u/RealDrugDealer

Yea guys I was diagnosed like a year ago. Idk it was eight after my 29th birthday and you know I kind of didn’t want to bring all the limping.. slurring.. pain.. etc with me into my 30’s. Add in I was also getting some gnarly lightheadedness I needed help.

Yep so went to see a rheum and as much as I want to say I was instantly better.. well no. I had medication but the shit started making me depressed. Add into that it wasn’t even helping my symptoms yet and I was to the point where I was like this is some bs I’m just going to give up..

Well I didn’t bro

And today is amazing. You know my meds take care of probably 60% of the stiffness. But as was clearly visible in the x ray and MRI I have a lot of mechanical changes… add to the fact over years I’ve been guarding and it’s like sometimes I feel I don’t know how to use my body.

Enter yoga.. it’s literally a godsend. But it’s not an overnight thing. This is over years and years. Like initially when I got symptoms it was my medicine (I was just wondering why I had to do hours of intense stretching every day to have slightly less limp).. so yea I need my actual meds.

But yo.. when my meds were starting to kick in and I was feeling better physically I was still depressed so I wasn’t even doing yoga. I felt ok and man I saw the potential but I wanted to feel good…

Enter yoga again. I finally started feeling a little better and got deep I mean deep into it and I feel like it’s the magic key that fully unlocks the potential of my meds.

Yea I still feel the pain.. the tightness.. whatever. But man do I feel SO MUCH better with it than without it.

Just had to say that to my fellow people that get it.

Yea I discovered limitless and dropped opia and was on 100 mg everyday like clockwork for 3ish months and I was hella scared because I was getting to the point where side effects were just outweighing benefits. The vibes weren’t there.

First things first. The only way it will work is if you have a reason. Mine is personal to be but it has to mean something to you. I saw 7OH was messing with mine so I quit the same day.

For the first week I just took like an ounce a day of plain leaf Kratom. I just got it from the smoke shop. If I took like 8ish grams every 2-4ish hours I was actually pretty ok. Not high but not hating myself.

The thing is you have to stabilize at that dose for like 4-7 days then drop. I messed up all my previous tapers because i didnt know this. Well AI told me. If you dint know you dont know.

Well i stabilized on plain leaf then i realized having all the excess powder around when i was lowering my dose was too tempting and in the past i would go up which was just an excuse to eventually go back to 7OH…

So I eventually (I think this was at the 2.5-3 week mark) stabilized my dose to one smoke shop Kratom seltzer a day it was like 100 mg.. I stayed there until the 4 week mark when it was a good time for me and made the jump.

Kinda shitty ngl but definitely 100% for a fact nowhere near as bad as trying to cold turkey 100 7oh. And actually it was actually a pretty good fucking month lol. I was still technically on something but just not being on 7oh and at the same time not being in real withdrawal made it a good month tbh.

Yo I finally harvested the poppies I grew and got a nice thing of sap.. how should I smoke it. Just like in a pipe or bong or something? I’m probably just going to go slow and mix with weed to start but yea ima pull eventually trying to nod

I know rue is usually wild caught and pesticides aren’t usually an issue then, but I heard for storage pesticides might be brought into the picture.

I am preparing to sit with the medicine again and want to do so with the understanding I’m not ingesting toxic pesticides.

Does anyone have a consensus on this? Is it necessary to go the organic route or could I just bike over to my neighborhood Indian food store like I usually do?