I just found this web site. I think my husband is on meth. He is in bed for the 2nd day again in a deep sleep. When he did wake up yesterday he ate all the junk food that he could find and was very sarcastic and tried to pick a fight. It has gotten to be where I know what to expect every two weeks or so. He is in a great mood with lots of energy. Wonderful to get along with, but yet stays out in his shop working on so many projects. He also fishes in his bass boat away from home quite a bit when he is on his "high". It seems that he crashes when he is out of money. I have been playing detective for over a year. I check on phone numbers on the cell phone bill. There are many calls at strange hours back to back. I search his shop when he is not at home but have not found anything. Yes, I have confronted him. But the problem always get throw back at me.
These are some of the signs that I see.
High= talkative, easy to get along with, active, always busy, picking at skin, feet, nails,stomache upsets
Low= excessive sleeping, snoring, not wanting to shower, repulsive, grouchy, eating out of control (mostly junk food), acts depressed, arguementive
Will someone please let me know if these are some of the symptoms or have any similar situation. I am tired of living this way. I have no companion in this marriage and feel like I am living in misery some days.
Annette
YOU KEEP PLAYING DETECTIVE AND FINDING CLUES, CONFRONTING HIM ONLY TO GET ABUSED BACK IN RETURN, YOU CAN TRY PLEADING AND BEGGING HIM, YOU CAN TRY TO BE MORE UNDERSTANDING AND LOVING TOWARD HIM, YOU CAN TRY AND SCREAM HIM OUT OF IT , YOU CAN TRY AND GIVE HIM ULTIMATUMS - BUT IF HE WANTS TO KEEP ON GOING HE WILL. HE WILL TRICK YOU AND DECIEVE YOU, HE WILL ACT FOR YOU, HE WILL BELITTLE YOU AND PLAY MIND GAMES WITH YOU, AND EVENTUALLY HE MAY BEG STEAL AND BORROW FROM YOU.
THE SHORT END OF IT IS THAT THERE REALLY IS NO ONE WAY TO FIND WHERE THIS GOING AND HOW ITS GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT IF YOU ARE UNSATISFIED WITH YOUR MARRAIGE AND YOUR LIFE THEN YOU, YES YOU AND NOBODY ELSE HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
NO IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT, NO MATTER WHAT HE TELLS YOU IT ISNOT YOUR FAULT, AND YOU MAY HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU GOT HERE - BUT HERE YOU ARE AND IT IS UP TO YOU TO TURN YOUR LIFE BACK AROUND SO THAT YOU CAN FIND SOME SATISFACTION AND PIECE OF MIND.
START ATTENDING MEETINGS (AL-ANON) START SEEING A COUNCELLOR, GET INFORMED AND EDUCATED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOU AND HOW YOU CAN CHANGE. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN REGAIN SOME CONTROL OVER WHAT IS HAPPENING.
THINGS CAN CHANGE AND DO GET BETTER - BUT YOU NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN I AM LIVING PROOF
THE SHORT END OF IT IS THAT THERE REALLY IS NO ONE WAY TO FIND WHERE THIS GOING AND HOW ITS GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT IF YOU ARE UNSATISFIED WITH YOUR MARRAIGE AND YOUR LIFE THEN YOU, YES YOU AND NOBODY ELSE HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
NO IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT, NO MATTER WHAT HE TELLS YOU IT ISNOT YOUR FAULT, AND YOU MAY HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU GOT HERE - BUT HERE YOU ARE AND IT IS UP TO YOU TO TURN YOUR LIFE BACK AROUND SO THAT YOU CAN FIND SOME SATISFACTION AND PIECE OF MIND.
START ATTENDING MEETINGS (AL-ANON) START SEEING A COUNCELLOR, GET INFORMED AND EDUCATED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOU AND HOW YOU CAN CHANGE. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN REGAIN SOME CONTROL OVER WHAT IS HAPPENING.
THINGS CAN CHANGE AND DO GET BETTER - BUT YOU NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN I AM LIVING PROOF
THANKS I AM LIVING PROOF. I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE AND STUMBLED ON YOUR POST. WOW!! NEEDED JUST THAT. THANKS!
