Hey all, just wanted to document my journey with this drug and maybe warn others of its nasty effects on your life. Everything I write will seem crazy (amount I was taking) but it’s 100% legit. To preface, I’m a Marine Combat veteran with many pain issues, both mentally and physically. i had a tramadol addiction from 2011-2013 which ended in an arrest, almost losing my job…and my marriage. I ended up at the Va detox center for a week. Anywho, back in 2017 I discovered Kratom while on vacation to Maine in a headship, took a little bit (1 gram maybe) and felt great, pain went away and it cleared my anxiety and PTSD-ish issues to some extent. Over the ensuing years I somehow started taking more and more and up until 2 weeks ago prior to starting my taper off, I was ingesting well over 150 grams a day (more if on vacation or unable to use powder). Wake up at 8 take two heaping spoonfuls, at 10:45-11:00 take another two with 4 caps, at 2-ish another two, at 5pm 14 caps, at 8:30 another two spoons and 6-7 caps. On vacations or days out with family I couldn’t bring powder so I relied on capsules, same schedule every 2.75-3:00 hours I’d take 14-15 caps.
About 2 weeks ago I had a blow out with my wife and while I won’t get into specifics, 90% of those issues were due to kratom, no sex drive (completely dead), anti-social, walking around like a zombie, constipation so bad I gave myself internal hemorrhoids, which are painful as anything. Worst of all was the constant stress of coming up with a way to navigate vacations or even any trip outside my home, whether just grocery shopping or spending day with family (always kept 25 or so pills in my pocket). It was controlling my life, every 3 hours or so, anything longer and I started to feel nasty withdrawals.
After the blowout with my wife (on vacation at her families house) I came home first and she stayed another week and a half. I decided I needed out of the Kratom hell…bad. So I nutted up and decided a taper, just your basic cut down every day. As of now I’m extremely proud of myself for getting under 20 GPD. It’s weird reading other folks’ experiences and how large of a dose they believe 10-15 GPD is, I’m estancia that I’ve gotten under 20. I plan on maintaining 20 this entire week, I bought some phenibut and it came yesterday, and will use that the following week when I cut from 20 to 10 GPD. I’ve read some nasty withdrawals happen on phen so I don’t plan on using more than a week 250-500mg a day in the morning.
im an extreme guy so my intake of Kratom was extreme but I’m so happy to be motivated to quit and stop worrying about not being able to quit for fear of withdrawals as I’ve experienced in the past on tramadol. Kratom may be a plant but for me the withdrawals are nasty. One thing I will say, pounding those vitamin C tabs every 3 hours has really helped with the amount of time in between my Kratom doses, I went from 2:75 - 3:00 hours needing a dose of 2 heaping spoons, to now over 4-4:50 hours with half or quarter spoon full. Btw, I found out a spoonful is 7.39 grams per and 4 capsules equals 1 spoon full. When I measured my old dose in grams I couldn’t believe how much I was taking…just flabbergasted..
so anyone trying to quit with minimal Withdrawls…taper, it’s not as hard as I once thought and I was abusing the hell out of Kratom. I felt nothing for the past few years, just kept taking it for fear or withdrawal…you opiate users know the drill.
thanks for listening.
About 2 weeks ago I had a blow out with my wife and while I won’t get into specifics, 90% of those issues were due to kratom, no sex drive (completely dead), anti-social, walking around like a zombie, constipation so bad I gave myself internal hemorrhoids, which are painful as anything. Worst of all was the constant stress of coming up with a way to navigate vacations or even any trip outside my home, whether just grocery shopping or spending day with family (always kept 25 or so pills in my pocket). It was controlling my life, every 3 hours or so, anything longer and I started to feel nasty withdrawals.
After the blowout with my wife (on vacation at her families house) I came home first and she stayed another week and a half. I decided I needed out of the Kratom hell…bad. So I nutted up and decided a taper, just your basic cut down every day. As of now I’m extremely proud of myself for getting under 20 GPD. It’s weird reading other folks’ experiences and how large of a dose they believe 10-15 GPD is, I’m estancia that I’ve gotten under 20. I plan on maintaining 20 this entire week, I bought some phenibut and it came yesterday, and will use that the following week when I cut from 20 to 10 GPD. I’ve read some nasty withdrawals happen on phen so I don’t plan on using more than a week 250-500mg a day in the morning.
im an extreme guy so my intake of Kratom was extreme but I’m so happy to be motivated to quit and stop worrying about not being able to quit for fear of withdrawals as I’ve experienced in the past on tramadol. Kratom may be a plant but for me the withdrawals are nasty. One thing I will say, pounding those vitamin C tabs every 3 hours has really helped with the amount of time in between my Kratom doses, I went from 2:75 - 3:00 hours needing a dose of 2 heaping spoons, to now over 4-4:50 hours with half or quarter spoon full. Btw, I found out a spoonful is 7.39 grams per and 4 capsules equals 1 spoon full. When I measured my old dose in grams I couldn’t believe how much I was taking…just flabbergasted..
so anyone trying to quit with minimal Withdrawls…taper, it’s not as hard as I once thought and I was abusing the hell out of Kratom. I felt nothing for the past few years, just kept taking it for fear or withdrawal…you opiate users know the drill.
thanks for listening.
