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Hi anaisnin.. whoa, stopping Adderall CT while doing a kratom taper sounds complicated (I won't say difficult, that's for you to decide). I have no idea what that might be like, maybe others here do. I just read a little about it and I see a lot of recommendations to taper from Adderall, but some people seem to step off without a problem even after years of steady use. Do you have the latitude to taper one while holding the other steady? One thing that occurs to me is that dealing with insomnia required attention during the taper; maybe the sleepiness from Adderall WD might actually help to offset the insomnia from kratom WD? I have no idea.
Adderall aside, here are a few thoughts about my experience with a slow taper that might be helpful. I know people's temperaments, physiologies, situations, kratom habits, etc. can vary a lot and what will work for one might not for another - or it might. Anyway...
If you're considering a slow taper, you might want to read over ianzombie's posts at drugs-forum.com. He's helped a lot of people with a slow kratom taper. Even though I chose to do some things differently (e.g., I used S&V, he doesn't recommend it), I found his advice useful. Try googling "ianzombie kratom taper".
Know what your dosages are, always. But I couldn't be arsed to use the scale every time. I used stainless steel measuring spoons and measured what an exact level 1/8 teaspoon weighed of the S&V and of the leaf varieties I used to taper. For mine, 1/8 tsp S&V weighed just about exactly 250mg. Scales up of course to 1/4 tsp = 500mg, 1/2 tsp = 1g, etc. Personally, I didn't mix the S&V and the leaf into a big batch, but would just take one or the other or sometimes half-and-half of each (like 1/4 tsp of S&V and 1/4 tsp of leaf, whatever that weighed). When I was ready to go below 1/8tsp/250mg per dose, I got some tiny steel measuring spoons on amazon for a "tad, pinch, smidgen, dash, and drop". They're weird sizes but just weigh a level spoon of each to know what each contains in mg, then add spoons together to get close to the dose you want.
Let yourself experiment. It's a complicated beast, where some processes seem to have a time course of days, things can get harder and easier when you didn't expect it, but you can still learn things by observing how your body and brain respond to what.
It was experimenting that indicated using the S&V was probaly well worth it; experimenting as in dose with the leaf, dose separately with S&V, and notice how you felt, how much it relieved the WD, how long it took, how long it lasted, etc. I did seem to find that the WD would set in a little harder after the leaf then the S&V. It might have been the antagonistic alkaloids in the S&V, might have been that it was less digestible and thus have a more even response, dunno. But I went pretty heavy on the S&V right away, probably at least half the dosing during the day, and worked towards exclusively using the S&V.
Log EVERY dose, time, amount, strain(s), how you feel, at least until you're securely on one a day where there's nothing to lose track of. This was important for me so I'd know where I was at any time and could see trends. Sometimes if it felt significant I'd log how I was feeling even if I didn't dose. A small notepad would work; I used this Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsmithy.activitylog). It was fine except it suddenly lost all my entries without warning; maybe a bug that's been fixed by now. But for me it was important to always do this, even if it was in the middle of the night. If I waited then I'd forget and sometimes redose when it wasn't really necessary.
Take advantage of distraction. This was especially useful when fairly far along in the taper and WD was mild when it set in. It's what made it easy to push through the day without dosing and finally get down to one dose a day.
Don't overlay the process with morality or self-judgement (different than being impatient or frustrated at times, that'll happen). It doesn't help, and can lead to pushing too hard or conversely relapsing altogether. Just remind yourself of 1 above and be easy.
You decide the times when you can allow yourself to push a little more. Early in the taper, I'd use evenings to push a little more because it was too distracting at work to be in WD.
Don't be thrown if it feels very different from day to day. There were times when I had easy nights, then there were nights where I would seem to need to just keep dosing (in small amounts). Sometimes I'd take an evening dose when I felt WD starting up, still no relief after an hour and the RLS would be raging. Don't panic! :) You can take anything for an hour or two and you know it won't last long; your body has just told you it needs a little more than you thought, so give it a little more. Refer to 1. If you don't panic and just try to find only how much you need in this moment and no more, you won't be tempted to take 5 grams instead of .5, or if you are tempted you calmly know you don't need to give in, that's not what you're doing. Some nights I'd find it'd take 2 hours to get some relief, then I'd wake up two or three more times in the night with raging WD. That's okay, take another dose at your current level or maybe half that each time and you'll be all right. Most nights will be much easier.
Don't be surprised if you think you've stabilized at a level but then after a few days feel like you need to increase it. That's okay; just increase it by enough to be okay and no more, see how you feel, and try dropping it again soon. I was between 1.5 and 2.5 grams a day for a month, then suddenly I could finally drop significantly more with ease and have it stick. Just trust yourself and trust the process, pay attention to your body, and stay the course.
If and when you find yourself with raging WD, then (1) refer to 1, (2) take a dose without overdoing it and know you'll feel better soon, and (3) remind yourself that when in WD your body is working furiously to reset. It's all good.
Well, that's it, repetitive but whatever. :) Overall, yeah, trust and don't panic, it doesn't have to be hard and can even be interesting and rewarding.
Just to say, after reading and posting yesterday I thought I'd try just jumping off again after all, so didn't dose yesterday or today so far. I'll go with this for a few days and I've either stopped for good or I'll come back on at about half (ha, 50mg/day, don't laugh!)
Best of luck!