Well, guys, color me very relieved.
If you feel Kratom isn't really working for you lately, or your tolerance has shot through the roof, or you are super-constipated, I highly recommend taking 72 hours off combined with a whole lot of laxatives.
My tolerance has reset to near-new and I am no longer passing blood instead of stool. (Sorry if that's TMI for some -- but I know other Kratom users with slow motility experience similar bleeding issues).
For the past two months, I'd been taking more than double my normal dose of Kratom each day (one of my dog' is terminally ill so I'm using it to cope).
I was averaging 10 to 12 grams a day as powder, swallowed in Blade Papes. I absolutely should have been brewing Kratom Tea instead, given I've got horrible gut issues (two surgeries already a third one is scheduled) -- but I hate the boiling/freeing/straining process and got lazy.
Anyhow, as of a week ago, that larger dose was yielding negligible benefits and I was doubled with cramps, so I had to stop.
For three days, I abstained from Kratom, drank a whole lot of seltzer, grapefruit and orange juices and ate less.
For laxatives, I used generic Miralax (Clearlax) one dose in the morning, another at night. After dinner, I made sure to eat 5 tablespoons of wheat bran moistened with apple sauce. Before bed, I took eight large magnesium citrate capsules with herbal tea.
The withdrawal wasn't too bad -- I felt depressed and lethargic, but fought it with caffeine (two triple shot coffee drinks a day -- which probably helped the laxatives work). I do not have high blood pressure, so caffeine is okay.
In terms of withdrawal, I had some night sweats, and needed an extra sweater around the house (but the latter might be due to the cold snap in the East, where I live). I also had nightmares -- odd, since I typically don't remember dreaming at all.
Here is what's interesting: mostly what I passed thanks to the laxatives looked like powder/sediment -- like, tons of it. My suspicion is, all that powder was clinging to the walls of my intestines, possibly hampering my ability to absorb alkaloids from the Kratom.
All I know is, when I woke up today, I took a full shot glass of Kratom tea (a little more than an oz), equivalent to approximately 1.5 grams of Kratom.
That single shot had an instant antidepressant effect that has lasted all day long.*
For me, this is excellent.
It wasn't my first 72-hour Kratom break -- I do them periodically (mostly cause I run out before my order comes in).
But previous breaks did not get me down to a 1.5 gram effective dose -- at best I was getting my consumption down to 3 or 4 grams twice daily.
I am guessing that some of what I perceived to be a tolerance effect in the past (natural habituation to the alkaloids) was more of a mechanical issue (the alkaloids were physically blocked from getting into my blood stream by all that kratom powder gunking up my guts!)
Anyhow, if any of you are planning a Kratom break anytime soon, you may get more out of it combined with lots of laxatives.
* Tea made with White Tekengon from Fused Flora, water, lemon juice and a few drops of limonene essential oil, which is a a solvent.
Terrific Tolerance Reset after 72 hour Kratam Free Cleanse with Laxatives
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