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Stimulants What are the consequences of meth? (opinions from users)

I've been researching what is media exaggeration to try and keep people at bay from the drug, and what real users have found themselves to be struggling with after chronic use of the substance.

Has anyone noticed and specific negative consequences of their use--such as memory loss, permanent anhedonia (even after withdrawal phase), or etcetera? Or in almost all cases does one seem to recover in time? How has the substance changed your life for better and worse even socially/professionally? I think people should know about it because of how commonplace this heavy stimulant is becoming. I also am curious about how amphetamines true affect the brain. From what I gather so far, we do not entirely know the full consequences of methamphetamine so far.
I'm pretty chill about drug use among roommates, friends, etc. I'm on bluelight after all.

I can tell you as someone with experience doing residential construction and renovation, the damage done by smoking meth inside a house is a very real thing. When I found out my roommate had been smoking, at first I didn't really care. I asked him tonkeepnotnout the house bc I have a service dog, he says fine, and I go to bed. Then I put two and two together and started connecting some dots.

I move in. Suddenly my dogs acting weird, always had red bloodshot eyes, barely wants to eat, and oddly paranoid, etc. House had no ventilation ffs. Just window units. Come to find out he is 100% smoking in the house like all hours of the day while me and my dog are 20-30ft away in an unventilated box. He was escorted off the property at gunpoint that day and trespassed. He was served the paper at the end of the driveway of course.

You wanna fuck up your body and the landlords house, be my guest. You aren't gonna fuck with my dog. Damn near shot the bastard and the landlord had to call the sherriff down to prevent me from doing so cause he was tryna say he wasn't leaving blah blah blah typical hillbilly shit. He left long, story short.

So fpr starters; the long term effects of meth use aside from completely destroying your body which I've seen firsthand on countless occasions in jail and in rehab would have to include becoming a pariah among anyone who would typically associate with you should you not be a methhead, plenty of evictions, lots of lawsuits from landlords for propert damage, jail time, getting shot by the guy who's pissed you're smoking meth in his house, etc, etc.

The only benefit I ever found in ice is it let me override vivitrol injections with large doses of heroin/fentanyl without making me completely fall out and die. We're talking toxic levels of opioids mind you. I'm 25 but guck me has my liver taken a beating like a retired boxer who got hit by a train.

I've never understood gearheads anyway. I get fucked up to make the outside world quieter. Yall get High and wanna clean the driveway with a toothbrush and cut the lawn with scissors because lawnmower blades don't give a uniform enough cut or some shit. It's honestly wild to me people even like the shit. I binged on it for a week and lost pretty much everything and haven't even wanted to look at it since. Not to mention I have never coughed up nastier, darker, more painful lugies than after a night hitting the Ole G pipe. Fuck that drug and any derivative in the amphetamine category. Use it for congestion like a normal person or go buy some hard. Quit smoking and shooting ammonia and ton foil mixed with bleach or whatever the fuck they use to cook that shit in the hillbilly labs that were all blowing up a few years back down here in FL. I remember we used to have at least 1 meth explosion a month in the area. Now it's maybe once a year, but that's cause all our shit is from mexico now.

But yeah, pls stop doing meth.
 
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I’ve been shooting meth for about 6 months, prior to that I went to rehab (again) cuz I was shooting meth. Did N/A (again), did all the suggested shit my counselors said, got to 9 months clean and I was suicidal. Goddamn eating disorder is really the buried issue that drives me back to drugs. Anyway, so I’m a bit worried about my neural pathways and such. I’ll get these bizarre vertigo episodes where it feels and sounds like I’m under water. There is the lack of sleep and nutrition too so that may be contributing to these episodes. I am very sad deep down and really get by through ignoring that I’m ruining my life (again). I’m not 20 anymore yknow. 39 with a family and about to start a really good job that I’m absolutely be fired from if I don’t reel it in a bit. I’m constantly late, my skin looks like shit and my track marks are just this fucking brand of how shitty I am for everyone to see. Consequences of meth- dampened personality, visceral despair, physical pain and bearing the crushing weight of all the bad decisions you are compelled to make.
 
The negative consequences for me are pretty clear.

Meth makes me a loner and unsociable (because nobody else I know takes drugs I stick clear of them when high)

Meth affects my cognitive skills especially memory but also my ability to write (my job involves a lot of writing)

Meth makes me forget what rthe fuck I am supposed to be doing that day (this can occur multiple days in a row leading to very low professional productivity)

Meth makes me spend a lot of money chasing sex to mix with my meth

Meth has killed all of the veins in both my arms

Meth makes me unnaturally emotional and cry frequently during comedown (this is weird because often no context for crying)

Meth prevents treatment for my psychological / psychiatric problems working properly

Meth makes me immune to meth meaning I use over a gram a day (which is pointless and expensive but probably also physically dangerous)

Meth gives me a feeling of powerlessness because I cannot say no for verfy long (this is bad for my self-esteem)

Besides all of that I think its a wonder drug!
I couldn't have said it better myself. You hit every nail on the head it's great, when it's great. I also believe it sucks how highly addictive it is. When I started in the '80s as mother's helper to get me to be the best mom and best housewife and best worker I could be. 30+ years later I'm a normal looking Mom and Grandma who secretly is still smoking her meth because it just takes a hold and you don't even realize it until you do.
 
Changes to the brain induced by long term meth usage persist for a decade or longer

Once you come off meth you will always be prone/addicted to meth usage for all that time
 
Changes to the brain induced by long term meth usage persist for a decade or longer

Once you come off meth you will always be prone/addicted to meth usage for all that time
fucken oath, ive been using since the late 90s, and still when I smoke now, 'load the pipe once or twice, put in it away its a seretoin dump, you aint getting higher' but unless i can distract myself I'll be puffing all night long. It whats more as you smoke more you can almost feel it taking the shine off. But my point here is - for the brain there's nothing like it and it says:
"I'm happy, I'm happy all the time
Shock treatment, I'm doing fine
Gimme, gimme shock treatment"
 
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