Seattle_Stranger
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Slightly OT - I would love to see an 'herbal' or 'entheogens' sub-forum. Looking at the majority of other topics in OD, it just doesn't feel right posting about things like kratom and kava in the same sub-forum as threads about RC's, amphetamines, benzos, etc., but there just isn't any other reasonable place.
On topic, I have been using kava rather frequently over the past couple weeks after work in the evening instead of alcohol. I use kratom every day and have a huge tolerance. Two nights ago, I made up a batch of kava using 2 new bags I just received, one strain called "Waka" and the other "Nambawan". First, I poured about a half cup of Waka into my blender along with the little bit of kava liquid I had left over from the previous night and some near-boiling water. I blended for a while, poured the blended mix into my strainer bag and strained out the liquid into a bowl. I then downed the whole bowl. Soon thereafter, I started feeling the expected kava effects but decided to get after it and have more. So I popped open the Nambawan (which is apparently ultra high grade stuff), poured about a half cup into the blender, re-added the used grinds from earlier, added more near-boiling water and blended. Poured and strained again, and then downed......
In about 5 minutes I suddenly got a strong kava RUSH. Yes, a RUSH that felt exactly as you'd expect a kava rush to feel. A sudden extreme warmth and numbness similar to alcohol came soaring up my back into my chest and then up into my brain. The "kava numb" raged through my head and poured over me a potent kava relaxation. I was surprisingly not very nauseous but felt quite pleasantly sedated. I sat down and just allowed myself to swim around in this nearly-overwhelming feeling of the islands rocking through my veins. It was quite addicting and have found myself chasing the feeling since then. A few more downed cups of kava thereafter helped plateau the experience again, but never bringing another rush. Next day I tried to repeat the experience but didn't get nearly the same rush.
Anyone ever get this? It was very pleasant.
Fast forward to the next day and I wake up still feeling the kava heavily, still pleasant. I guzzled down my daily ~8g dose of kratom and WHAM BAM my typical barely-feel-anything daily maintenance dose turned into nod-city. I felt like I had taken a heroic dose of kratom, but was shockingly not nauseous, and it lasted a long time. After lunch, I had my second dose of the day and WHAM AGAIN I'm soaring from the kratom and finding it hard to keep my eyes open, and again no nausea. A similar effect today again from kava last night. Woke up feeling the kava, and kratom is making feel extremely noddy (very, very pleasantly). My only gripe with this is it's not productive for at work
Anyone else get a rush from kava similar to alcohol? And I know kava and kratom can potentiate each other, but holy hell does anyone else notice it to make your kratom feel exponentially stronger?
On topic, I have been using kava rather frequently over the past couple weeks after work in the evening instead of alcohol. I use kratom every day and have a huge tolerance. Two nights ago, I made up a batch of kava using 2 new bags I just received, one strain called "Waka" and the other "Nambawan". First, I poured about a half cup of Waka into my blender along with the little bit of kava liquid I had left over from the previous night and some near-boiling water. I blended for a while, poured the blended mix into my strainer bag and strained out the liquid into a bowl. I then downed the whole bowl. Soon thereafter, I started feeling the expected kava effects but decided to get after it and have more. So I popped open the Nambawan (which is apparently ultra high grade stuff), poured about a half cup into the blender, re-added the used grinds from earlier, added more near-boiling water and blended. Poured and strained again, and then downed......
In about 5 minutes I suddenly got a strong kava RUSH. Yes, a RUSH that felt exactly as you'd expect a kava rush to feel. A sudden extreme warmth and numbness similar to alcohol came soaring up my back into my chest and then up into my brain. The "kava numb" raged through my head and poured over me a potent kava relaxation. I was surprisingly not very nauseous but felt quite pleasantly sedated. I sat down and just allowed myself to swim around in this nearly-overwhelming feeling of the islands rocking through my veins. It was quite addicting and have found myself chasing the feeling since then. A few more downed cups of kava thereafter helped plateau the experience again, but never bringing another rush. Next day I tried to repeat the experience but didn't get nearly the same rush.
Anyone ever get this? It was very pleasant.
Fast forward to the next day and I wake up still feeling the kava heavily, still pleasant. I guzzled down my daily ~8g dose of kratom and WHAM BAM my typical barely-feel-anything daily maintenance dose turned into nod-city. I felt like I had taken a heroic dose of kratom, but was shockingly not nauseous, and it lasted a long time. After lunch, I had my second dose of the day and WHAM AGAIN I'm soaring from the kratom and finding it hard to keep my eyes open, and again no nausea. A similar effect today again from kava last night. Woke up feeling the kava, and kratom is making feel extremely noddy (very, very pleasantly). My only gripe with this is it's not productive for at work
Anyone else get a rush from kava similar to alcohol? And I know kava and kratom can potentiate each other, but holy hell does anyone else notice it to make your kratom feel exponentially stronger?