Kratom is working for me
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:40 am
Having suffered off and on with RLS for about 25 years now, I tried all the recommended natural supplements -- potassium, magnesium, "restful legs" (not sure what this is made of), to name a few. Sometimes they worked and sometimes they didn't. I finally told my primary care doctor about my RLS, and she put me on Requip (ropinirole). It seemed effective at first, and I experienced RLS less often. However, for about the past month, my RLS had been getting progressively worse. I started experiencing it during the day, which had never happened before. I had it just about every night as well. I also had restless legs during a medical procedure where I was consciously sedated -- they said I kicked throughout the entire procedure. That definitely had never happened to me in the past.
I went on this website to seek some answers and determined that I was probably experiencing augmentation caused by taking the ropinirole, whereby the medicine seems to work at first but then makes the RLS even worse than before I started the meds. So I am slowly tapering off it, but I definitely needed something else to get rid of my RLS symptoms.
Reading about kratom, I decided to try it. I took my first dose last night, and I felt.... NOTHING!!! Meaning that for once in a long while I did not have the excruciating itchy feeling in my shin bones. What a relief. I have always felt worse when sleeping against a warm body, leading me to get a king-sized bed and banishing my husband to the farthest side of the bed from me -- as far apart as we could possibly get (not only to make my legs feel better but also because I was likely to kick him in the middle of the night. My 8-year-old daughter also likes to cuddle with me in bed before she goes upstairs to her own bed. But I usually can only stand a few minutes of cuddling because her warm body makes my leg bones itch horribly. But last night after taking the kratom, I was able to cuddle with her for a long time, even with her draping her legs over mine, which would send my legs into kicking spasms in the past. The calm nothingness I felt in my legs last night was so different than what I usually feel. I just took my second dose an hour ago and, sure enough, my legs feel wonderful.
What works for me is the kratom that has the most relaxing, pain-relieving effect and least amount of stimulation. So far, I've tried Premium Indo and Bali. Hopefully, this stuff won't be made illegal in my state in the near future. Since we legalized marijuana, I doubt they would bother to make kratom illegal. I had a really good experience with the online seller as well -- he was really ice about my returning some Maeng da I accidentally ordered without realizing it was very stimulating. One mistake I did make last night was by taking too much -- I was going for a sedative effect but medicines often have an opposite effect on me than on other people (Benadryl and sleeping pills make me wide awake, for example). So even tophough my legs were quiet, I had trouble staying asleep. Tonight I took half as much (about a teaspoon) and feel like I could sleep.
I will keep you all posted as to whether this continues to work for me.
I went on this website to seek some answers and determined that I was probably experiencing augmentation caused by taking the ropinirole, whereby the medicine seems to work at first but then makes the RLS even worse than before I started the meds. So I am slowly tapering off it, but I definitely needed something else to get rid of my RLS symptoms.
Reading about kratom, I decided to try it. I took my first dose last night, and I felt.... NOTHING!!! Meaning that for once in a long while I did not have the excruciating itchy feeling in my shin bones. What a relief. I have always felt worse when sleeping against a warm body, leading me to get a king-sized bed and banishing my husband to the farthest side of the bed from me -- as far apart as we could possibly get (not only to make my legs feel better but also because I was likely to kick him in the middle of the night. My 8-year-old daughter also likes to cuddle with me in bed before she goes upstairs to her own bed. But I usually can only stand a few minutes of cuddling because her warm body makes my leg bones itch horribly. But last night after taking the kratom, I was able to cuddle with her for a long time, even with her draping her legs over mine, which would send my legs into kicking spasms in the past. The calm nothingness I felt in my legs last night was so different than what I usually feel. I just took my second dose an hour ago and, sure enough, my legs feel wonderful.
What works for me is the kratom that has the most relaxing, pain-relieving effect and least amount of stimulation. So far, I've tried Premium Indo and Bali. Hopefully, this stuff won't be made illegal in my state in the near future. Since we legalized marijuana, I doubt they would bother to make kratom illegal. I had a really good experience with the online seller as well -- he was really ice about my returning some Maeng da I accidentally ordered without realizing it was very stimulating. One mistake I did make last night was by taking too much -- I was going for a sedative effect but medicines often have an opposite effect on me than on other people (Benadryl and sleeping pills make me wide awake, for example). So even tophough my legs were quiet, I had trouble staying asleep. Tonight I took half as much (about a teaspoon) and feel like I could sleep.
I will keep you all posted as to whether this continues to work for me.