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Amphetamine withdrawal

Hi there I wonder if anyone can help me with my on going battle to stop taking phet.  I started taking it on the social sceen years ago but did not seem to have a problem with it.  About 4 years ago I sarted hanging around a girl who took it on a more regular basis and so did I and as the come down kicked in i took more to function properly.  I was taking it every day for nearly a year when i realised it had a hold,  I came off it with a small bout of depression, big bouts of feeling fatigued and a never ending routine of eating and sleeping and a phycological dependancy of needing it to feel Normal!  I did beat it and didn't take it again for about 8 months when I started using on a social occasion again or to stop me getting too drunk on a night out, since then I have battled with taking it none stop for a few days then a break or days on days off it and generally the days off it I just sleep.  I have a good job and I do not want anyone to find this out, I know i can stop taking it but I can't function and go to work without it, I take also diazepam that helps bring me down at night to relax and sleep.  The thing is Iv been copeing pretty well with all this but im starting to feel like is there a way out of this mess and to have myself back to my normal self with no drugs without alerting my boyfriend, employer or family to the situation.  I am starting to feel depressed a lot more than before when not high and have bad mood swings which is starting to affect my relasionship with my boyfriend and I have everything in my life to look forward to but am at a brick wall.  I have been looking up the effects of natural anti depressants also the benefits of 5 Htp and L Tyrosine to help me feel normal again or at least be able to function, get out of bed and go to work.  I believe that the L Tyrosine would be better as phet users need dopamine rather than serotonine is this true? Any other advice support, remedies would be much appreciated.   Thanks xx
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511524 tn?1266349934
atten support groups, its all mental, the anxiety is abd and the cravings are a constant, but they are manageable, you can def, get offof them for good...you will feel so much more alive afterwards, the wd;sa rent too severe...just go to meetings stay around supportive ppl and dont use and in a week youll be good as new-christos
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52704 tn?1387020797
You might want to look at:

End Your Addiction Now, by Charles Gant
The Mood Cure, by Julia Ross
Seven Weeks to Sobriety, by Joan Larsen

It might also help to start going to NA and/or AA meetings (lots at first) and get a Sponsor.

Probably the best thing would be to just hop on in to in-patient rehab for as long as possible.  However, if you're anything like most addicts (me included), you think that would absolutely be the END OF THE WORLD, that it is something to be avoided at any cost and that you really need to just fix this without anyone finding out.  I pretty much stayed in that mind set until the addiction took about everything I was trying to save from the "devastation of rehab" and my little secret became common knowledge.  

I was lucky to get out alive.  You don't need to wait that long.

CATUF
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199177 tn?1490498534
I did a bit of research Helen. I did find this to help threw withdrawl and after . Even though it is a different drug I understand what you are going threw ,be proud of yourself for quitting . Plzstick around there is alot of support here


WeCombining tyrosine/phenylalanine and a natural mao-inhibitor should have a speed-like effect maybe reducing withdrawal symptoms but Im no doctor.

1000mg Acetyl-l-Tryosine (the acetyl group is key)
1000mg DLPA
120 mg Ginkgo Biloba
400 mg Rhodiola Rosea
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