Lesson leanred: push through the taper insomnia

I had actually managed to wean down to 2.5g doses 2x a day, I could eat and keep weight on, but the insomnia was brutal.

I took 5g of fermented red 2 nights ago, just to get a proper night's sleep and ended up backsliding on withdrawal symptoms back to gagging, poor appetite and weight loss after one backslide.

I woke up this morning, the bed was drenched with sweat, I woke up shivering, the chills were and still are awful, and I'm gaggy with no appetite and lost weight in my sleep.

After one backslide and it wasn't even a big one. Don't backslide on your taper. Lesson learned. Insomnia and poor broken 5 hour sleeps are the worst. Now I have to start, not quite from the beginning, but lost a few days hard work.

Posted Mar 5, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

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