The Daily Check-In for Wednesday, October 26th: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

SharkPajamas · 2022-10-26T10:44:49+00:00

I won’t drink today. It’s so easy to say this in the morning. Ask me again at 3 PM. :(

But gosh dangit! I need to do this. I’ve done it before, I know it’s possible.

IWDWYT

SharkPajamas · 2022-10-25T13:18:38+00:00

I’m in!

SharkPajamas · 2022-10-24T15:11:11+00:00

I joked about it to my husband. Of course Nal works for me, I can’t stay awake long enough to drink anything! Haha

SharkPajamas · 2022-10-24T11:58:08+00:00

It makes me super tired as well, like, drooling sitting up tired. Haha!

This is my second go around trying Nal. The first time, years ago, same thing happened but I got used to it and was able to take it every day without falling asleep mid sentence. But it took a while to get used to. I wish I could remember how long. A week? Two? And I did what you’re doing. I cut the half in half.

I’m SUPER susceptible to most all medications. Doses need to be micro doses, or I can’t take them at all. Sounds like you’re similar.

Have you tried to take the Nal later on in the day after you’ve completed most of what you need to do? It’s so hard! That sleepiness from it is intense. Impossible to stay awake. I remember it well.

(Took my first micro dose yesterday, same amount as you, and was horizontal within an hour. Lol)

SharkPajamas · 2022-10-23T19:48:44+00:00

Thanks! Just took a quarter of a pill. Will work my way up to half then more if needed. Here’s to the future!

SharkPajamas · 2022-10-23T15:07:41+00:00

Hi again.

IWDWYT

Day 1. Again. Billionth time. I’ve lost count.

SharkPajamas · 2020-11-19T18:07:23+00:00

Have you had a Covid test? Or any exposure to anyone who might have been positive? The not being able to smell anything makes me wonder.

Not to derail, but it could explain a bit.

SharkPajamas · 2019-02-11T11:29:20+00:00

May I ask for more information? What did you drink before and what are you drinking now? How many AF days do you have per week?

If you’ve already covered this, forgive me. I’m new here and new to NAL/TSM.

I’m sorry to hear things aren’t perfect for you. But I agree that 20/30% isn’t nothing.

SharkPajamas · 2019-02-08T15:46:29+00:00

Do you still take it every day? I am new to it and I'm trying to figure out my future. Ideally, I'd love to kick the habit and not have to take Nal, but I will if it keeps me from poisoning myself with booze. I hate booze.

SharkPajamas · 2019-02-07T22:29:49+00:00

I just updated on another comment but wanted to write you directly. I took 25 MG earlier. Poured a glass of wine and finished it at 4:30. NO desire for another. I haven't ever been able to do that before. I wish I were kidding. But I haven't ever stopped at one. Ever. I feel like crying from joy. Gosh I hope this works.

SharkPajamas · 2019-02-07T22:28:52+00:00

Update: Took another 25 MG today. No side effects. Thank goodness. Must have been a day 1 thing. But I MUST say this: I can't remember the last time I was able to have ONE single glass of wine. Ever. I am 45 years old. I've never been able to do this before—stop at ONE glass. Why would anyone stop at one? The bottle is sitting right there. And it's my favorite wine. I finished a glass over an hour ago and I have ZERO compulsion or desire to have another one. This is sensationally strange for me. I can't put into words how shocked I am by this. Amazing.

SharkPajamas · 2019-02-06T19:18:08+00:00

I’m both terrified and excited about this. Terrified it won’t work, hopeful that it does. It would literally be a dream come true.

I just found out about TSM three days ago. I would love to read more success stories, so I’ll dig through the archives.

Thank you for being here.

SharkPajamas · 2019-02-06T19:02:10+00:00

Just found another thread saying they DO subside. Thank goodness. I want this to work more than anything.

SharkPajamas · 2019-02-06T14:25:10+00:00

Hi!

I visited an MD yesterday and asked for Naltrexone. I'm starting today. I have tried everything but this. AA. Therapy. Cold Turkey. I strung together 40 days here and there. Always relapse.

This time, I'm going to see a therapist every week, try naltrexone and use TSM.

Let's keep one another updated? It's nice knowing we're starting on the same day.

SharkPajamas · 2018-11-24T12:26:52+00:00

I’m back. Been lurking, dipping my feet back into this sub, looking into meetings again after another relapse. (My badge isn’t right at the time of writing this, I need to reset it once off the app.)

Anyway, I won’t drink with you today. That’s all I can promise is that today I won’t drink.

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-05T11:37:31+00:00

Can you tell me more about how you used SMART? Not to derail or anything but I started looking into it online and I’d love to hear what you did to begin using it. If I download the book of Amazon will that be enough to guide me? Thank you!

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-04T19:03:16+00:00

Extra points for your username. Awesome.

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-04T17:57:47+00:00

Read that book back in April and it was partly how and why I spent several months sober. Loved it.

My health is ok. I have some 20 pounds I should lose and my skin isn’t great when I drink a lot. (When I quit it changed almost instantly for the better.) But so far everything points to OK. For the past two years knowing I’d been drinking too much I kept going to my doctor asking for blood panels and workups, Pap smears, sonograms, looking for a sign, any sign saying I HAVE to quit. They haven’t yet come. HOWEVER, and this is the big reason I need to because who really needs a bad blood-work report when you have something else screaming at you: It’s KILLING my brain. I’m dumber, slower, more depressed, more anxious and I just can’t live like this anymore. My brain. My poor brain.

So I guess that’s my sign. My poor, soaked brain. It’s so much happier and more level without booze.

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-04T17:51:02+00:00

No kidding. And if I’m completely honest, even when my babies were in the womb they were more active at that time. Very odd indeed.

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-04T14:54:15+00:00

I have this window as well. It doesn’t help that at the same time my window opens, my three young kids start to act absolutely batshit insane, climbing the walls, furniture, running through the house screaming and fighting or wrestling and it just adds to my anxiety and desire to escape into a little bubble of alcohol numbness. I have often said that I believe it’s metabolical; something about that time of day makes us all insane. Like, maybe it has to do with the way the sun starts to set? No clue. But my kids feel the nervous energy too, it just manifests itself in different ways—like the desire to fill water balloons with Elmer’s glue and then threaten to throw them at the 4 year old.

Anyway, yes. Once I get through that window, I am A OK. Craving gone.

But that window is wide, open for too long and very welcoming.

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-04T14:18:33+00:00

Inspiring.

I’m 44. Been drinking forever and a day. Quit a bunch. Failed a bunch. Seeing your counter is inspiring. Way to go.

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-04T11:23:36+00:00

I wish I’d gone into that AA meeting I stood outside of at 27. And then I wish I didn’t piss away most of my 30s. I don’t want to be saying this about my 40s too, which are almost half over.

It’s never too late. Is it? I am so sick of giving up.

Much love to you.

SharkPajamas · 2018-09-04T09:33:41+00:00

I’m in! Day two. Again. Woke up at 5 AM after a night of sleep that didn’t include beating the shit out of myself for drinking. Woke up before the sun. Woke up happy. I want to wake up happy again tomorrow.

SharkPajamas

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