Hey Todd what's the story behind the Kratom?
Have you ever come off of it? The stories with Kratom are so polarized one way or the other. It's hard to know what to believe. Some people say it's a miracle and saved their lives, others say it ruined their lives. It would be nice to hear some real info from someone who knows in tune with their body and knows their pharmacology.
Kratom: I had two herniated discs in my neck as well as pretty advanced degenerative disc disease, my arms, but especially my left arm were pins and needles for almost a year. They said it was permanent nerve damage. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t lift five pounds for like a year, because anything you do with your arms levers on your neck. The pain made me literally insane, a crazy person. I went from being a cool happy drinker, but primarily a workaholic, to a raging alcoholic. I still functioned at work, leading crews and making money but self destructing badly. A buddy of mine gave me some kratom, said it wasn’t the boogey man they said it was, and it was how he turned his life around, he had been addicted to pain killers and lost his job, but had gotten it all back and was doing really well, so I took the kratom, went to work, and an hour later I was running up and down poles like I was 25. So I looked into it, found some sources, talked to a lot of people. Within… less than a week? I would keep stopping at the liquor store, but I just couldn’t get it down. It tasted like when someone lets you try booze when you’re a little kid. Foul!
So that is literally the pivotal point when my brain and body started healing. EVERYTHING in my life started a steep upward trajectory from there.
It’s a partial opiate receptor agonist. It can’t cause respiratory repression, but it stimulates dopamine and can cause constipation. It is also an opiate antagonist, so you cannot keep taking more to try to get high because you’ll get sick AF! There’s a bunch of different kinds, like weed. Some will be like, seriously, the most amazing pre workout ever, and some can be quite sedating. Some kinds are very powerful pain relievers, like right up there with Percocet. But it’s a little more subtle, because you might feel a little high sort of, or you might get really chatty, but not like taking a Percocet or a Vicodin where you are totally high, you’re pupils are pin pricks etc. as long as you don’t take so much you get nauseous, you’re 100% functional on kratom, and it’s a strong anti depressant. Give some to a chick who gets bad pms, it’s like magical!
Anything that stimulates dopamine is habit forming. I have absolutely been an addict. I was a highly functioning poly drug abuser with a “dealer’s habit”. I could get as much of anything I wanted and I did it all the time. I stopped all that stuff because I had to, and I guess it was easier for me than a lot of people, but I’ve come completely off kratom twice before my surgeries and honestly, it was easy! But on the day to day I’m pretty dependent on it. I can make any excuses in the world but that’s the truth. And I don’t know what it’s doing to me long term.
I’ve helped a couple people out by sharing it with them. I’ve never seen anyone else cure am addiction with it in person, but there are times of stories like mine. It’s replacing an addiction, but anyone who’s seen my life turn around would tell you whatever it was worth it. I had a buddy who had sciatica so bad he didn’t walk for six weeks. He was begging for all the hydrocodnes I had that I never took from my surgeries. Well I told him “the first bottle didn’t work, why do you want the second one?” I went to his house with a jar of the best kratom I ever had, mixed some in a glass of water, gave him that and the pills and told him “one of these is going to work, and one isn’t, but you can’t take both”. I left. He texted me an hour later. “This shits working”.
He went to work the very next day! I continued taking it for a couple months and then stopped. End of story
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