TRUST ME HE IS ON METH ALL THE SIGNS ARE THERE MY EX WAS ON IT AND I LEFT I COULD NOT HANDLE IT ANYMORE..HE TURNED INTO A TOTAL JERK AND VERY SELFISH..I HOPE HE GETS THE HELP HE NEEDS BE STRONG GIRL WERE HERE FOR YA I WILL PRAY FOR U BYE TORI
Thank you for your support Tori
I guess I just haven't gotten to the stage to actually believe this is true. I feel that I need the proof. I just sent off a hair drug test. I guess the proof will be here in about a week. It is just so crasy how things are so good and his attitude is so positive right now. I feel like I only get the strength when he has crashed and I am angry with him for this behavior.
I will let you know how things go. Again, thanks for responding.
Annette
I guess I just haven't gotten to the stage to actually believe this is true. I feel that I need the proof. I just sent off a hair drug test. I guess the proof will be here in about a week. It is just so crasy how things are so good and his attitude is so positive right now. I feel like I only get the strength when he has crashed and I am angry with him for this behavior.
I will let you know how things go. Again, thanks for responding.
Annette
HEY WE ARE ALL HERE FOR YOU OK...EVERYTHING IS GOING TO WORK ITSELF OUT..TRUST IN GOD HE WILL GUIDE YOU...GOD BLESS
Annette, I am in the same exact boat as you are only when I searched my husbands work shed I found a vial with some white crystal stuff in it. My husband too stays up all day and night for week at a time and then crashes and sleeps for days. Calling into work and sometimes not calling or going. He is very mean and hateful. He left the house Tuesday morning last week to go to work and hasnt been home yet. It will be a week tomarrow. Our two girls ages 11 and 14 call him on his cell and he says he will be home in a little while and doesnt show up. It is very heartbreaking to the love of my life for the past 25 years turn into this cold heartless monster and there seems to be nothing I can do. I am now the enemy and he wants nothing to do with me. I wrote this poem for him this morning and without saying a word to him I plan to leave it on the front seat of his truck when I find him.
I remember twenty years ago a friend came into my life,
He brought me joy, He brought me pain,
He took me for his wife.
Through raising kids and businesses,
We took the time to play,
Our lives were blessed with happiness,
We grew closer every day.
Through terrible storms and real tough times,
We helped each other through,
When life could give no reason or rhymes,
Our love was always true.
So now, as I watch my friend,
Turn and walk away,
The best part of my life will end,
My soul has died away.
Wherever your life takes you,
I just want you to know,
You take my heart along with you,
Because I love you so.
Goodbye my husband.
I love you babe!
Spoken words havnt worked maybe this will get through. God comfort you and give you strength, Cheryl
I remember twenty years ago a friend came into my life,
He brought me joy, He brought me pain,
He took me for his wife.
Through raising kids and businesses,
We took the time to play,
Our lives were blessed with happiness,
We grew closer every day.
Through terrible storms and real tough times,
We helped each other through,
When life could give no reason or rhymes,
Our love was always true.
So now, as I watch my friend,
Turn and walk away,
The best part of my life will end,
My soul has died away.
Wherever your life takes you,
I just want you to know,
You take my heart along with you,
Because I love you so.
Goodbye my husband.
I love you babe!
Spoken words havnt worked maybe this will get through. God comfort you and give you strength, Cheryl
Annette,
from what you've descriped ... I hate to say it, but I have no doubt that your husband is on meth ... I have copied something for you to read ... I hope it helps
Methamphetamine is a powerful central nervous system stimulant.
The drug works directly on the brain and spinal cord by interfering with normal neurotransmission. Neurotransmitters are chemical substances naturally produced within nerve cells used to communicate with each other and send messages to influence and regulate our thinking and all other systems throughout the body.
The main neurotransmitter affected by methamphetamine is dopamine. Dopamine is involved with our natural reward system.
For example, feeling good about a job well done, getting pleasure from our family or social interactions, feeling content and that our lives are meaningful and count for something, all rely on dopamine transmission.
A synthetic drug, methamphetamine has a high potential for abuse and dependence. It is illegally produced and sold in pill form, capsules, powder and chunks. Methamphetamine was developed in the last century from its parent drug amphetamine and was originally used in nasal decongestants, bronchial inhalers, and in the treatment of narcolepsy and obesity. In the 1970s methamphetamine became a Schedule II drug - a drug with little medical use and a high potential for abuse.
