I'm still drinking quite a lot. Over 3 months now taking the Nal. I could be discouraged, but I'm not, because what the Nal has absolutely helped me with is enabling me to STOP drinking too much....so in 3 months I have only had 3 hangovers. Before Nal, I had 3 hangovers a WEEK! It was really interfering with my life. But not any more. These days I have to pinch myself because I am feeling so good. I'm still drinking 4 or 5, occasionally 6 ciders a night, but that's it.

I say "ciders" because Nal has totally eliminated my interest and taste in beer! Beer was my drink of choice for many, many, many years. Now, I can't stand it! Not any more! Wine doesn't interest me anymore either. I used to drink it once or twice a week instead of beer. Both have been extinguished! I suspect the same will happen soon with the cider....and I think that THEN I will be free....

Thanks to Nal, the quality of my life is SO much better than it was before I started taking it. If where I'm at now is all that it does for me, I will be ever so grateful. I'm hopeful for the cure, however. Abstinence -- AF days each and every day thanks to the extinction process working its magic, is my hope!

KOKO, friends.

dabs i never noticed that i changed my beer to lighter tasting beer. and now i have to suck on a lemon after every sip.AND it take me 4 hours to drink 9 beers where as i would be done with ten bbers in 1 and a half hours. i always drank super fast. NOW i take my time. plus when i started tsm i also started lamictol(mood stabileing pill) and that pill kicked in two month later and i feel like a king now. and i want everyone to kn ow this. i also like to watch porn for a hour a day. i have not watched porn for4 month. i mean no desire whats so ever to watch porn. i still have the desire to have sex but not porn. and belive me i felt like crap after watching porn. i dont want to sin against GOD. i tell you people GOD has giving me my life back. i have hope with tsm. i no longer am a slave to porn. my son who is 18 was very Physically violent to me and my wife. he is back to normal.(on medication) i found a new buisness im going to do. i ran into you great people. and the new medication im taking SAVED my life. and i get NO hangovers at all. what else can i ask for.l love you guys. have a great day.

Great news Larry,

I suspect that there are a lot of people like us who may still be drinking quite a bit, but the Nal has already made big changes in our lives, which in itself is pretty amazing and wonderful. Now we just have to hang in there to wait for the Nal to free us from our drinking completely.

Take care.

Good deal Dab. TSM really is about baby steps. It's amazing with you start to feel the changes TSM brings.

Q

So yesterday, around my usual "Bell's are Ringing" (an old Musical) drinking time, which for me is around 5...I thought to myself...."Hmmmm....I don't really NEED to have a drink...let's see if I can keep myself busy with this and that to get past it." I certainly felt the tug of the ol' habit...to sit down at 5:30 and start watching the news with a nice cold one in my hand. Instead, I PVR'ed the news and worked on the new chord I've been struggling with on my guitar and then shifted my attention to setting up "iPhoto" on my Mac with my iPad and iPhone...and before I knew it, it was 8pm...dinner was ready....which I ate and enjoyed, and then I watched the latest version of, "The Boss".

Done. A fairly easily put "AF" day. My craving around 5 was around 2 on the scale of things. But then the news came on and I had to deal with the HABIT...which wasn't easy, but at least I wasn't going through alcohol withdrawal -- that came later around 11. But, thanks to my Clonazepam (like Ativan), plus a half of the "little blue pill" -- aka...Imovane, I was able to relax and go to sleep. I slept like a rock, until about 5...was up for about a half hour, but then went back to sleep.

Today, I felt like a Million-minus one--bucks! I could feel the alcohol withdrawal happening, but it was at an easily manageable level all day. Tonight, my best friend was in town and so I had several beer. Tonight, however, I tried something different. Of course I took my Nal before drinking. But this time, for the first time, after I was 3 hours in and 4 beers later, I popped another 25 mgs of Nal, because I knew I would be there drinking for another couple hours, which indeed I was. I had 6 pints in total. I took the extra Nal at the 3 hour mark because I know that after 4 hours the Nal "half-life" is only 4 hours....so taking the extra 25 mgs was to top it up. I'm going to try this "recipe" from now on in....hopefully with the support of my Dr., who I see this week.

After all is said and done, tonight, BEFORE I started taking the Nal three months ago, I could have easily ended up having 7 or 8 pints or more. It could have turned into a binge like the old days, landing me God knows where at the end of the evening...but that didn't happen....thanks again to the Nal. At the very least, the Nal enables me to put the cap on it after whatever number of beers. Day's gone by, I couldn't do that. I wouldn't be here writing this. I'd still be out and about, giving myself nothing but grief to deal with tomorrow morning. Instead, tomorrow morning I am going to awaken, maybe a little hungover, but in a state, NOTHING like before.

If THIS is all that Nal ever does for me....it's still a miracle. Of course I am hoping for so much more. My goal is total abstinence. I'm just-a-waitin for that baby to be born. Stay tuned, my dear friends, and see!

Love ya all. Take care.

wow thats great news dabs, i am so glad to here the great news. just keep it up and that baby will will be born. i hope i will get there. i need to put a effort like you did. but like you said if i could stay at 6 and feel as good as i feel now i would be happy with that. but i would like more resuts. keep up the great job buddy.

Hi Dab,

Ive been reading your posts for the last while, I dont get to post much with teenagers here hogging the lap top.
But just wanted to say Im very impressed how well things are going for you. Your post is so positive and I can see you' re really happy with where you are at.

Congratulations on doing so well and I wish you even better success in the future,

FallingToPieces

Dab, that's great to hear. I'm glad you're doing well. KOKO

Thank you so much for your support, friends.

Since my last entry....I have put in yet another AF day! What a joy! It wasn't that easy....fighting as I was with the 30-year habit....but thanks to a few days ago doing the same, I did it again. I kept busy watching the last 3 episodes of "Chicago Fire"....! Today was difficult, being SO SOBER....my brain going through alcohol withdrawal...after so many years. But, oh my God, was it worth it!??? ABSOLUTELY!!! I haven't felt so free after so --too many years!!! What a blessing -- all thanks to Dr. Sinclair.

Hang in there folks....if TSM works for you, it will....in its own time. For some a short time, for others longer...but if its meant to be for you --- for the 80% of the people who stick to it and become CURED....YOU, and I hope me, will join the ranks. I'm just around the corner from my own freedom from the demon-drink. I hope that you will join me in the crusade, and ultimate VICTORY!!!

Y'all take care.

How ironic and disappointing that although I've fairly easily put in 2 AF days in the past week, I have also made up for it by drinking to excess both times the day after. It's as if, "The Devil made me do it". Both times I had no plan to drink too much....I just ended up doing it, with no awareness or certainly no care for what I was doing and for what the consequences would be: 2 horrendous "Nalovers". At least the Nal punishes us (or a lot of us) with terrible hangovers. That does help the rest of the time to put a cap on things.

But why I'm suddenly drinking to excess (i.e.., bingeing) is a mystery to me. It's as if a small part of my brain is putting up a big fight because it KNOWS that the Nal is WINNING, and it ain't going to go peacefully! I'm curious to know if others on the cusp of being cured have had a similar experience?

Oh well. Still trudging along. Last week was my lowest weekly units yet! The sweet smell of victory is in the air!

Nal-on everybody.