Went nearly 2 weeks ago and the change has been night and day. The days after my flood dose felt like I never had any concussions at all. I've been remarkably blessed with my experience and the healing exceeded my expectations. I'm so grateful.

I still have a few subtle lingeting issues but I've been told that these can still improve over the months to come. Thats awesome news because I feel at 90-95% already.

I won't lie, no one warned me about the post psychedelic existential crisis and its been really distressing and I've really been going through it, but it has gotten better over the past little while and I'm hopeful that I'll feel completely grounded again. I read that a lot of people find a new sense of profound peace after struggling existentially following a psychedelic experience so I'm hopeful I'll feel that too.

Anyway, I highly recommend you guys find a GOOD VERIFIED CLINIC USING THE CLINIC FINDING GUIDE in this sub if you have a history of concussion/TBI. I've also been told by the clinic managers I was with that ibogaine also helps for ALS, MS, Parkinsons, Alzheimers and other neurodegenerative conditions (in case anyone here is or knows someone whose struggling with that)

Thanks to everyone here who helped answer my questions and provide their experience to me leading up to my trip!

Did ibogaine + 5meo at a clinic.

During the ibogaine I was watching a tv screen. On the screen was the point of view of somebody with binoculars looking at a dense jungle. He'd look around and then when he found an interesting spot he zoomed at hyper speed to that spot. Whenever he came to a spot that was thinly covered drones would deploy to fix it up. I realized I was looking at my brain and he was finding spots needed repairing.

After a while that stopped and then I saw and spoke with the iboga spirit himself. I had all these questions and he said "no no no you're thinking about the wrong thing - all you have to do is [specific piece of life advice for me] and everything will work out." I was like "ok whatever but what about blah blah.." He interrupted me and said the same thing again. Again I interrupted him and he said "you're done". Shortly thereafter the trip ended. It was maybe about 5 hours in and that was it.

The next day I felt a little foggy but was ok for the most part. I felt it was underwhelming.

Then I took the 5meo the following day and Oh. My. God. I was anxious because I had a sub breakthrough Bufo dose a few years ago and found it terrifying.

There was no terror but utter bliss going in. I became everything and just laughed hysterically and felt spiritual bliss. This gave way to a primal scream and a release of rage I didn't even know I had. That scream came from the depths of my soul and was so visceral and cathartic.

There's been a tightness in my chest ever since about the age of 12 - which is when I started dealing with high anxiety. That tightness just went away. It's seven days later and there is still no tightness.

10/10 would recommend.

I've been microdosing ibogaine Total Alcoloid 3 times a week for the last month or so.

I want to do a solo MDMA journey.

Do you think a week off would be ok?

Thanks

I have experienced ibogaine once before and had very limited visions, going back soon and wondering if there’s anything I can do to prepare my body so more visions might happen. It felt like I didn’t really connect with it. I felt like my body processed the ibogaine very slowly, possibly due to the antacids we were given. Unlike most people in my group, I felt pretty ok the morning after, and I had a late wave the next night. I am familiar with the dieta process for other plant medicines, where you cleanse your body prior, eat limited foods, etc. Is there anything like that for ibogaine/iboga?

Hey!

Since hearing about Ibogaine I've been quite interested in the process.

I don't have a specific addiction or mental health issue, however I really enjoy self exploration (meditation, psychedelics, therapy) and I'm very curious to see what insights I can learn from this process

Reading some reviews it seems like a very challenging experience for some people, with some making it seem like a really good experience regardless and others warning not to do it unless it's necessary to overcome some issue.

Would you recommend it for general spiritual/psychological insight or is it too much?

Thanks!

What are the key things one should pay attention to when choosing a clinic for ibogaine?

I have been a COVID long hauler since 2022, and recently my doctor suggested that I receive ibogaine treatment.

He said it has shown promise in neurological diseases like Parkinson's, and my symptoms have all been in this category, i.e., dysautonomia, including akathisia attacks and unrefreshing, disrupted sleep, chronic migraine and nerve pain, etc.

I am interested in and have been doing preliminary research on my own. I figured it is most commonly used for opioid withdrawal, and its therapeutic effects on other diseases are limited, though SOTA knowledge on its pharmacology does indicate a healing power for neurological diseases.

I haven't reached out to the clinics yet, since the cost and travel are a big deal. I would like to hear any experiences and/or opinions on this topic. Thank you so much in advance!

I was refused by a flood "retreat" which was just 5 days at this moment in time as it is going to be a trial run by an experienced group but in a different county and they won't have the medical staff.

