downwardsfromzero said:
Hello and welcome!
There was a
thread here from a couple of years ago which recently got bumped regarding this exact topic. It's definitely worth a read if you haven't seen it already. How would you say it reflects and relates to your own experiences with iboga practice?
I've only ever microdosed iboga but the way it came to me after years of patient waiting was equally mysterious. What a powerful plant! Maybe I'll work up the courage to explore it again sometime... What addiction(s) would you say you were cured of, if you don't mind me asking? I can only be thankful that I appear to have escaped major substance use problems - my difficulties are largely behavioral in nature.
Hi and Thank you
My addiction was first to heroin and then to methadone. And I switched to Opium Tincture (which is a short-acting opioid) to use iboga.
Actually, I started very heavy with iboga. In fact, I should have started with a microdose, but almost the first experience I had with Iboga was a flood dose (because I was not ready and did not have enough information about the gray day, on the same gray day, which was the day after my flood dose, I tried to use opioids again. (That is, if I could tolerate the gray day and it was enough, I would have tolerated a few more hours to complete my treatment, but I couldn't.)
But a very important thing happened to me: First, my opioid consumption decreased drastically and I got to know myself better.
My second iboga flood dose experience was a year after my first experience, which was much more intense than my first experience. But this time I was more prepared. My opioid use was minimal and I was physically and mentally very fit. My experience was exhausting. It took me almost 4 days to get a full night's sleep. The world was no longer the same. I had experiences with psilocybin and DMT mushrooms before Iboga, but nothing like Iboga. Iboga was very cruel to me. It showed me many of the root problems that led me to drug use, often rooted in childhood. One of which was extreme hyperactivity.
It's been almost two years since my last iboga experience that caused me to quit addiction completely. But I feel it necessary to point out some important points, which are of course my personal opinion and others may disagree with me:
1- I don't recommend taking a flood dose of iboga to anyone without supervision because it is really challenging
2- With small doses and moderate doses of Iboga, it is possible to cure addiction or at least prevent relapse (in fact, moderate doses can work as well as a flood dose without causing challenging experiences). )
3- Iboga is just a tool and after getting rid of addiction, new challenges arise that a person should be aware of.
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