My Experience with Kratom
hello. i have now been a habitual kratom user for over nine months now, and i would like to share parts of my experience, especially odd and peculiar things that i have come to learn about kratom. this thread should probably be posted in trip reports, but i have never used this site before and have not read through all of the forums. whichever administrator moves this thread should put it in the trip reports forum unless they feel another forum is more fitting. this experience report will likely be very neutral, as there are things i enjoy about kratom and things i dont.
first i will briefly share my story. prior to this i have no experience with any opiates. throughout all of my kratom experiences, i have used 25 mgs of diphenhydramine at t=-20 minutes and one tums at t=-10 minutes. by the fourth month of used i also added grapefruit juice to the combo at t=-45 minutes. my first kratom experiences came 9 months ago, at 6 grams. i did this a few times a week, and eventually moved to 8 grams. at this point, i was using once per day, most days of the week (a few days off here and there), and almost exclusively at night. after a few more week of this i moved up to 10 grams, and finally 12 around six months ago. since then i havent increased my dosage or the amount that i use. although i have experimented with other patterns of usage, for the overwhelming majority of the past six months, i have used 12 grams of kratom 5 days per week between 7:00pm and 10:00 pm. i forgot to mention that, although i have tried most other varieties of kratom (indo, thai, maeng da, not malaysian though), i have almost exclusively used bali.
now i would like to reveal peculiarities i have learned as i have come to know the ins and outs of kratom.
kratom makes your eyes very very red, and eyedrops do not relieve this redness. occasionally, but not always, my pupils constrict.
kratom initially killed my appetite, but soon made me hungry.
the psychoactive power of kratom is heavily affected by the contents of the users stomach. when used 2 hours or less after eating a full meal, kratoms effect is diminished greatly. using 2-5 hours after the meal results in the best quality high. using >5 hours after a meal, kratom gives a slightly unpleasent intoxication that makes one feel a bit dizzy, nauseous, and uncoordinated, especially in the unexperienced. while i prefer >5 hours above <2 hours, i find ~4.5 hours to be an ideal sweet spot.
the extracts make kratom lose its magic. in months 4-5, i experimented with extracts. even though i only used them on certain occasions, they altered the effects of kratom. initially, i noticed that they provided a greater intoxication to kratom similar to gaba affecting drugs (alcohol, benzos), with less euphoria. since this time, even plain leaf has lost some of its euphoria, which i attribute to increased tolerance from the extracts.
kratom intoxication has a bit of a reverse tolerance. i now become much more sedated after 9 months of use. i can easily nod off at my normal dose anytime i use it. much less euphoric though.
bali kratom is not speedy. it does have some side effects similar to stimulants (shaky hands, dry mouth, racing heart) the high is not speedy. thai, on the other hand, is definitely speedy.
it is very very easy to wake up the morning following falling asleep on kratom. i have no idea why. when i am woken up i immediately get out of bed and hop in the shower, even if i had very little sleep that night. this is opposed to nights without kratom, when i continually hit the snooze button and almost fall asleep on my way to the shower.
i do get slight withdrawal symptoms from kratom. when i take days off, it is very hard to wake up, i feel a psychological craving for it, and i get minor aches and pains throughout my body. its nothing major, but it is definitely there and the pains do get uncomfortable sometimes. i dont resort to NSAIDs or any other drugs to relieve this though.
kratom has little effect on sex when you are not on the drug. obviously, like all opiates, sex is decreased while on it.
kratom does cause some constipation. regular bowel movements are fine as long as you dont use all day every day. i do find however that stools tend to be harder and more dehydrated. this is not always a bad thing, as it leads to a drastic decrease in the need for cleaning after a bowel movement.
if i think of anymore things to say about kratom that are not obvious, i will edit them in. i wrote this experience report to help give independent researchers of kratom (like myself a while ago) to have a good, well written, first hand detailed experience report about the drug.
it would also be nice to get some feedback about this post. can other regular kratom users identify with some of the effects that i listed that are not widely recognized, such as the red eyes that cannot relieved with eyedrops (which i swear happens every time i take kratom), the reverse tolerance in effects, and the amount of time taking kratom after eating.