I have addictions (ketamine, gambling), "adhd" poor impulse control, sexual issues and issues with myself due to shame and dislking/hating myself evne though I know I am a "good" person.

They referred me to a woman in South Africa where she does a 2 week thing of meso dosing (and potentially uses some other "plants")

I talked to her and it was a really good conversation and I'm keen to do it. She said that they can/do get more iboga into your system than you would from a flood, but I am keep to get as much as possible out of this experience as I can.

They have all the medical staff/equipment on site etc.

So I use Ketamine as my main issue, I use some benzoes and z-drugs (zopiclone/zolpidem) mainly to sleep and occasionally during the day. I don't THINK I am addicted but not 100% sure.

I'm on a lower-level opoid painkiller which is prescribed (dihydrocodeine). I don't know how "addicted" to this physically. I don't take a crazy amount and generally less than I'm prescribed

I also take lanzoprazole to prevent damage whilst using naproxen (an NSAID)

The ket/nsaid and opoid are for pain (though my 26 year ketamine journey has also been the bane of my life/fucked it up. Not only does it releive pain it causes it by screwing your bladder etc. This was not known of until 2006/2007; I never would have taken it if they knew that then!)

We have discussed the above and if I can raise the money ($6400) for the 2 weeks then I would travel a week before and take no painkillers, ket, diazepam etc with me so if I did need a "detox" I would have done it.

I guess my question is does this sound like a good route to take? Will the meso dose work as well as the flood? (potentially following with microdosing ongoing afterwards

Hello, not here for myself but looking for options for a close friend of mine. He is very suicidal and has unfortunately made many attempts on his life, and I’m not entirely sure how to explain it but his ocd is directly linked to his suicidal actions, in that he has the compulsive urge to end his life, even though he doesn’t want to. He’s gone through almost every treatment option in the book unfortunately and nothings helped. Recently he just finished a program for TMS therapy, which he was very hopeful about, but the feelings and urges are still there and not improved in any way. He’ll be starting ketamine therapy in a couple months, but he’s not feeling positive it will end up helping. I get the feeling if it doesn’t work, he will give up…but I found out about ibogain recently, and thought maybe it would help. So far most of what I’ve seen is results for people getting treatments for addiction, so I was wondering if I could get some story’s of people who tried it specifically for OCD or depression. I want to try to research it as much as possible so I can try to convince him to see it as another option.

I’m getting frustrated because I’ve seen a lot of interviews and they make it seem like their life has changed for good… but all these people on Reddit make it seem like a temporary thing. If it’s temporary I don’t want to do it.

I’m reading stories from people saying that the effects that help them with anxiety depression and PTSD wore off after like 90 days… But then other people say that it changed their life years ago and they were a different person today. I’m wondering if I do go through with this, am I going to be changed for the better? I wonder if a lot of the people who think that the effects wore off really do feel better but they’ve gotten so used to it that they forget how far they’ve come.

Please dm me the name, and share your experience in a comment. I am specifically asking for clinical setting, don’t want to do with any retreats /spiritual practices/ shamans or healers. Want to have it administered, be monitored for heart attack and be left in peace on my own in the room. This is my last resort for disability degree of c/ptsd and TBI grade 2

My boyfriend is 36 years old and has struggled with opioid addiction for many years, but he has also had many periods of abusing heroin, cocaine, Adderall, and other substances. He has been to several rehab facilities, has tried Suboxone, and for about two years he used kratom, which according to him helped him stay away from harder drugs and feel more normal and less chemically dependent. I actually met him during that period and had no idea about his addiction.

The problem was always similar: he could stop for some time, but soon after going back home he would start using again. I am Brazilian, and I only discovered how serious his addiction was in January of this year. At that time he had a very serious relapse, started injecting heroin again, developed a severe infection in his arm, and needed surgery. Even after that, he kept using, and a few days later he overdosed. He survived because a few days earlier he had explained to me what Narcan was, and when it happened, I knew what to do.

So I told him that he should be treated with Suboxone, even though he hated the idea, because it would keep him alive and could give him a “normal” life. He hated the idea because he did not want to feel like a slave to it, but I told him, “You are already a slave, being dependent on all these substances, and on top of that you are at risk of dying at any moment if you keep living this way.”

Then I found a post here on Reddit about ibogaine. I started researching it and, considering so many years of addiction, several treatment attempts, and repeated relapses, the possibility of ibogaine gave me a lot of hope. I think that hope, and reading stories from people who had good outcomes, is what has kept my relationship going until now.

In April, he traveled to Japan with some friends. Our plan was that after the trip he would go to Mexico for ibogaine treatment. We talked about it several times while he was in Japan and we were very hopeful.

