Our Story Continues

I haven't done much with this blog, but I want to start doing more with it as meth is a growing problem everywhere. I would like to start with signs of living in a meth house or apartment:

Discoloration on walls. This can be black, yellow, blue, or even purple. The blue discoloration is more often found on metal, like a metal sliding glass door frame, propane tanks, or fire extinguishers.

Black discoloration on walls. This did not wash off, I could scrub and scrub but it just kept coming back.

This is the blue that appeared on our metal sliding glass door frame after we cleaned the carpets. This would not scrub off either.

The smell. Our apartment smelt like cigarette smoke mixed with cat urine.

Your physical symptoms. This can include breaking out in a rash (hives), burning in your eyes and throat, itching, headaches, difficulty breathing, cold symptoms, sinus pressure, memory loss, unusual stretch marks. Adam and I both had stretch marks appear on our inner thigh for no apparent reason.

This is a picture of Adam's hives. The more time he spent in our apartment the worse his hives got. Eventually his whole body looked like this.


Our vents were filthy, although I am not sure if that is necessarily a sign of meth.



Signs that your tenants or neighbors use meth:
They behave oddy, are very thin, bad teeth, and open sores.
Have large amounts of garbage.
Visitors at odd times.
Coffee filters that are not brown.

There is a simple meth test, but it isn't always accurate. Get a bottle of spray starch, like what you would iron with and spray the starch on the wall. If the starch becomes discolored you have a problem. Like I said, it is not always accurate...in our apartment the starch did not change color but we did have a meth problem. We had scrubbed the walls like crazy with bleach before trying this, so that may be why it didn't change.

In Utah the only place that tests for meth is DataChem. The test kit is free and when you bring it back they charge you $45.00 for them to process it. The test takes 4 days, or you can pay an additional $45.00 to get it back 2 days. DataChem's address and phone number is:
960 Levoy Dr
Murray, UT 84123-2502
(801) 266-7700
To order a test kit from DataChem Click here

Meth affects everyone differently and if very dangerous. The effects of meth can last for years. After not living in the apartment for 2 years and after doing the cleanse we felt that it was time to start our family. We are happy to announce our beautiful little girl Zoey.

Isn't she the cutest? I may be a bit biased but I think she is the cutest little girl in the world! :) Zoey was born with several heart defects including Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Double Outlet Right Ventricle, a coarctation in the aorta artery, and several other less serious heart defects like holes in her heart and a heart mummer. So the big question...WAS THIS CAUSED BY THE METH??? I think about it all the time. Zoey had her first heart surgery when she was 9 days old and she has 1+ surgeries to go. Zoey is doing so good right now! We are so happy with the care she has been receiving and we thank God everyday for how well she has done.

Please let me know if you have any questions or if you would like to share your story here please let me know.

Our Story

2 years ago, my husband and I got married. We received tons of presents and made many purchases of things we needed to furnish our apartment. My husband, Adam, moved into the apartment a month before we got married. The apartment was very dirty, but we cleaned it up and moved all of our stuff in.

About 2 weeks after returning home from our honeymoon, Adam got very sick. He started having hives on his legs. As time went on, his hives got worse. After a month, he had hives from head to toe. His hives were very deep, and sometimes his hives would even go down his throat blocking his airways. He also had stretch marks appear on his inner thigh for no apparent reason. I had bad migraine headaches, and a cold that never seemed to go away. I also had the strange stretch marks appear on my inner thighs as well. Both of us also suffered from memory loss.

We tried everything to get his hives to go away...but they wouldn't. To make a very long story short, we finally tested our apartment for meth. The results came back positive. We were homeless, and we had nothing. Even the clothes on our back had to be thrown out.

Even after moving out of the apartment, we still were sick, and our symptoms were not getting any better. Today, 2 years later, I think we are finally over this, but it took a lot of time and dedication to get our lives back to normal.

I am dedicating this blog for those who are in a similar situation and need help. After our apartment was tested positive, there was no place to go to for help. Even today there is no help for people in this situation.

How we got better:

First of all, I want to say that it is very important to throw out everything after you find out that your living area is contaminated. We were told that we could clean things made of plastic, glass, and our clothes. We tried to save items made of these materials, but these items never really were clean afterwards, especially our clothes. Clothes are impossible to save, even though you may have been told otherwise. It is not worth staying sick because of your clothes!

After we threw out everything, we purchased a sauna and put it in the basement of our new house. We bought the book, "Clear Body Clear Mind" by Ron Hubbard. We did this cleanse to a T. The cleanse was miserable, and very very hard, but we got through it. We stained towels purple, black, and yellow from the toxins that came out of our body from the meth. This cleanse lasted 6 weeks and we were in the sauna for 5-6 hours a day.

We did this cleanse after we had stayed sick for almost 2 years. The problems from being exposed to meth does not go away, it only gets worse. Please share your story and how you got better so we can help other people in this situation.