To Get Off Of Methamphetamines

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What do you need to take to get off methamphetamines?

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According to my research, because the damage done by meth addiction happens in many areas, treatment is broad and includes immediate detox and subsequent care. The emotion, physical, and social problems meth causes all have to be addressed before sobriety can be maintained.

"Meth addiction can be treated. Although acute withdrawal can be completed in a week without the drug, long term withdrawal symptoms will persist. Medical treatment can help with depression and coping skills. The risk for addicts is that they will think one round of withdrawal and suffering has somehow made them less likely to slide back into full blown addiction. This is not the case.

It has been shown that the changes meth makes in the brain can take up to a year to resolve, and that the psychological addiction will remain for many years. But addicts do recover and, with help, learn to live a drug-free life."

This information is referenced from the link below (where you can also find more information on 'meth treatment' by scrolling down to the "Related Pages" section at the bottom of the article):
http:/­/­www.myaddiction.com/­categories/­meth_withdrawal.html

I hope this info helps!

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I have done meth for 17 yrs and want to be done with it. one of my biggest problems when i have tried to quit is my energy level. I can barely get myself out of bed after sleeping for a couple days. My body feels very weak, Its all I can do to get up and shower, then wanting to return to bed. I have a family to take care of and can't afford to be in bed with nothing getting done around the house, it would be a terrible mess in a weeks time! I have tried anti depressants, and vitamins, but they aren't enough to get me up and doing some of my daily chores. Is there any meds they perscribe for this? My friends and family don't know about my meth use. I had quit for almost 2 yrs about 7 yrs ago, which it was all out in the open, then i fell into it again, and im sooo tired of the viciouse circle, and feel so lame because i have to do meth just to keep up with everyday life. I know it's bad for me and want to be around for my children. My 7 yr old is very much a Mommy's boy and very attached to me, so if something happened to me he would be devistated. I know my energy level isn't the only thing i have to deal with when im coming off meth, but i know i could give it a good fight if i could still take care of my familys daily needs. Is there light at the end of my tunnel? I hope someone understands where im coming from and has been where im at? please help! Thank you for your time

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Shelly
You sound like me,our stories are so much alike it's scary. Glad to know I am not alone in this battle. I've had the same job for years,raised my 2 boys now 21 and 18. Same address for years even own my suv. getting ready yo marry a very nice and well off man who also like to indulge himself. I don't want to go to meetings and I don't want my family to know,they think I quit along time ago. Like you I don't know how I can get the motivation or energy like I have when I'm using. I see you posted this in April it's now Nov if I find anything I will post hope you will as well.

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Ya'll are not alone :( I went to jail for possetion of meth in oct 2013, I spent 45 days in jail. Got out of jail,came home to a now sober old man whom is completely against meth now. Use to we stayed messed up but during of being messed up I wasn't sure he even liked me. So I will put it like this I geeked on him for about 2 yrs tring to get him to love me... Any way I came home to him we started going to church, I found a wonderful job that I love but requires me to work LONG HRS, had a better relationship with my daughter whom I love with everything in me and I could just die know the disappointment and hurt that she would be if she only knew her momma was spiraling down a funnel again spinning right back to the place I was before going in reverse at a high rate of speed... Now see none of this makes sence to me as to why I would turn back to meth when I know what the outcome is gonna be... WHY... WHY ..... WHY..? Is what I cry out.... I need help so bad but how do you ask for help when u know what's gonna happen when u do... This is what I see will happen when I do ask or even mention needing help... See now I am on felony probation so I'm almost positive they will put me in jail for useing, I will lose all respect and love from my the one man that I love with all my heart, my job will be gone, my jeep my home my family and more important MY DAUGHTER.... And if I don't get help... I'm gonna end up in jail,alone, homeless jobless or DEAD... When I got busted It was a blessing in disguise for me and even me being messed up on meth I still comprehend that and understand it fully.... SO HERE IT IS AGAIN WHY WHY WHY... Am I useing again....! So here my cry and please I need advice from people that's been thru this cause people that haven't have not one clue as to how to even try and help someone on meth.... And I'm sorry if this is all chicken scratch to y'all and scattered out... But all I have wrote here comes straight from my heart s please give me some advice...

