I am in the U.K starting TSM and my tablets are being delivered today. Looking forward to starting this programme of recovery. This channel will help with advice and support. Have subscribed.
Katie, THANK YOU! This is such helpful advice. One of my favorite videos of yours. Our stories are so similar and this video is really going to help take my journey to the next leave. Bless you!
Katie thank you for your mentorship. I just started TSM so I appreciate your support and advice. I am journaling my entire journey often twice a day. I will check in as I progress through to extinction.
Thanks Katie, You are an amazing inspiration. The way you explained everything in this video, has given me a whole new understanding, on how to manage my drinking whilst taking Nal. I was under the impression, that the over time, the medication would take away the urge to drink (so long as I tried to help the Nal by reducing my alcohol intake} Your video's are really helping me understand how TSM actually works. And the mindset we should be using. I thank you so much, for everything you do, in helping us control our alcohol dependence. And, by the way. Your are are very attractive young lady 🙂 Thanks again !
OMG! This video hit so many feeling thoughts and feelings that I have had. The kid parties with me more concerned with where the booze was rather than focusing on the event at hand. Great Job Katie
Feb 17 is my bday also my 11th month on this method and I’ve finally reach the month of no booze actually I’m on day 33 I did plan on having a drink next week for my birthday but that’s up for debate 😂 I can’t thank Katie enough for advocating this method as I would have never tried it if it wasn’t for her and her constant information on the method!!!! It takes time but the results I’ve seen to this point and it’s like idc 😂 I really do not care I can drink at anytime I just do not want to like at all majority of the time now.. my brain has been being reprogrammed and will continue if I choose to drink! I will say this method has absolutely saved my life the massive progress made in a year span WOW just WOW I wasn’t expecting to quite 100 percent but I honestly see it progressing to that point by the 2 year point we will just have to see
So you take the pill in only days that you drink ? For a year ? Ugh for me that would cost 1200 dollars. I feel it's working for me it's just expensive. (Ontario) canada
My problem is this. I have problems and I have had disappointments and painful experiences in life. Not caused by alcohol, however caused by family relationships, financial problems and so on. I want to drink so that I will not feel the pain. Now, as I understand it, naltrexone in a sense takes the alcohol out of alcoholic beverages. I will drink but not get the anaesthetic effect. Which is great, but how do I deal with my pain? Instead of taking a pill and drink some alcohol, I could just not drink alcohol. But I want to drink alcohol. I think that this is true of many alcoholics.
Hi! Great question. You do have to learn to develop new coping tools (gradually) over time. It’s a gentle process but it can be uncomfortable. That’s where doing the inner work and understanding why you want to make this change is so important. Please reach out if you want support with this in our program 🙏 www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/the-alcohol-freedom-program
Katie just to clarify you say you opened your bottle of wine still every day with TSM, at 5pm, did you take your Nal at 4pm while still at work? Did you drive home from work? How long was it before the habit tailed off?
I started 2 days ago with 50mg but got sever nausea. Next time I took half of it but this time it wasn't as bad but yes there was nausea again..Sleeping is hard though. Is it possible to have gout pain (uric acid) as I got severe pain in the normal gout affected areas near the heals. Please help if you are aware of this is a side affect.? The drinking urge is less though. I want to keep going!!
It's usual practice to start on 25mg Naltrexone for the first few days, in order to help mitigate any side effects. Nausea is one of the most commonly reported side effects. Taking the medication with a meal and/or a large drink of water, can also help with the nausea. If it's really bad, an over the counter anti-nausea medication is reported to be helpful too.
Please can you get back to me on this the Sinclair method worked perfectly for me but I am ashamed to say I have gone back drinking without taking the tablet and now I feel like it's Got a Hold on Me Again. I have the tablets in the house. Please tell me I can retrain myself again. I feel dreadful about this. It worked for me before please say it can work for me again🙏🙏❤️
You can definitely restart again! Please reach out if I can help. We have a program centered around this treatment to help you stay committed and encouraged. 💕 katie@thrivealcoholrecovery.com or thrivealcoholrecovery.com
Hi Katie. Is it common to have setbacks with the Sinclair Method? As far as I can tell, I’m doing well with the method. But from time to time I have setbacks.
