Sleep was OK. Lots of pain. Took me a while to fall asleep. I felt pretty good last night in bed. Woke up at 8:45. Felt like I overslept, but I also needed it. 6.5 at 9:45. Had a tiny relief from it within 45 minutes. Did some time on the table and icy hot and felt better. Felt pain relief. Went to the store and still felt OK. That pain relief feeling is fading. I think it goes hand in hand with the kratom. I don’t know if I can get it on its own. That’s the dream. Playing games now. I’ll try a walk in a bit. Not feeling very strong in that regard. Maybe table, ice pack, then walk. OK, did that plan. Long walk. It got hard at the half way point, but I pushed through. 7g at 3:30. I don’t feel any positive effect from it, but also no withdrawals of any kind. I was thinking of dropping .5g every day. That would take 28 days. I take 14 now. 1g every 2 days. Alternate .5 in the afternoon, then morning. Today is the first test of that. Might be better to do 1g off both doses every 5 days. No clue. Did a minute on the table, icy hot, brace, then a long walk. Pretty slow. I’ve been low energy all day. Slow and steady today. No worries. Sitting at desk suddenly feeling pain relief. Been a bit sniffly. Not increasing dose is like a withdrawal. Funny. We’ll call yesterday the start of this taper. Today will be day 2. Got another long walk in. Played a hard TAB map until 11. Feeling pretty good. Feels nice laying down in bed. Tomorrow starts the new bag of stronger kratom. No idea how to dose that. Maybe 1g less? I guess I’ll try that. This is kind of unfortunate. Tomorrow should be 6/7, so I’ll try 5/6. If it’s too low, I can re-dose .5. I can also stay at that level for a couple days instead of 1. Please let this taper work.

By Del