And will not be going through that again. I expected the spaced out feeling, numbness and even nausea and gastric upset, but in addition have suffered muscle spasms all night which affected my whole body. Woke OH as was scared. Worried it would be affecting my heart muscle. I was twisted up and shaking many times. Loads of difficult visits to the logo. Lost lots of fluid and feel very weak this morning.
The waves of these effects have left me thinking about what alcohol does to our bodies. This one pill has been a nightmare.
Thanks for your post. Still sffering the dizziness the the spasms have subsided. Just feel extremely weak. Felt so frightened. Worst I've felt for a long time
No idea when all this will go........ no more drugs for me. It's either no alcohol or controlled from now on. God knows what alcohol is doing if one pill can do that :'(
I don't know which pill you took but the side effects sound like me on Naltrexone. After day 3 I thought I was dying. I prayed so much it would help me. The anxiousness and vivid dreams had me crazy. Right now I'm on day 6 alcohol free. I take a very low dose of baclofen which don't help tremendously but I know my body is OK with it since I took it for muscle spasms some time ago. I planned on asking my doctor for campral at my appointment next week but not too sure I wanna go through possible side effects again since the side effects from Naltrexone drove me to drink the side effects away. Of course I stopped taking it. I've decided to join the local gym and start horseback riding. For myself I need to try a different approach. Something more healthy. I figure if i spend so much money drinking that i might as well spend it on something good. I'm also going to outpatient counseling and group therapy. I'm not into AA and of course that's my choice. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience on whatever you tried. Some people, like myself are just extremely sensitive to medication. I hope you feel better soon and pray you find something that works for you. Blessings!
It was selincro. Can't remember the proper name. Am in the uk.
One pill. Felt ill within the first hour. But had two glasses of wine despite feeling bad. Yes felt slightly better after that. Didn't want any more. But during the night had to sleep in foetal position to stop the spasms. Every time I tried to move my whole body spasmed. I was terrified.
19 hours later I am so weak. I truly hope I haven't damaged my body.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Selincro is another name for Nalmefene which is like Naltrexone. I think everyone's body reacts differently. I think it worked for me the first 2 nights but the 3rd night I thought I was going to die. So close to going to the nearest hospital. But, I must say I felt it working and I do think it could help a lot of people. I am just not one of them and apparently you are not either.
Nothing against anyone because we all have our own ways to stay sober but I am finding I really need to stop being so lazy and getting more active. I'm relying on pills that make me feel terrible and people that let me down. I have to own my own sobriety. I do rely on my outpatient counseling and my group therapy for venting reasons. I choose not to go to AA as I've been there many times and it's just not for me.
I don't believe I'm powerless over alcohol. I believe I need to gain strength and have more faith in ME! I don't believe I lost all control forever. I think I can gain that back. I don't choose to sit at an AA meeting and call myself an alcoholic every day and listen to the same stories over and over. I was sober for 11 years and for those years i kept busy with my kids in school and sports. Now maybe I need to keep busy with myself and working out and finding things I like to do. I'm tired about whining which pill isn't helping and that my support system of people have let me down. (not intentionally) That's the "poor me" talking because I wanted everyone to do the work for me including a medication.
When I had myself a good cry on Saturday night I thought to myself what the H*LL am I doing? Get up and make a plan Kelly!!! So, that's what I did. A gym membership costs a lot less than what I spend on drinking in a month's time. Once I pay for it I won't want to lose the money. Sort of like drinking. If I pay for a case of beer I'm not going to quit in the middle. I'm going to finish that case first!
I don't think you damaged your body Sue. I think you just had a bad reaction to it. It'll pass.
Don't be afraid to try other medications. I still think I might get the Campral to keep on hand. But, I am going to try getting more active first. I do have to wait until I get paid Friday to pay for my gym membership. So, until then I make sure on my days off work that I have something planned. Like tomorrow I'm not working so I have plans to go visit my grandmother before group therapy. I don't trust myself to be home alone all day. It gives me too much time to think.
I wish you the best. Glad we got to talk and I'm glad I'm not the only one who had an "off" reaction to the medication.
Sue, have you checked with your pharmacist or doctor to make sure other meds you're taking don't clash with Selincro? If you're taking any narcotic, even anything with codeine, Selincro will send you straight into withdrawal.
Kelly what side effects of taking campral are you referring to. You won't like what I'm saying, and maybe it's me reading you wrongly , but you seem to have excuses which prevent you taking any medications, or you are always going to do something, then another reason why you cant
I had no side effects with campral at all, the only problem I had was remembering to take them three times a day.
please don't think I'm having a go at you, as that isn't my intention at all.
you must do what is right for you. It's your body to do what you want with it.
I am not having any side effects to campral as I did not try it yet. I did have side effects to naltrexone after 3 days. I said I was going to ask my dr for campral next week to keep on standy by.
I make NO excuses not to take medications. My body is extremely sensitive to a lot of stuff. I can't be out in the sun either or I break out in a huge rash. Just because you had no side effects to medications does not mean I do not. I don't need to make excuses for anything. I did enough of that my last go around with drinking back in 2002. Since then I've been straight forward.
Right now my intention is to get active like I once was. Exercising and horseback riding. Maybe staying off this forum might do me some good too.
I'm doing well again with 6 days sober (with baclofen) which is a medication.
I was referring to your previous post where you said you were planning to ask your doctor for campral, but you don't want to go through possible side effects again. That was why I asked what side effects you were referring to.
if horse riding gets you off alcohol then that's brilliant. Exercise is a great way of getting rid of stress and tension.
personally I wouldn't touch baclofen with a barge pole, but each to our own. Are you sensitive to some types of alcohol, or just medications?