I'm going to try and quit it as I've been on it 4-5 times daily for about nine months and I cant cope without it. Wake up feeling awful until I have first hit. Gives me a lift but really only by getting rid of withdrawal symptoms. I hate having to brew the stuff up every day, the smell nauseates me and i get through so much of it. I drink it as cold tea and have to gargle after to avoid being sick from the disgusting taste. I am very addictive and found kratom very helpful for come downs of things like mdma which i used far too much. But now i have to take it every day, several times a day just to keep going. I'll read through everything here for helpful tips and try to taper it down slowly if i can. I've never had other opiates so i don't know what that's like but i have a heavy, painful, fuzzy ache all over my body, a fogged up head and very low mood every morning until i have the first dose. But it feels really helpful having other peoples' experiences on it shared here, thank you.