Overcoming Meth Withdrawal Symptoms

When you’re struggling with meth addiction, getting treatment for meth withdrawal symptoms should be your first step. However, what happens after you break the physical dependency? You may still have the compulsion to use and some recurring withdrawal symptoms to deal with. Rehab can make a significant difference in your battle to get and stay sober.

Typical Meth Withdrawal Symptoms

Fatigue is the symptom that everyone mentions. After all, meth is a nervous system stimulant that keeps you going and going. When you withhold it from your body, your system catches up on rest. However, it also signals when it gets tired.

While high on the drug, your body was unable to process these signals. Depending on the length of time that you’ve been using, you might be surprised how tired you suddenly get. Hand in hand with the fatigue is depression. You feel like your moving through molasses physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Processing these meth withdrawal symptoms starts in detox and continues in rehab. In fact, it’s here that you learn how to handle yourself without the drug.

Modalities that Support Ending Meth Addiction

An addiction to meth is among the addictions that respond exceptionally well to a two-pronged treatment approach. On the one hand, there’s psychotherapy. Examples of beneficial treatments include:

• Dual diagnosis assessment and treatment that enables you to deal with mental health issues you recognized during detoxification
• Family support that helps overcome co-dependent relationships and dysfunctional communication patterns with loved ones
• Cognitive behavioral therapy that provides opportunity for examining self-defeating thoughts and actions
• Acceptance and commitment therapy that takes it a step further and offers you coping strategies for stressful conditions you must face

Psychotherapy gives you access to exploring the “why” of your addiction. However, you also need to deal with the physical changes that quitting meth bring. Doing so is possible with a variety of amenities the Serenity Lodge offers. Examples include:

• A large gym that invites you to regain your physical fitness
• Indoor racquetball court that quickly increasing dopamine release to counteract withdrawal-onset depression
• Pool access for low-impact muscle group exercise and stamina building
• Meditation that relieves stress and minimizes cravings and compulsions to use again
• Sauna use supports relaxation that boosts your overall well-being and ability to sleep well

How Long it Takes to Feel Better

A timeline for meth withdrawal symptoms is challenging to put together. Your experiences depend on your overall health and mental state. Use patterns and length of abuse also factor into an individual’s meth withdrawal. Generally speaking, you experience the first pangs of withdrawal after about a day of going without the drug.

During the week of detox, you work through mood swings, cravings, and possibly also paranoia as well as hallucinations. Mind you, these symptoms don’t happen to everyone. Once you come to Serenity Lodge for rehab, you may still have trouble sleeping, and any co-occurring conditions will be more apparent. By the time you leave our 22-acre grounds, you’ll feel a lot better.

You might still need to continue therapy for the mental health disorder you may be dealing with. Once in a while, a situation may trigger a craving. But at the 30-day mark, you have many of the coping mechanisms in play to overcome them. In fact, you can actively avoid specific trigger situations that would have caused you to use in the past.

Don’t live with meth addiction for another day. One call to Serenity Lodge can help transform your life. Call us today at (855) 932-4045.