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Have been taking campral for a week but still get cravings especially when I get in from work, so far I haven't given in to them as I really want to be sober after years of drinking!!! Gin mostly does any one know how long campral takes to get in your system and start to work? Would be very grateful 😊
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RHGB Tish56
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If it works for you, you will be surprised how ambivalent that you become to alcohol.
Tish56 RHGB
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Thank you for your reply it's very helpful to know that some one else has gone through this struggle, I think I am lucky to have been given this medication from my Doctor, I went to see him in a dreadful state after being off alcohol for just a week and a half he was very sympathetic!! I told him I was drinking over half a bottle of gin & half bottle of wine a day mainly after work but even more at the weekends, I then said to him if I was a smoker I would have all sorts of medication and help too stop but if your drink people just think you're a drunk and you are told to try AA or just cut down if only it was that simple there wouldn't be a problem!! The first thing I would do when I got in from work I would pour a large gin sometimes I drink it straight from the bottle and then mask it by having a glass of wine so when my husband came in he thought that I just had a glass of wine, that was a mistake he had fond so many gin bottles around the place in the past he new what I was doing!!! he's been so worried but also very supportive for so long I just want him to have peace of mind now.
So I have been off the Diemond drink for just over 3 weeks now and have managed to stay clear of the alcohol section in the supermarket 😊 Early days I know but really wanna get there!! hope I haven't rambled on too much 🤔X
maureen_a Tish56
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Tish56 maureen_a
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Thanks Maureen
Will keep you updated on my progress hun😊👍🏻X
gwen45436 Tish56
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Tish56 gwen45436
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It's so good too have such positively for a change!! It was my Doctor who told me about this sight so glad he did cause it has made me feel that I'm not alone!!!
Thanks Gwen😊X
Birds Tish56
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You are doing brilliantly. Please try and stick with it because you can do it. I've been taking campral since February and it really has been life changing for me, don't get me wrong it was and still is quite challenging at times. I honestly never thought I would get here, at times I don't know how I've done it, think it's just small steps at a time. I submerged my brain with all kinds of info, I joined soberistas and smart recovery and read everything I could get my hands on, I particularly found the naked mind useful, had to read it twice before I kind of got it, they've also got an online community. There is a wide variety of support out there, treat it like a buffet table, and take what you like and dismiss what's not to your liking. Talk to yourself like you would talk to a best friend, sounds daft but we are so critical and mean to ourselves. A huge well done to you
gwen45436 Birds
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I love this site - always there to hold a hand when in need and to be positive and walk alongside you in support. And if needs be, and asked for, any harder facts will be put forward.
Tish, you are in good hands
x
mike99771 Tish56
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Stick to it, for me I could not isolate exactly whether I felt it or not, but the post acute withdrawal (PAWS) was better. Its hard no matter what until you have some experience and find which drug or combo works best for you. You may need a combination of medications because it depends on the parts of the brain that are making you have cravings. The lymbic system is tricky. I would not describe Campral as an anti-craving medication but as a medication that works so don't experience weird lapses of what acute withdrawal is like. So the impression someone is standing behind you that is not or a cold chill or hearing buzzing noises or visual disturbances. Those symptoms, although brief are what I've found it actually affects. Its a PAWS medication and misleading in its appropriation as anti-crave and is more so for recovery. Its a patented profit medication with financial influence and not a whole ton to back it up imho. It's assumed it works on the Calcium Ion Voltage Gates in Neural Synapses. People in early sobriety have GABA A's and GABA B's go haywire and there are a variety of meds that people experiment with if you take the time to find the forums and read the reports on study groups of a variety of medications. For me it took some interesting variations on what is not traditionally prescribed. I found an actual addictions specialist locally at the hospital that was not afraid to test out some medications that are studied but not approved for AUD use specifically. I lapsed on Campral (calcium ion channels) with Naltrexone (Gaba A influences) and still use both now in sobriety and I have no idea if its Campral that is what keeps me sober or one of the others. A medication that affected Gaba B and Calcium Ion Channels seems to have cracked my case but everyone is different. Cravings can be kind of odd as some are psychological and others chemical imbalance.
So to summarize, if Campral doesn't abate your cravings as for many it doesn't, there are options if you are persistent.