Heyo all! Here's a thread whose sole purpose is to give those who have a grievance against the Sinclair Method a place to air it all out. I and several others have noticed an influx of comments detracting from the Sinclair Method, and or touting the (statistically speaking) miserably ineffective recovery/abstinence modality. In an effort to give those would would discuss in good faith a chance to do so, I'm making this post every Friday. Please take this opportunity to engage with people for whom the Sinclair Method has literally be life saving.

Having said that, I will take this opportunity to say I'm gonna start straight up deleting comments that say anything like "IWNDWYT" or something to that effect. For those repeat offenders who never take the opportunity to post here, I'm just gonna have to hand you a ban. There are very few places on the internet where the Sinclair Method can be discussed safely, and that's something worth protecting. Until I figure out a better way to mitigate the bad faith folks who come here to detract from the life-saving Sinclair Method, this is just how it has to be.

So with that unpleasantness out of the way, feel free to leave your grievances in the comments! I will drink with you today if I'm properly protected!

Went to the ER. Am I crazy or is this advice terrible?

Hey y'all! This is a place for you to post your successes, great and small, with the Sinclair Method! Whatever it is that the Sinclair Method has done for you lately, feel free to leave it here!

I'll give a brief snapshot of my own story: I was a binge drinker for 20 years that started at weekend keg parties in high school and progressed to drinking 15 units nightly of spirits and beer near the start of the pandemic. This is the same time period that my first child was born.

I have now taken control of my drinking with the help of The Sinclair Method and this community and enjoy a majority of AF days most weeks. I get to enjoy being clear headed around my children and enthusiastic about experiencing the world as it unfolds to them without the dread of searching for the next drink.

If you've got any similarly positive stories, feel free to share them here! :)

A couple weeks ago my doctor had me on just 25mg Librium I was fine. But they had sent in a 10mg week dose and said start taking 10mg after you’re done. So yesterday I took one and i was okay for the most part but in the afternoon my heart started to feel weird like a heart attack, I started sweating it was like I was half withdrawing and it kept getting worse. All the nurses told me to go to the er but I wasn’t going to have my family drive me in the dark. So I took an extra Librium and felt a thousand times better. But I feel like I did wrong by not listening and using my judgement .They say im not supposed to be withdrawing from alcohol but it sure felt like it . Its only been since the begining of November. Feeling really down because I don’t know what I’ll do for the next days if my doctor doesn’t understand. I just want to feel normal again. I feel like I’m just being ripped off really quick and I don’t want to go to the ER again.

I continued my AF streak but my doctor helped me "prep" by suggesting a small increase in NAL and Gabapentin a few days prior to Christmas and keeping it up though today. Since I am AF, I am not doing TSM but I could certainly feel less compulsion of thoughts about drinking.

Doc adviced me to still take my naltrexone through my drinking, but what about campral? I've had two stints of sobriety on this drug, amd combined with naltrexone they seemed to reduce the number of times the thought of alcohol entered my brain. Major parts of the day I can just leave it or take it, I don't obsess like I would otherwise.

Now I'm drinking again, so what's the advice? Just continue taking the drugs as prescribed and try to stop?

I’ve been tracking my drinks daily since I started take Naltrexone back in July. I was/am a regular heavy drinker. I never counted before but I’m pretty sure most weekend days I was 20+ drinks a day on the weekends. I’ve seen a lot posts about people worrying because they had one crazy night. As you can see, I’ve had lots of spikes, but my overall trend is going down. Mentally I can feel the change happening I feel that I am ready to just stop soon but with tomorrow being a holiday it might be hard. Maybe in the new year? Anyways. Just wanted to share. Hope this helps someone.

Around 30 hours ago i took 400 mg of antabuse supervised, now sitting With terrible anxiety thinking of having just 2 500 3.5 % beers wondering IF I would be fine to have just the 2 of them,because this was the only time i took antabuse and I have heard that it needs a few doses to build up.

Title says it all. I basically want to get anything that will help my body recover from the damage of heavy drinking, both mentally and physically. And suggestions? I know vitamin B, water, lots of electrolytes etc.

