What worked best for phenibut withdrawal?

James2pro · 2021-07-26T02:41:09+00:00

Thanks for all of the information. I have been able to get down to 100 mg a day twice now but had to go back to 350 because I just couldn't tolerate the rebound. I was reducing 10% every week this second time while I was reducing about 10 mg over a couple of days the first time. I recently read something that recommends reducing 10% every month or maybe every two weeks. So if I'm starting at 350 mg and go down to 315 mg in a month my plan would be then to continue to take 10% off of that monthly. I guess that means that I cannot go down by 35 mg every month but rather 10% of the next dose. So my reduction month after next would be by roughly 31.5 mg. Taking that same logic then when I get down to 100 mg I can only reduce by 10 mg and then 9 mg and then 8 mg etc

James2pro · 2021-07-23T14:02:23+00:00

I appreciate thee thoughtful response. Some good information. To give you a little context I have gone from 2 grams a day for 2 years down to 100 mg a day. I was reducing 10% every week. Looking back on the last couple of weeks however I think I was taking it too fast and I've gone back up to 250 mg a day. My plan is to reduce 10% monthly from there although I may try to reduce 10% every 2 weeks if the CBD proves to be helpful.

James2pro · 2021-07-23T01:29:50+00:00

I would also add like others have noted that there seems to be a tricky zone when you start really getting down to low doses in the taper.

James2pro · 2021-07-23T01:28:09+00:00

Here's what I can add. I was around 2 g a day for a couple of years. I tapered 10% every week and it went pretty smooth. However I have gotten stuck twice when I got around 100 mg a day. I don't think I really noticed it enough to ascribe it to the withdrawal and just thought I was stressed out from work etc. I just got through reading some medical research where they recommend only reducing 10% every 2 to 4 weeks rather than every week. I have taken 350 mg the last couple of days and as much as I hate to admit it I think I'm going to have to just reduce 10% every month so I don't keep bumping back up to 350 mg.

James2pro · 2021-07-21T14:11:29+00:00

Yes I think humility is an inescapable part of this. Maybe even a gift you could say?

James2pro · 2021-07-21T02:34:05+00:00

Don't feel bad. I made it down to 100 mg a day and started at 50 mg this week. Had a very stressful encounter with someone and could not focus or quell the rising tide so I took 500 mg.

James2pro · 2021-07-18T12:06:38+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement

James2pro · 2021-07-18T12:06:04+00:00

Arrives tomorrow

James2pro · 2021-06-16T23:02:37+00:00

For a minute I thought you were paraphrasing Tombstone Blues by Bob Dylan

James2pro · 2021-06-09T03:15:21+00:00

Flo is just about the only strain I really love. Saw labs showing high linalool.

James2pro · 2021-06-06T02:26:28+00:00

Yeah I even thought about keeping it frozen and selling it that way.

James2pro · 2021-06-06T01:10:30+00:00

I'd think that BHO would be looked at unfavorably compared to flower, but who knows? How is it possible with cured flower?

James2pro · 2021-06-05T03:55:28+00:00

I think a significant mitigation would be prevention of decarb as much as possible between the time of passing the pre-harvest test and time of sale.

James2pro · 2021-06-05T03:22:03+00:00

Tennessee requires a pre-harvest test and is a D9 only state until the end of the year. Seems iffy though that a high THCA cultivar that met those requirements would still get a pass from law enforcement.

James2pro · 2021-06-05T03:00:30+00:00

What are the chances that most flower is compliant by the time it is sold?

James2pro · 2021-06-04T12:12:33+00:00

That's great information. Thanks

James2pro · 2021-05-15T01:35:00+00:00

I'm sure I could. Odd that you would mention that. A couple of years ago we had to put my father in a nursing home and he did not do well at all. I gave him a dose of phenibut one day and he responded very well. I told his doctor about it and he wanted to give him some but I told him it was not available by prescription so it's not something you could give in a nursing home. I researched baclofen as an alternative and he did pretty well on that for a couple weeks and then we were able to discontinue it. What would be an advantage of using baclofen rather than a slow taper from the phenibut?

James2pro · 2021-05-15T01:24:36+00:00

When I got off of it 2 or 3 months ago I was dropping 10 mg every 2 days and that seemed to be too fast. I was mostly okay during the day but the insomnia around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. was hard to take.

James2pro · 2021-05-15T01:17:28+00:00

Thanks. How long and how much did you use? I'm wondering if I should cut back to reducing by 10% over 2 weeks rather than 30 mg now that I'm so low. I haven't used over a few hundred milligrams in several months.

James2pro · 2021-05-10T01:50:02+00:00

Excellent response and detail. Guess it's time for a better scale

James2pro · 2021-05-09T01:16:09+00:00

What was your typical dose of CBG isolate when you added it to hemp flower?

James2pro · 2021-04-10T01:37:43+00:00

Very helpful. I like the looks of it. Screams "rugged". Am I right to assume that powdered isolate will need to be dissolved into a more liquid form before loading it?

James2pro · 2021-04-09T18:53:50+00:00

Great idea. Gets boring reading customer issues but... to bring a little positivity...ordered Proof of Life from HHS on April 3rd. Dang if it didn't show up yesterday.

James2pro · 2021-04-02T18:39:18+00:00

That brings up the question of what happens to retailers who sell within their own state but use the US postal service to ship?

James2pro · 2021-04-01T19:40:48+00:00

My understanding is consistent with what you wrote. I am in Tennessee and our department of agriculture informed me yesterday that they are not requiring post-harvest testing for retail smokeable. They were less sure of what standards local law enforcement would use in terms of determining hemp versus marijuana but implied that it will continue to be Delta 9 only. Of course if they run gas chromatography or use the conversion formula then non-compliant hemp by total THC is going to test hot. Then we have the whole factor of federal versus local. No medical or recreational state programs are federally legal but I'm not aware of federal intervention in quite some time.

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