Word is from Amanatadine that if you quit kratom within a month that the w/ds arent too bad and are really managable even for wooses like me. So far i have stuck to Ama's advice, and not used it for longer than a month. I find that it takes 10 days for my mood to readjust after using kratom for 2-4 weeks. (I've repeated this cycle about 4 times by now, i think this will be my 5th run). I think it gets worse the longer you keep taking it for as presumably your brain starts downregulating all the things the kratom is doing for it, especially if your tolerance is rising And it doesnt immediately react to the sudden absence of kratom. It takes time. Im sorry if this is stating the blatantly bloody obvious for you Kenny, it may not be so well known to other members and lurkers hence why i thought it was worth mentioning.
From my own experience I initially got away with six months of daily use with minimal symptoms, it's after that that things start going south.
Another thing is you dosing parttern, it matters a lot, do you only dose at night after work or are you at it first thing in the morning, it has huge implications on how strong the WDs are going to be.
The worst WDs I ever suffered from kratom alone were in the US, over there I would dose literally every four hours, including at night, I would wake up in the late at night/early morning sweating, yawning even if my last dose had been a bedtime teaspoon just before hitting the sack.
Another sign you're overdoing it is when you can't work a full day without it, over there I used to walk balk to my flat to redose every lunchtime, or bring a bag with me and risk getting caught in the kitchen eating it. Happened once, told my coworker it was a health food.
Luckily in Manhattan people were guillable, after I got comfortable enough at that place, I used to keep a metal jar full of kratom on my desk, the jar had Japanese words on it and originally contained powder green tea. Easy as fuck to redose at your desk whenever you wanted.