My thoughts are, no thanks, but I never tried it either. What have you been doing to stay sober up til now?

I never tried it, but know a few who did and that never stopped them from drinking. It can be dangerous if you do drink whilst on antabuse. It might help in the short term, but it's no cure. Speak to your Doctor, and be honest about your drinking history. They'll be better able to give you advice. I know some members here have tried it, so stick around and they might share their experiences. Welcome to the group.

Back in '87 I was put on antabuse after some trouble with the law and within a month or so I started drinking on it. I had heard of the dangers of drinking on it but I didn't get violently ill. Since then I've joked about it saying all it did was make me glow in the dark but I would caution you that taking the stuff isn't a good way to stop drinking. If it was there would be thousands of people taking it as a cure in my sometimes humble opinion. I finally did get sober in '90 thanks to AA.
Jim

You are in a good place here. I really dont know anything about Antabuse other than personally, I wouldnt take one drug to substitute for another. Seems like stuffing down the issue (s). I certainly have done that , with other things, and it leads to relapse at least for me.
Have you tried AA or other groups or therapy??

Good luck!

My doctor recomended it for me back in january 06 I took it for 6 months didnt drink on it but started to resent the fact i couldn't drink
"poor me boo hoo" so convinced myself i could manage without it
within 3or 4 days I had relapsed subsquently had the worst week drinking in 35 years maybe that was coincidence but got sober again My doctor still thought I should use it so I went back on it but also found my way back to AA I continued to take antibuse(Disulfiram) for about a year but realised in that time for me it wasn't just stopping drinking I had to change many things in my life and am still working on that So on reflection I think It helped me but I am thankfull I found a programme that has helped me look at myself
Your in your prime so alcohol doesn't need to "ruin your life"
If I can be of any help regarding this pm me best wishes

My experience with it says to me that this is not a drug for the chronic alcoholic. I put myself in that class as I know personally that fear of getting really sick will not stop the alcoholic drinking on it which is exactly what I did.

I tried taking Antabuse several times, but it never stopped me from drinking. I was desperate to stop and thought a magic pill would do the trick. But in reality I had to accept the fact that alcohol had won and had complete control over my life and deep down in my heart I knew I could never even have a sip of alcohol ever again -- that is when I truly began my journey in sobriety. A pill can't do that for you. It has to be something within. And let me tell ya, doing whatever it takes to stay sober is so worth it. Sobriety is a gift worth fighting to keep!

antabuse has worked for me because if i feel overwhelmingly like drinking it causes me to remember im on antabuse and i will get deathly ill and that i wouldnt get drunk i would just vomit profusly--that pause it gives me works every time--do it in conjunction with aa if youd like--:)

I am on day 52 and on day one I started taking Antabuse as an insurance policy. 52 days later with more knowledge about us drunks I think I can see that I had just become a full blown binge drinking alcoholic reliant on booze and had lost control of my life. I was ready to stop drinking which is the key. It helped me pass on that first drink during the first few weeks because I really did not care about getting violently ill, it was more that the illness would show my wife and kids that I had once again gone back on my promise to not drink. So it worked for me for that reason.

I agree with others that it won't stop you from drinking since it is just supposed to make you violently ill. For me, how different was that than being a worthless drunk spiraling downhill (for me). So it worked for me for those reasons for my specific reasons.

There are side effects but I had no withdrawls after stopping using it. I stopped about three weeks ago. Good luck.

Snwangel,
First, I was slipped some antabuse once at a recovery house ...
where I was of course not supposed to be drinking ...
but was sneaking & using ... and I became deathly & violently ill.

Now ... the people I've known who have been required to, or have
been supposed to, or have chosen to take it ... either learned how
NOT to take it, or throw it up after having someone watch them
take it ... whenever they decided to use.

Theses folks also formed resentments over the whole thing ...
and ended up drunk ... usually worse than before.

Several big problems ... you are rewarding yourself every 30 days
or so for NOT drinking ... with a binge. ( if I understand you )
You'll save up the time your clean on antabuse for an even bigger
party / disaster if you stay clean for a while longer using antabuse
and DON'T CHANGE YOU.

YOU MUST CHANGE YOU !!!
( how you think )

Eating that pill will NOT change you ... so you'll always be
thinking of rewarding yourself in the future ... for staying clean in
the present.

No matter how bad things are for you ...
you must start to realize that ...
NOTHING IS EVER GOING TO GET BETTER IN YOUR LIFE
BY ADDING ALCOHOL ... NOTHING !!! ... NOTHING !!!

Without having a program ... ( like AA ) for me ...
I was finished. ( I thought I'd hate it ... for a short while, I did )
The person I had become had NO CHANCE of ever being
happy WITH or WITHOUT ALCOHOL & / or drugs.
I HAD TO CHANGE ME ... PERIOD.

I have 4+ yrs. ... really enjoy AA ... don't hardly ever think of
drinking & drugging ... and when I have a passing thought ...
it passes right on by.

When you change the way you look at things ...
the things you look at change.
Good luck, I'd get to work on me.
Jack / j

Note: I'm not a friggin doctor ... so this is just my experience,
& opinion.

I'm not sure, but it sounds like PAWS to me. People have a way of relapsing at the 30, 60 and 90 day marks.
PAWS= Post Acute Withdrawl Syndrome

I took it-and then on days I wanted to drink I did not take it.

So, ummmm, did not work for me really.

I took it back in the day the first time I tried to stop drinking...never drank on it, but I know if you do you can get sick as heck. The most recent drug I tried was Campral and it was described to me by the Doc as a drug to help stabilize the chemicals in your brain that got out of whack due to ongoing drinking. I found it helpful but it's also more of a stopgap...a pill isn't going to fix your need to drink in the long run. Working a program, finding support, therapy, etc., is probably the route to go but hey, if a pill helps you get there and you don't suffer any major side effects...I say why not.

Thanks all for your support. It's interesting hearing people's different opinions. I am still on the fence regarding antabuse. I think it would help me with delaying the urge to drink. Knowing I would become violently ill is not exactly intriguing. However, I do see this as only a temporary solution. I know I need to start going to meeting and working towards my recovery. I live in a very small town where everybody knows one another. I use to go to AA awhile ago, but haven't since. Been too embarrassed since I relapsed. I guess I need to such up my pride and ask for help.