Lo0p's Progress

bamabeachin · **Joined:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:50 am **Posts:** 57

Happy, happy, happy for you, Loop. This is wonderful success and I am so very happy for you! (Can you tell?)

Bamabeachin

Lo0p · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:40 pm **Posts:** 749

So I was just fired (first time evAr!) for being too easygoing and not bossing around employees that were already doing their jobs...

And then on my way home my car blew up. :roll:

Looks like a head gasket to me. I'll try a coolant flush with that stop leak stuff and when that doesn't work I'll pull the heads.

WTF is this...a test? I've already been to hell and back.

Whatever, for some reason I'm in good spirits. I'll be going to sleep sober too! :mrgreen:

I believe I've discovered a new emotion. Has anyone here ever wanted to want to have a drink? Lol... :lol:

corkit · **Joined:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:53 pm **Posts:** 478

Sorry Lo0p about the job, but I know there's something much better out there for you that this job was probably standing in the way of you getting to it. Just think Lo0p how you handled all of this with the job and the car problems and you didn't run to the bottle? What would you have done a year ago if this had happened? It's so amazing and I'm so happy for you

corkit

Lo0p · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:40 pm **Posts:** 749

Thanks peeps! Looks like I'm gonna have to pull the heads on my car.

Hours and hours and hours of work to replace a glorified piece of cardboard, that is if the head or block isn't cracked.

At least my fitness protocol hasn't missed a beat. 6-8 more weeks and I'll look like Brad Pitt in Fight Club!! The downside, leg day is tonight. My bipedal mobility will be challenging for the next 3 days or so. Good thing I don't have to go to work!!

bamabeachin · **Joined:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:50 am **Posts:** 57

Loop,

Is there ANYTHING you can't do? Car mechanic, too? I agree, that job you lost was a stepping stone... And I am glad you were not an quasi-SOB to others - particularly at this time of the year.

Wondering if your Dad knows how well you are doing and if so, he must be so happy for you.

Hang in there and keep your eyes on the prize!

Bamabeachin

Lo0p · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:40 pm **Posts:** 749

bamabeachin wrote:

Is there ANYTHING you can't do? Car mechanic, too?

I could do anything in the world that I wanted to do if could just stop drinkin'...

... Oh!

SNAP!

(WTF does that mean anyway?...kids these days...)

There is one thing...

Lo0p · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:40 pm **Posts:** 749

It varies widely I think from person to person. For me, as I was taking more and more it would make me "woozy" and sleepy. But these effects go away after a few days as I acclimated to the new dose. It wasn't a pleasurable feeling at all. Since I've stabilized my dose I notice nothing.

In at least two of the studies I posted links to in my Consolidated Baclofen Information Thread over at MWO (http://www.mywayout.org/community/f20/consolidated-baclofen-information-thread-38718.html) the researchers evaluated it's potential for abuse and came up with nothing.

Lo0p · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:40 pm **Posts:** 749

So I totted up the amount of alcohol I've consumed for the last 4 weeks (12.5u) and if I have my maths correct it just about equals what I drank on average in one day this last summer.

In a completely unrelated note, I've decided that in all future job resumes I'm going to call myself bilingual. Thank you my UK friends. :lol:

I'm not fooling myself here, I think that my latest success with Baclofen is an artificial solution. This has been demonstrated to me in weeks 15, 16 and 17 where I ran out or was running low. The cravings come back like they were never gone in the first place and I feel like a vampire out for blood. I fully place all of my hopes on TSM for a complete recovery but I am thoroughly enjoying the reprieve.

Lo0p · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:40 pm **Posts:** 749

Finally got down to and pulled the heads on my car. The heads look fine but I'm gonna turn them in and get them tested. The head gaskets were fine but the intake manifold gaskets were blown. This is most definitely the problem. So I'll have a car again if I can figure out how to put it all back together! :lol:

6 units on Christmas Eve. I was determined to get drunk and tried really hard but I caught a little buzz, got sleepy and bored and went to sleep instead. AF Christmas day. I'll be AF until the next cheat day (free food day) on my protocol which happens to be New Years Eve (convenient).

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

bob3d · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:56 pm

Lo0p,

Your pre-TSM units were about 80 units per week, right?

Can you use that as the starting point on the graph for your Week "0"? It provides the Y axis intercept for exponential as well as power, logarithmic, and linear decay equations.

If you do, I think your extinction curve will look closer to mine, an exponential decay complete with an initial honeymoon and post-honeymoon hump followed by a precipitous drop that levels off in low numbers.. The only difference right now other than no week zero is I have a few more weeks of low consumption which contribute to a higher exponential R² correlation coefficient.

It seems like a lot of the successful ones have this type of curve once sufficiently smoothed, such as a monthly total value. Weekly and especially daily values often have too much empirical noise in them.

Congratulations on your success!

Bob

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