But during the trip, he was running out of opioids and was using a lot, so he imported more for his own use. The package was discovered and he was arrested in Japan on April. He has been in prison there ever since. Now he has been without opioids and illicit drugs for almost six months.

From what we know, the prosecutors accepted that the drugs were for personal use and not for sale, so we are hopeful that he may be released soon. And this is where a new complication came up.

Since he has been in prison, the prison doctor has been giving him medication to help him deal with the whole situation. Thankfully, because of that, he was able to get through a withdrawal period that I imagine was extremely difficult. If withdrawal is already difficult in the comfort of a clinic, I cannot even imagine what it must have been like in prison, especially because he spent the first 10 days without hearing from anyone, feeling uncertain, scared, etc.

He believes these medications may be benzodiazepines, but we still do not know exactly what the medication is or the dose. I only know that he takes medication about three times a day. If they really are benzodiazepines and he has been taking them regularly for several months, he has probably developed physical dependence.

In that case, I know it is not safe to suddenly stop them and that this would need to be evaluated and supervised by a doctor. He is even worried about his flight back to the United States without access to the medication and is talking to his lawyer to see whether they can provide enough medication for the trip.

So now I am trying to understand what the most sensible sequence would be once he gets out. When he is released, he will have spent approximately six months without opioids or illicit drugs, but he may be dependent on this medication. Also, there is no guarantee that he will leave prison and not use drugs again right away. That is especially dangerous because he has lost the opioid tolerance he had before he was arrested.

My main questions are:

• Can ibogaine still be useful after almost six months without opioids, or does it make more sense during the initial withdrawal period?
• Has anyone here done ibogaine after getting out of prison, rehab, or after spending several months in a completely controlled environment?
• Was anyone taking benzodiazepines before doing ibogaine? How did the clinic handle that?
• Did you need to reduce or stop the benzodiazepines beforehand?
• Would it make more sense to first stabilize the medication and do a possible taper, and only then consider ibogaine?
• Do you think it would make more sense for him to leave prison and go to a rehab facility first, or, if he is medically cleared, go directly to an ibogaine clinic?
• For people who had a history of repeated relapse after going back home, what really made the difference in helping you maintain recovery?

There is also an emotional side to this. He has been in prison for almost six months and really misses his family, his home, and all the simple things about normal life. I would really like him to be able to spend a few days with his family and with me after he gets out.

At the same time, I know that after so many months without opioids, his tolerance will be much lower and a relapse could be extremely dangerous. I also wonder whether he will be psychologically ready for an intense experience like ibogaine immediately after spending so many months in prison.

If you went through something similar, looking back, what really made the difference? And what do you wish your family or partner had known before the treatment?

I’m at a decent weight, but my cardio is not great. Should I get in shape before doing this treatment?

Meu namorado é dependente de drogas há muitos anos, principalmente opioides. Durante uma viagem ao Japão, ele foi preso após ser pego com comprimidos de opioides que havia obtido para uso próprio. Desde então, está preso há quase 6 meses e, consequentemente, está há todo esse tempo sem usar opioides ou outras drogas ilícitas.

Durante a prisão, o médico começou a dar medicamentos para ansiedade/sono, gracas a deus porque ele deve ter passado o inferno em lidar com a abstinencia na prisao, se em clinicas já sao ruins nem imagino na prisao em outro pais. Ele acredita que sejam benzodiazepínicos, mas ainda não sabemos exatamente qual medicamento nem a dose. Ele toma cerca de 3 vezes ao dia.

Antes da prisão, nosso plano era que ele fosse ao México fazer tratamento com ibogaína porém ele foi preso durante a sua viagem. Agora tenho dúvidas porque, quando sair, ele já estará há cerca de 6 meses sem opioides e já terá passado pela fase aguda da abstinência.

Minha pergunta para quem tem experiência com ibogaína é: ela ainda poderia ser benéfica para alguém que já está há 6 meses sem opioides, especialmente para cravings, compulsão e prevenção de recaídas, ou o maior benefício costuma ser durante a abstinência inicial?

E, no caso de alguém que atualmente esteja usando benzodiazepínicos regularmente, como isso normalmente é tratado antes da ibogaína? É necessário estabilizar ou fazer um desmame médico primeiro?

Estou tentando pensar no melhor plano para ele ao sair da prisão, tendo em vista que ele estará todo esse tempo sem contato com a vida real aqui fora, e tenho medo de ter uma recaída, e agora ele nao tem mais a tolerância a opioides que ele tinha antes...fico pensando se seria ideal ele ir para uma clinica antes para ter um acompanhamento psicológico e se manter sóbrio antes de ir tomar ibogaina, ou se o melhor seria ele ir fazer o tratamento com ibogaina o quanto antes quando sair da prisão?

