason I have fought to get it prescribed, I don’t intend on using anything.
They would not prescribe it for me when I first asked a couple of weeks ago,I think they originally said no because it’s quite expensive. I just wanted to use every tool available and an happy to hear you have been having a positive experience with it
Is it expensive? I pay $5 here in ny for it but yes it helps with cravings and I would recommend it to anyone who has struggled through opiate addiction. I do remember the first days though that I was on it I wanted to get high so I did and it felt like I was being stabbed all over my body. I didn’t get high but I remember the pain. It’s a great opiate blocker but it won’t eliminate all cravings just help them become milder
I believe it is quite expensive though I will only be paying the cost of the prescription which isn’t much. Yeah I have no intention of using wrist on it, I realise it won’t necessarily eliminate all cravings and I don’t really get many. It’s just a tool I feel I may benefit from using.
Thank you for sharing your experience with it
I take Naltrexone alongside Antabuse but only on days when I know I have an event or something that slightly worries me, I’m not even sure if it does anything or it’s just a placebo effect, but ibwas warned not to drink on it? That said, whatever works for you!
Don’t you drink a little with the Sinclair method, I could be wrong but going off your posts in recent months of suggest you would be much better off not drinking, I’m just remembering how much you seem to have struggled getting detoxed. I’m not trying to be a dick
I think naltrexone does work when your aren’t drinking, it eliminates some of the cravings apparently. I thought the point of this Sinclair NetID was drinking some, yeah drinking when on librium probable wouldn’t be the brightest idea:joy:
Try it by all means just be wary it’s not the brain using it as an excuse to have a drink, thankfully there’s no such methods for drug use, that I know of anyway
If you’ve already detoxed from alcohol there is absolutely 0 point to starting the Sinclair method. You’ve already gotten through the detox please don’t go back to that. Naltrexone works just fine at taking away the cravings without drinking. I was on it for 7 months and I didn’t really crave booze or heroin.
So let me get this right, you want to drink whilst on naltrexone following the Sinclair method so that you no longer want to drink or so you no longer enjoy drinking, if that is the case then why not just not drink.
I could have got that wrong and in really not trying to knock you.
I’ve read many posts of yours on this forum ranging from you seeming to say people who claim to be alcoholics are being snowflakes by saying that instead of re training their brains to not drink that way. Right up to your struggling like mad for a while to get yourself in to and through detox I just don’t see why you would like to drink even if it helps you to not have a problem with drinking.
I’m a recovering heroin addict who is due to start taking naltrexone, this video clip suggested that if I take heroin a couple of times whilst on naltrexone then my brain will forget that taking heroin is pleasurable and rewarding. I simply wish to no longer take heroin so whether it feels pleasurable or rewarding really doesn’t come in to it.
Again I could completely have the wrong end of the sick here and I’m not trying to mock or take the piss out of you so I’m sorry if it comes across that way.
I’m just trying to see where your coming from and what you hope to gain from this
