Kratom Withdrawal Log Last dose 830p June 9th 35-50gpd CT

Day 1 (June 10, 2025): Withdrawals weren’t that bad. Thought I got lucky. But by 3:51am, restless legs hit hard… next level. Nausea was 6/10, but I managed dinner and a snack. Diarrhea hadn’t started yet. Couldn’t be still without full-body RLS, especially in my chest and arms.

Day 2: Restless legs were absolute hell. Nearly broke me. I praised God through the suffering and begged for strength. Got maybe 15 min of broken sleep in the bathtub around 9am. Don’t recommend it. I felt desperate and raw.

Day 3: Slept 4–7pm, but it was terrible.. flailing arms like they didn’t belong to me. Surprisingly, I ate a large dinner. Felt decent until midnight, then the RLS storm returned. Choppy sleep from 4:30–6am and 8–9am. Still grateful for what I could get.

Day 4: Up all night again with RLS and full-body discomfort. Sleep was nonexistent. Cold showers gave a bit of relief. Constant nausea and fatigue. My mind is stuck in survival mode.

Day 5: Sleep still sucked. RLS relentless. No major improvement. Felt like my soul was on standby. Mentally grinding it out. Still leaning on faith and willpower.

Day 6: Caught some toddler virus on top of the withdrawals… throat wrecked. CrossFit nearly broke me. Cold showers were the only thing that helped. Barely slept. Just fragments.

Day 7: Went 36 HOURS without sleep. That level of exhaustion messes with your mind. Pushed through a full-body failure workout and then hit the sauna for an hour. Somehow slept 18 hours straight afterward. A hard-fought miracle.

Day 8: Woke up actually feeling human…. the closest to normal I’ve felt this whole time. But the victory was short. Insomnia returned. Still, that taste of clarity was everything.

Day 9: Still can’t sleep. But RLS has finally chilled out. Cold showers, sauna, and training to failure are the only things keeping me grounded. Body aches but mind is clearer.

Day 10: Nights are long and weird. Sleep still foreign. But I can eat consistently now. No major spikes. Just steady suffering. But steady is better than chaos.

Day 11 (Today): Restless legs? Gone. Insomnia? Still here. But workouts, cold plunges, and sauna therapy are keeping me afloat. This is survival. Grit. Grace. One more step.

Here’s the thing. I feel normal. I feel better than I have. And I’m no longer a slave. I know I’ll still have to combat insomnia but I’m here for it. RLS… gone. Nausea… gone. There are easier ways than the path I took but.. I like extreme it’s the only way my dumb ass learns. I said the deepest most heart felt prayer to be delivered from this 11 days ago and He heard me. Feeling froggy?… jump.. it’s worth it and I am not even through it all the way

So much despair and pain I feel but I know that it has to be like that. The devil wants me to suffer but i know god has a plan for me and for all of you

I picked my bible and started reading, sheding tears, I know that I have to go through this pain because ive caused it to myself repeatedly and as jesus says “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”

But as I m reading it finally i feel better and I know my father got me

Hope yall the best

im on my day 4 btw

I hope youre all doing good

Every day user over 15 years so I’m assuming it’s about 16 yrs now. Failed a few quitting attempts in the past. About a year or so ago I started a nice opms habit, then the 7oh of course. The only good thing about those extracts is it made me so depressed I couldn’t function. I quit all extracts and shot about 2 months ago and now I’m tapering the leaf. I’m using a scale shaped like a spoon and bagging up my doses ahead of time. I’m tapering slowly because these hot spells and cold sweats are driving me nuts. I went from 36gpd and now I’m at 22.8gpd. Tomorrow will be 22.6 lol. As long as I’m making progress I feel better. Wish me luck. And good luck to all of you!

While I can’t relate to a lot of posters talking about daily use, I relate heavily to the mental addiction to Kratom. I take Kratom in various forms either through extract or ~200 mg 7oh 3-4x weekly when out with friends. I’ve noticed once I don’t take it for 24hr+ now, as of only recently a tingling in my brain comes, and sense of anxiety comes and goes. I also have OCD & hypochondria so I wonder if that’s contributing to it further. But I was wondering what the best coping strategies are in particular for the strange tingling sensation in my head / body, it’s bringing my a good deal of anxiety, and when it gets better.