Totally depends on the individual. Doesn’t happen for everyone as we are all so unique and come to the Method with different history, background, trauma, successes, and support systems. Glad to hear you’re doing well!
im a 2 bottle of jack a night drinker and just got out of the hospital (yet again) for spinning out of control. I got prescribed the pills but im scared to death of the side effects. I already have raging insomnia and have anxiety. these two side effects im very concerned about. but I need to do something. how common are these side effects and if they get bad for me how long does the pill take to leave your system if you desperately need sleep? thanks for the vid
Hi! I’ll link an article and video about the side effects here. I hope it helps!! www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/blog/naltrexone-side-effects-for-alcoholism
Hey... i was compliant for about 4 months. But drinking with Naltrexone made me feel so ill, horrible nausea, vomiting and worse. I stopped being compliant and taking naltrexone and just started drinking without it and trying to balance my drinking. I dont know what to do.
So sorry you had those side effects. Did you try taking the medication with an over-the-counter anti-nausea medication? It can really help. Did you take the medication with a full meal and lots of water? There are also ways you can adjust the dose to help your body acclimate to it. If you’d like more personal, I support you can definitely check out the program we offer as well. 🙏👉 www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/
I rendered my drinking habit "extinct" without naltrexone. Now if I drink without the heretofore customary endorphin high, I feel much like you describe. Maybe alcohol actually sucks, and the fun was always in our head.
Frankly, the "I took one pill and booze tasted terrible, had no interest after that" story is very disheartening for many of us. I am so happy for those lucky few (that is so wonderful for them), but to tell those stories in disproportionate amounts can be harmful. I followed the protocel for three months and gave up. It's the, "it didn't work for me for 12-18 months," stories that actually give more hope and are probably more realistic. At least 3 months to significant results, seems more normal. The next day, I am cured, stories are beautiful for those lucky few but it is both discouraging for most and makes the protocol seem magical, which will discourage acceptance - seemingly magic solutions cause huge scepticism in medical and other communities.
@@thrivealcoholrecovery Makes me feel a little bit better and less likely to give up. I tried TSM about 10 years ago and felt I couldn't ask my Dr. for Nal, so I ordered it, from India at first. Didn't follow the golden rule a few times and I bailed. This time I feel different. Actually ready? Three weeks in and still drinking too much but I don't feel like I need to start pounding them back, right away, so an encouraging sign. Sticking 100% to the golden rule. Thank you for your channel. I am sure you are helping many hundreds of people.
@@thrivealcoholrecovery Your guests talk a lot about therapy and AA (good and bad), but I don't hear a lot about small group meetings (non-AA). Prior to C-vid, I found them quite helpful and will be doing them again - I like that these are without some of the bagage of AA. The other thing I don't hear, possibly because it is not legal, is psilocybin. It seems very helpful for many people. It's going the route of cannabis here in Canada, where it's nationally legal. First illegal with defiant stores and mail order, then medical, then recreational not enforced, then decriminalized, then fully legalized. It's funny, people smoke cannabis everywhere here but in Toronto but open liquor is fined. Last point, it's interesting that Portugal completely decriminalized hard drugs. Here in Canada it's illegal but not really enforced, as we have safe injection sites. With fentanyl out there, this makes perfect sense to me.
I really want to get this treatment for my partner but in Mexico it is 7 dollars a pill. Any recommendations? I am a dual citizen I could go to the us I suppose but that is also costly.
Honestly, I don’t remember. I think she was just a general psychologist that helped me talk through some of the issues I was going through at the time, as well as some of the historical traumas (if you will) that I was processing due to the fact that I wasn’t numbing out with alcohol anymore. I clearly remember it was very hard to get a therapist to help me because so many in my town were not accepting new patients. She was not my first choice, but she did help me work through some things.
