Oh kratom, how I love it! Don't get confused by that assertion and think for a second that I would go out plundering and pillaging to keep a steady supply, become so obsessed with the ingestion or procurement of the herb that I couldn't function, or that I would sweat and vomit without it. The first strain I used was a Green Bali and it proved most effective for relieving my pain. Over the course of time, this effectiveness has lessened a bit as have nasty side effects at slightly higher doses. I started out taking 1/2 gram and it would keep my pain levels tolerable for hours. Alas, I have noticed a shorter duration of positive effect and so now take 3/4 gram every 3 hours. This led me to wonder if alternating varieties would keep things more effective or if there were other varieties that were just more effective. My ideal is to be relatively comfortable without being completely sickened or mentally altered. So far with kratom, the sickened has happened (I will never attempt a gram ingestion again like I did that very first time!) but never the mentally altered unless being dizzy and nauseated is actually known as "high". Or, is a reduction in pain that results in over all better mood known as "high"? I am one of those people that gets evil when I am ill or in a great deal of pain. Case in point: I choked my best friend when I was in labor with my third daughter. I was blind with pain and mistook her for a nurse! (The horrid devils gave me pitocin without any other sort of agent to help with cervical dilation and consequently I was having powerful excruciatingcontractions that were going nowhere) Back to the kratom: I have found that eating a bit of food before ingestion or right after helps with nausea. I have tried a few different varieties: Red Veined Borneo, White Veined Sumatra, Super Green Malaysian, and a standardised extract sample. The Red Veined Borneo sickened me a little when I first gave it a go at 1/2 gram and the pain relief was not as great as with the Green Bali, so I put it aside and stuck to the Bali for a while. If the slight sickening had been accompanied by greater pain relief I would have kept at it. I decided to revisit this variety a couple of weeks ago when my pain levels were not as high due to me strictly avoiding sitting except for unavoidable voiding excursions and the results were better. I took slightly less than 1/2 gram and was not sickened. The pain relief was not there either. All new strains sickened me slightly at a starting 1/2 gram trial and I reduced the trials to a bit less than 1/2 gram which produced no sickening and also no pain relief. The White Veined Sumatra gave me more of a dizzy sick feeling than a barfy sick feeling while the red Veined Borneo was more of a barfy sick feeling. I cautiously went back up to the 1/2 gram after a few days of the lesser dose of the different strain alternated with times of relief with the Green Bali. I am not sickened now at 1/2 gram by any of the strains I have mentioned and the Super Green Malaysian might just give the Green Bali a run for the money on pain relief. The others I reserve for times when my pain is at its minimal level. I did a mixing of varieties experiment that was a real headache and I most likely won't try it again. Green Bali does not go well with the Red Veined Borneo! I make sure that I alternate strains only after the effect is fading-approximately 3 hours and this has been OK. I reserve the Green Bali for relief when I have done unavoidable things that increase my pain levels-like driving to and from work, the grocery, etc.
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