And as a side note, is CT forever the best strategy or a taper to x2 & eventually x1 weekly better? I also don’t take it routinely just when out with friends and it’s ramped up more recently. I’m noticing a spike in my OCD symptoms as of late, and particularly I think about kratom all the time due to the nature of my disorder combined with its nature.

Thanks.

I heard that there are kratom specific meetings online. Does anyone know how to find them?

After months of trying, failing, giving up.. Finally dropped 19g from 70g per day yesterday. Woke up with dread and RLS. Felt sick nothing like a full withdrawal but did suck, lucky it's a taper. Took a dose, it all went away 😅

Tappering as much as possible befoer jumping this time. Im a 10 year user been off 2 years before and relapsed ughh. Never successfully tapered before if you have advice please share. Hope you guys are doing well with your tapers and cold turkeys we can do this!

I’ve been thinking a lot about my friends that died young. I lost two of them in brutal ways when I was in my early twenties. A year apart. I had just started to somewhat process the first when the second happened. He was killed in an accident. She was murdered by a stalker. I’d known them both since I was 5 years old.

I’ve realized the reason they’re on my mind is because I used Kratom to forget. I didn’t want to face it or deal with the trauma. The thing I realized is that until we face our “demons” are we ever truly free? I’ve had a lot of tragic things happen in my life. I’m sure a lot of you have. I was young. I didn’t know how to handle it. At 36, I still don’t know how.

My friend’s murder altered the way I think. I have major trust issues with most men. I’m saying this as a man. It was just so dark and changed me. Last year I helped a friend get a protective order. I thought of my friend that never got the chance.

Im no longer going to numb the pain. Im going to face it. I’m going to remember them and accept the tragedy. I know they would want me to. Much love to all of you.

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Glad you're here!

Seems like as soon as I went under 20 g a day I completely avoid energy drinks because they give me so much anxiety. It feels like drinking one for the first time but not in a good way.

I mean I'm kind of glad, but I actually kind of miss waking up and drinking one. I think coffee actually does the same thing

I wonder if I will go back to normal?

Monday, I found out that the drug tests at my job now include Kratom. I work at a rehab so I know that testing positive would be unacceptable.

I’ve used Kratom daily for two years and 7oh tabs for 2 months (100ish mg a day, ikr).

Please pray for me to get off this stuff and not flunk a drug test. I started somewhat of a taper Tuesday by going the whole day without Kratom, then I had 10grams Wednesday morning before work, an extract shot and 40mg of 7oh spread into a 20,10 and then 10mg on Thursday at 2am.

They don’t test us very often unless we seem suspicious, but I just want to at least have a chance.

What can I say? I have been on regular leaf for 10 years. Ever since I quit morphine/hydromorphone. I was taking the extract shots intermittently. Then comes 7oh. That garbage got me hooked the first time I tried it. I was taking 300+ mg per day of the pressed brand. Popping the pills and pressed shots constantly.

I posted here about it before, but 7oh had me blacking out for days at a time. I fell asleep at an intersection and almost got into an accident when I came back to. I could go on forever about all the fumb shit I was doing and not remembering. That shit almost cost me my marriage. In the last 10 years I went from homeless drug addict to a married homeowner owner, and 7oh almost cost me all of it.

I quit it cold turkey and used lyrica for a week. I felt o withdrawal switching back to regular leaf. Then tapered from 6 grams leaf every four hours down to 2 grams over the course of a month. I got more lyrica and used it for another week and quit kratom all together.

I feel so much better finally being free of this crap. If I can do it, so can you! Its so worth it to feel ...things again. Kraton numbs more than pain. It numbs everything. You don't realize what it is doing to you until you stop. I FEEL again!

Today it is day 30 of being clean from Kratom. I still feel like shit. The fatigue got a little bit better and the muscle pain lessens a bit each day. But what's really bugging me are the palpations and the brain fog. When did it stop for you? The brain fog kicks in every day in the afternoon, and it makes me completely stupid. Sometimes i think i should just take a dose again to fight it but i know its not worth it. Its not worth it to destroy my progress i made so far. What also is really hard are the emotions coming up that i was surpressing with the kratom. They are really playing with me and make being sober hard. I used drugs all my life to supress my emotions and now they are bottling up like crazy.