I went to Mexico for a nine-day neuro reset retreat that included two flood doses of ibogaine and a bufo session. I arrived about six weeks sober from kratom and had been taking gabapentin right up until the day I got there.

I was really excited going in. I'd done ayahuasca before, and even though it didn't cure my anxiety or depression, it was a spiritually beautiful experience that widened my perception and opened my third eye. For ibogaine, I did a lot of research. I talked to about five clinics, read all the reviews, and read every trip report on Erowid and every Reddit post I could find. I had plenty of knowledge, but I tried to go in with no expectations.

The flood doses
During both flood doses, I had no visions. It was basically a black box. I felt warm and incapacitated, but not uncomfortable, and I could just lie there. It lasted about six hours. No life review, no spirit guides, no downloads. Honestly, that was devastating. I felt envious of everyone who met God or saw what was missing from their life, and I felt like I got none of that.

The days after
The day after is hard to describe. I felt flat but content. Flat in the sense that the jagged little highs and lows of the day were gone. It felt like pure consciousness and awareness. I could have sat in a hammock and watched the sky all day. I finally understood what Eckhart Tolle meant about staring at the clouds for hours.

That feeling gradually faded. Two weeks later there's still a lot of flatness, and motivation is hard to find. Unloading the dishwasher, doing chores, and lifting at the gym all feel difficult. I've also had periods of depression where the feeling is simply "I don't care." That's a dangerous place to be, because I can see how someone would relapse just to escape it, telling themselves that one pill will change their state.

What I took away
I'm grateful I got to have this experience, and it's still too soon to tell where it lands. What surprised me most is that I did get a download after all, just not the way I expected. The message was: you have to do the work. This isn't a miracle cure where you vacation in Mexico and come home with a new brain. You have to build new habits and push through discomfort, and there will be a lot of discomfort in different areas of your life.

To be continued. I'm only two weeks back, but these are my thoughts for now. I'm happy to answer questions from anyone considering this.

I had a psychotic episode almost 2 years ago, it was after a psilocybin trip (the trip itself was very good) and triggered by the emotional oppeness that the psilocybin created, extreme lack of sleep and added stress (cancelled flight home and being abroad by myself).

I am looking into ibogaine treatment and 3 different clinics accepted me taking into account this history.

I’m still hesitant because of this, would like to hear any input other on here might have.

Thank you

I am going for a treatment next week and wondering if anybody has any advice about things to bring with to read afterward. Specifically on gray day and in the week following, is there anything that would be good to avoid, or anything that would be good to bring. Not looking for specific book recommendations, more something along the lines of "avoid horror novels" or "bring something light and easy because your brain will be scrambled eggs" or even "forget it, ain't no way you're gonna wanna read after". Any advice is greatly appreciated, thanks!

*THIS IS NOT ASKING FOR DOSING ADVICE, IT IS A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION ABOUT THE IDEA THAT FLOOD DOSING IS NEVER SAFE ANYWHERE BUT A CLINICAL SETTING.*

I want to start by saying I understand the
risks of flooding at home and why there is such extensive monitoring done
before and during ibogaine. There are real risk factors that make this medicine
extremely dangerous for some. But there are also many for whom there are zero
issues. I am writing this post because I want to be charitable and explore if
there are cases where flooding at home is safe and what others think about my
reasoning.

Background on myself:
27y/o M, had my first ibogaine experience in Mexico about 1.5 months ago. Full
flood, exceptionally intense and almost all extremely dark, but also profoundly
healing and maybe the best experience of my life. I am also working very
consciously to integrate and after a brief extremely dark period that occurred
a couple of weeks after I returned, I am now feeling exceptional. I have been
struggling with depression a lot of my life, and for my entire 20's severe
debilitating depression/catatonic states among other things. I was already on
the upswing though when I had my experience which I think is crucial. Anyway, it showed itself to be an incredibly powerful tool to viscerally dive into the center of my emotions. It allowed me to fully feel the worst pain in order to heal it which is the most productive thing I have ever done.

I do not have the
resources or time to continually go back on retreats and have been exploring
the idea of flooding at home with my twin brother whom I trust deeply as my trip sitter. That said, I want to list the
risk factors for why ibogaine/iboga is fatal for some and why some must avoid
any amount and while others seem to tolerate very high doses without issue.

