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Okay, I was really starting to get worried about swim until I read this. Swim has been in bed most of the day. In fact, she's still in bed but it's 7pm and she finally mustered up a tiny bit of energy to come on here and look this up. Swim has taken kratom...........just after I wrote that swim had to go vomit once again for the first time since 3pm so I suppose the trip downstairs to get the computer wasn't such a great idea. Anyway, swim has taken kratom plenty of times in the past although not with any sort of regularity. She's had bad hangovers from it before but she's never experienced anything like this before in her life. Yesterday around 2pm, swim ingested approximately 8 grams in the form of "super commercial grade crushed leaves". She grinded them up more finely and put them into veggie caps. She's heard that the veggie caps take longer to dissolve and take effect, but the store she went to only had these capsules so she went ahead and got them. This is the first time she's used capsules and usually opts for buying the powdered kratom and then mixing it into pudding. Anyway, around 5pm she was getting slight effects but nothing like previous doses and then they seemed to go away entirely. So, she took about 4 more grams. She still wasn't getting any effects when 9pm rolled around so she went ahead and took 8 more grams, went to rent some movies, came back and took about 5 more grams since she knew that before she barely got any effects. Then, she decided to drink a bit to enhance the effects...which turned into drinking quite a bit for swim personally and the rest of the night was fun albeit a bit blurry. There was no nausea experienced the previous night.
She woke up this morning around 8am feeling hungover with a headache but didn't feel nauseous. So she got up and went to the bathroom and found upon getting up that she was very nauseous and vomited in the bathroom. It was really bad and she vomited up the entire contents of her stomache and saw all of the leaf she consumed the night before. She figured she would be fine after vomiting up all of the kratom but was very, very wrong. She went downstairs to take an Ibprofen (yep, on an empty stomach...silly swim) and very soon after vomited once again. After that, she chugged some peptobismol and tried drinking water only to throw up again. She continued vomiting every 15-20 minutes from until 3pm and eventually just dry heaving like her stomach wanted to come out of her mouth. She has also been having extreme tremors which concerned her wife who was worried swim was going to have a seizure. Her partner wanted to take her to urgent care but swim has no insurance and not enough money to cover that. She called her mother to ask what to do and her mom didn't want to pay for the bill which left swim to have to tend to herself. Her mother suggested sipping room temperature ginger ale saying that cold things are more likely to make one vomit and to try to find something over-the-counter to help with the nausea. Swim's wife went and got some ginger ale and something called anti-nausea liquid but the only ingredients on there say fructose, glucose, and phosphoric acid. And it says to take it every 15 minutes for an hour. Swim took some of that and stayed downstairs sipping a bit of gingerale and ended up vomiting all of that up. Eventually, swim figured out that staying in bed put an end to the nausea along with sipping on some gingerale.
Swim has felt absolutely HORRIBLE all day long and still can't really hold anything down so she is unable to take anything for her bad headache. She also feels completely drained and dehydrated as well as nauseous. Also, her throat is very sore to the point where her voice is cracking like she's about to lose her voice or something due to all of the stomach acid that she's thrown up today.
-----After this, swim had to throw up once again and left the laptop alone so she could lie still. She asked her partner to go to get some dramamine which she did and swim was able to keep it down by lying still in bed and she was actually able to take a very short nap which she wasn't able to do before. Eventually, at 12:30am she was able to get out of bed and have a few dry, plain corn chips. It's 2:30am now and she feels okay but took a second dose of dramamine just in case. So, yeah, extremely high doses of kratom are terrible so I thought I would relay swim's experience.
Also, she's really happy that she found this thread because her partner was about to take her to the emergency room otherwise because they couldn't figure out what was going on.
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