TheUnknown

**Sorry so long, but since I have been reading these threads for about 60 hours off and on, I have a lot to say.

My situation: Middle aged, pudgy, white guy. Laid off from work 30 days ago and have been clean for 30 days (not a coincidence).

I did get high everyday, but I would only take 5 hits from my one hitter at 8:30 pm every night (and yes, I did count them and rarely went over). A 1/4 oz. of regular old Mex compressed would last me at least 6 weeks. Never was a fan of getting "baked", just used mj as a mild relaxant and thought developer after a hard days work.

Before finding this forum my knee jerk reaction was to trim my hair down to 1/2 inch on my head at the 23 day clean mark (realizing I would still have an 1/8" to 1/4" of dirty hair) and if faced with a hair test in the future I would make sure everything else was trimmed down to shorter than head hair. My hair does grow extremly fast at the pace of nearly 3/4 inch per month, but is dark and thick.

I have no idea when or what type of test I may be faced with but can't afford to just sit back and hope for the best.

Over the last 4 days I have adopted the following procedure:
*Vinegar (10 min)
*Neutrogena T/Sal (3% Salicylic Acid) (10 min)
*Tide Detergent (5 min)
*Rinse
*Paul Mitchell 3 (5 min)
*Rinse
*Nexxus Aloe Rid Deep Cleansing Treatment (found on ebay, but only 6 oz)
*Rinse

I chose the T/Sal over the Clean and Clear because from what I have read (and I have read virtually everything) this is the step that is causing scalp irritation. I was looking for a more long range plan and felt since this had a higher concentration of salicylic acid and was actually a shampoo it would be a little easier to do on a daily basis. Although, I am concerned that the alcohol in Clean and Clear may play a part in the cleansing process..???..

Please let me know if you feel this is a good plan for right now. Should I be incorporating the baking soda mixture in here somewhere? Should I go get my hair bleach / re-dye now? My concern is that I don't want to stunt the growth of my hair right now by destroying it, since I do have the rapid growth thing going for me.

Once I feel a job offer is possible, I would probably get a PDT-90 test to see where I am at and if failed would then go into "hyper" mode with the bleach / re-dye / completely destroy my hair mode.

Any comments or suggestions are highly appreciated.