Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI just saw a video the other day about some guy who got seriously addicted to that stuff.
He started out as an occasional user and even set a “never two days in a row” rule for himself, until he broke it. It fucked him up bad. Do be careful.
Well it’s essentially just herbal opioids, so yeah, it will make you dependent then you can ease that dependence by getting even a harder dependence from like Oxy or fentanyl.
This is the actively ingredient in kratom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragynine
I was dependent on it once, and took about a kilo and a half a month.
The shit does not fuck you up in the slightest. The downsides: enormous monster shits that clogged every toilet I took a shit in. I woke up after sleeping for four hours and had to take some more kratom. I was a little dozy.
Pros: didn’t eat as much. The depression I’d suffered at the time was gone. I was able to keep up a daily exercise regiment and strict diet for almost a year. My add symptoms were pretty much gone. My back pain was nonexistent. I was genuinely content, like all the time.
Neutral: no sex drive at all.
When I decided to get off it I just titrated over two months. The process sucked but I’ve gone through worse shit.
I’ve done it shitloads of time since then, and given that the withdrawals sucked have never had an issue with doing large amounts for multiple days in a row. I don’t want to.
The shit helped me through a very tough time in my life, caused no long lasting physical side effects, left me with a physique I’d wanted my whole life, a good job, and mostly positive things to say about the experience.
I wouldn’t do it again mainly just because it’s so fucking inconvenient having to drink green sludge every four hours, but.
Oh no. The horror. What a hell my life became on kratom, ahhhhhh
That kind of sounds like it fucked you up. Glad to hear you’re doing better.
Sure. If you’re illiterate I guess it does.
Venator@lemmy.nz 8 hours ago
Link to the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLObpcBR2yw
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, that’s the one!