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Stomach Cramps a side effect of Meth?

amandabrook
 
stomach cramps on meth

My husband who I'm 99% sure is on meth was having major stomach issues last night. I woke up at 1:30a.m. and of course he was still up, wide awake watching tv in the living room. He finally came to bed and I woke back up and he was rolling around saying his stomach was hurting and he was having cold sweats. So he's in the bathroom for I don't know how long and I fall back to sleep. I wake up again and it's 4:00a.m. I go in the bathroom and he's in the bathtub. I was like "What in the hell are you doing?" So finally, once again he came back to bed and went to sleep. I have noticed a lot lately that he's been having stomach issues. Is this a normal part of meth use or not?

kell
 
Re: stomach cramps on meth

Sure stomach cramps is one of the negative side effects of meth use. Think about all the toxic crap meth is made of and your injesting it. Sure that can reek havoc on ones stomach.

syndralove
 
Re: stomach cramps on meth

I only had stomach cramps after I ate. Mostly cause I would go for 8-10 days with out eating, then if I did eat it would hurt my stomach really bad. Only other stomach probloms were when I quit using meth.

heatherann
 
Ischemic Bowel

Ischemic bowel affects meth users. It's a disorder which results from the inadequate flow of oxygenated blood to the intestines. Symptoms include crampy abdominal pain after eating. It basically means that a portion of the intestine is dead...rotting.

kell
 
Re: Ischemic Bowel

Intestinal ischemia and infarction is the death of part of the intestine after its blood supply is cut off. I have never heard of meth use cutting off the blood supply to the intentine. Interesting.

HeatherAnn
 
Among other things

stimulants of any kind can cause ischemic colitis...and according to a 1999 federal report, "even prolonged use of amphetamine-containing diet pills has resulted in ischemic colitis and pulmonary edema."

scary stuff

HeatherAnn
 
I forgot to add

that meth use constricts the blood vessels and cuts of blood oxygen to EVERY tissue of the body.

kell
 
Re: I forgot to add

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww scary is right.

bg75
 
Re: swollen spleen?

When I was deeeep in my addiction, I began to have serious side cramps. After a month and two emergency visits later, my doctor made me get a ct scan of my abdomen. turns out my spleen was 5 times it's normal size. I was instructed to see a hemotologist. I told him of my meth addiction, how I took it, and how much. He didn't see any corolation with my meth use and my spleen.
I had bone marow removed, lymph nodes taken out, and about ten thousand blood tests.
EVERYTHING came back negative. No infection, no cancer! Yippeeee. At the time I was just annoyed how all these tests were interfering with me getting high.
I feel that the meth caused my spleen to swell. When I quit, my spleen went down, now my liver is swollen.
Anyone ever here of a swollen spleen caused by meth use?



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