Hi. I've been taking selincro for 3 weeks now and although it seems to stop me from getting wasted, I still crave alcohol and drink most nights of the week. Can anybody share a success story or similar experience. I'm beginning to doubt if this drug is going to work for me ????
Hi Katie!
I have been taking it for 6 weeks and am experiencing the same effect. I drink less, but I still want to have a drink, I can go a day or two without, but small things trigger a desire to drink. Yesterday evening, the sun was shining, so I felt the need to sit in my garden and drink pinot grigio! Mad! but I suppose after a lifetime of drinking, old habits are hard to break...
Hi Michael , it's really nice to hear from you. Your situation sounds very similar to mine. Sun definitely means wine in the garden in my world. I'm really hoping that one day it'll just mean time in the garden. I can take one or maybe 2 days off from drinking and when I do drink I'm not getting wasted but crave a drink daily. As soon as my working day is done, I'm looking for my glass of wine (or 2,3,4 glasses). I truly hope that selincro will change this. I'm wondering how much willpower will I actually need to finally become a normal "occasional " drinker.
Please keep in touch and share your journey. It really does help.
Thanks again and good luck 😄😄
Thanks for posting guys and please continue to update. I'm only on night two but was already feeling disappointed I feel no change in craving. I know it can take months. It's just difficult when some people report not even finishing a glass of wine after day one.
Yes summer sun is a trigger for me plus walking past bars with everyone drinking outside. Or if it's been an exciting and productive work day. Or if it's been a frustrating and difficult work day. Or a boring day. Or...you get the drift.
With you all the way - any change in scenery, emotion , weather - it's a trigger to drink. Don't give up on tablets. We'll all do it together.
Hi Katie,
Lol at least we are making some progress!! Well done on not getting wasted 
I used to see the sun as a great excuse to have a couple of rums as well as the Wine!! I haven't had a spirit based drink since I started on selincro. It will take time, but eventually the desire to drink will disappear or so they say..
Even though the sun is shining today too, I have so far resisted the temptation to open a bottle, it helps that I didn't buy any on the way home from work. It's difficult to give up something that you enjoy doing.
There are a lot of people like ourselves on here and it's always good to share
According to the research, it takes 2-3 months for 'pharmacological extinction' (the unlearning of your addiction) to occur. It happens quicker for some people but it's still early days yet. Just keep taking a pill before each occasion that you drink.
There are MANY success stories. Keep going!
Will do. I have no intention of stopping taking selincro. Just impatient to see results. Crazy - I've drank for 9 years solid and I'm expecting a cure in just a few weeks. Stupid I know but desperate also.
I understand the impatience, Katie You are seeing some effects already with your reduction in consumption
Hi Katie. Yes, the sun was shining yesterday and I had exactly
the same thoughts. I had a bad day and craved a drink. I wish I
could come home and just have a couple of drinks without
getting really drunk. It is so difficult. My family and friends are
constantly watching me. Do you ever feel there is no escape
from it? I have a party on Saturday to go to, but I know that I am not welcome due to my drinking and past behaviour x
Hi Paul. I went back to work on Monday. The longest day ever!
I know I am better at work and keeping busy but that does not
Stop my cravings.
Hi Lorraine, don't give up. Are you taking selincro or nalmefene?
That is the problem with abstinence. Cravings carry on. That is why The Sinclair Method (using Nalmefene or Naltrexone) makes everything so much easier in the longer term.
Hi. I am not taking anything. My willpower is slowly going. I wish I could just go without. It occupies my thoughts each day
Thanks. Do I need to speak to my gp? I have been seeking help
for months but I don't think they realise how serious my problem is. I have talked to professionals and told to keep a diary but it is of no use. Thanks for all your support.
Hi to all. I've been on Naltrexone for a while now, maybe 2 months and am finding my cravings have diminished considerately. So if you happen to be on this (or Selincro), it is making a difference for me so far.
Where there is a will - there is a way - sometimes just patience until it does the job. In the meantime, hang in there. I have a good felling about this program 
Ask if you can be prescribed Nalmefene (Selincro), Lorraine.
Now had four nights of taking Selincro. First two nights no change in drinking. Horrible side effects. Have to say after day four the side effects have reduced considerably and I am sleeping better.
On night three something interesting happened. I think I have been waiting for some sort of epiphany where I suddenly don't feel like a drink! Obviously that's not quite how it's going to work but on my night third I was plonked on the sofa watching TV with bottle of wine on the go. My partner came home and joined me (with the TV bit!) and suddenly said - "I've been with you for nearly an hour and you haven't got up to refill your glass". Of course once he said this I did fill my glass but it was an interesting observation that this reduced drinking thing with Selincro may happen in a very subtle way. I did finish that bottle of wine but it's normally two bottles and it was great to see it was now bed time and I'd only got through one.
Last night however I was back to two with no apparent Selincro effect.
I can see now though that when I start having no Selincro/alcohol days and instead do some exercise and cook some great food, how my mind may start to slowly switch over.
I can imagine maybe being so preoccupied chatting at a party that I haven't realised I haven't had much of my drink. Instead of now where I constantly check to make sure I've got one!
I'm going to try to just keep taking the Selincro with alcohol and analyse a bit less.
That 'not realising your glass is empty until somebody else points it out' is a common symptom of not having an alcohol problem. Just hope it gets 'worse'
Let's hope so! I'm realising that's what most of my friends do all the time. Whereas I'm always on high alert as to when the next glass fill is coming up. It would be great for alcohol to become just unimportant.