Hi! Sorry for the confusion. I was at Ria Health for about three years, but I left them over two years ago to launch Thrive Alcohol Recovery where we specialize in supporting people on the Sinclair Method through a private online program. I know it’s confusing because I’m in a lot of their videos. But now I run Thrive exclusively www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/
If you are drinking due to anxiety this method does not help and I would urge people not to try it. Extreme nausea/vomiting and no relief/relaxation from alcohol for anxiety panic from the alcohol
I was at stage 4 of Alcoholism. Which is a subject you don't address. Drinking for me was certainly Death. After Detoxing this last time I immediately started Naltrexone. The results of extinction was immediate. Another point (immediate extinction) I have not heard you mention. I think your in a social club for moderate drinker that use Naltrexone as a way to drink socially and get away with it. Alcoholism is #3 killer in the United States. And it seems to me your focus is on the no so serious group of people, the trendy stage 2 drinkers. I don't take any thing you say seriously. My motivate with the administration of Naltrexone is to save my life and to live the rest of my life sober. Not to go back out there and play Russian roulette with Naltrexone.
#1 tip for TSM 👉 www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/1-tip-tsm-bd
I am in the U.K starting TSM and my tablets are being delivered today. Looking forward to starting this programme of recovery. This channel will help with advice and support. Have subscribed.
Wishing you the BEST!!!
How's it going?
I love you. You’re efforts to help us understand and guide us are greatly appreciated
Trying to sleep is the hardest part.
I hear that, can go a week like a zombie
Thanks Katie. This video along with your other videos and shorts has helped me so much on my journey.
Katie, THANK YOU! This is such helpful advice. One of my favorite videos of yours. Our stories are so similar and this video is really going to help take my journey to the next leave. Bless you!
You are so welcome! Glad it helped. God bless you 🤍
Katie thank you for your mentorship. I just started TSM so I appreciate your support and advice. I am journaling my entire journey often twice a day. I will check in as I progress through to extinction.
Every time a person uses the word "journey" they have to have a drink 😶
Thanks Katie, You are an amazing inspiration. The way you explained everything in this video, has given me a whole new understanding, on how to manage my drinking whilst taking Nal. I was under the impression, that the over time, the medication would take away the urge to drink (so long as I tried to help the Nal by reducing my alcohol intake} Your video's are really helping me understand how TSM actually works. And the mindset we should be using. I thank you so much, for everything you do, in helping us control our alcohol dependence. And, by the way. Your are are very attractive young lady 🙂 Thanks again !
Thank you so much this definitely resonates for a beginner like me! Hope i can make it work ❤
OMG! This video hit so many feeling thoughts and feelings that I have had. The kid parties with me more concerned with where the booze was rather than focusing on the event at hand. Great Job Katie
Feb 17 is my bday also my 11th month on this method and I’ve finally reach the month of no booze actually I’m on day 33 I did plan on having a drink next week for my birthday but that’s up for debate 😂 I can’t thank Katie enough for advocating this method as I would have never tried it if it wasn’t for her and her constant information on the method!!!!
It takes time but the results I’ve seen to this point and it’s like idc 😂 I really do not care I can drink at anytime I just do not want to like at all majority of the time now.. my brain has been being reprogrammed and will continue if I choose to drink! I will say this method has absolutely saved my life the massive progress made in a year span WOW just WOW
I wasn’t expecting to quite 100 percent but I honestly see it progressing to that point by the 2 year point we will just have to see
Thanks 🙏 very helpful. I have been on TSM for a year without one AF day. I need to change my mind set. Great suggestions .
So you take the pill in only days that you drink ? For a year ? Ugh for me that would cost 1200 dollars. I feel it's working for me it's just expensive. (Ontario) canada
@@loudsqueak I thought that. But then I weighed how much the medication cost me against how much I saved on alcohol because of the nal.
very helpful Katie. ☺
My problem is this. I have problems and I have had disappointments and painful experiences in life. Not caused by alcohol, however caused by family relationships, financial problems and so on. I want to drink so that I will not feel the pain. Now, as I understand it, naltrexone in a sense takes the alcohol out of alcoholic beverages. I will drink but not get the anaesthetic effect. Which is great, but how do I deal with my pain? Instead of taking a pill and drink some alcohol, I could just not drink alcohol. But I want to drink alcohol. I think that this is true of many alcoholics.
