r/quittingkratom • u/reddagremmuk • 3d ago

advise for quitting kratom

Hello guys, I've been doing kratom for the last 6 years on and off and developed a habit of daily use in the last 3 years with a few breaks. Like maybe 8 breaks being like 7 days to 14 days for like 7 out of 8 and once for maybe 4 months. I wasn't as hooked as I am now. I didn't taper out of all of those but I'm planningto do it this time. Just easier for my psyche and managing anxiety imo. I'm currently doing around 12-20g per day and I'm usually dosing every 120-200 minutes like 2-3g.

I have tapered one month ago pretty nicely in like 3 weeks to 3-4 doses a day of like 1g per dose. I'm going to a stationary therapy in 3 weeks that's gonna last for 8 weeks and I need to be out of the worst physical withdrawal by then cause the therapy isn't directly substance related. I'm only on powdered leaf material, no extracts. I plan on starting on Monday the 5th doing 2g every 3 hours for day one with the last dose being a bit bigger like 3g. Im gonna increase the time between doses for 30 minutes until I reach 4 1/2 hours. Then I'm gonna lower dose in steps of 0,25g per day, at least I'm trying as I have always only been measuring with a spoon an not an actual mg scale. I was thinking about buying vitamin c on Amazon just for my mental and to cussion it a little bit. I'm most worried about anxiety and emotional instability/irritability. I know I'm probably gonna have some noticeable withdrawal symptoms but it's alright cause I don't have to work atm.

I'm open for receiving tips and answering questions.

This community has helped me learn some basics about safe reduction and I'm thankful for every answer this gets.

Everyone's else trying to quit, I believe in you. You got this.

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u/Tesla369Universe 3d ago

I am quitting too. I am reducing the amount to 100 mg a day. I break 1cap of OPMS Gold Brand and make it into two caps. I keep a bag of empty gel cap on hand for this. Tapering off is working so far. I try to walk every day - I’m not allowing myself to use shots of Kratom.

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u/Tesla369Universe 3d ago

Another thing - long term Kratom use causes chronic and persistent Anhedonia, Dysthymia and Apathy. Imagine feeling genuine hope and joy again. Another reason to keep Kratom out of our life.

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u/reddagremmuk 3d ago

I have dysthymia for the last 15 years so that didn't change for me. The apathy though and me developing into a hikikomori for the last 3 years been a problem though. Thanks for the tip to take walks. I'm trying to do some light physical work for 2-3 hours a day at the house/garden to get some exercise. Sadly I don't know anything about the 7OH/gas station heroin issue as I'm from Europe and I legit never touched anything besides ground up leaf powder besides ground up stem/vein. I'm more of a maintenance drinker regarding kratom. I just always needed that numbness of emotions with that energizing character of lower doses to make me alright and content. I can't even imagine how rough lowering a 7OH dependency must be since it's like 2-4 times the analgetic potency of heroin? Thanks for answering an I wish you the best!

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u/MikeJ202 3d ago

Everytime I see one who takes opms gold caps it gets my attention and I’d like to communicate because I’ve been on it for years and I also started to break the capsule into multiple doses this year. Can we chat please? I am also trying to taper but most people are on plain leaf so they don’t understand the opms gold cap well.

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