Not a kratom user, but just lost my buprenorphine doctor & my benzo doctor.
So I am absolutely fucked & ready to die.
Buprenorphine is an option, but I'd say avoid it. It's got a half-life of 30-60 hours. People on kratom or 7-oh are just jumping from one short acting partial agonist, to incredibly potent partial agonist that has weeks/months long withdrawals.
I was on bupe for 10 years almost. The withdrawals are a little more mild, but they are relentless & never ending.
Bupe sucks ass for pain by the way. It's got an intrinsic activity of like 40% or lower. This means it only activates your receptors about 40%.
So yeah there'll be some slight pain relief & even a mood lift if your tolerance is low. But it disappears faster than any other opioid I've ever tried.
I guess it depends, are you looking to get off opioids entirely or do you want to stay on them & find a different opioid?
I know it's cliche, but if you have a doctor & you deal with pain, you should mention it & keep at it. There are doctors out there willing to listen & who haven't been brainwashed by the anti-opioid brigade. If you have nothing left to lose, it's always worth a shot.
This war on medicine is destroying people's lives & nobody gives a fuck.
The orange clown in the WH bombs boats & kills people because "fentanyl bad". I dunno how the fuck anyone can turn this into a "left or right" issue or would even want to. Yeah the Christian Nationalists in power really give a fuck about us poor folks who need pain medicine,.
At this point, I'm hoping for death. I can't give any false hope & say things will be okay, cause they just keep getting worse for me. I'm sorry you're going through all of this too. I wish there was more we could do to wake people up. Maybe we all need to get together & take the to streets in protest. I dunno anymore, but people in pain don't have years/decades to wait for things to change, we need change
NOW.