No krunk :(

[krunkedout]

Tonight I had a 3 tablespoon batch, and well, no krunk at all. Then I added another tablespoon and squeezed another half cup and still nothing. I hadn't eaten since 2:30 and I started at like 8:30 or 9. Any ideas on why this happened?

 

[Piper Methysticum]

I wish I knew why that happens sometimes no matter how much you keep tacking on it doesn't help.

 

[Ed!]

Yeah, I've had this too and couldn't figure out why. It's pretty disappointing when you were ready for a good krunk and then nothing happens. Maybe it has to do with the tides, or how full the moon is. I'm certain it has to do with the moon.

 

[kl.new2kava]

Depends how much you have been drinking lately. I know that I have moved through reverse tolerance into outright normal tolerance and had difficulty getting krunk. It happens when I drink kava more than 5 consecutive days in row as I usually consume at least 1/2 root per session. That is why I only session 4 times a week. I have definitely built up a tolerance multiple times. Try taking a few days off and you should be fine.

 

[The Kap'n]

I get this same effect. Some nights I'm left wondering if I had even drank the kava and some nights I wonder if I will even make it to the bed. She's a fickle one...that kava.

 

[krunkedout]

The thing is though, whenever I drink my normal amount I havnt had a night where I'm not krunk. However, I took a two or three day break because I am almost out of kava and want to make it last which is why I did so little. But my caffeine intake has gone up considerably while I was taking that few day break. Could that have something to do with it?

 

[Vekta]

In my own experiences with caffeine and kava, caffeine totally wrecks the kava experience. It's not even a weird feeling it's just flat out wrong feeling. If I were to pick something out that could have thrown you off, caffeine is the first thing I'd point my finger at.

 

[kl.Dubkava]

Hey Krunkedout, what type of kava was it you had?

 

[Ed!]

In my own experiences with caffeine and kava, caffeine totally wrecks the kava experience. It's not even a weird feeling it's just flat out wrong feeling. If I were to pick something out that could have thrown you off, caffeine is the first thing I'd point my finger at.

Hmm, the caffeine angle is interesting. Maybe I should try dropping coffee. I was a green tea drinker who started in on coffee when I switched jobs to a place that didn't provide green tea, and always had coffee available. I still prefer green tea, so if I have a physically motivated reason for killing the coffee I think I might be able to do it.

 

[krunkedout]

I was drinking stone. And when I am drinking Kava everyday I only have one maybe two cups o coffee in the morning and I won't have anymore the rest of the day because I too think it messes with the kava. But during that few day break I was having caffeine all through the day. I never knew that could completely kill the krunk though. I was pretty disappointed to say the least.

 

[Buddhacide]

Happens to me a lot. Follows no logical course. What I do find though it that if I chase it with higher dosages I wind up feeling it uncomfortably into the next day, without really getting the desired effect.

 

[uuku pi]

new moon and coffee

 

[Prince Philip]

Tonight I had a 3 tablespoon batch, and well, no krunk at all. Then I added another tablespoon and squeezed another half cup and still nothing. I hadn't eaten since 2:30 and I started at like 8:30 or 9. Any ideas on why this happened?

 

[kl.KiddBKK]

I was drinking stone. And when I am drinking Kava everyday I only have one maybe two cups o coffee in the morning and I won't have anymore the rest of the day because I too think it messes with the kava. But during that few day break I was having caffeine all through the day. I never knew that could completely kill the krunk though. I was pretty disappointed to say the least.

That has happened to me as well I had mixed spells with stone as well as black sand.  Sometimes I feel underwhelmed but relaxed, other times I get krunk.  One time I got so krunk on stone I couldn't get up the stairs so I just slept on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.  I think preparation is a big part staying hydrated and limited the amount caffeine and sugar seems to work for me.

 

[Prince Philip]

I was half-tempted to say I used my Divine Power to take your krunk for myself, but of course I wouldn't do such a thing.



And I had the same lack of effect happen last night. It made me very sad. I think I've been overdoing it.

 

[kl.new2kava]

I noticed a similar thing with an even weirder counterpart. A few days ago I made a batch with a tablespoon of 7 types of kavas and blended and kneaded it. Got a nice big shell of thick and frothy grog and got little effects off it. Usually it would lay me out, but was just barely noticeable. I waited a few days and tried again this time starting with the 2nd wash of the batch from before and then soaked a fat 1/4 of wow as well. That 2nd wash got me so krunked that I was totally debilitated for a while, I couldn't touch the wow and saved for this morning.