Days off meth

Life in Recovery
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80 days sober, definitely digging it

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Welcome aboard @Jaredw9989
Congratulations on your sober time :partying_face:

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Thank you very much

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Heck yeah congratulations and thank you

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Hell yeah 80days is awesome dedication. Keep up the good fight

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Thank you, you too

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Good for you @Jaredw9989 :raised_hands: :clap: :star_struck:

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Thank you very much

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Hope you are having a great morning/day and if you need added support feel free to message me or post on here because meth was one of my DOC(s) I’ve been there

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HUGE Congrats thats a big deal you should be extremely proud :tada::pray::purple_heart: thanks for sharing

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@Jaredw9989 You still hanging in there man?

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Today I told myself I’m done with Meth. 7 hours clean. Please keep me in y’all prayers

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After daily use for a year, homeless for months, two rehabs, and a dead brother, I’ve been clean from meth for 4 years 3 months and 9 days. And nearly threw it all down the toilet last night. But I’m still here. One day at a time.

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Glad ur still on the sobriety journey with us :slight_smile: What happened last night that almost made u relapse? Hope ur day is better today!

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Thank you :blush: I am so happy to still be here too. Last night was nothing big nor major, merely the culmination of the last few months slowly eating at me more and more as my life gets more and more stressful, all while most of my typical methods of staying in the straight and narrow have collapsed, one by one. Which also means today is not really any better, but I have more strength to fight off the cravings with the morning light.

One hour at a time some days. Hell, one five minutes at a time some days.

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Thats usually how it is eh? For me too… its usually the build up of stress or the build up of events that creates such an intense emotional outcome, where cravings can pop up.

What sort of methods have collapsed for you in this sense? Have u ever tried a 12 step meeting such as NA? Maybe that could be a more constant support :slight_smile:

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That is exactly it. It gets to the point where one little thing that all on its own wouldn’t be much of a bother, but at the wrong time, throwing it on top (or rather, kicking me when I’m down), it turns into the “the straw that’ll bresk the camels back” and sends my cravings skyrocketing.

I got my start in recovery in CMA groups back west. I miss those, dearly, and the humans who related to me on levels I wasn’t even aware I needed. Where I live now there are no CMA groups. There are 2 NA groups and I’ve tried them both. Both are good, but both are the same, just different age groups, and neither has recovering meth heads. As much as I relate to the plights of those with other drugs of choice, these NA groups weren’t doing the same for me that CMA was and I stopped going a solid 3 years ago now. I’ve just been raw dogging it on my own since. I’ve looked this weekend to see if there is much new around me, and there really isn’t. But I did find a few recovery work out groups that are only 30ish minutes drive away, not close enough for me to start going, but at least I know they exist.

I’ve been using Sober Time as merely a tracker app since I was in the infancy of recovery and finally decided to try this community and see if it’ll help.

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I get what u mean for sure. I remember when I was trying to get clean from meth many years ago, we didnt have a CMA group where I lived too. I remember going to NA and oddly enough got looked down upon for being someone who used meth. This was when meth wasnt that popular in my old area (unfortunately Ive heard that its rampant there now).

This forum tho is incredible! Its been my main source of support for years. I really hope that u gain a lot of benefit from it :slight_smile:

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This is exactly it! While only some gave the vibe that they were “looking down on me”, the ones who were kinder simply couldn’t relate on the deeper levels past just general physical dependency on hard drugs.

I moved from back west where high quality cartel meth was everywhere, to the Midwest where it’s much harder to find, especially as the southern border has been more locked down. I hope with every fiber of my being the cartel meth I crave continues to slow to a trickle coming into America. But there is still the redneck “shake n bake” meth readily available around here. So while there is some understanding, especially from the old timers who lived through Quaaludes and speed, it’s not what I’d hoped to find.

But already this community has lifted my spirits more than I thought it would​:heart:

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I am sooo happy to hear this!! I absolutely felt the same way when I first joined and began interacting on this forum. Doesnt it feel good to be accpeted for who we are and where we are at, without judgement… and encouraged to be better versions of ourselves?
I hope that u are able to find more suitable supports somehow in ur area, but remember, u will always have us here on the forum as a support, anytime :slight_smile:

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