Im addicted for 7-8 years of daily use, at this moment i have almost 2 days clean, no thinking about stop it right now, but i learned to like the withdrawal symptoms, i love the feeling of rest a lot and how i feel, like i really need to sleep a lot, and how the appetite comes back its insanely good for me, just if some of this can help, is what i do when i stop for few days.
- I have my own business too, im alone, dont have kids or gf, but i cant close suddenly, i have done it before and when i got back at job some clients was really angry and calling me all the day, even if we dont have pending business, i dont want to lose my customers, they are who make solid my business, so i call to my brother, and he manages it for the need time, my phone is still linked to the google adversites and all the adversites, but there is a secondary number too, so, the log term clients know where to call when i dont take the phone, they dont know im withdrawal of course.
- Clean my house, wash my clothes, i have a mini frigo in my room and full it with juices, milk, a vodka, but right now i dont have any desire of drink alcohol, i have take just a sip to wash a little my mouth, then water, drink a lot of water, or at least drink milk, i love to drink milk at withdrawals lol.
- I would recommend to ask for medical advice, but in my country modafinil its otc medication, any ssri too, wellbutrin too, i have all of them, but after the 4th-5th day, after being sleeping like 18 hours daily, it changes to sleep 12h and be awake 12h, the cravings and the depressive exhausted feelings got more extreme at that point, so, what help me a ton is to take modafinil 200mg. (the first time works wonders), and my other meds i take in daily basis (sertraline 100mg, clonazepam 2mg), when im withdrawing of meth i commonly use to stop all other things im taking becouse i got extremely fatigue and just want to eat and sleep, but its important to me to get the meds, i use them to make me more stable in my daily meth use, the comedowns are easy when you can sleep, i would recommend mirtazapine if you have sleeping/appetite problems, i just micro dose it, 7.5mg, but when i stop suddenly i have never taked it, right now i feel like sedated and havent taken my meds, and dont want to feel more sedated, but is worse to feel sedated, spaced out and extremely anxious, i have been at that point and taking back my meds and the meth, its a really dysphorical and crazy feeling that i dont want to repeat again, smoking super paranoid doubling and triple benzo dose doesnt help, generally used to knock me with alcohol.
If you can have some modafinil, i guess will help for the fatigue and the got asleep episodies that will be kicking everyday for at least 3 weeks clean, i feel SSRI do nothing for me, but honestly after years, i feel they make my emotions much more manageable and less intense, so i can be more rational when my mind is crazy asking for meth, and worried about work, etc.
I think support of recovery groups is not a must, but if i was in your situation, about stop suddenly or get in jail 8 years, im surely going to AA/NA, i know can be helpful and the most help you get to keep clean will be better.
What is really a must is a long term vacation period of time, at least one week, but if possible, extend it for 3-4 weeks, or until you start feeling useless and wasting your time you can get back to work at least 4 hrs. daily, cuz fatigue will kick, and is this when modafinil helps.
Sorry if im divagating like 99% of my posts, my room is a disaster, even after cleaned the saturday, and the sunday stopped the meth, but i was i have been doing its eating and sleeping, rn i really want to take a bath and will do it, sometimes i just need to get up from the bed, smoke a cig., sit down in my computer with a gallon of milk, and do somethings to avoid the extreme back aches of being all day sleeping, the physical pain just make my cravings enormously worse.
Its not so hard, if you want or NEED to do it, so keep it right and i hope to read back how are you doing it
Blessings!
Edit: i forgot to mention i take daily vitamins with 2 moths use and 3 weeks without vits, (multivitamin + B6 + DLPA + B12 shots 4 in one month, at least 1-2 times per year, omega 3 high daily doses, with same regime than vitamines, i use too n-acetyl cisteine daily in short periods at the year, i really thanks god this all its available in the biggest national pharmacies of generic medications at my country, even they sell the modafinil, but its really fabricated at India, and they arent expensive at all, im sure if they was more expensive, i would be saving that money, but dont stop my meth use, thats some unhealthly way of life, but is the true for me). But these all are just secondary non essential help to keep my tolerance down mostly, not searching to stop at this moment, when i have stoped before, what helped me most over all was to be phisically impossible to get any hit of meth, then... its just like a switch in my changed to minimal wd symptoms, becouse i know i will not get meth in some months, and magically the withdrawals almost disappeared, im not lying, i have been in that situation 3 times, and its even shameful how i overstimate all the wd symptoms right now even when i have been trough them before, its a very psychological addiction, and the envoirment cab be determinant on your subjective feelings and decitions, keep the help of your gf, and ask for anyone for support when you think you have only the meth... i really dont want to be jailed for years for a meth use, if i got in that situation, automatically im stopping meth and face the withdrawals, i dont want to loose my time and my life for that time in the jail just cuz meth... just no... so, come on, its not so hard friend, and even is a good feeling when you over come it and see you are good managing the life without meth.
About ephedrine, its a high risk of false positive tests, but will depend of the accuracy of tests, someones have in the instructions what substances give false positive, and the more drugs are tested at the same time, the less accuracy the test have. The adderalll will show as AMPH(metabolite of meth), and some other stimulants too, so if you dont know that ones are more prone to get positive ask for medical advice, the medical prescription will save your life if you have any false positive.