Loop ,...was in my thoughts,...glad to see you're ok,....Hang tight brother...Jim Clark

Hey Lo0p -- I just thought of something. Did you tell them at the hospital about the baclofen? Did you have to do without it? Any symptoms/problems from that? What is your dose right now? Do you feel much better today?

Yikes, LOop, glad you are ok! You always come out with the wildest stories! Yes, interesting about the BAC...glad you are on the mend. Take care!

Thanks everybody. I am definitely feeling better, got the staples out of my tummy yesterday. I'm cleared to exercise whenever I want but I just don't have any energy at all.

Bobandcarol: Yes my diet was extremely specific, I weigh my food and come out with an exact amount of protein/carbs/fat for every meal. You could say it was high in protein, but you couldn't say it was high or low in carbs or fat. The surgeon that performed my surgery did a VERY good job, as I had a few surgeons consult on my case and they all said open cholecystectomy. They almost transferred me to a bigger hospital in another city because of a complication. Anyway, when he pulled my gall bladder out he had to cut the incision in my ab (bastard ) extra large because it was so inflamed. He said that my gall bladder had obviously been infected for YEARS and YEARS and it had scar tissue all over it.

This makes perfect sense to me now, in retrospect. Before I started TSM last year it was after my girl driving me to the ER because of bouts with what the doctors thought were acute toxic hepatitis. Turns out it was this. The pain that I had that made me go to the ER this time was exactly the same, except this time I HADN'T been drinking.

So, in conclusion, my diet had nothing to do with it. This has been bothering me for years.

Lena: Yes I told them about the baclofen. They really didn't even flinch too much either. I explained the high dose (175mg), the reason, and they dispensed it to me from their pharmacy daily at 2pm as per my instruction. They asked me if I had a doctor and I said no. Technically, the 'hospitalist' doctor who's care I was under (which changed a couple of times during my stay) prescribed it to me along with all the other meds they gave me. I did print out my graph to show them.

One of the consulting surgeons took affront to it and asked me if I was in "treatment...AA?" I laughed and said that doesn't work why would I do that? He left all chuffed. He came back the next day having looked it up and told me that Dr Ameisen was now a professor at his alma mater Downstate New York State or something like that....LOL

My 'hospitalist' at the end said that he thought the baclofen was why it was so difficult to control my pain, but he was just shooting in the dark.

The Nal definitely blocked the painkillers. Nal was intended for opiate addiction and the alcohol thing came about as an afterthought (much like Minoxidil was designed to be a blood pressure medication, rather than a baldness treatment). My pill bottle actually came with a sticker on it cautioning me to advise medical professionals of the Nal before trying to administer painkillers.

Regardless, I'm glad you're okay!

We're all well aware of that. However, my last nal pill was a good two weeks prior to all of this. Hell I've only taken like 8 or 10 of them this whole year.

Nal washes out in like 5-7 days (maximum). So it wasn't that.

Just got the bill in the mail this morning.

$90,376.33

Not including the physician's, surgeon's or anesthesiologist's fees or the 3 ER visits it took for me to convince them I had more than a stomach ache.