Has anyone ever used Kratom for pain relief?

[JulioGuzman]

I have had what the doctors term "severe intractable pain" for about 16 years.  I've been in pain for about 20.  For most of that time, I ran the gambit of opioids from hydrocodone to morphine to fentanyl.  If it was on the market, I was eventually told to take it.

I got good relief with opioids, but even at the very beginning, I had a tolerance problem.  My mother is the same way.  She takes a med once and then she's taking the highest possible dose -- not because she wants to, but because the lower doses do not work.  I am the same way.  So, I spent all this time roaming, if you will, from one opioid to another, taking the relief where I could get it, but the docs would never give me as much as I needed for relief, even though it was still within recommended dose limits.

In august, I found out about Kratomm.  It is an opioid receptor agonist, so while it is not a narcotic, it works similarly to one.  Kratom is in the coffee family and is from southeast Asia.

Since I began using Kratom, I have not needed pain drugs often and when I do, I take them at the lowest possible doses.  Doses that I used to take now make me ill.  However, I still need conventional medicine about 20 percent of the time.  I wonder if anyone else had tried this plant and did you find it helpful?

Sorry this is so long.