i am curious too. i don't know~

I used Antabuse and it worked well for me when I first started strictly as a deterrent. It also gave my family some comfort at a time when they really needed at least to feel a little more secure after I had blown them out of the water with my drunkenness. All it did for me was help me to get some time under my belt while I went to meetings. When I stopped taking Antabuse I did relapse, one of several relapses I had. After a few relapses and working with my sponsor and getting into the steps I was finally able to stay sober not for just under 6 months. So Antabuse is not a fix by any means.

I was on camprell for awhile and it worked great for me. Don't have any experience with anta buse though.

Good Luck!

Hello jplumeri,

The trouble with using Antabuse is that at best it only buys you a little bit of time but the causes of your drinking will still be there.

The little wheel in your head which turns after you have been sober for a while is the animal you need to tame and it is more commonly known as a mental obsession for alcohol. The way it works is that no matter how determined you are not to drink again, your mind is convinced that you need alcohol in order to survive, and eventually it will come up with a good reason for drinking. If you want lasting sobriety you will have to find some way of changing your thinking and there is a good chance that you wont be able to do it on your own.

There are various programmes out there that have worked for other people who had the same problem and one of them will work for you too. For me it was and is the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous so I would encourage you to check it out by going to AA meetings. What the programme offers you is a means of achieving a small bit of a personality change, just enough to recover from alcoholism. If you can bring about this change in yourself you will lose the urge to drink and you need never relapse again.

regarding your message, bobinmaine, i did take campral for a while after my second rehab stay. it seemed to help with the mental obsession towards the drink. i did relapse while taking it, so i know there are no pills that are a cure-all for this disease. i know its just a one day at a time thing.
its interesting; ive never heard people say that they relapse after stopping antabuse. thats really good perspective i didnt think about. i dont want to be on it forever, a few months tops, but after stopping it, il have to work with my brain and my thoughts and behaviors even more so. i really appreciate it.

i forgot to mention, im seeing an addiction specialist/therapist who has really been helping me later today. il ask him about the antabuse and see what he thinks, because hes well-knowledged in this field, being a sober addict himself.
il definitely let you know, citychick2011, what he thinks about it, if youre interested.