Day 1, 2, and 3
Posted 07-02-2009 at 11:26 AM by Angella
I was a heavy drinker a week ago. I went to see my Dr. who said I should try Vivitrol injection once a month. I wanted to stop my drinking I cant go on another year like this.
Day 1 Monday June 30th
I had a hard time getting this approved I didn't know why until I seen how much the shot cost. I t was 850.00 a month but they approved it.
I got the shot at about 3pm and that night I didn't have any urge to drink. It doesn't help with physical withdrawl symptoms. The nurse said to ween my self off so instead of vodka and my normal half a 30 pack i went to 8 beers Utah beers and I had a hard time drinking them.
The symptoms started that night with waking up every hour. The next day I was nauseous i felt out of my mind and shakey. I drank two 24s to ease it today is worse I still do not want a drink but to calm the physical effects I may have to. My drs wont prescribe anything to help the withdrawls they said if it gets bad to go to the er. Symptoms are really bad today I am going to try to keep decreasing my intake and hopefully by Saturday all will be good.
Day 1 Monday June 30th
I had a hard time getting this approved I didn't know why until I seen how much the shot cost. I t was 850.00 a month but they approved it.
I got the shot at about 3pm and that night I didn't have any urge to drink. It doesn't help with physical withdrawl symptoms. The nurse said to ween my self off so instead of vodka and my normal half a 30 pack i went to 8 beers Utah beers and I had a hard time drinking them.
The symptoms started that night with waking up every hour. The next day I was nauseous i felt out of my mind and shakey. I drank two 24s to ease it today is worse I still do not want a drink but to calm the physical effects I may have to. My drs wont prescribe anything to help the withdrawls they said if it gets bad to go to the er. Symptoms are really bad today I am going to try to keep decreasing my intake and hopefully by Saturday all will be good.
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Welcome! Glad you are here. Gee, I haven't heard of that injection before.....not sure how it is supposed to work exactly. Be sure and stay in close contact with your DR and seek medical help (even at ER) if needed. Alcohol withdrawal can be deadly. I could never wean myself off booze--once I started drinking I couldn't stop. Some meds aren't supposed to be mixed with booze too, but if the nurse said it was ok....? I will keep you in my thoughts/prayers. We do recover.
Posted 07-03-2009 at 08:40 AM by ANGELINA243