All addictive drugs have two things in common: they produce an initial pleasurable effect, followed by a rebound unpleasant effect. Methamphetamine, through its stimulant effects, produces a positive feeling, but later leaves a person feeling depressed. This is because it suppresses the normal production of dopamine, creating a chemical imbalance. The user physically demands more of the drug to return to normal. This pleasure/tension cycle leads to loss of control over the drug and addiction.
Methamphetamine short-circuits a person's survival system by artificially stimulating the reward center, or pleasure areas in the brain. This leads to increased confidence in meth and less confidence in the normal rewards of life. This happens on a physical level at first, then it affects the user psychologically. The result is decreased interest in other aspects of life while reliance and interest in meth increases. In one study, laboratory animals pressed levers to release methamphetamine into their blood stream rather than eat, mate, or satisfy other natural drives. The animals died of starvation while giving themselves methamphetamine even though food was available.
A methamphetamine-induced "high" artificially boosts self-confidence, many users are overcome by a so-called "superman syndrome." In this state, methamphetamine abusers ignore their physical limitations and try to do things which they are normally incapable of performing. Meth is highly addictive because people often continue using the drug to avoid an inevitable crash that comes when the drugs' positive effects begin to wear off. Even first time users experience many of meth's negative effects.
Methamphetamine's negative effects include, but are not limited to, the following:
Hyperactivity
Irritability
Visual hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations (hearing "voices")
Suicidal tendencies
Aggression
Suspiciousness, severe paranoia
Shortness of breath
Increased blood pressure
Cardiac arrhythmia
Stroke
Sweating
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
Long periods of sleep ("crashing" for 24-48 hours or more)
Prolonged sluggishness, severe depression
Weight loss, malnutrition, anorexia
Itching (illusion that bugs are crawling on the skin)
Welts on the skin
Involuntary body movements
Paranoid delusions
Severe amphetamine induced depression and/or psychosis
Methamphetamine stimulates the central nervous system, causing chemical reactions in the brain and tricking the body into believing it has unlimited energy supplies and draining energy reserves needed in other parts of the body. This is why meth addicts tend to stay awake for long periods of time and then eventually crash, feeling tired, depressed and much worse than they did before they took the drug. Chemical imbalances in the brain and sleep deprivation commonly associated with continued meth use result in hallucinations, extreme paranoia and often bizarre, violent behavior.
Meth causes extensive damage to the body, and can cause death or permanent physical damage.
Physiological effects of methamphetamine use include:
Abnormally high blood pressure; rapid and irregular heart rate and rhythm; seizures; damage to blood vessels in the brain (stroke); accumulation of excess fluid in lungs, brain tissue and skull; continuous/excessive dilation of the pupils; impaired regulation of heat loss; Hyperpyrexia (body temperatures higher than 104); internal bleeding; damage to other organs caused by disruption of blood flow; and breakdown of muscle tissue, leading to kidney failure.
Similar to other drug substances, smoking and inhaling meth damages the lungs and nasal passages, and intravenous use can lead to spread of the AIDS virus.
The drug appeals to the abuser because it increases the body's metabolism and produces euphoria, alertness, and gives the abuser a sense of increased energy. But high doses or chronic use of meth, also known as "speed," "crank," and "ice," increases nervousness, irritability, and paranoia.
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Q) How is Methamphetamine used?
A) Methamphetamine addiction has three stages:: low intensity, binge, and high intensity. The binge and high-intensity abusers smoke or inject meth to achieve a faster and stronger high; the patterns of abuse differ in the frequency in which the drug is abused and the stages within their cycles.
The binge abuse cycle is made up of these stages: rush, high, binge, tweaking, crash, normal, and withdrawal.
Rush (5-30 minutes) -The abuser's heartbeat races and metabolism, blood pressure, and pulse soar. Feelings of pleasure.
High (4-16 hours) -The methamphetamine addict often feels aggressively smarter and becomes argumentative.
Binge (3-15 days) -The methamphetamine addict maintains the high for as long as possible and becomes hyperactive, both mentally and physically.
Tweaking -The most dangerous stage of the cycle. See section below.