Hi! Great question. You do have to learn to develop new coping tools (gradually) over time. It’s a gentle process but it can be uncomfortable. That’s where doing the inner work and understanding why you want to make this change is so important. Please reach out if you want support with this in our program 🙏 www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/the-alcohol-freedom-program
Haha you just answered my question, I should have waited lol, thanks so much👍
Thank you
Very insightful
Glad you enjoyed it 💕
hello! loved your video
Thank you! You can reach out to us at Thrive www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/ or email katie@thrivealcoholrecovery.com 🙏
Katie just to clarify you say you opened your bottle of wine still every day with TSM, at 5pm, did you take your Nal at 4pm while still at work? Did you drive home from work? How long was it before the habit tailed off?
I started 2 days ago with 50mg but got sever nausea. Next time I took half of it but this time it wasn't as bad but yes there was nausea again..Sleeping is hard though. Is it possible to have gout pain (uric acid) as I got severe pain in the normal gout affected areas near the heals. Please help if you are aware of this is a side affect.? The drinking urge is less though. I want to keep going!!
It's usual practice to start on 25mg Naltrexone for the first few days, in order to help mitigate any side effects.
Nausea is one of the most commonly reported side effects. Taking the medication with a meal and/or a large drink of water, can also help with the nausea. If it's really bad, an over the counter anti-nausea medication is reported to be helpful too.
Please can you get back to me on this the Sinclair method worked perfectly for me but I am ashamed to say I have gone back drinking without taking the tablet and now I feel like it's Got a Hold on Me Again. I have the tablets in the house. Please tell me I can retrain myself again. I feel dreadful about this. It worked for me before please say it can work for me again🙏🙏❤️
You can definitely restart again! Please reach out if I can help. We have a program centered around this treatment to help you stay committed and encouraged. 💕 katie@thrivealcoholrecovery.com or thrivealcoholrecovery.com
Hi Katie. Is it common to have setbacks with the Sinclair Method? As far as I can tell, I’m doing well with the method. But from time to time I have setbacks.
Totally depends on the individual. Doesn’t happen for everyone as we are all so unique and come to the Method with different history, background, trauma, successes, and support systems. Glad to hear you’re doing well!
im a 2 bottle of jack a night drinker and just got out of the hospital (yet again) for spinning out of control. I got prescribed the pills but im scared to death of the side effects. I already have raging insomnia and have anxiety. these two side effects im very concerned about. but I need to do something. how common are these side effects and if they get bad for me how long does the pill take to leave your system if you desperately need sleep? thanks for the vid
Hi! I’ll link an article and video about the side effects here. I hope it helps!! www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/blog/naltrexone-side-effects-for-alcoholism
Hey... i was compliant for about 4 months. But drinking with Naltrexone made me feel so ill, horrible nausea, vomiting and worse. I stopped being compliant and taking naltrexone and just started drinking without it and trying to balance my drinking. I dont know what to do.
So sorry you had those side effects. Did you try taking the medication with an over-the-counter anti-nausea medication? It can really help. Did you take the medication with a full meal and lots of water? There are also ways you can adjust the dose to help your body acclimate to it. If you’d like more personal, I support you can definitely check out the program we offer as well. 🙏👉 www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/
Hey Katie, which anti nausea without drowsiness do u recommend-would ginger capsules work as well?
I rendered my drinking habit "extinct" without naltrexone. Now if I drink without the heretofore customary endorphin high, I feel much like you describe. Maybe alcohol actually sucks, and the fun was always in our head.
If you're depressed you're gonna look for ways to ease the pain. That's been my experience
Frankly, the "I took one pill and booze tasted terrible, had no interest after that" story is very disheartening for many of us. I am so happy for those lucky few (that is so wonderful for them), but to tell those stories in disproportionate amounts can be harmful. I followed the protocel for three months and gave up. It's the, "it didn't work for me for 12-18 months," stories that actually give more hope and are probably more realistic. At least 3 months to significant results, seems more normal. The next day, I am cured, stories are beautiful for those lucky few but it is both discouraging for most and makes the protocol seem magical, which will discourage acceptance - seemingly magic solutions cause huge scepticism in medical and other communities.
