I'm using one level teaspoon, which based on what Balanchine said, is a probably in the neighborhood 4 - 4.5 grams or thereabouts. I tried it again last night as my feet and temples were burning worse than the night before, and I wanted to see its usefulness at that level of discomfort.

It took care of the burn beautifully, but when I got one of those nerve zingers, it was loud and proud. So as I think icelander mentioned, it might not help with nerve pain. Thankfully I don't get a lot of the zingers anymore.

If I remember right a level tsp. is about 3.5 grams at most. And isn't burning also nerve pain? Anyway be a little conservative with it. I got to where I was using 25 g. a pop. Even though I was addicted quitting was relatively easy. I was surprised. Now I save it for when nothing else is working and it's heavy pain.

Yes, you're right...it is. Bad choice of words on my part. I just should have said it didn't help with my zingers.

Burning is can be part of neuropathy. nerve pain is usually associated with neuralgia. Which would be dull , and excrutiating pain.

25 grams.....! Holy cow. At one time or spread out? I'm a member of the two main kratom forums (great places for advice and support, btw) and have read of people who take up to maybe 18. But that's over the course of a day.

I only took one shot. I have high tolerance. You should see the quantity of cannabis I consume daily in vaporizing and edibles. Also once a day for sleep. I had to become a grower because it was getting to be about $10-20 a day. Now I can do it for about 50 cents.

high tolerance is right...! I also use edible cannabis a few times a week for sleep, but all in all I prefer kratom because of its general body effects and the fact that it doesn't impair me in any way (as weed is known to do... at least mentally)

Well, let me tell you about last night.

When I went to bed, I wasn't feeling terribly bad. I hadn't had a great day, but I wasn't burning too badly by the time I went to bed. My feet were vibrating like crazy and cramping, though, so I cut a lidocaine patch in half and slapped them on my feet to see if that would calm them down.

Once I got in bed, though, my lower back was killing me as sometimes happen. I had really bad sciatic pain, and no matter what position I got in, I couldn't stop it. I was fine if I stood up. I walked around a bit and did some exercises, but it didn't help. I thought it was going be one those horrible nights until I decided to try the kratom. I wasn't sure it was going to help with this extreme pain since the shooting neuropathic pain seemed to break through last time, but it was worth a shot.

I woke up 9 hours later and don't remember waking up once during the night. Usually something wakes me up...like a foot cramp...but I don't think I woke up at all. I can't tell you how good I feel today. I hadn't slept well for a few nights in a row, and I needed that!

Good strains of high CBD medical cannabis do not impair me to any great degree. Mostly anxiety and pain relief. They are lower in THC and high in CBDs. I use it every night and it took me from 2 hours of poor sleep to 8 hours of fairly decent sleep even when in pain.

See now Kratom is great for things like back muscular pain. Those are what opiates do best. I'm glad you got some rest. I have the Impression that a little monkey is eyeballing your back. Well the good news is you really have to work at getting very addicted to it. If you used a smallish dose even daily it would likely be a cakewalk to quit. I was doing 20 and more and I quit easily but I used Phenibut to help with the withdrawl issues. Worked like a charm and the quit was a breeze.