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I'm no longer addicted, but I was for a short time at one point. No opiate addiction or addiction to anything else (maybe Adderall a year earlier) at that point. I used it for about a month and a half at one point to take away the pain from recurrent migraines (migraines 2/3 days - would take it on day 3 anyway). The withdrawal was horrendous. I experienced the following:
- Continuous sweat pouring out for 2 weeks, I was constantly drenched
- extreme nausea and occasional vomiting for a week, followed by queasiness for 2 weeks
- 2 weeks of diarrhea
- extreme depression and anxiety that lasted a full month, dysthymia for 2 months following
- paranoia that approached delusional levels for 3 days followed by continuous catastrophic thinking for a month, then constant nervousness for another month
- massive exhaustion coupled with extreme insomnia for 2 weeks, then milder insomnia for about 2 months
- relentless "restlessness" in my legs and arms that nothing could get rid of. I involuntarily kicked almost all night, every night for 2 weeks.
- nondescript pain - that is, I felt a lot of pain, but I couldn't actually localize it, it didn't feel like it was coming from any particular part of the body
- feeling "disgusting" - like I wanted to crawl out of my skin
- constantly watering eyes for a week and a half
- episodes of crying for no reason (and I never cry) over the first 2 weeks
- extreme, irrational anger at everyone and everything, along with vicious and often totally unprovoked outbursts. I'm normally a very nice person, and I quite literally never get angry (partially due to SSRIs and lamotrigine). I strongly believe that nothing is anyone's fault, because behaviour is simply created by a combination of genes and environment, thus, what people need is help, not judgment. I acted like the complete opposite of that during the first week of kratom withdrawal. As an illustrative example: on day 3 I said this to a homeless man who smiled and me and asked if I "could spare a bit of change and if not, at least a smile": "How about this, why don't you get a fucking job, you scum-sucking sack of shit. Nobody cares that you're a stupid, lazy asshole, so stop begging for change, because the world would be better off if you starved to death. Go jump off a fucking bridge."
- violent headache for a whole week
- unbearable muscle aches and pains for about a week, then milder ones for about a month and a half
- constant twitching for about 2 weeks
- total inability to think for about a month
- no concentration or focus at all for about 3 weeks
- no motivation to do anything but pace around my apartment in a circle spouting semi-delusional rants to my roommates for around 9 days
Point is, kratom withdrawal isn't a picnic for everyone - it can be horrible. Different brains, different reactions.
(IMHO It's not nearly as bad as SSRI withdrawal though)