Vivitrol
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 258
That would be me.
Gastric bypass in 2010, my first transfer addiction was shopping.
About 2 years ago the new transfer addiction became alcohol and it escalated fast fueled by a high profile high stress career in health care administration.
Once I hit my personal rock bottom, being an RN, I went to my M.D. who was phenomenal. She referred me to a nurse practitioner specializing in mental health and addiction. She's awesome!
She prescribed Naltrexone which is the oral form of Vivitrol and it has been a miracle drug for me with no side effects.
She has encouraged Vivitrol stating that it is more effective however I'm fine on Naltrexone so I'm staying with that unless it stops working.
Ask me anything!
Gastric bypass in 2010, my first transfer addiction was shopping.
About 2 years ago the new transfer addiction became alcohol and it escalated fast fueled by a high profile high stress career in health care administration.
Once I hit my personal rock bottom, being an RN, I went to my M.D. who was phenomenal. She referred me to a nurse practitioner specializing in mental health and addiction. She's awesome!
She prescribed Naltrexone which is the oral form of Vivitrol and it has been a miracle drug for me with no side effects.
She has encouraged Vivitrol stating that it is more effective however I'm fine on Naltrexone so I'm staying with that unless it stops working.
Ask me anything!
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 1
With the gastric bypass, you absorb alcohol much faster and process it totally different. It takes very little alcohol for him to go into a blackout and not know what he is doing or how long his run is.
When he comes off the alcohol, he goes into dt's. He's had seizures, cardiac arrest and gastric bleeding caused by the alcohol.
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