Crash (1-3 days) -The addict does not pose a threat to anyone. He becomes very lethargic and sleeps.
Normal (2-14 days) -The abuser returns to a state that is slightly deteriorated from the normal state before the abuse.
Withdrawal (30-90 days) -No immediate symptoms are evident but the abuser first becomes depressed and then lethargic. The craving for methamphetamine hits and he may becomes suicidal. Taking methamphetamine at any time during withdrawal can stop the unpleasant feelings so, consequently, a high percentage of addicts in treatment return to abuse.
High-intensity abusers, often called "speed freaks," focus on preventing the crash. But each successive rush becomes less euphoric and it takes more meth to achieve it. The pattern does not usually include a state of normalcy or withdrawal. High-intensity abusers experience extreme weight loss, very pale facial skin, sweating, body odor, discolored teeth and scars or open sores on their bodies. The scars are the results of the abusers' hallucinations of bugs on his skin, often referred to as "crank bugs," and attempts to scratch the bugs off.
Tweaking
The most dangerous stage of meth abuse for abusers, medical personnel, and law enforcement officers is called "tweaking." A tweaker is a methamphetamine addict who probably has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. Tweakers often behave or react violently and if a tweaker is using alcohol or another depressant, his negative feelings and associated dangers intensify. The tweaker craves more meth, but no dosage will help re-create the euphoric high, which causes frustration, and leads to unpredictability and potential for violence.
A tweaker can appear normal: eyes can be clear, speech concise, and movements brisk. But a closer look will reveal the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky. These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker is using a depressant.
Tweakers are often involved in domestic disputes and motor vehicle accidents. They may also be present at "raves" or parties and they may participate in spur-of-the-moment crimes, such as purse snatchings or assaults, to support their habit.
from what you've descriped ... I hate to say it, but I have no doubt that your husband is on meth ... I have copied something for you to read ... I hope it helps
Methamphetamine is a powerful central nervous system stimulant.
The drug works directly on the brain and spinal cord by interfering with normal neurotransmission. Neurotransmitters are chemical substances naturally produced within nerve cells used to communicate with each other and send messages to influence and regulate our thinking and all other systems throughout the body.
The main neurotransmitter affected by methamphetamine is dopamine. Dopamine is involved with our natural reward system.
For example, feeling good about a job well done, getting pleasure from our family or social interactions, feeling content and that our lives are meaningful and count for something, all rely on dopamine transmission.
A synthetic drug, methamphetamine has a high potential for abuse and dependence. It is illegally produced and sold in pill form, capsules, powder and chunks. Methamphetamine was developed in the last century from its parent drug amphetamine and was originally used in nasal decongestants, bronchial inhalers, and in the treatment of narcolepsy and obesity. In the 1970s methamphetamine became a Schedule II drug - a drug with little medical use and a high potential for abuse.
All addictive drugs have two things in common: they produce an initial pleasurable effect, followed by a rebound unpleasant effect. Methamphetamine, through its stimulant effects, produces a positive feeling, but later leaves a person feeling depressed. This is because it suppresses the normal production of dopamine, creating a chemical imbalance. The user physically demands more of the drug to return to normal. This pleasure/tension cycle leads to loss of control over the drug and addiction.
Methamphetamine short-circuits a person's survival system by artificially stimulating the reward center, or pleasure areas in the brain. This leads to increased confidence in meth and less confidence in the normal rewards of life. This happens on a physical level at first, then it affects the user psychologically. The result is decreased interest in other aspects of life while reliance and interest in meth increases. In one study, laboratory animals pressed levers to release methamphetamine into their blood stream rather than eat, mate, or satisfy other natural drives. The animals died of starvation while giving themselves methamphetamine even though food was available.
A methamphetamine-induced "high" artificially boosts self-confidence, many users are overcome by a so-called "superman syndrome." In this state, methamphetamine abusers ignore their physical limitations and try to do things which they are normally incapable of performing. Meth is highly addictive because people often continue using the drug to avoid an inevitable crash that comes when the drugs' positive effects begin to wear off. Even first time users experience many of meth's negative effects.