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That is exactly what i am going thru. I only make myself feel high in the mornings to help me with energy. Im so sick of it. But i just need a little everyday to keep up or im bed ridden. please help me also cause your not alone. Let me know if you find some kind of medicine or cure. Asap thank u.

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I have been searching the internet for the past week to try and find some help, and all I have come up with are b12 shots and this supplement L-tyrosine. I am about to go buy them tomorrow. I realize these posts were abt a year ago, but this is the only place I have found women going through EXACTLY what I am. I am about to be 30 this year and I have 2 young boys 1&5.. so I have to stay busy and have no downtime whatsoever. Not to mention they too believe I have recovered last november 2013 after completing rehab. I WILL lose evrthng and cant ask for help without everyone knowing. Its like im stuck in a catch 22. Damned if I do, and damned if I dont.. All I know is my 2 boys are the most important thing to me and they would be devistated if I had to leave them again. Im not sure if any of you ladies ever found help, but if you did could you please share. I have never wrote anything on any kind of forum on the internet, but this one I just couldn't pass up. Too many going through what I am in one spot, after thinking I was alone this whole time. This forum reached out for me.

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@Victoria I am currently in the midst of self detoxing at home while also attempting to care for my two children alone. The energy lows are tough, the emotional lows are tougher. The thing I find hardest is the fact I have to keep it a secret when all I want to do is walk into the nearest hospital, find the busiest section and simple fall to my knees and cry out "somebody care enough about me to help me quit this stupid chemical but don't take away my children who are my only reasons for breathing!"
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a closed community made up entirely of women who have stumbled into this kind of mess? We could give the emotional support we crave and need to keep going. Pick up the slack for one another on those low days we all have. Encourage each other and help be the best mother's we desperately want to be but don't know how to be. Like a nonreligious cult, sans the kool aid punch bowl.

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I am a 45 yr. Mom My 2 sons left for Texas 2 and half yrs. ago because in IL its hard to find work when you have a felony on your record. Needless to say it wasn't any easier down there! My then 24 yr. now 26 yr. is a complete stranger to me..... I had the feeling he was becoming lost when i would talk to him on the phone "which was not to often....he didn't want me to worry. 2 months ago i went down to Texas to bring my 26 yr old son back i went through hell and im still working my way back....what was intended to be a week long trip became a month long trip. He was homeless and living in an abandoned house because my brother that invited and enticed him to come down there to live with him because allllll kinddddss of workkkk is in Texas! would not put up with his life style of drinking and consuming marijuana and picking up chicks. Anyways my son met some kid who took methamphetamine and thats the beginning and the end pretty much ....The kid lived with his dad who was also a user who was a vet on retirement pay or pension...? let my kid live in a room in his nice house for very cheap $400 month..but he was the only one working everyone else stayed home tweaking my son was a social light who could talk to anyone and quickly became friends with new dealers and wheelers. He was now the source in that house to go to. He eventually lost his mind and because houseful of people manipulating using thieves robbed him of his insurance money from a car accident, stole his wallet ID SS card let him O.D. in the room he rented in their house then beat him up and said he attacked some 49 yr old lady in the house!!!! They knew he had no one ....no relatives down there to care...THAT's what they thought anyways...

Also my kid was givin acid and was heavily using methamphetamine for about 2 years. These mother f***ers call me up tell me they beat him up because he was out of control and was hurting people and they locked him in his room. They tell me they dont know what to do with him. I ask them what was happening why this happened? OH boy what a bunch of s***...... He's hooked on methamphetamine and he took bunch of acid and lost his mind they told me!!!! im 900 miles away. i tell them i will be there within 12 hours, please dont call police or anything.....they didnt expect that! I went down there got my baby, he was 110 lbs. looking like billy squire my god if I was a man.......and i had connects ...... cant even say what i would have done..im not going to be able to finish this story...right now its late here in IL...my son is here back at home, his mind is difficult to deal with..... its been damaged from the methamphetamine, marijuana, abuse...Im praying his mind will heal....he is paranoid still its been 3 months now he has episodes when he has stress that cause him to get very agitated, he has problems with rational thinking.....if you are actually interested in more of the story please contact me....i think i could actually write a book.....All those who are still living in the fire....Please find yourself again we become lost in the disillusion of an altered reality. We need to know we effect other people and its time to fight back and overcome our false perceptions! A new you means a new world......Love to all who are suffering...

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