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Kelly Cassone3 Comments-
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I’m glad you decided to start a discussion about it since there is so much I could say about kratom! I went through HORRIFIC withdrawal from it and what I experienced was essentially opioid withdrawal. It seems to have the longest withdrawal of any substance. The withdrawal lasts for weeks if not longer. It is a very “messy” withdrawal. There is no medications or anything that directly addresses the withdrawal symptoms (except suboxone but that can turn into a whole other problem and end up being worse than the kratom). Since it affects a bunch of different receptors in the brain, there are no clear cut medications to help with the withdrawal, like there is for alcohol withdrawal for example. The withdrawal is so bad and so long and seemed to be no end in sight, and I could not continue to go on the way I was. So I made an appointment with an MD specifically for kratom withdrawal to get “helper” medications for it after people from the quitting kratom community suggested I do that. But this doctor just scared me and claimed my brain is probably permanently messed up from it and I would never recover from it and I would need to go on suboxone to be able to return to some sense of normalcy. Which freaked me out as that is really hardcore and normally for opioid use disorder and the drugs he prescribed me didn’t even end up helping at all 😐 The withdrawal caused such severe insomnia that I basically did not sleep for over a month and felt like I was on amphetamines. And a lot of people seem to have long term issues from it and claim they never return to “normal” so I was terrified that was going to be the case for me especially since the withdrawal seemed never ending. It was truly a nightmare experience for me. I first tried it years ago, over a decade ago before there was much information about it and thought it was just a “harmless herbal supplement” and a lot of people advocated to keep it legal and would say that there is no harm from it. If I had known it was essentially an opioid I would have never touched it! But there has only been recently more awareness about the dangers of it. And the reason why I even continued to take it was because of my mom being majorly dependent on it, as I mentioned in another comment and she would always offer it to me and it is touted as some “harmless herbal supplement similar to coffee”. The withdrawal experience I experienced was one of the worst experiences of my life and one of the darkest times of my life. But thankfully, I ended up making it through and recovered from it all, cold turkey on my own. Now it has been a year since that horrific experience and a year free of the green sludge. I never thought I would be where I am today since at the time I felt like my life was ruined (also partly due to another unfortunate incident that happened at the time while going through this) and my future seemed bleak. That is how horrific this stuff is.
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