Methamphetamine's negative effects include, but are not limited to, the following:
Hyperactivity
Irritability
Visual hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations (hearing "voices")
Suicidal tendencies
Aggression
Suspiciousness, severe paranoia
Shortness of breath
Increased blood pressure
Cardiac arrhythmia
Stroke
Sweating
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
Long periods of sleep ("crashing" for 24-48 hours or more)
Prolonged sluggishness, severe depression
Weight loss, malnutrition, anorexia
Itching (illusion that bugs are crawling on the skin)
Welts on the skin
Involuntary body movements
Paranoid delusions
Severe amphetamine induced depression and/or psychosis
Methamphetamine stimulates the central nervous system, causing chemical reactions in the brain and tricking the body into believing it has unlimited energy supplies and draining energy reserves needed in other parts of the body. This is why meth addicts tend to stay awake for long periods of time and then eventually crash, feeling tired, depressed and much worse than they did before they took the drug. Chemical imbalances in the brain and sleep deprivation commonly associated with continued meth use result in hallucinations, extreme paranoia and often bizarre, violent behavior.
Meth causes extensive damage to the body, and can cause death or permanent physical damage.
Physiological effects of methamphetamine use include:
Abnormally high blood pressure; rapid and irregular heart rate and rhythm; seizures; damage to blood vessels in the brain (stroke); accumulation of excess fluid in lungs, brain tissue and skull; continuous/excessive dilation of the pupils; impaired regulation of heat loss; Hyperpyrexia (body temperatures higher than 104); internal bleeding; damage to other organs caused by disruption of blood flow; and breakdown of muscle tissue, leading to kidney failure.
Similar to other drug substances, smoking and inhaling meth damages the lungs and nasal passages, and intravenous use can lead to spread of the AIDS virus.
The drug appeals to the abuser because it increases the body's metabolism and produces euphoria, alertness, and gives the abuser a sense of increased energy. But high doses or chronic use of meth, also known as "speed," "crank," and "ice," increases nervousness, irritability, and paranoia.
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Q) How is Methamphetamine used?
A) Methamphetamine addiction has three stages:: low intensity, binge, and high intensity. The binge and high-intensity abusers smoke or inject meth to achieve a faster and stronger high; the patterns of abuse differ in the frequency in which the drug is abused and the stages within their cycles.
The binge abuse cycle is made up of these stages: rush, high, binge, tweaking, crash, normal, and withdrawal.
Rush (5-30 minutes) -The abuser's heartbeat races and metabolism, blood pressure, and pulse soar. Feelings of pleasure.
High (4-16 hours) -The methamphetamine addict often feels aggressively smarter and becomes argumentative.
Binge (3-15 days) -The methamphetamine addict maintains the high for as long as possible and becomes hyperactive, both mentally and physically.
Tweaking -The most dangerous stage of the cycle. See section below.
Crash (1-3 days) -The addict does not pose a threat to anyone. He becomes very lethargic and sleeps.
Normal (2-14 days) -The abuser returns to a state that is slightly deteriorated from the normal state before the abuse.
Withdrawal (30-90 days) -No immediate symptoms are evident but the abuser first becomes depressed and then lethargic. The craving for methamphetamine hits and he may becomes suicidal. Taking methamphetamine at any time during withdrawal can stop the unpleasant feelings so, consequently, a high percentage of addicts in treatment return to abuse.
High-intensity abusers, often called "speed freaks," focus on preventing the crash. But each successive rush becomes less euphoric and it takes more meth to achieve it. The pattern does not usually include a state of normalcy or withdrawal. High-intensity abusers experience extreme weight loss, very pale facial skin, sweating, body odor, discolored teeth and scars or open sores on their bodies. The scars are the results of the abusers' hallucinations of bugs on his skin, often referred to as "crank bugs," and attempts to scratch the bugs off.
Tweaking
The most dangerous stage of meth abuse for abusers, medical personnel, and law enforcement officers is called "tweaking." A tweaker is a methamphetamine addict who probably has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. Tweakers often behave or react violently and if a tweaker is using alcohol or another depressant, his negative feelings and associated dangers intensify. The tweaker craves more meth, but no dosage will help re-create the euphoric high, which causes frustration, and leads to unpredictability and potential for violence.
A tweaker can appear normal: eyes can be clear, speech concise, and movements brisk. But a closer look will reveal the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky. These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker is using a depressant.