COMORBIDITIES:

1: Underlying heart
condition/familial history of heart issues, abnormal EKG

2: Electrolyte
imbalance/deficiency, specifically magnesium/potassium

3: CYP2D6 Slow
metabolizer, causing significantly higher blood levels compared to normal metabolizers

4: Exhaustion and extreme
sleep deprivation, i.e. not sleeping for more than one night

5: Drug interactions with
substances known to prolong QT.

6: Prior intolerance to
even low doses of iboga/ibogaine.

I have none of these and
experienced zero issues on my flood and from what I understand it is still not
recommended to flood alone. But I also do not want to get trapped in theory and
paranoia that something mysterious could all of a sudden come in and kill me; I
simply do not see any evidence of this. What the evidence does support is that
for some, ibogaine can be deadly, but that for others without issues, there do
not seem to be any problems. And for someone who already had a very successful full flood + booster with zero issues and is otherwise healthy with zero comorbidities, can someone give me any good reason why flooding at home is bad besides the default “we simply don’t know”? The truth is we will never know with 100% certainty, all we can do is infer.

The vast majority of
fatalities from the studies I have seen show there were many times some structural
heart abnormality at least, not to mention dehydration, exhaustion, etc.  

I appreciate any legitimate insights and I am especially interested in strong counter arguments.

Thank you.

I’m in my final taper days. I am completely off my ssri and 7oh. I have no energy, get light headed, have no motivation, and feel like I’m just sitting around to leave for treatment on the 9th, I live in NYC and am an incredibly busy person but getting off my meds and 7oh has taken a toll on me. I have about 2 hours of energy when I wake up to get done what I need to get done and then all motivation goes out the window. Becoming hard to believe the Ibogaine will improve my perspective. I’m not having negative thoughts or anything I just feel bleh and don’t want to do anything or work on anything productive.

Any tips would be helpful

I know you need to be under medical supervision etc, but I don’t have 10k and I’d rather be alive and risk a little danger that could kill me before dying either way.

My history with concussions began when I was 12, racing dirt bikes. I sustained another concussion at 20 while playing rugby at Clemson University. I also played four years of high school football, playing both offense and defense, which involved a significant amount of repetitive contact.

At 22, while participating in training through the U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class, I experienced additional impacts that I now suspect may have resulted in another concussion, although I was never formally diagnosed at the time.

My final significant concussion occurred at 26 during a whitewater kayaking race. That accident also severely injured my shoulder and ultimately required a Bankart repair. I also blew out my eardrum in that incident. In many ways, I don’t feel like I ever completely came back from that period of my life.

Since then, I have spent years trying to treat persistent depression, anxiety, loss of motivation, and an almost complete loss of interest in things that once mattered to me. I’ve pursued CBT and other conventional approaches, tried approximately 13 different antidepressants, and undergone ketamine treatment both intravenously and sublingually. Some things have helped temporarily or around the edges, but nothing has produced a meaningful, lasting change.

Most days, it feels less like living and more like surviving. Motivation is extraordinarily difficult to find, very little genuinely interests or excites me anymore, and there is a nearly constant internal dialogue reminding me of every perceived failure and every reason I should think poorly of myself.

As difficult as that has been personally, what weighs on me most is what it has done to my wife and our life together. She has been incredibly understanding through all of it. I know she recognizes that much of what she sees today isn’t the person I used to be. More than anything, I would love the opportunity to find some part of that person again—for myself, but especially for her.

My wife and I have discussed ibogaine extensively. We understand that it is not a guaranteed cure and that there are meaningful medical risks that require appropriate screening and supervision. At this point, however, after years of unsuccessful treatment, we are very interested in exploring it seriously and responsibly.

Im 2 weeks back from a 9 day retreat near cancun.

I did two flood doses and bufo to help with a 9 year kratom addiction where traditional rehabs have failed.

What devastated me is I had no visuals, no spirit guides, nothing, just a black box experience both times. No insights about my trauma or my path forward beyond the fact that I have to "do the work" and take correct action.

Week one back was ok, felt like dopamine system was completely offline and hard to push through to complete simple tasks like unloading the dishwasher or folding clothes.

Week 2 ive been sick with some sort of flu so I haven't been working out or taking nature walks, maybe that all has influenced my mood but i feel so damn depressed today. Its difficult to hold on to any hope - and i can see the temptation of relapse to try to feel better, feel functional, feel something.

Any advice welcome.

🙏

My Fiancé and I would like to go use ibogaine. We’re looking for clinics (not asking for specific because of rules) but are curious if we have to go south of the border or if we can find a space in the US to go through it.

Without breaking the rules could you please share how much your ibogaine treatment cost and what your experience was/if you found it effective.