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Wellness Wednesday for March 1, 2023

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Anyone here take Kratom? I’ve been taking 2g a day (via caplets) every day for about 8 months and haven’t really built a tolerance. I get about 45 minutes to an hour of euphoria before it wears off. No major side effects, no hangover. I probably have some low level addiction to it at this point, but I can go days without using it and not feel badly.

Hah I have a post downthread about this. I also have very little tolerance and love it. Others have said they have issues though.

I use it on occasion when I need a pickmeup. I normally need to take two of the big capsules from UrbanIce to really feel anything, and then the impact seems to last throughout the day as a low grade non-jittery energy. A little more euphoric effect than modafinil, but less than large amounts of caffeine or marijuana. I've been using it very sparingly for a long time, less because of concerns about addiction (which doesn't tend to be an issue for me in the short term) than accounts of sexual side effects, I simply don't need it enough to risk my marriage.

large amounts of caffeine

Caffeine has Euphoric effects? I must have lucked into the particular type of shitty genetics where neither caffeine nor marijuana does anything for me psychologically.

In large amounts. Larger than one normally takes. Like if I just chug a preworkout I'm very much energized and feel like taking on the world. But that's also set and setting, I'm drinking it knowing I'm going into a weightroom for a big workout or an exam room. Maybe if I chugged it before a funeral I'd feel different emotions. Also very vulnerable to tolerance, but we're talking minimum a quad shot of espresso.

I've used large amounts during college (around 3-4 cans of red bull over 4-5 hours), which definitely kept me awake but I was unable to notice the commonly experienced caffeine-induced anxiety/jitteriness let alone euphoria.

Similarly with Marijuana, I had the equivalent of 7 cigarette-sized joints over a 10-hour period the last time I smoked weed with nothing but a mild high, the person I was smoking with was out of his mind laughing maniacally by joint #4.

I don't have a tolerance for either caffeine or THC. But I suppose the pre-smoking/drinking mindset plays a part.

I never experienced sexual side effects, tho I’m also taking SSRIs, which absolutely give me sexual side effects.

I’d suggest taking 4 of those at once and seeing how you feel.

You know, now might actually be a good time to give it a shot for a variety of reasons.

Huh, maybe I'm using Euphoric incorrectly? I've also heard that weed is more varied than other drugs, but I'm less of a social drug user than most, so I'll take your word for it.

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