Having a hard time getting dose right these days
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:29 pm
Actually, I wish all my problems were this pleasant, heh. 
But here's the deal. Back at the end of March I ended up with a fairly messy stress fracture in my right foot. Because of my age, some other health issues, and that particular place in the foot I broke it, they were extremely insistent: no anti-inflammatories. (Apparently the inflammatory process is critical to laying down new bone, so no inflammation = no new bone.) Because worst case scenario is that stress fractures on weight-bearing bones just don't heal at all and become permanent disabilities, I had no choice but to suck it up and stay off kratom for six weeks along with everything else that made physical movement possible and frankly, living bearable.
Fast forward to this week: it's been six weeks, I no longer have foot pain, and although I was supposed to wait for the all-clear, fuck it. I'm still not hooverin 'em up like I was, but I'm not even trying to stay off them anymore. Enter kratom. Yaaayyy!!! Saturday night I started off with a nice teaspoon of some extraordinarily potent tincture I made in February, and DAMN that was some righteous stuff: pleasanty buzz, followed by 12 hours of blissful rest. Oh, yeaaaahh.
So then I laid off it again for a day or so, because tincture/extracts have a way of frying your tolerance and I wanted the next -real- everyday dose to be really good. Tuesday morning, I tried 2.5g of a previous green that had always treated me well, and it was kind of meh. I kind of chalked it up to overdoing the tincture on Sunday, and figured I'd give it more time.
So last night I couldn't sleep, and the K-OG Red Asia beckoned. Reds have never done much for me, but I figured at least it wouldn't keep me up while it took the edge off all the aches and pains. Before the foot break, 3-3.5g would have been the go-to, so I figured I'd cut the Red Asia dose down to 2g and see what happened. Good Lord, I ended up so hammered that before I finally fell out all I could do was sit stuporous, and then several hours later I woke up -still- hammered. Fortunately I didn't need to be anywhere, but... dang.
Like I said, this isn't the worst problem in the world to have.
Obviously it's just a matter of dialing it back in, but to be honest I think my chemistry has changed somewhat because I'm reacting differently to both specific strains and doses than I did before. So we'll see how it goes.
And yes, it is -extremely- good to be back! I missed y'all!!!
But here's the deal. Back at the end of March I ended up with a fairly messy stress fracture in my right foot. Because of my age, some other health issues, and that particular place in the foot I broke it, they were extremely insistent: no anti-inflammatories. (Apparently the inflammatory process is critical to laying down new bone, so no inflammation = no new bone.) Because worst case scenario is that stress fractures on weight-bearing bones just don't heal at all and become permanent disabilities, I had no choice but to suck it up and stay off kratom for six weeks along with everything else that made physical movement possible and frankly, living bearable.
Fast forward to this week: it's been six weeks, I no longer have foot pain, and although I was supposed to wait for the all-clear, fuck it. I'm still not hooverin 'em up like I was, but I'm not even trying to stay off them anymore. Enter kratom. Yaaayyy!!! Saturday night I started off with a nice teaspoon of some extraordinarily potent tincture I made in February, and DAMN that was some righteous stuff: pleasanty buzz, followed by 12 hours of blissful rest. Oh, yeaaaahh.
So then I laid off it again for a day or so, because tincture/extracts have a way of frying your tolerance and I wanted the next -real- everyday dose to be really good. Tuesday morning, I tried 2.5g of a previous green that had always treated me well, and it was kind of meh. I kind of chalked it up to overdoing the tincture on Sunday, and figured I'd give it more time.
So last night I couldn't sleep, and the K-OG Red Asia beckoned. Reds have never done much for me, but I figured at least it wouldn't keep me up while it took the edge off all the aches and pains. Before the foot break, 3-3.5g would have been the go-to, so I figured I'd cut the Red Asia dose down to 2g and see what happened. Good Lord, I ended up so hammered that before I finally fell out all I could do was sit stuporous, and then several hours later I woke up -still- hammered. Fortunately I didn't need to be anywhere, but... dang.
Like I said, this isn't the worst problem in the world to have.
Obviously it's just a matter of dialing it back in, but to be honest I think my chemistry has changed somewhat because I'm reacting differently to both specific strains and doses than I did before. So we'll see how it goes.
And yes, it is -extremely- good to be back! I missed y'all!!!