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Methamphetamine after effects

Jackeh

Jackeh

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I'm going to be trying meth for the first time next week. ROA will be insufflation.

I know the main "high" apparently lasts about 6 hours but I also read there are after effects like continued inability to sleep and appetite suppression for 12 hours or so.

My question is, during this "after effect" period are there any visible signs of earlier use? For example, continued pupil dilation, jitters, etc.
 
I used it for the first time a little over a week ago and the after effects made me feel pretty gross. I thought "fuck ill be able to sleep" but I couldn't at all. Took over 12 hours after my last dose. I couldn't sit still at there were definitely jitters. You may need more advice since I have only used it a couple times but that's just my experience.
 
Shit, when i first started using it recreationally i usually snorted 2 lines at once (never had a tolerance did it like only once a month or less) and the good feelings would generally last 12-13 hours, before it becomes neutral, than the 18th hour mark is when slowly i'd start feeling shitty, and it would progress till the 24th hour mark, by then which i would think i could asleep and wouldn't be able to from that single dose.

I would fall asleep around the 36 hour mark, words of advice do not do it without something for when you are coming down. I have never felt awful from any drugs including heroin that made me feel as shitty, depressed, irritated, confused, soooooo depressed and hopeless unomotivated as much as meth has. And that's what kept me from wanting to do it not so often, because the comedown would be so ugly sometime.

Have some benzos/ low dose opiates, weed, or even alcohol for when it starts to wear off, because you should feel atleast mildly shitty.
 
Although I've done a lot of things that reduce the comedown without being sedating (taking modafinil, selegiline, clonidine etc with meth) and of course benzos/alcohol on the sedating side, the only one I can recommend that won't change the initial high is dosing 2-FMA when the comedown starts. 2-FMA has a way softer (non-existent IMO) comedown in comparison to regular meth, so if you redose with it instead of meth and then comedown, it won't be unpleasant.
 
I smoke and go home, drink a few beers. You're high as fuck for a long time. I would say close to 12 hours if you're experienced. Way more if you're not. The best idea I can give you is to chill out around the the time that you start finding yourself have less fun than you were. The minute you feel that little thump of depression. I have never had a comedown off of any stimulant because I always seclude myself from loud noises or too much going on. Usually just go in my room away from everything and play on my phone or stay busy. Read into something interesting. Do this as long as you can. Then you'll eventually get over the comedown. But you'll still be awake. You'll feel fine though. Just keep busy. If everyone is at work when I am coming down, I sit in the living room and drink a mixed drink and chat with fb friends, look up interesting things, go on forums...stay busy and I never come down. Whenever I know I am passed that High, I smoke weed. Eventually you'll feel okay and can chill out and just have a normal day. Should fall asleep around 36 hours. I know that if I have some alcohol and some weed I will be extra okay.
Also, the higher you get the worse the comedown. That might be what has saved me the comedown. I only have as much as I feel necessary. Getting too high makes you stay up for even longer and come down harder. And you look higher for longer too and you can't hide it.
 
I never found meth comedowns to be that bad, definitely not as bad as coke.
But yea during the comedown your pupils will be dilated and you will feel a lot more restless than during your peak.
It's easier to tell someone was using during their comedown than their peak imo, lots of times my pupils don't dilate at all until I start crashing
 
The first time i did it, 500g quality product in 4 hours thinking it was coke, i forgot about the 12 hour duration and ended up home thinking i had dealt the comedown already. I was hit wit the worst panic attack of my life, went to hospital thinking i was dying. It was a large dose however. I stopped that in future with Seroquel but after stopping that stuff, i found drinking a lot from the 10-12 hour mark works perfectly. Not healthy but you really don't want to deal with that comedown, especially if its been a 4 day binge.

Oh, and dont do what i did once and take opiates for the comedown thinking it makes sense since that just resulted in a manic psychotic aggressive mess. Booze for its effectiveness and availability is the best solution.
 
No need to read past OP.
Meth is a bad drug. I've done 5 + rehabs and am a poly addict but have never done meth.
I've never seen a drug have such a universal pull on people. Enter their life and fuck it up so quickly.
No angel here obviously but from what I've seen its the smoking of it that is the most addictive ROA by far.

If you're going to do it don't let smoking it into the equation. The addictive pull is unlike anything I've ever seen.
 
hunter1 said:
No need to read past OP.
Meth is a bad drug. I've done 5 + rehabs and am a poly addict but have never done meth.
I've never seen a drug have such a universal pull on people. Enter their life and fuck it up so quickly.
No angel here obviously but from what I've seen its the smoking of it that is the most addictive ROA by far.

If you're going to do it don't let smoking it into the equation. The addictive pull is unlike anything I've ever seen.
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I'd mostly agree. Although I do think meth a pretty good functional stimulant, as long as you take it according to prescribing guidelines for ADHD and stick to that. If you don't smoke/snort/inject it and don't take over 30mg a day, you're never going to end up on faces of meth. All the more so if you take it along with a dose of (ar)modafinil (which also offers neuroprotection, in addition to reducing the addictveness).

Granted, I think some people are just a lot more prone to addiction than others. I've heard something like 90% of the population finds tobacco addictive, and I certainly don't. Now I'm not going to tempt fate and start injecting 20x my normal dose of meth tomorrow; but I can say from the times I've taken 30mg on selegiline (which roughly triples potency per mg for me) I've just felt too tweaked out and dysphoric. For me there is definitely a sweet spot of effects for meth, and I feel inclined to use less if I exceed it.

Basically, I don't use meth very recreationally. I'm a bigger fan of weed and tianeptine (potentiated by selegiline) for those purposes, as they get the job done with a lot less adverse effects (and are both neuroprotective in some respects); for me meth is a drug to do better work, or a "weekday drug" if you will.
 
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