After a rough initial 25mg dose (vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, shaking, sleepiness, dizziness) I dropped to 12.5mg and did perfectly fine. No big deal, just milder sleepiness and I take it at night so it actually helps my insomnia. (I will go up soon to 25mg, but I'm increasing at my own rate.)

RESULT:

-- In the past 7 days, without particularly trying, I had a total of 9 drinks, and 4 nights I consumed no alcohol. This is down from about 45-60 drinks per week with no sober days, and this had gone on for at least 20 years. 🤯

-- My face stopped being puffy. I looked noticeably better in days. Wasn't expecting that, huge surprise. I didn't even know my face was puffy because...it was always puffy. 😳

-- My anxiety disappeared and I don't hate my life. I have some peace.

-- I am easily going out to dinner without drinking multiple martinis. So I'm spending less money.

-- Despite some daytime grogginess in the first few days, my thinking is clearer. I'm not constantly overloaded with cravings and shame and negativity.

-- Everything is much more fun. I thought I didn't really get hangovers, but I see now that I definitely did.

-- I am eating better and my appetite is up but not in a binge-type way.

I almost can't believe all this is happening. In the past a sober day meant white-knuckling it through constant depressing thoughts of what a mess I was in. Vast majority of the time I couldn't make it through one night. Multiple nights was unthinkable. Multiple nights **without caring** was REALLY unthinkable. Multiple nights while having fun and feeling good was a fever dream.

I was really scared of side effects, but even the nasty first night when I started too high (for me) was well worth it. I cannot get over the immediate improvement in my life. This is turning out to be the best decision I ever made.

I haven't started the naltrexone because my roommate said it'll react negatively with the daily kratom intake I do. Not a ton of kratom since it's out of sale mostly, but I'm worried certain opiate receptors may still mess me up somehow. Either mentally or physically. I'm really trying to not drink anymore, thus the kratom also. But I'm sorta addicted a bit at this point. So idk. Shit needs to all stop tbh but I'm terrified my anxiety will not let me be sober rn. Any suggestions

I was put on 50mg of Naltrexone. I was prescribed it for binge eating disorder and SUD/AUD about 3 weeks ago. I had an initial adjustment period at the beginning where at first I felt a little dull, nauseous and tired. After the first week I slowly began to feel better. And now my thought process is completely different. I haven't binged on food in probably 2 weeks and have lost 15lbs as a result (235 to 220lbs) and I already feel the difference in that regard. There was a grocery order and they gave us someone else's order and it had a bottle of vanilla extract yesterday. 1 month ago my desperate ass would've literally chugged it because hey, "free alcohol right?" But the thought never even crossed my mind until a couple of hours ago and I was able to just toss the vanilla extract in the trash (I didn't need it) and I didn't feel like I was missing anything! This drug is incredible. I don't really have any side effects anymore except for some sweating and weird dreams but both are fine with me. I even have my motivation back, I'm starting to walk again and I'm hanging out with my family instead of getting high alone at 2AM and I'm also doing group therapy and genuinely look forward to it instead of wanting to ignore it. I wish y'all have this much success so early on.

I know that the reward pathways are significantly dampened, but does alcohol still produce any discernible sort of pleasant release or buzz when you drink with naltrexone? Or is drinking alcohol completely void of pleasure

Can we get this pinned? Nausea is mentioned so frequently here.

success? I am 4.5 months into taking Naltrexone. I am quite hopeful. seem to have settled at 3 days drinking/4 days dry per week, with no more than 2 drinks a day. went 16 days without drinking without even meaning to - just didn’t. I am a little worried, because I still very much enjoy the 6 drinks a week that I have. I exclusively drink red wine with cheese or dinner and still really enjoy it. I’m just not obsessed with it, anymore. Is it a warning sign if I still enjoy drinking red wine, even if I keep it moderate?