I would say the “fast responder” stories are more rare and it’s the 6-12+ month stories that are more the norm
@@thrivealcoholrecovery Makes me feel a little bit better and less likely to give up. I tried TSM about 10 years ago and felt I couldn't ask my Dr. for Nal, so I ordered it, from India at first. Didn't follow the golden rule a few times and I bailed. This time I feel different. Actually ready? Three weeks in and still drinking too much but I don't feel like I need to start pounding them back, right away, so an encouraging sign. Sticking 100% to the golden rule.
Thank you for your channel. I am sure you are helping many hundreds of people.
@@thrivealcoholrecovery Your guests talk a lot about therapy and AA (good and bad), but I don't hear a lot about small group meetings (non-AA). Prior to C-vid, I found them quite helpful and will be doing them again - I like that these are without some of the bagage of AA.
The other thing I don't hear, possibly because it is not legal, is psilocybin. It seems very helpful for many people. It's going the route of cannabis here in Canada, where it's nationally legal. First illegal with defiant stores and mail order, then medical, then recreational not enforced, then decriminalized, then fully legalized. It's funny, people smoke cannabis everywhere here but in Toronto but open liquor is fined.
Last point, it's interesting that Portugal completely decriminalized hard drugs. Here in Canada it's illegal but not really enforced, as we have safe injection sites. With fentanyl out there, this makes perfect sense to me.
Literally day one. Wierd feeling. But, I already feel the, eh another one doesn't sound great.
I really want to get this treatment for my partner but in Mexico it is 7 dollars a pill. Any recommendations? I am a dual citizen I could go to the us I suppose but that is also costly.
I had no idea it was that expensive in Mexico! Please try reaching out to cthreefoundation.org to see if they can help
@@thrivealcoholrecoverytry $2500 per month
What kind of therapist 29.26
Honestly, I don’t remember. I think she was just a general psychologist that helped me talk through some of the issues I was going through at the time, as well as some of the historical traumas (if you will) that I was processing due to the fact that I wasn’t numbing out with alcohol anymore. I clearly remember it was very hard to get a therapist to help me because so many in my town were not accepting new patients. She was not my first choice, but she did help me work through some things.
I'm seeing slow results. I think.
I’m confused. You were Ria health. Now you’ve changed. You were supporting this but now confused?
Hi! Sorry for the confusion. I was at Ria Health for about three years, but I left them over two years ago to launch Thrive Alcohol Recovery where we specialize in supporting people on the Sinclair Method through a private online program. I know it’s confusing because I’m in a lot of their videos. But now I run Thrive exclusively www.thrivealcoholrecovery.com/
@@thrivealcoholrecovery thank you so much for your reply. I really appreciate it.
you look just like a girl that was on the Bachelor.
Wow cool haha
Take a breath. You seem a little frenick today
If you are drinking due to anxiety this method does not help and I would urge people not to try it. Extreme nausea/vomiting and no relief/relaxation from alcohol for anxiety panic from the alcohol
Absolutely incorrect.
Many people with anxiety issues have found success with TSM. Most peoples drinking involves anxiety to some degree.
Sometimes the side effects of medication go away after a few days. I had bad effects with campral but the side effects went away in a few days.
I have anxiety and it's fine
I was at stage 4 of Alcoholism. Which is a subject you don't address. Drinking for me was certainly Death. After Detoxing this last time I immediately started Naltrexone. The results of extinction was immediate. Another point (immediate extinction) I have not heard you mention. I think your in a social club for moderate drinker that use Naltrexone as a way to drink socially and get away with it. Alcoholism is #3 killer in the United States. And it seems to me your focus is on the no so serious group of people, the trendy stage 2 drinkers. I don't take any thing you say seriously. My motivate with the administration of Naltrexone is to save my life and to live the rest of my life sober. Not to go back out there and play Russian roulette with Naltrexone.
Im also stage 4 and started this to save others and myself .But this medicine can save so many lives should be given out freely