Long term effects of methamphetamine use

[CRACKBACK]

you have tu hate the thingsthe shit will do to you, I know you think you are in control..... but why are you here, looking for some one like you,to make you feel ok bout all the smokin you do.you hide it from your parents. your boss, family and mates, dates and even people you hate, talkin with people to relate,spun as fuck with pickin pox on your face. Is this what you want, is this really happening in your life, I know, Ive herd it,your not that bad yet, you stll look clean and fit, youve herd afew times that youve lost weight. "wow wish i could loose some like that" If they only knew why you dont get fat. And sometimes you think your cool,"now im done. no more shadow people that move every where, and run. no more voices that cry and wisper things you cant hear. now your life is yours so make it your own, its been a year that you relize has past, but you see the white dragon, your right on his ass, just one more hit, you almost feel like the 1 time you got spent on the shit. you never will,and thats the truth of it, Its pandoras box .................... Please dont ever try this shit!

[searcher]

The speed I used to get back in the day came in 3 varieties, black beauties were the best (black capsules of pretty good amphetamine). These would make you rush and sweat a little but made you feel great. Then there was chrystal methamphetamine that was powder. This was pretty easy to get. Friends would go to Canada and bring back pounds. This stuff was like a paste like substane, like dry paste. This stuff would get you amped.

Then there was white cross, some was better than others. Little white thin wafers that had a cross so you could split them in half or quarters. If you took 2 or 3 you'ld be good... they could give you a headache though.

Crashing off this stuff was not fun, dry mouth, shrivel dick, shakes and slight spasms... not so much fun...

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Long term effects... well I'm still alive and have all my teeth. I used the stuff off and on for a couple years, maybe less...again...I saw what it was doing.. I weighed 145 *pounds and was 5'10" so it certainly kept me thin (diet pills) but I wasn't strong (well I was strong but not like a body builder or a weight lifter).. the stuff makes you "scrawney". I weigh alot more than that now.

I don't know what long term effects might happen to me the older I get, maybe I'll have early kidney failure or something...I'm not sure. I think the effects are more cumulative than long term, although extremly long term use and chronic use might make you shrivel up and get sick. *

[Nicaine]

They used to have a saying in the 60's/70's, "speed kills." If they said it about a drug in the 60's...



Imo the long term effects (& even many of the short term effects) are much worse than coke. Coke seems to aim a lot more for dopamine, even though it has some tweaky effects they're outweighted by the euphorigenic (sp?) properties. To me, speed is much less pleasure and much more tweak. Oftentimes a bad sort of tweak too. If you can afford it, try switching to coke (heheheheheh...).

[DAN-O]

I have been using meth sense I was about 13, I am know 34 and still using. It was always a once in a wile thing Intel up to about 4 years ago when my ex wife had me kicked out of our home were we lived with our 2 boys age 10 & 7. we were together about 14 years yet I do not think I was ever relay in love with her I just could never walk out on my kids. My ex had been seeing a co worker and he ended up moving in about 2 weeks after she lied to the court and got a restraining order and had me kicked out. And that is when I got vary depressed, I was back living with my mother at age 30 and just knowing that some guy would end up seeing my boys more then me made me not want to get out of bed in the morning. My once or twice a month habit became an every day thing. Because as long as I was using meth I was not feeling anything and could go to work every day without being depressed.
That was over 4 years ago and the longest I have gone without meth is 31 days. Still living at my mothers, lost that job I was at for 10 years, and two more sense then. I am know about 50 grand in debt. gone through a bad relationship, and my car needs major repairs. Meth is a vary powerful drug and I am still using and still feel nothing. no emotions as long as I am on meth. About a month ago i started trying to find out what it does to me and why i cant stop without having major depression. and what i can do to quit this life controlling drug. i have learned a lot about what it does to the brain. in my case i have a depression problem and when someone is depressed there brain is not functioning normally the pleasure sensing chemicals are not getting through like they should. And when I am on meth my brain is over releasing so I feel better. they say that meth will take a persons most noticed flaws and magnify them.
4 and a little over a half years is not long term, and you see what I have let
this man made demon do to me. I will one day quit, this I know for a fact. I just hope
that I am still above ground when I do. for the people trying to quit, i wish you the best of luck.
- Dan-o -

[singlegnyc]

I've only done four it times. First time I snorted it - crank. Once big line, I think I thought a was doing coke. Wanted to kill people the next day - it was the worse I had ever felt in my life and I swore to never do it again.



Fast forward about 10 years, I was hanging out with some friends that were getting ready to leave the area and it was really late and I wanted to just drive the hour home, but was tired. They offered me some crank and I said i had snorted it once, hated it. They suggested a little bit in a glass of water, I did it. Just enough to get home, I slept that night got up the next day - didn't realize until after 24 hours that I had not eaten, nor was I hunger or had thought of food.



About 2-3 years later I was in a situation where it was being smoked. So I tried it. I really didn't notice anything until they pulled the pipe out again and I immediately had to keep from grabbing it out of their hand. That's when I first saw it's power. That was a lost weekend, didn't smoke much, but did some mdma also and was just really fucked up - forgot about the crystal once the e kicked in. Ah Miami...



Most recently this spring I had a quarter gram and was trying to smoke it with a little test tube and glass tube - didn't know what I was doing, probably ruined most of it, but I sure felt the power and was up for a good 48 hours and slept fitfully and had cravings for another couple days. It beat the shit out of me.



Now I don't crave it or plan on doing again, but I can sure see how it gets you hooked. The only time I might be slight tempted to do it "one more time" would be for a sex experience, because that would be incrediable. But I'm not going out of my way to look for it.



All of you trying to kick it - good luck! You can do it. I know a friend of my brother finally did and has been clean for a year - but it took a prison stint to get through to him.

[cbus]

Hello my boyfriend is trying to quit crystal meth. He hasn't done it for about a month now but I know that it's nottotally over yet. He quit before (after about4 continuous years of usage) but had a serious relapse within a couple monthsand started using intensively for another 8 months.


All of the symptoms and effects you mention I clearly see in him.He must have been in abad place to start using, but now he isin such a worse place. We have moved and he is trying toleave all associations with it behind.


Recentlyhe has been trying to access memories, bad memories, that he blocked off and completely forgot about. It seems like the crystal helped him forget. It seems really painful reaching them now but it seems to be a good thing.


All I want is for him to reach a place where he wouldn't ever go back. From reading your forum, it seems likesomany people have trouble completely cracking it.


Can anybody offer any useful advice in killing the pull that draws you back? I have never used and I need all the help I can get.