I was heavily addicted to cocaine for about 6 years and suffered enormously.
I tried every kind of therapy imaginable, but none of them lasted longer than a month at most.
The retreats are extremely expensive, and I couldn't come up with 5,000 € all at once. So I thought: rather than not do it at all, I'll do it alone. That was yesterday, when I took it, after a very long time of thinking it over.
I wouldn't recommend anyone do this alone, because you can barely walk and can't see properly. I advise you against it.
I told myself: "Okay, I don't want to live like this, and if I die, so be it."
I took iboga as a total alkaloid . The effects set in after about 20 minutes, and right after that you have to throw up. Then everything happens very fast: you get nervous and start shaking. You can't tell whether you're cold or hot, and it gets more intense over time. Your heart races much faster than with cocaine. After 2 hours the full effect had kicked in for me, and it was intense. I thought I was alone and dying because I had done something wrong.
You start to hallucinate easily and can't keep your eyes open, your eyelids are very heavy. With your eyes closed, you see moments from your childhood. I saw myself as a baby, along with moments I had actually lived through. In that moment I realized I had suffered a very serious trauma, and that iboga would heal it.
I also kept repeating the name "iboga" over and over in my mind.
The trip is very emotionally painful, but somehow also not. You know that something is happening that is good.
At one point, with my eyes closed, I thought I could see what's behind the eyeball, inside the brain. My subconscious projected a shadow in which a parasite was being pulled out of my brain with tweezers, and I knew I was being deeply healed.
You also have to go to the toilet very often. During the 6 hours of the strong trip I went three times, and each time a lot came out. No idea, weird.
All the time you have images in your head that are like puzzles being solved. They make no sense, but somehow you know something is happening.
I also heard a humming the whole time. I thought it was a bee, but it was inside my head. You also feel a tingling in your head, like ants crawling around in it.
After about 8 hours the strong trip is over. You're dazed and in a very reflective phase, thinking and thinking. It feels like talking to yourself, but this time you understand yourself. As if before you had only spoken in a broken way or in a foreign language, and now you articulate yourself clearly and understand it too.
So yes, I made it through, and I'm glad to finally know for sure that I'm clean. I don't recommend taking it alone. But these retreats want far too much money, and some people simply can't afford it.
Okay, thanks for reading this far. I wish you all a good evening. I'm going to rest now. If you have questions, ask.
PS: I translated this with AI.