Day 7 today. Not quite as good as i'd like, but I can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
One drug I will tell you about right now is baclofen. HOLY SHIT. It's fine to take with kratom. But wow it's just... perfect at easing the anxiety and restless leg. It has so far helped me to sleep 6 hours two nights ago and about 5 hours last night, with some very comfortable dozing afterward until like 10am.
Baclofen is short acting, and needs to be redosed like every 4 or 5 hours (or more, if you're early on), but my god, i was blown away by how much it helped. My hopes for something to help were dashed when gabapentin was shit. I probably wasn't taking enough, but gabapentin, even at low dosages, just zonks me out too much, and not in a good way. Baclofen on the other hand, is clean, and like... jesus there might even be a little euphoria with it. Just a skosh.
As far as kratom, I'm down to 2 grams every 3 hours and honestly, I probably could go longer. I have had little time chunks here and there where I haven't done it for like 6 or 8 hours, but that was just a couple times. Today I really felt like I didn't need to take it. But 2 grams every 3 hours is 16g a day, and I'm fine with that for now. Tomorrow I go back to work, so I will be forced to go 4 hours after morning dose. And I may only take a gram or gram and a half and go into work, then redose at lunch. My goal is to get down to like 10g per day. As far as what I'm using, I really like the "slow" varieties from hungry hungry happy [animal from africa] website.
I'm starting to feel the PAWS, but let me tell you... after 5 days of sleeping for AT most an hour or two, even with xanax and gabapentin, sleeping 5 and 6 hours with the baclofen was a godsend. I think it may be coincidental timing, like I may have slept okay if I hadn't taken it but I don't think so. It's a fucking miracle man.
We'll see how I am tomorrow. PAWS for me is just pure tiredness. Luckily, I have some adderall, so i'm fucking ready. Bring that shit. As far as combatting PAWS, I have a few ideas- I have red algae DHA, it's basically fish oil, but just from red algae, not fish. So I'm gonna go hard on that, vitamin c, magnesium, resveratrol, b vitamins. I may try that gorilla mind shit.
Anyone try L-theanine? That's definitely on my radar. Any advice on good drugs for PAWS will be appreciated greatly. For me, I get a little depressed during PAWS, but really it's just I'm tired. Like, I work an 8 hour job, and by the end of the day, I'm gonna be tired. Not quite there yet, I'm still in the end stages of the acute phase, but I can feel myself forging ahead into post-acute territory. Baby steps.