My kratom consumption has also increased, and has also turned into a long term habit, and that combined with having to get up increasingly early in the morning, not having enough time to sip enough hot water to help my GI tract move things along, as I have to rush to get ready for work, and my first kratom dose is taken early, and that means my GI tract isn't getting the time it needs to do it's business, and meaning some days i cannot pass a shite at all, some days it's just like sheep or rabbit droppings. It's a good day when I can pass a decent sized shite these days. Sorry if this is tmi.
The problem is also made even worse because I only get 2 or 3 days off in a row about twice in every 5 weeks. During the days off, I have time to wait for my GI tract to be ready in its own good time, before my first kratom dose, and I also have time to make kratom tea and strain the powder out using cheesecloth, so that my GI tract gets a rest from all the insoluble fiber it's struggling to process. Too much Kratom powder starts getting the water removed from stools, so they become small, dry, and hard to pass.
Weirdly, I found a few weeks ago that experiecing a high stress / anxiety / adrenalin event - my toilet flush broke and some kind of seal came off it, and that meant incredibly high pressure water was jetting out in huge volumes and absolutely soaking me and the entire bathroom! After getting totally soaked, I realised in a couple of minutes that I would not be able to fix the flush or stop the water, and I had to turn the water off at the mains stop cock to stop the problem. Anyway, all that stress and adrenalin combined with having to take the day off work for getting a home emergency repaired, meant I had no trouble at all passing a massive stool that morning. All of a sudden the kratom didn't matter!
It's all so weird and complicated. I've never gone from being tired and groggy upon rising at 4.45 to being wide awake so quickly ever before!
Hopefully my GI tract will eventually adjust to the earlier wake up time, (in time it always has done previously) but with all the kratom powder consumpton, working long hours and eating late, and going to bed late, everything combined is making things very difficult for my GI tract to cope with.
Apparently i have a 'torturous sigmoid colon' which basically means it's extra long and loopy. Maybe this happened during my opiate phase as a way of coping with opiate induced constipation, Maybe I'll never know for sure. Although I guess I could ask specialists about that. It's probably coming in useful at times like this, possibly meaning my colon has the capacity to cope with things backing up, during the concerning times when sometimes there is nothing coming out for several days.