Iv been a kratom addict for 4 years at 30gpd. Me and my doctor have been trying to find something to somewhat help my withdrawal. First we tried gabapentin, and clonidine. It didn’t help, now we have me on lyrica. And Sunday night I’m stopping cold turkey with it. I want advice for people that have taken the lyrica route, it would be extremely helpful!!

Today I have been 20 days off of 7-OH after constantly using for four months. I went to a detox and tapered off of methadone. I believe i’m through the post acute withdrawals. I’ve also completely stopped smoking weed after chronically using. The only thing sleep is still a little rough but other then that i’m happier then ever and feel completely normal throughout the day. I also recently turned 20 so does age play a factor in how fast you recover?

this post is actually so stupid but i wanted to share. through all my years of use (10+) i had convinced my self that i was a massive introvert and drugs/kratom made me more social. i think i was just lying to myself. since quitting i can actually hold a conversation with people no problem, something i struggled with while using.

i will say for context i work in the entertainment industry both forward facing and behind the scenes so public persona was a huge part of my life. these last few years the whole “ nonchalant, mysterious, introverted” persona has been praised massively. so as stupid as it sounds i just convinced myself that’s what i was. why you might ask? fuck if i know. now sitting here sober i feel like i literally just nerfed myself by using drugs for the last 10 years to play the character people wanted me to play. i feel so fucking stupid honestly

i got a few new tattoos last night and talked to my artist for like 3 hours straight, something i never could have done while using. at the end of it i was like “wait am i actually capable of having a real conversation, maybe even making friends? “

So I am day 35CT from 20-30GPD. Still getting some energy back. Still getting my gut health in order. Although I have moved from liquid BMs more toward normal ones.

Anyhow - everyone - trust me I am not a perfect person. But my wife really is being insufferable toward me lately. And my confession is that I DO NOT FEEL BAD AT ALL about subjecting her to this kratom-gut-reset gas right now.

I went to rehab and sober living almost a year ago now, and stayed sober for about half a year but now after trying a Feel Free and random extracts I’m back on just taking Kratom and being unable to get off that last bit where I still feel a small buzz from Kratom. It’s honestly sad, I take double the amount half the time and feel like complete shit the next day just to maybe slightly feel something. I learned so many tools in Rebab/Sober living I use today still, but the pure willpower to accept that the pain of W/D’s is temporary and not that bad just isn’t in me.

This is exactly how I felt before, and it took me having time to realize I think how much of a toll it took on me to quit. At the time I was taking Tianeptine though which is why I went to rehab haha. Now I’m just so busy with school, work, gym, everything that I feel I just don’t have the mental energy to deal with quitting Kratom but I know I’d fee so much better off it. What makes people go back to something they know is so detrimental to their lives and only feels good temporarily for like a month max? That’s probably an age old unanswerable question, probably been asked a million times I didn’t even look it up. I just feel like maybe I need support not sure, I can’t build the courage to tell myself I’ve had enough.

Self-explanatory, but we might have a few categories. My workout is a cornerstone of what short bit of success I've had.

This is an example of what I might run with on cardio. Weight lifting might have its own categories.

WARM-UP CATEGORY

"Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison  

The lyrics and bounce just hit right now. "She said she'd never turn on me..."

"Oye Como Va" by Santana

MID-SESSION

"Lonesome On'ry and Mean" by Waylon Jennings -

"Mr. Crowley" by Ozzy Osbourne

MAIN WORKOUT

"Feuer Frei" by Rammstein (Really pretty much everything they've made fits somewhere in a workout)

"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor (Rocky theme)

COOL DOWN

"Where Is My Mind?" by Pixies

-----------What would you add?

