Help with Lortab/Tramadol W/D

[Lepp]

Today Is the start of taking my life back, I no longer will allow to be a prisoner locked away in a pill bottle. I have missed out on so much the  last 2 years because of my addiction to lortab/tramadol. I lost my father to cancer I sat  everyday watching him getting weaker and weaker, and right beside him I emotionally did as well. I had a bad migraine one night and i was at my parents house helping my mom take care of things( my dad had passed away by this time) I went to the bathroom to take something(i have a migraine med i take but did not have it with me) All there was in the bathroom was one of  my dads pain meds lortab and wow that took care of my migraine in like 25 mins compared to my med which can take up to an hour. I felt very energized i just liked the way i felt. I did take the rest home i didn't take another one until like a week later and again felt amazing and then I told the doctor that i had tried a lortab for my migraine and it helped me way better than the imitrex so i got my first bottle of 60 and now i sit here 2 years later writing to you from inside the pill bottle. I need help, with this self detoxing/tappering off. I have 30 tramadol left i haven't been on lortab in like 6 months just the tramadol I take 12 to 16 a day  I take 2 doses of 6 -50 mg pills 6 in the AM and 6 in the PM and sometimes  i will take a few in the after noon. so today I got up this morning and took 5 instead of 6 and i feel normal and i have skipped the afternoon dose and so i was wondering if i am going at this the right way I am trying to do this with out getting the W/D that  make me crawl right back into the bottle.  I know that i will have them could someone help me on what else to do to get me through this I have two beautiful boys and a wonderful husband and my husband is on board with me to get me through this as well. I tried a year ago to get off but i was  Still feeling the pain of my dads passing  my dad was my best-friend i just lost my way without him i guess  dealing with everyday life-- work, kids, bills ect  it just made it that much worst with out my dad there to get me through the tough times in my life and losing him i lost my heart .This pill has helped me and hurt me at the same-time. I need someone to be there to talk to daily to get through I have my husband which i couldn't do this without him but i need someone who has been there to talk to every now and then that understands first hand. is there anyone here that can please listen and talk with me and give me much need advice or just talk with. Thank you for reading. God Bless You. Leslie aka Lepp

[mpace6983]

i dont think i would try to detox off both drugs at the same time. with the lortab your gonna have opiate withdrawal,but with the tram your gonna have some opiate w/d but you are also going to have mmri withdrawal. I decided to stop paxil cold turkey and i thought i would go nuts. stuff likr electric shocks in your face weird. Any way i would try to weasn off the lortab but keep using the tram. when your comfortable with no lortab, start on tram w/d. I dont know if you have an M.D. who will help you or not but that would be best(like you dont already know that) But just for educational purposes: you can get trams on line to detox with. Also Fiorinal is available online. This will help with anxiety and agitation,but its a barbiturate,so be careful or you will be tring to kick the fiorinal wehn your done. My heart goes out to you> I was addicted to H and dilaudid for years. there is life after addiction. good luck!

[Lepp]

Thank u so so much for responding! I haven't taking a lortab in 6 months... it was the lortab that i got off and went to tramadol, so now trying to get get off these as well but getting off the tabs was easy in a sence that i had the tramadol.

[worried878]

the tramadol needs to be tapered slowly..u can quit the lortab ct...most would stop the lortab then the trams...do u have a dr who can help u with this..lots of support here..keep posting

[mpace6983]

6 months since a lortab. thats one thats in the rearview mirror. If you take 4 trams 4 times a day try to take 1st dose 4 tabs/ 2nd dose 3/ 3rd dose 3 or 4  last dose you get the picture. the fiorinal will help with the agitation and help you sleep. just be careful. If you cut back too much add a pill until you feel comfortable,then cut a little more. In the end you can take half a pill. I know that right now the future looks impossible. but you really can do this and im not just trying to give you a pep rally. also, try narc/ anon sometimes just talking with someone who is going thru or has been thru what you experiencing can help. the on line communities help a lot also.

[Lepp]

Thank you for the words of encourgment. Hope to talk with you again. Thanks