Kratom for withdrawal

Kratom saved my life. Literally. I was heavily addicted to opiate pain meds for quite some time. I won’t go into the depth of it here (read my book!); I’ll keep it short for the blog posts. I had already kicked a hellacious perc habit some time back; I knew I didn’t want to go through the withdrawals again - which is one of the reasons I continued to take the pills much longer than I really wanted to. If you’ve been “junk sick” before, then you know how horrible it is and how hard it is to get through. Good luck trying to ween off - which I also did, for a short time. Withdrawing from opiates feels like death. Cold sweats, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, head pains, pain everywhere; you can’t sleep, as you’re writhing in bed; leg cramps and restless legs. Nothing is comfortable, everything hurts, and it feels like it will never end. To all the people thinking “well, I don’t feel sorry for you, you did it to yourself!” FUCK YOU. I’ve never understood the lack of compassion, the HATE people have for addicts. There’s a reason we get hooked that is levels deep; drugs are how we cope with that trauma. Admittedly, it’s not the best solution, but sometimes, it’s the only solution that works.

If you have something negative to say, you can save it - there isn’t anything you could tell me that I haven’t told myself over the years… I’m simply writing about my experiences so that it might help someone else to know that recovery is possible.

I was really ready for a change, so I started researching how to make opiate withdrawal tolerable, when I found some Reddits on Kratom. I voraciously read everything I could find, then went and got some caps. The first dose I took was 8 caps, but I would sometimes take 10-12 caps at a time, a couple few times a day. IT WORKED. So while I was detoxing / getting clean I had a lot of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual work to do on myself to meet myself halfway. I had practically destroyed myself and my life, now I had to get busy fixing it all…. But once your head is clear of the opiates, you actually WANT to.