I was diagnosed with several chronic conditions, both very painful with intermittent flareups. After being diagnosed with AKLS and taking an auto-immune suppressant, I transferred off of VERY high dose opiates to Kratom. It saved my life for sure but it can only take one so far until it is time to reset the brain from whatever unbalances resulted for long duration (10 years) high dose (100-125g/day) kratom use. 

Given the legal restrictions around Kratom and traveling, and since for the past 3 years I went from a life-long weight lifter to someone who can hardly lift and repair after a good workout, I suspect that the kratom use has something to do with it. When I was hospitalized, my anterior pituitary was knocked out due to taking hi dose of prednisone for a long period of time to get the inflammation under control. I am ready to reset my brain prior to the dependence on dopamine related supplements and drugs and hopefully in doing so we reclaim natural inner energy/motivation  and improve whatever physiological effects that have effectively ruined my ability to maintain and build strength (for example, I shake whenever declining stairs through extreme weakness/tightness in the leg muscles. It is my hope that after getting off of Kratom that my muscles become more functional prior to having depending on Kratom for the last 10 years (I started feeling my muscle balance/control and strength to slip away roughly 5 years into my Kratom usage). 

pls note that in addition to the below drugs taken, I take 60mg of Adderall daily. All of these drugs effectively came out of the series of negative health episodes I had 10 years ago. I would like to connect with a local endocrinologist as well (I may be moving from NJ to FL in the coming months and so both the hormonal and ANR fronts can be addressed with some level of continuity and possibly subsidized by health insurance) so begin taking HGH and or something that can help me regain my muscular balance in the event it is not reversible once the Kratom has been flushed from my system.