Pzk
Kava Enthusiast
Hi @ll,
some strange problems start at my place. I always realized I have to be careful with my bowel, regarding Kava.
But the last weeks it got worse and worse. I took it daily, almost. Now I am at my 3rd day without.
What started to happen is that I guess I have IBS now, which could has been there for longer, but I didn't realize yet. And I don't want to say that it is Kava's fault! But if you have problems already, it could worsen it, of course.
But what now happened, is something like a "trap" I have to find a way out.
The last weeks when I took kava, sometimes I had strong heat in my body, like fever. Not the same, no sweating, but you feel like having fever.
It is hard to sleep with this feeling in the body. I sleep less since weeks. The heat sensations don't occur always taking kava, but again and again.
When I take too much, they always appear. Back then I was a "high doser" (now and then), 160gr - no problem sometimes.
Due to the bad sleep, the heat sensations, the bowel, my brain and mind are also in a very bad state again and again. Bowel<-> brain as we all know...
I really have to admit I feel like addicted in some kind of physical way now... I don't want to be the one saying that... but somehow?!
What happens is:
When I don't take kava and take a break, the IBS, the heat sensations, the bad sleep worsen. Until I do kava again.. when I overdo, or have a bad day or do it too long/often in a row, it also worsens the condition.
So I feel the best: Taking Kava within a certain range, if I underdo my situation gets worse, when I overdo the same...
My plan is to slowly let kava go, and do breaks here and there, and take less and less...
Somehow I have the feeling like my body developed a strange "addiction"... perhaps something like a "bowel disbalance" that adapted to kava.
A feeling like kava destroyed the balance and due to that it needs kava now - but too much and the balance is destroyed...
And due to that, you have a mental withdrawal also.
I mean it is normal when you change your brain chemistry, that there is some kind of mental "withdrawal", but this feels like more than just as mental thing, which could be the case because of the bowel...
But I have no clue if my guess is right what is going on. I am a bit afraid to have to go to a big check-up or have something terrible...
My Dr some weeks ago, because I lost so much weight... had a bad idea regarding my bowel..
some strange problems start at my place. I always realized I have to be careful with my bowel, regarding Kava.
But the last weeks it got worse and worse. I took it daily, almost. Now I am at my 3rd day without.
What started to happen is that I guess I have IBS now, which could has been there for longer, but I didn't realize yet. And I don't want to say that it is Kava's fault! But if you have problems already, it could worsen it, of course.
But what now happened, is something like a "trap" I have to find a way out.
The last weeks when I took kava, sometimes I had strong heat in my body, like fever. Not the same, no sweating, but you feel like having fever.
It is hard to sleep with this feeling in the body. I sleep less since weeks. The heat sensations don't occur always taking kava, but again and again.
When I take too much, they always appear. Back then I was a "high doser" (now and then), 160gr - no problem sometimes.
Due to the bad sleep, the heat sensations, the bowel, my brain and mind are also in a very bad state again and again. Bowel<-> brain as we all know...
I really have to admit I feel like addicted in some kind of physical way now... I don't want to be the one saying that... but somehow?!
What happens is:
When I don't take kava and take a break, the IBS, the heat sensations, the bad sleep worsen. Until I do kava again.. when I overdo, or have a bad day or do it too long/often in a row, it also worsens the condition.
So I feel the best: Taking Kava within a certain range, if I underdo my situation gets worse, when I overdo the same...
My plan is to slowly let kava go, and do breaks here and there, and take less and less...
Somehow I have the feeling like my body developed a strange "addiction"... perhaps something like a "bowel disbalance" that adapted to kava.
A feeling like kava destroyed the balance and due to that it needs kava now - but too much and the balance is destroyed...
And due to that, you have a mental withdrawal also.
I mean it is normal when you change your brain chemistry, that there is some kind of mental "withdrawal", but this feels like more than just as mental thing, which could be the case because of the bowel...
But I have no clue if my guess is right what is going on. I am a bit afraid to have to go to a big check-up or have something terrible...
My Dr some weeks ago, because I lost so much weight... had a bad idea regarding my bowel..