Hey all. I've been lurking on BlueLight for some time now, about a year.
I've learned a lot from the past threads, but after spending a good 10 hours or more searching through previous posts in the past couple days, I've been unable to find exactly what I was looking for. Hence this post.
I can expand on my situation if anyone wants to hear, but to save space, I'll give a brief synopsis: I was on methadone maintenance for over 3 years, tapering down to 10mg. In March of this year, I switched over to kratom. Now I desperately want off the kratom, and to be free of addiction once again.
Without any conscious effort, I tapered down to 14g/day, from about 25g/day over a few months, and thought I'd jump off this last Thursday. Well, that didn't work!
After 24 hours from my last dose, I was writhing in agony nonstop for over 4 hours, and decided this wasn't gonna happen. Shit sucks. I've been in withdrawal at least 5 times before this, with the kratom withdrawals at this doseage being the worst yet. (...in intensity. The methadone withdrawals being the longest.) Believe me, everyone's experience is different. Kratom withdrawal really can be a fucking beast.
So I've decided to go ahead and taper down on my dose, but I don't know how long of a taper to do. I figured I could either do 10, 20 or 30 days taper. The good thing that came out of my failed Cold Turkey attempt was that I dropped my kratom dose significantly. I'm currently taking ~ 9g daily for the past two days. I suppose that's pretty good success, considering I was at 14g just 2 days ago.
My preference would be to taper down over 10 days. I bought 25 2mg xanax bars, which I won't be touching until I jump off. I also have some clonidine, and am using kava to help with the discomfort of the taper. The current plan is to gradually drop my dose every day for 10 days, starting at ~9g/day, broken into 4 x 2.25g doses and working down to ~1.5g, broken into 2 x .75g doses. I take the doses as capsules, making up 50 capsules at a time from a total of 14g of powdered bali leaf. I have not ever messed with extracts or enhanced products.
My thinking is if 20 days would work better than 10, I can simply drop the dosage every other day instead of every day. If 30 days is the order, I can drop the dosage every few days instead of every other day.
I assume you all will have differing input, and that's exactly what I would like to read. I'm posting this to try and (hopefully) get differing perspectives. And it seems to me, if jumping off at ~14g/day was unbearable, jumping off at 1.5g/day should be quite doable, especially considering the xanax bars I have stashed away.
Thanks for reading. I hope the post wasn't too long. I'll check back in on this thread regularly.
PS: Oh, and if anybody wants to link me to some posts that talk about varying kratom taper schedules, I'd enjoy that as well. Thanks.
I've learned a lot from the past threads, but after spending a good 10 hours or more searching through previous posts in the past couple days, I've been unable to find exactly what I was looking for. Hence this post.
I can expand on my situation if anyone wants to hear, but to save space, I'll give a brief synopsis: I was on methadone maintenance for over 3 years, tapering down to 10mg. In March of this year, I switched over to kratom. Now I desperately want off the kratom, and to be free of addiction once again.
Without any conscious effort, I tapered down to 14g/day, from about 25g/day over a few months, and thought I'd jump off this last Thursday. Well, that didn't work!
After 24 hours from my last dose, I was writhing in agony nonstop for over 4 hours, and decided this wasn't gonna happen. Shit sucks. I've been in withdrawal at least 5 times before this, with the kratom withdrawals at this doseage being the worst yet. (...in intensity. The methadone withdrawals being the longest.) Believe me, everyone's experience is different. Kratom withdrawal really can be a fucking beast.
So I've decided to go ahead and taper down on my dose, but I don't know how long of a taper to do. I figured I could either do 10, 20 or 30 days taper. The good thing that came out of my failed Cold Turkey attempt was that I dropped my kratom dose significantly. I'm currently taking ~ 9g daily for the past two days. I suppose that's pretty good success, considering I was at 14g just 2 days ago.
My preference would be to taper down over 10 days. I bought 25 2mg xanax bars, which I won't be touching until I jump off. I also have some clonidine, and am using kava to help with the discomfort of the taper. The current plan is to gradually drop my dose every day for 10 days, starting at ~9g/day, broken into 4 x 2.25g doses and working down to ~1.5g, broken into 2 x .75g doses. I take the doses as capsules, making up 50 capsules at a time from a total of 14g of powdered bali leaf. I have not ever messed with extracts or enhanced products.
My thinking is if 20 days would work better than 10, I can simply drop the dosage every other day instead of every day. If 30 days is the order, I can drop the dosage every few days instead of every other day.
I assume you all will have differing input, and that's exactly what I would like to read. I'm posting this to try and (hopefully) get differing perspectives. And it seems to me, if jumping off at ~14g/day was unbearable, jumping off at 1.5g/day should be quite doable, especially considering the xanax bars I have stashed away.
Thanks for reading. I hope the post wasn't too long. I'll check back in on this thread regularly.
PS: Oh, and if anybody wants to link me to some posts that talk about varying kratom taper schedules, I'd enjoy that as well. Thanks.
