Posted by pseudoname on October 1, 2005, at 16:28:51
In reply to naltrexone, posted by Declan on October 1, 2005, at 15:43:31
> So do you take a small dose of naltrexone before you go to bed?
"Just before withdrawing." Yeah yeah, chuckle chuckle. ;)
I started 12 days ago taking 25 mg of naltrexone in late afternoon. Everything I'd read said it had a low side effect profile, so I wasn't worried. About a week ago I started taking 50 mg (which is the usual addiction-recovery dose). I'm switching over to morning administration for convenience. It made me nauseous at first, but that's getting less.
On the naltrexone I've slept soundly and I wake feeling extraordinarily refreshed. Sleep is restorative in a way it hasn't been for decades.
I also (for the last 11 nights or so) have had very happy, delightful dreams. I wake intermittently from them feeling happy and go back to sleep. They are very *intense* dreams, however. Even though they're happy, that intensity is a little jarring. (Hard to explain.) I slept very well on Wellbutrin, too, so maybe don't listen to me.
I have no history of drug or alcohol abuse, and I don't know how naltrexone might affect sleep for someone in those situations.
I've been holding off on reporting anything about my naltrexone trial because I want to see if it actually works on this depression before I get very "invested" in it. I've had my hopes dashed by promising meds so many times over the years...
I've read about naltrexone as an immune system catalyst, but the literature was pretty weak, I thought. (I may be wrong: it wasn't my interest.) The doses suggested for immune boosting are low – like 5 mg.
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