Tweakers are often involved in domestic disputes and motor vehicle accidents. They may also be present at "raves" or parties and they may participate in spur-of-the-moment crimes, such as purse snatchings or assaults, to support their habit.
Thank you for sharing with me. It is so sad what has happened in your life. Hopefully your story will help others.
I have been researching information about this drug. I believe my husband is only snorting this drug. He hasn't gone to the next step of injecting it. I think he is using it like some people would use diet pills for energy. I have seen weight loss and lots of energy. He does stay up late at night and is very busy but he has been coming to bed at night (after 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning) and sleeping until 7:30 or 8:30 the next morning. This is every night lately. He hasn't had the "crash" time since the day after New Year's. That one lasted a whole week. I am thinking maybe he is using less or changed to something else less "harmful" maybe?
It is just so confusing. He mood has been good lately and of course he is working hard and making money everyday. But right now has had little time for me. That "seems" to be the only problem right. now. I can't seem to figure out what is going on.
Whatever it is, I will know more on how to approach the situation after the test comes back. (I sent in a hair test I ordered over the Internet.)
Thank you again for your words of encouragement. God bless you.
I have been researching information about this drug. I believe my husband is only snorting this drug. He hasn't gone to the next step of injecting it. I think he is using it like some people would use diet pills for energy. I have seen weight loss and lots of energy. He does stay up late at night and is very busy but he has been coming to bed at night (after 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning) and sleeping until 7:30 or 8:30 the next morning. This is every night lately. He hasn't had the "crash" time since the day after New Year's. That one lasted a whole week. I am thinking maybe he is using less or changed to something else less "harmful" maybe?
It is just so confusing. He mood has been good lately and of course he is working hard and making money everyday. But right now has had little time for me. That "seems" to be the only problem right. now. I can't seem to figure out what is going on.
Whatever it is, I will know more on how to approach the situation after the test comes back. (I sent in a hair test I ordered over the Internet.)
Thank you again for your words of encouragement. God bless you.
Hi Annette,
I am a recovering meth addict (coming up on 6 mos) I just wanted to share my experience with you regarding your suspicions with your husband. I had been snorting meth for a little over 2 years. It started out as "recreational", then I used only on weekdays, then I started using every single day. For a year and half I used every single day. My life was centered around the getting, using and finding ways and means to get more. I was lucky and never had any run in with the law. I did however almost lose my husband and my 5 yr old twins, which would have been the WORST of the WORST. Anyways, you mentioned that your husband seems to be sleeping more and actually going to bed and waking up normally. After using for so long your body adjusts to the drugs. In order for my husband not to know about my drug addiction I started taking sleeping pills around 8pm at night so I could go to sleep. I would force myself to eat with the family or use the excuse that "I already ate". My point being here, I'm grateful today that my husband found out about my addiction, cuz it saved my life. Please don't think that just because he "seems to be normal" and is sleeping that you second guess his using. Meth addicts are very manipulative and are experts at deceiving others into what they think you want to see
I wish the best for you and your husband. Please feel free to email me anytime should you need an "addicts viewpoint".
Kelly ~ Recovering Addict in Calif.
I am a recovering meth addict (coming up on 6 mos) I just wanted to share my experience with you regarding your suspicions with your husband. I had been snorting meth for a little over 2 years. It started out as "recreational", then I used only on weekdays, then I started using every single day. For a year and half I used every single day. My life was centered around the getting, using and finding ways and means to get more. I was lucky and never had any run in with the law. I did however almost lose my husband and my 5 yr old twins, which would have been the WORST of the WORST. Anyways, you mentioned that your husband seems to be sleeping more and actually going to bed and waking up normally. After using for so long your body adjusts to the drugs. In order for my husband not to know about my drug addiction I started taking sleeping pills around 8pm at night so I could go to sleep. I would force myself to eat with the family or use the excuse that "I already ate". My point being here, I'm grateful today that my husband found out about my addiction, cuz it saved my life. Please don't think that just because he "seems to be normal" and is sleeping that you second guess his using. Meth addicts are very manipulative and are experts at deceiving others into what they think you want to see
I wish the best for you and your husband. Please feel free to email me anytime should you need an "addicts viewpoint".
Kelly ~ Recovering Addict in Calif.
