I suffer chronic pain from a botched inguinal hernia procedure from back in 1997. I was on bed rest for nearly a year after, constant swelling in my scrotum that needed draining, migrated staples which moved from the mesh area up into my abdomen.

First surgeon removed the migrated clips, stitched me up and sent me on my way. Saying that would be all he could do for me. Got a second opinion a year later, new surgeon did an exploratory surgery and found the first doc put a dollar size mesh in with staples all the way around it. The hernia breach hole was no bigger than a silver dollar. 80% of the mesh had to be removed, along with about 8-10 staples. My body was severely rejecting all of it.

Got some relief, but came back again in a bad way in 2010. The pain became so intense I had to seek another surgeon. While trying to find one, I started pain management. Was started on 25 mcg Butrans patch and 3-10mg norco for Daily breakthrough.

5 years later and after changing meds over the years (Ms Contin/Norco/oxycodone) I was last on OxyContin 25 extended release once daily, and 4 10mg oxycodone for breakthrough pain.

The last surgery was July 5th 2017. My second son was born that next August the 21st (day of the solar eclipse). After the surgery the doc said it was really bad. He couldn’t remove all the remaining mesh, as some was intwined with major arteries. He said it was an 8-10 hour surgery he had to do in 4. As he had other patients waiting. So he didn’t finish the job.

The birth of my 2nd son and the recent surgery made me reevaluate my live and I knew that because I had been on opioids for nearly 8 years, everyday..it wouldn’t be easy to stop.

I read about Kratom and at the time I had to drive up to Kentucky where it was legal to buy (I’m in Tennessee). It’s legal here now..thankfully. But my severe RLS, hot flashes, med cravings, it all but went away within the first few doses. I would change up between Red and White Maeng da. My PCP doc gave me Clonidine which also help so much with RLS and sleep for like the first week or so which were the worst. But the kratom took nearly all of the withdrawal symptoms away.

I’m still suffering with pain in my groin area. I have 3 yr old and 5 yr old boys. Keeping up with them is very challenging cause the pain comes still with physical activities. Coughing, singing, lifting, sitting too long, standing too long, strenuous exercise is out of the question. I’m still very limited and fight daily chronic pain. I refused to go back to Pain Management, as I know where that road leads. Not to mention patients like me, with an extensive medical history are getting treated like a criminal and getting pain meds are like pulling teeth. Shame that the people who really need the medication have to struggle so much to get it. But nevertheless, kratom imo is far safer and even more so effective as the pain meds.

I highly HIGHLY recommend anyone getting off opioids to try kratom. Your withdrawal symptoms won’t be nearly as pronounced. It helps give me some energy thru the days, it curves my appetite a little, and reduces the groin pain quite a bit.

Although I wish I could find another surgeon to finish getting this mesh out me, I’m grateful to have this plant to help get me thru this until I do.

Best of luck to you all. Thanks for reading..

I’ve been on oxy 10s for 4 months I ran out to quickly I bought red mag caples how many do I take to start a email me [email protected]

Your quite the writer there Anderson. Well maybe when your not out of your gourd.lol but you probably got here just like alot of us. Looking for answers on kratom. So its a good thing. Not judging, I’m the last that can do that.