I hope you give it another try and realize that your drinking is a brain problem and not a will power deficit, so using medication is appropriate and should not be considered cheating.
I took Naltrexone in an effort to reduce extreme hunger caused by Zyprexa. Naltrexone did nothing for me, possibly because I was not having cravings but instead painful physical feelings of hunger.
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Bipolar I w/psychotic features
Last inpatient stay in 2018
Lybalvi 10 mg
Naltrexone 75 mg
Gabapentin 1500 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects)
Long-term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued:
- Hypothyroidism
- Obesity BMI ~ 38
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