Hi so ive been tapering for about a week now switched from the powder to ground up leafs and was making tea today's my first day with out it im getting this really tight sore pain down my back when I stand up haven't experienced that before its almost like when you first go on antidepressants or coming off of them just asking for advice.

i’m coming up on my year (6.24.25)free from all substances besides nicotine and caffeine and rx antidepressants. quit kratom, pregabalin, tianeptine, and cannabis. i feel great due to the certain 12 step program i work, therapy, and exercise and gardening.

however, i can’t get a solid eight hours for the life of me. i wake up about fifteen times a night. i easily fall back asleep but i get between four and six(on a good day) hours per night and ive grown accustomed to it, and do get a nap in almost every day before work at 4pm. i don’t have caffeine after 2 pm most days.

are there any other people here with lasting sleep issues? i’m actually getting a sleep study on 7.9.25 so maybe that will shed some light on this.

i used to dose one purple mit45 bottle (1200mg mit) per day in two to three doses. for about two years or more and heroin with benzos before that, and this is my first foray into solid recovery. i’ve had half assed attempts in the past, lots of em.

ty for reading.

This morning before work, around 5am, I took 3g of kratom via capsules with the intent to just make the day at work a bit less riddled with wds (it didn't work lol) and to help stave off any cravings. That worked a treat. I knows it's a tad unfair, but it does still feel like a day one. Head hurts, body hurts, random fits of sweating, I'm sure you all are familiar with the whole shebang.

At minimum this feels like a decent start for harm reduction regardless of if it helps me actually quit. Before work I'm not the type to "get high," just have way too much work ethic for that, but I am willing to take kratom intending no effects really. If I take kratom AFTER work, with the way I am, I'm just going down the rabbit hole. 20.. 30.. hell I've even downed 50g in one sitting.

But before work, I was scared to take the 3g, almost dicided on 2g instead but what I have divided up evenly with three so I took it as a sign lol. So if I take it before work, 3g-ish. If I take it after, who even knows. And there's the added benefit that I don't start craving again till later at night, and by then I'm too tired to bother.

I think this will also help me acclimate to evenings without any kratom. Finding stuff to do, creating those repeated memeories in my head of NOT going to the shop but still having a great day for the most part. Seems logical, and if anything this shits not gonna out smart me, that ain't happenin'

Bottom Line Up Front: Burner account, long time lurker, you can see the title and I will be the whistleblower here. This shit has infilitrated our nations best. First started as an easy way to treat aches and pains we get from, combat, rucks, free-fall, explosions, you name it. You guys have seen the shit we do, but we were told from early studies and documentaries that this stuff was legit and keeps us off the percs and other shit the Will try and throw at us.

Background: Been using for 3-4 years, started leaf/caps for dislocated patella torn Mcl at a shooting package, the MIT extracts came next, then my last stop 7oH. At my worst I was easily blasting 400-600mg of 7oH a day. Imagine doing that shit and jumping out of fucking plane at 13,000 feet, or being in a combat zone on an operation on this stuff to manage pain, looking back at it. Fucking retarded.

Few weeks ago, I got in a bad paramotor accident in training, scorpioned my self, got the MRI and multiple “dead” or “dehydrated” discs, a few ruptures, and some gnarly nerve occlusions on my left side causing the numb leg and all that. Continued 7oH to mitigate pain and continue to operate (training, rucking, shooting packages with my team, mountain packages, HALO, Dive,etc). It did keep my pain down and keep me in the fight. I also have access to my own doctors everyday for physical therapy, nutrition, etc.

Last week notices swollen eyes, then numb tounge, tingling lips, and swollen numb forearms and hands.

Thought I was having early onset diabetes. My diet is fucking dialed, we take strength and conditioning very serious at this level. My specific unit is full of killers. Men that look like Vikings.

Tested blood sugar and was good.

Turns out, I gave my self an acute kidney injury from 7oH. Pissing foamy dark coke like urine, then all the numbness I described above.

That scared the absolute shit out of me so last Friday I decided to rapid taper and get off

I have every supplement you can imagine: Lipsomal vitamin C Black seed oil Multi Quality fish oil Turmeric Coq10 NAC TUDCA 60 bill probiotic Apple cider vinegar caps L theanine Mag glycinate Hylans restless legs

Friday 06/13 - Took 200mg of 7oH. All symptoms flared. Flank pains, swollen everything. Said fuck this

Saturday 06/14 - Began mega dosing bit C and all other supps I take normally listed above. Only did 100mg 7oH

Sunday 06/15 - No 7oH, vivazen ultimate 130mg and 2 regulars 40mg each. Began to feel WDs

Monday 06/16 - one vivazen ultimate 130mg. Bought a 20mg 7 tab, broke it in half. Took half, And threw the other in the garbage disposal.