So I am currently taking topiramate (3 times per day 25 mg)-Risperidone ( 3 times per day 1 mg)- Flouxetine/ Prozac( 20 mg per day) - Depakene ( 300 mg per day)- Antabus (250 mg per day) and Gabapentin (300 3 times per day) I know is a lot of meds some of them are for my bpd ( risperidone and depakene) and for depression( flouxetine) the rest were recently prescribed for AUD currently 11 day sober after 1 week in a rehab center.

Just for context I take disulfiram for preventative care. Both of my parents were alcoholics and when I turned 22 I realized I like being drunk way too much, and I had to get drunk every time I drank to I decided I just shouldn’t, so I don’t end up like my parents. I’ve taken disulfiram for 6 years without having a drink. I went to a Christmas party and I accidentally picked up my husbands tequila thinking it was my waterand took a huge swig. I was waiting for the effect of the disulfiram to kick in and nothing happened. As bad as it is I felt the buzz from the gulp I toon and I drank the rest of the night no side effects.I take 500mg everyday for almost 7 years in march. I’m not sure if I’ve built a tolerance to it but it worries me that the pill just isn’t working. Also I will take down this post because I don’t want anyone who’s on the medication to drink on it because I had a different reaction. I just want someone else’s experience on it. Is this normal ?

Hi, anyone from India here who has taken Vivitrol Injections, I am unable to get the exact price of these injections in India.

My psych wants me to get the vivitrol shot instead of the pills. She said it works the same when you out drink by blocking the buzzed feeling.

My psych doesn’t know I’m doing TSM and I don’t really wanna mention it. I think the vivitrol shot would be more convenient anyways.

I’ve been on nal now since early November and still get giddy/euphoric/energized when starting drinking for day. I’m a black out/pass out drinker and never ever stopping until I can’t stay awake or stand. However, the last week I’ve been stopping and going to bed not sober but remembering going to bed! I’ve actually last 3 nights switched to herbal tea! Like wtf?? I’m sooooo hopeful this will continue and was sooooo surprised that the effects for me first showed up not as “less desire/no effect on first drinks” and now are showing at end of night! I find this medicine so interesting how it affects us all so differently just stay open and consistent with it.

Welcome to another lovely Saturday check in! Whatever it is you've got going on lately, feel free to leave it in the comments! As always, to you lovely lurkers: we see you, we love you, come out when you're ready! :)

Hey! So I’m on Auvelity, Vivitrol (shots), and clonidine. But I accidentally just took two clonidine before bed. Am I okay or do I need to go to Urgent Care??

I've been taking naltrexone 50mg daily. I haven't had a reduction in desire to drink, but I noticed when I do I dont have that "I've been in a desert for 10 years and this is my first sip of water" feeling I usually get with my first sip of alcohol. Does this mean it's working?

I've been posting updates on my Nal journey since I started it February 2022. Here is my last post from May, which also links to a previous update from Oct '23 which also has all of my past posts if you want to follow along.

Tonight, I may have a beer at our family dinner out at a restaurant. I want a beer, but if I don't get one I'll be ok, too. If I do drink the beer, I'm ok having it just be one and not having another drink until 2025. It'll be my first time drinking since we had a few drinks on a trip last week. I behaved myself mostly on the trip, but I'll be honest that a few drinks made me feel like crap. I threw up one night after about 32 oz of IPAs. Before the trip, I hadn't had a drink since September when my wife and I decided to cut out alcohol until after the holidays to avoid temptation. We didn't make it, obviously, but it's been more on want vs need, if that makes sense.

Back in May, I posted that I planned to end 9-months of alcohol free. I did drink abroad, never to a point near blackout, but it never felt great. When we returned, we made a rule that we wouldn't keep alcohol at home. I didn't like that rule, and changed it to that I'd only drink a max of two drinks each night Friday/Saturday. Unfortunately, that sometimes became 4 or 5 days out of 7. I don't think I ever drank enough to get seriously drunk, but I'm at a point where my body can't process more than one drink, and even one hurts my sleep. So to fix it, I gave up drinking yet again. There was zero withdrawal or even much missing it, which was a first even after a long time of TSM.

