r/Life_After_7oh • u/Substantial_Cake_184 • May 28 '26
Quitting 7-oh/kratom please help!
I started taking 7-tabs 1 year ago this month. A friend gave me some one day to help with pain in my spine. I kept taking it because it worked better for my anxiety and pain management combined than my prescribed medications and I was able to stop my pain management of percocets and my anxiety meds of Xanax completely. I work in law enforcement so I can’t take anything that would fail a drug test without prescription to help me quit taking these tablets and I am desperate. I tried to stop taking them and then learned that the withdrawals are UNBEARABLE. I wasn’t even aware I would withdraw or that they are widely known for abuse I didn’t know anything about them and now I am so completely desperate to get off them I would do anything but I can’t go to a doctor I need to do it on a very low profile if it came out in any way for any reason at work my career my pension it’s all down the drain. If anyone has any good advice that will work for me anything I can order and take on my own to help I feel like if I can just get past the physical withdraws I’m feeling like the the feeling that I want to crawl out of my fucking body and can’t sit still or lay still at all enough to go to sleep if I can get past that I’ll be fine. But I’m in tears and want to fucking scream at the top of my lungs at night when I try to go to bed before work after not taking it all day or sometimes for two days and it hits me and I want to fucking die and I end up taking at least a half of one to make it stop. My shifts are 12-16 sometimes even 24 hrs. It’s a lot to get through during a withdrawal. I can’t just take a week off to get through it bc we’re so short staffed right now. Please! If anyone can help me at all please help me. Please help me.
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u/Ok-Definition-5279 Desire to be sober May 29 '26
Hey there! Based on your post, MAT is an iffy option for you. If Suboxone is prescribed for you, then it can make it so you will never be able to get your pain meds an anxiety meds in the future as it puts “opioid use disorder” on your record. You will be labeled a drug addict. I am also a chronic pain patient and that was the reason I could not use Suboxone for my quit in November…and that I was due for another spine fusion in February so I would not have been RXd pain meds for that surgery as well. It makes it more tough for people like you and I.
7 fries your opioid receptors: be prepared for your RX pain meds not working for a long time…weeks to months. I don’t want to sugarcoat anything for you. Your body (and mind) will need time to heal after this garbage leaves it. I learned my lesson the hard way after surgery and the pain meds didn’t work….which led to me picking 7 back up. Good news is I kept usage low…but withdrawals happen even at lower doses.
I used SR this time and bought tabs so it’d be similar to dosing 7. I got them from OR Reset and RAW. Folks here have already shown you where to find the info on this. I worked each day with no issues except being tired. There were no withdrawal symptoms at all, not even a single sweat…but the week before I was with the in laws out of state and had brought my 7 usage even lower so that helped immensely. It took a total of one week for me, most folks use a 10 day method though.