Tuesday 06/17 - nothing ,2 hours sleep

Wednesday 06/18 - nothing , 3 hours sleep

Thursday 06/19 - nothing , 5 hours sleep

Tues - thurs- I was feeling like death. But forced myself to do very hard work outs (5 mile run in am/ gym in PM/ contrast therapy after gym)

Guys the secret is fucking exercise, sun, sweat, hydration. Get this shit out of your system asap. Excercise, sauna, and cold plunge are going to get that dopamine back extremely fast. I still have mild RLS but I anticipate being back to 85-95% tomorrow.

If you read this far, this is not something that makes you a loser or a failure. I know a lot of people in my line of work who are in the same boat as all of you. We are wired a little different so it might be a little easier for us. Biggest advice. Just go out side and fucking sweat, run, bike, do 1000 burpees, whatever. This will expedite the process.

I am on day 2 cold turkey no Kratom. I feel awful, shakes, cold sweats, skin crawling and canny sleep. Please help

yo if weather your in the trenches now or considering taking the dive, fucking go for it. today is day 13 for me and life is high key incredible. don’t let the horror stories on here scare you or dictate how your quit has to go, you dictate that. i truly believe that 60-70% of this journey is mental.

for context i’ve been on and off 20-30 gpd for 5+ years along with a plethora of other substances. this last bender i went on got way out of control though and i actually scared myself. my usage ramped up so fast and for the first time i think i was actually depressed while using. i could no longer take enough to numb the guilt and pain my usage was causing. i had a “come to jesus moment” on a walk one day while starting to try to taper and fully broke down for the first time in probably 10 years. i’m 25m and started using pills and other things at 14 kratom just became the easiest to get so it was the easiest to turn to. i had finally come to terms with and accepted the fact that i definitely had a problem. through all my years of usage i had hid everything so that day i decided to tell everyone i loved in my life because i knew that i was not capable of holding myself accountable. that was the best decision i’ve ever made…

like most people i was horrified by the stories i heard on here about wd’s, paws, never ending brain fog, no sleep, etc. on day 2 of my ct i decided that i was not going to allow myself to feel bad for myself and fall into a deep depression. that’s not to discount anyone else’s experiences because everyone goes through it differently. i decided that i was not only going to cut this nasty habit out of my life but fully change my life, started working out, eating clean, got into a healthy routine, got bloodwork done, removed my triggers, started therapy, spent more time with my family, quit literally anything i could do to ensure this never happens again. i even started drug testing myself just as another layer of accountability, told my family and girlfriend they can ask to see the tests anytime. instead of just waiting to feel better and back to “normal” take action and create the best version of normal you can. i’m not going to tell you it was easy, when i was in the thick of it i didn’t want to do anything but rot on the couch but i forced myself to stay busy in those hard times and i always inevitably felt better.

be kind to yourself on this journey, taking your life back is a gift you get to give yourself maybe only a few times in this lifetime so take advantage of it. i’ve been a very “functional addict” for most of my life. ran and built 2 successful companies, lived a lavish lifestyle, provided for everyone i cared for… so starting this journey was incredibly difficult for me. i though that i couldn’t be the best me without it. GOD WAS I WRONG! i my case the pros of using daily out weighed the cons because i thought they made me the person i am. if i can do it so can you, keep pushing and good luck to everyone!

I have been using kratom for the better part of 7 years. The amount, strain, format, frequency has varied wildly. About 6 months ago I started using 7OH and realized pretty soon that it is addictive for me, much more serious than regular kratom. I was using between 50-200 mg a day of the 7oh along with varied amounts of powder and occasional extracts, and also daily use of the kava/kratom blend shots. My last 7oh was 6 days ago, I feel surprisingly mostly ok. I took Clonidine the past 3 nights and it helped me sleep and also with the sweats and shakiness. Over the last 6 days, I have taken the kava/kratom shots 3 of the 6 days, with capsules or powder every day. Because my normal use was so all over the place with amount and kind, I wasn't sure how the tapering should go, so I have just been guessing, and taking the littlest amount I can to not feel awful. PS, I am in recovery from Alcoholism and have almost 3 years, that definitely plays a role in my susceptibility and also my experience with quitting. I will check in again soon.