So in another post a wonderful person suggested this herb. Although Im having a real ***** of a time trying to see a counselor just to get a basic script for antidepressants (3-4 month wait!) This has really been working for me.
Every morning I take 12, 500 mg capsules with a glass of OJ and a cup of coffee. Within about 5-10 minutes, my mood is lifted, back pain disappears, and I feel pretty damn good. It lasts about 4-5 hours.
I have noticed side effects, I get twichy, light headed, and seem to have slightly too much energy. I also often feel itchy which I looked up might be a sign of liver injury (makes me nervous) and it causes constipation so often I drink fiber before going to sleep.
Heavy users (15-20 grams, 3-4x what I take) report opiod like effects and tollerance/addiction/withdrawal symptoms so although I sorta want to take more I’m resisting that, and I dont do it more than 3 days in a row.
I’d rather be on standard antidepressants but until that happens this is working for me. I’m telling yall about it in hopes somebody else can get benifit. But Id also strongly suggest researching it like I have and dont take it if you’re already on SSRI meds as people have had big problems with that.
Also one time I did get high while on it. Holy hell it destroyed me. 4 hr trip and I could barely walk. Maybe it was the oil soaked weed my cancer patient buddy gave me but damn I havent been that stonned for years.
Anyhoo there it is.
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I too am grateful to a wonderful person who helped get me started on alternatives to meds.
Just to add to the conversation, for depression mitigation I use an essential oil blend and a couple of supplements, plus a few deliberate behaviors to keep depression moderated. It all works very well – at low cost and no side effects.
So yes, there are alternatives to meds. Just as likely to work as meds but many are very unlikely to do harm. I guess the Hippocratic Oath is underutilized in the medical industry.
Because a number of people here plus irl have reported/had devastating side effects from the meds, I am grateful to the beautiful person that got me to start using the alternatives and that thankfully before I ever touched the addictive stuff. I am also grateful to a number of individuals who sounded the warning about meds.
I tried medications once unfortunately not the thing for me, I gained massive amounts of weight. I took kratom about every day for two weeks at the same dose as you, until I ran out of the pills and money. Once I get paid I will probably continue to dose. I hear it causes weight loss (probably slight) but can be dependence forming and can cause psychosis bouts if you take too much. Once I stopped I started getting stabbing pains in my side but that was only one night so I’m thinking I shouldn’t take as much. It also made me real itchy and feel pretty emotional, lIke cryIng more than usual.. I heard it’s good to switch up kind you take every day to not take the same brand two days in a row. I was alternating between white vein and red vein, white vein speeds you up and red slows you down. I also didn’t dream at first but then started having some real terror dreams a couple days in, dunno about that but I guess I’m used to it by now.
I used to smoke about a gram of weed a day for about 5 years but then the cops finally caught me and then they caught me some 4 more times so I finally stopped that. I’m still dependent on weed I guess so I suffer withdrawals but this really helps me not crave weed, it’s not weed but good enough.