aspiringchemist
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Haha, it's okay--thanks for attempting to answer. That's interesting, because a lot of people find it to do nothing to help their chronic pain when looking for an additional pain-killer and already on high dose opioids or something like that. There have been a couple of times where I've been on moderate dose opioids and not have had any alleviation in back pain. All the sudden I'll take a tiny bit of kratom and it goes away entirely. To me it does not feel like legitimate pain because I never have back pain, but more like a withdrawal symptom where many encounter during opiate withdrawal random aches and pains throughout their body. Either way opioids do nothing for physical pain or headaches at all for me at this point. Not like I need them to but just found it strange how I respond better to 8 grams of kratom drastically over something like 60mgs of oxycodone. I'm probably more dependent on the alkloids in kratom then since there are way more than I thought.
Btw... totally of topic but what would happen if I brought kratom with me onto an airline or something? Lollll
No problem! I think because the amount of active alkaloids is so low (1.5% and like. 02% respectively) it makes sense why so much powder must be ingested if you have a tolerance.
My guess about chronic pain patients and kratom not working is that the strong dose of opioids they are on is filling all the opioid binding sites so taking kratom either produces no effects or acting as a partial agonist could theoretically compete for binding, and perhaps knock some of the other opioid off the receptors. Both of those scenarios lead to a person not receiving good effects from kratom while on high dose opioids.