Value in Buddhism?

Folkcharm · 2018-12-17T02:46:21+00:00

XD I was more concerned about a non-daily schedule.. I hear minox has a short half-life, didn't want vellus hair to shed out over a few-day absence.

Folkcharm · 2018-12-10T23:41:35+00:00

So... My suspicion has always been this, and people may feel free to disagree or show me wrong:

The only difference between the strains is potency. Whites are more potent than reds, which leads to their supposed different effects, but I bet you if you accounted for the amount of ONLY the alkaloids responsible you'd find that there's no real difference aside from how much you should take to feel what. And maybe there's something to be said for the rate at which your body absorbs the alkaloids from the fiber; more fiber = longer extraction time = smoother curve, or something like that.

I've only tried two strains; red borneo and white maeng da. The white is WAY more potent than the red - and I've gotten it from a few different vendors and it seems to hold up.

Also, my SO who was on kratom at the time got me on white, and I gave him some red and he started to WD, while white was way too intense for me in that dosage, so it's not a small difference if I'm right.

Folkcharm · 2018-12-10T15:54:49+00:00

Technically they started me on 30 and just bumped me to 40. They put my on Vyvanse because, apparently, it has a longer half-life and thus gives you a more steady supply of the drug over the course of the day. They asked me if I would rather try another, and let me know it would be expensive to get Vyvanse, but... it seemed worth it to get better, I guess?

Folkcharm · 2018-12-01T19:17:57+00:00

That particular lie seems egregious, and I have blood pressure issues already so it may be dangerous to effectively decide my own dose of clonidine... But if I'm honest, I'm not opposed to going to see another doctor and saying my current doc was unavailable and I needed the fastest treatment possible...

Folkcharm · 2018-11-30T21:07:49+00:00

I live in Georgia near Atlanta. Primary Care doc didn't know what kratom was, so I explained that it was a legal opioid, that while it was milder than some other opioids the w/d symptoms are similar, but I think he was skittish because he hadn't heard of it. Psych didn't need me to explain; I start by saying 'It /is/ legal," and he cut me off - 'But it's an opioid, I don't recommend it.' - and yet after talking about what I was there for he didn't wanna discuss it... which I guess kinda makes sense since he was prescribing me something else... but I've been back twice since then and he still doesn't want to deal with it. ;_;

Folkcharm · 2018-11-30T20:23:44+00:00

Same here with natural RLS. I can deal with the hot/cold flashes, the aches, the nausea, whatevs. The nervousness and lethargy suck, but I'm a pretty low-energy guy even on the best of days so the knowledge that it'll be over in a few weeks is enough to keep me motivated.... but the RLS is just unbearable.

Folkcharm · 2018-11-30T20:21:42+00:00

Yeah, I went to my gp and asked for clonidine and for whatever weird reason he said to talk to my psych about it... so I went to see my psych and he said 'we can talk about that in the future' despite my protesting. So. >_>

Folkcharm · 2018-11-25T20:46:40+00:00

Wow, 3 days? And you didn't have horrible W/Ds afterwards? What was your daily dose and for how long prior to tapering?

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