I has been off a dope/oxy/alprazolam addiction which lasted over 5+ years due to a wicked motorcycle crash. SWIM started taking kratom on day 5 after going cold turkey ( 4-6g of Bali red vain kratom) daily and hasn’t had a single moment of weakness or desire to get faded on dope or pills since oct/28 (its Nov/22) ... SWIM HAS tried methadone, suboxone.. tried tapering off both of those replacement meds ASWELL as even tapering down his abused drug of choices dose in prep for methadone or suboxone and relapsed many time on both of those. but now SWIM has been clean for 3wks&4days and he feels great again. He got a new job, cheap car for 600$ lol and started making all new friends. Kratom is the reason SWIM not still doin dope and hating the world. He owes that stuff his life, SWIM finds it hard now not to tell everyone He meets about it, the stuff is a miracle drug when taken appropriately.
Kratom can be tricky, however. I used it occasionally for a while doing a Suboxone taper and had no problems whatsoever. This was about a year ago. Then, when the Sub taper was almost over, but I'd been in withdrawals from the Sub for what seemed like forever. When I got off the methadone clinic many years ago, I had the same experience with withdrawal dragging on and on as well. So my thought this time was to get out from under the long-lasting withdrawals from getting off Sub and switch to a much shorter-acting drug, kratom, then taper off it, which theoretically should be easier as it is a very short-acting drug, meaning the withdrawals, even if they were severe, would still only last 3-5 days. Good plan, yeah?
This time--same vendor, same quality of kratom--I actually went off my Sub because I had a three-month script and went through it far too fast, so all I was taking was the K. I immediately started building tolerance very fast, and what got me well one day tripled in a couple of weeks. And the way it made me feel changed. It stopped most of the withdrawals, but not all, and the ones that stuck around were terrible. Yawning, restlessness, fatigue but can't sit still, no sleeping, and just this really nasty feeling. Somebody just called it feeling "dirty" and that's a good description; like feeling inside that I'm taking something that's actually toxic to me (and of course, taking it anyway.) The restless legs were unbelievable and the muscle spasms in my legs and hands are terrible. Plus I had GI symptoms real bad yesterday, although they're better now. I haven't slept more than an hour in any night for about a week, and the sleep deprivation is making me feel like a lunatic. Worst is the restlessness and wanting to move, but not wanting to do anything. Moving, especially my legs, hurts like hell, and while the restlessness in my body is driving me to do something, the fact that moving any part of my body hurts like hell makes me want to remain perfectly still. At least depression isn't too much bad, as I take anti-depressants daily and have for years. I'm seeing my doctor tonight--he's hoping to retire and has been continuing to treat me, but I found many of the Sub patients I know are having the same problems as they taper off the stuff. I actually wanted to get off it, but this isn't working at all, so I'm coming back and hoping to get back on Sub. At least there is a new policy where clinics and doctors don't kick you off in a certain time frame. I'm just hoping that he gives me a new script of Sub and keeps me as a patient. Or refers me to the clinic---...