What's the future hold? I'm not sure. I do feel much more in control of AUD, but I still struggle with the reality that quitting alcohol forever is my best option for my health, even though it isn't necessarily what I want to do. I'm going to need to continue finding the balance between sobriety and casual drinking, but I do attribute this being even a possibility to the work I put in with TSM.

Hey y'all! This is a place for you to post your successes, great and small, with the Sinclair Method! Whatever it is that the Sinclair Method has done for you lately, feel free to leave it here!

I'll give a brief snapshot of my own story: I was a binge drinker for 20 years that started at weekend keg parties in high school and progressed to drinking 15 units nightly of spirits and beer near the start of the pandemic. This is the same time period that my first child was born.

I have now taken control of my drinking with the help of The Sinclair Method and this community and enjoy a majority of AF days most weeks. I get to enjoy being clear headed around my children and enthusiastic about experiencing the world as it unfolds to them without the dread of searching for the next drink.

If you've got any similarly positive stories, feel free to share them here! :)

Heyo all! Here's a thread whose sole purpose is to give those who have a grievance against the Sinclair Method a place to air it all out. I and several others have noticed an influx of comments detracting from the Sinclair Method, and or touting the (statistically speaking) miserably ineffective recovery/abstinence modality. In an effort to give those would would discuss in good faith a chance to do so, I'm making this post every Friday. Please take this opportunity to engage with people for whom the Sinclair Method has literally be life saving.

Having said that, I will take this opportunity to say I'm gonna start straight up deleting comments that say anything like "IWNDWYT" or something to that effect. For those repeat offenders who never take the opportunity to post here, I'm just gonna have to hand you a ban. There are very few places on the internet where the Sinclair Method can be discussed safely, and that's something worth protecting. Until I figure out a better way to mitigate the bad faith folks who come here to detract from the life-saving Sinclair Method, this is just how it has to be.

So with that unpleasantness out of the way, feel free to leave your grievances in the comments! I will drink with you today if I'm properly protected!

Has anyone managed to get this for a reasonable price? I haven’t read anything the pill, but was hoping to try the shot going into the holidays. My provider hasn’t responded though so I’m not even sure she gives the injection. And my insurance estimated $1400!

I originally used sesame.com to get my rx but now I only see contrave come up when I look for naltrexone on their website. Has anyone used them recently successfully? Recently as in less than 3 months ago?

Can't use oar in my state apparently. If sesame is out does anyone have any other online suggestions? Can't get a single provider irl to prescribe for me so am stuck with the online thing.

OK, I tried TSM in June of 2023 to May of 2024/with great success. I cut down t o50% of my drinking. For context I struggled for years trying to cut down mainly because I knew alcoholism ran in my family. It was really starting to afgecr my mental health after the pandemic. Not a high drinker, but 4 glasses of wine 7 days a week was starting to take a toll on my mental health. By may 2024 I got down to 2 glasses 3/days a week, which I was satisfied with at that point but wanted to cut down to only weekend as my end goal. In May 2024 I went through a period of really bad anxiety to the point where I couldn't eat, let alone drink, for about 3 weeks.

As a result I stopped taking NAL. Then slowly started to drink again without the NAL. I have tried a few times to get back on TSM although my habits hadnt changed that much. I notice that even with titrating, the pill is affecting me differently than before - increased nausea, which triggers my anxiety.

In the past couple of months I've noticed my drinking slowly starting to creep up again, and taking up more mental space. I want to give it another try again in Jan - please any advice or encouragement! I felt so amazing last year.

Thanks!

Hey I am going to be prescribed Campral soon and I am struggling to get much information from it online. I know it ‘resets’ the brains neurological chemistry from chronic AUD, especially with psychological support, but I was wondering- Does cravings for alcohol only stop when you are on the drug- after 6 months of taking it, will the cravings come back? If someone was on campral and came off of it, if they took an alcoholic drink would their brain ‘remember’ the old neuropathways and go back to alcoholic drinking or because the brain has been healing and has been chemically restoring, the drinking wouldn’t be so uncontrolled/heavy

Sorry if these are not scientifically accurate or stupid questions- I just am curious- I want to know the potency of the drug before taking it. I have no desire to relapse if I did go off of acamprostrate- but I am interested in what the long term effects of taking it short term would be for an alcoholic brain.