Kratom Effects Tags
When you log a dose in Log & Taper It!, you can tag it with various effects to help you and researchers better understand your experience. These tags are broken down into four categories:
- Positive Physical: This category includes tags for effects that are physically beneficial, like Energy, Pain-relief, and Relaxation. It also includes more specific physical sensations such as a feeling of Warmth or Tingling.
- Positive Mental: Here, you'll find tags for the mental and emotional benefits of a dose. Common tags in this category are Mood-lift, Focus, and Anxiety-relief. You can also log more specific mental states like feeling Sociable, Confident, or even Introspective.
- Negative Physical: This section is for any undesirable physical effects you experience. The most common tags here are Nausea, Dizziness, and Fatigue. You can also note less common effects like Wobbles (a signature kratom side effect), Sweating, or Muscle-aches.
- Negative Mental: This category helps you track any negative mental or emotional side effects. This can include feeling Drowsy, Irritable, or Overwhelmed. You can also note things like Memory-fog, Racing-thoughts, or Apathy.
- Usage Context: This final category isn't about effects but rather about the reason you took the dose. This is a crucial part of the research data. You can tag your dose with things like Work, Chronic-pain, Stress, or as part of your Morning-routine.
Tagging your doses with these effects provides a detailed record of your experience, which is essential for earning points and contributes to building a comprehensive dataset for kratom research.
The full set of available tags are currently as follows (leave a comment if you have some ideas for other tags, or tags that don't seem relavent!)
Log & Taper It! allows you to tag your logged doses with a comprehensive list of effects, organized into four main categories.
Positive Physical
- Energy: A most reported stimulant effect
- Pain-relief: Primary therapeutic use
- Relaxation: Sedating effects (dose-dependent)
- Euphoria: Pleasant physical/mental state
- Warmth: Physical comfort sensation
- Alert: Sharp awareness
- Heavy-feeling: Weighted sensation
- Sensitivity: Heightened awareness
- Tingling: Pins and needles
- Sedation: Deep relaxation
- Stimulation: Physical activation
- Flushed: Skin redness/warmth
- Pupil-changes: Eye dilation/constriction
- Breathing-changes: Respiratory effects
- Muscle-tension: Physical tightness (can be positive stretch sensation)
- Blurred-vision: Visual distortion (can enhance music/art)
- Creative: Enhanced imagination
Positive Mental
- Mood-lift: Extremely common positive effect
- Focus: Enhanced concentration
- Anxiety-relief: Major reason for use
- Motivation: Increased drive
- Calm: Mental peace
- Sociable: Enhanced social interaction
- Confident: Self-assured feeling
- Clarity: Sharp thinking
- Emotional: Heightened feelings
- Empathy: Enhanced understanding
- Euphoric: Intense mental bliss
- Hyperfocus: Intense concentration
- Nostalgic: Reminiscent feelings
- Philosophical: Deep thinking
- Introspective: Self-reflective
- Dream-like: Surreal mental state (positive context)
Negative Physical
- Nausea: Most common negative effect
- Dizziness: Lightheadedness
- Wobbles: Eye movement/balance issues (signature effect)
- Fatigue: Tiredness (especially comedown)
- Sweating: Increased perspiration
- Itching: Skin irritation
- Appetite-loss: Reduced hunger
- Constipation: Digestive issues
- Muscle-aches: Physical discomfort
- Headache: Head pain
- Tremors: Shaking/jitteriness
- Dry-mouth: Reduced saliva
- Restless: Physical agitation
- Hot-flashes: Sudden warmth
- Chills: Cold sensations
- Joint-pain: Aching joints
- Stomach-cramps: Abdominal pain
- Coordination-issues: Balance problems
- Heart-racing: Increased pulse
- Numbness: Loss of sensation
- Dehydration: Fluid loss
- Weakness: Physical frailty
- Stiffness: Reduced flexibility
- Vomiting: Severe nausea
Negative Mental
- Drowsy: Sedative effects
- Irritable: Agitation/mood changes
- Depression: Low mood (withdrawal/comedown)
- Overwhelmed: Too much stimulation
- Memory-fog: Cognitive cloudiness
- Racing-thoughts: Fast mental activity
- Scattered: Unfocused thinking
- Apathy: Lack of interest
- Paranoid: Suspicious thoughts
- Time-distortion: Altered time perception (negative context)
- Agitated: Mental restlessness
- Detached: Emotional distance
- Diarrhea: Digestive upset (affects mental state)
Usage Context
- Work: Job/productivity enhancement
- Chronic-pain: Long-term pain management
- Social: Social situations
- Stress: High-pressure relief
- Exercise: Physical activity enhancement
- Morning-routine: Daily start ritual
- Sleep-prep: Bedtime preparation
- Withdrawal-help: Managing other substance withdrawal
- Study: Learning/academic work
- Household: Domestic tasks
- Gaming: Entertainment activities
- Music: Enhanced appreciation
- Outdoor: Nature activities
- Errands: Daily tasks
- Recovery: Post-exercise healing
- Meditation: Mindfulness practice
- Self-care: Personal wellness
- Family-time: Domestic interactions
- Artistic: Creative projects
- Cooking: Food preparation
- Cleaning: Maintenance tasks
- Shopping: Purchasing activities
- Dating: Romantic interactions
- Driving: Vehicle operation
- Spiritual: Religious/spiritual practice
- Travel: Transportation/vacation
- Reading: Books/articles
- Therapy: Mental health treatment
- Volunteering: Community service
- Problem-solving: Analytical tasks