Thanks for posting all the facts about tramadol. There have been many in here asking about it lately...
Even I was asking about it, on day 4 or 5...remember..
Thanks, and I sure this will help and benifit many...
God Bless,
Love,
Todd
Todd,
Yes there have been many lately asking about it .There also has been some incorrect information going around about it .I would hate to see anyone start using it because of misinformtion then find out the hard way .The best thing we can be is informed
AVISG,
Tramadol has been the drug of the past couple weeks. Thanks for posting....Really good post.
luv,
Nauty..............
thanx avis...a good friend who quit hydros with me is now addicted to these...she knew better as i read so much here on the forum and shared it with her...she proceded anyway...i know she is desperate as she actually texted me asking me for some...i have them but they do not appeal to me and she knows it...course i never used 10 at one dose either...rarely use them and they do not touch my pleasure button....i ignored the text...i have also had lortabs addicts/that do not admit it/ask me to get some and i will not...not what i need to be doing with my spare time anymore
Good !!!! - That would not be helping anyone..
I also have about 3 bottles of them (somewhere), from doctor's previous atmepts to replace them for hydro's (yea right !!!)...they did about the same to me, as you described...they did help with my pain...but they didnt stand a chance against my 18-20 hydro addiction...so I always went back to hydros...
Well, until 13 days ago..nothing now, (-: ...but you have a great point...
Why replace one addiciton for another, if you fought so hard from the previous doc, and won?
Also...there is NO "little majic white pill", that is going to make anything easier through our addictions, to bring back true life.
Point: Tramadol should really be studied before taking it. For us addicts, we really have to be careful on what we take for our pain...to make sure were not trading one addiction for another, "just for a buzz"...and especially if it doesnt even work for their pain.
Thanks again avisg for this wonderful post. So many others well benefit from it....
Love,
Todd
I added the info to the health pages
Thanks...
As we know how many need to read this....
God Bless You both,
Todd
Do you think that addicts get addicted quicker than a non addict starting this med b/c of the additional opiate receptors? I was given a bottle of 30 time released, took 2 and dumped the bottle since it didn't help my pain and I don't want another addiction. I went from a 160mg to sometimes 320mg a day oxy habit (not chewed or snorted) and now am fighting the sub taper. Tramadol can go to hell if you ask me, A friend of mine has been taking them for about 10yrs and even took them during both of her pregnancies. That's how strong of a hold this drug is, and she is a nurse and knows better, Both kids are healthy, thank God. I am quite sure that it does not even help her pain anymore. She probably takes it to feel normal. Great INFO!!!!
oxy,
I think once you have gotten addicted to one substance that it really does make it easier to get addicted to others . I noticed after I quit taking the tram and starting taking supplements I was taking them just like I did with the tram . It was addictive behavior It had become a habit to take pills at different times threw out the day .I finally broke myself of the habit and started to take them all in the am but it was hard to do ,
I am soooo gald you threw the trams away .......
Tramadol is going to end up becoming one of the worst drug epidemics our country has ever seen. And a lot of it has to do with Mis-INFORMATION. I was told by a doctor, these are non-addictive, a step up from your over the counter Aleve, no withdrawals, etc. just like most people are told. That was in 1999, almost a decade ago. And people are still being told the same thing today. It's because they are making money hand over fist on this stuff. The FDA and medical community has been fully aware of what Tramadol has been doing to people. They still don't change things, because they are Banking off all us addicts. Pharmacutical Companies pay people to sell it to doctors, they pay the doctors to sell it to the patients, they pay the FDA to keep it legal, and they got plenty of money to do all that paying, because we are addicted to the crud and have to have it, or SUFFER! And Tramadol is by far the sneakiest and one of the most dangerous drugs, because it is, oh so easy, to get it. Then you get people popping 35 pills at once. People taking 20-30 pills per day. It can be very dangerous when people regulate thier own pain killers. But they are going to have to change it soon. I say we get together, get us a good lawyer and SUE the pants off the mothers!!! ???
I'm a recovering alcoholic (12 years "sober") and I was given Tramadol 10 years ago here in Indonesia because it was supposed to be non addictive. I ended up getting addicted to the stuff almost instantly. At my worst I was taking 40 , 50mg. caps a day with clobazam to damp down the seizures. I used an herb that grows here called Kratom (Mitragina speciosa) to help me get off of Tramadol and it worked. I had tried to stop the Tramadol by tapering off but the with drawl symptoms were just too brutal. I'd say the with drawl symptoms were reduced by 70% with the Kratom. Kratom is a serious drug that is addictive and illegal in some countries, not a cute herb. It is not an opiate though and it did not trigger any addictive response with me after 2 weeks of use. Between NA meetings and Kratom I'm finally off. I've done just about every with drawl out there and "harmless non-addictive" Tramadol combines the mental terror of a benzodiazipine kick, the seizures of alcohol with drawl and the racking pain and obsession of heroin. Good on you for putting the truth out there about this awful drug.
Illict behavior to obtain, I am the poster child for that statement. Read my post on getting busted for second time with a fake RX.
Amen to that where do I sign up? Read my post on busted second time for fake RX.
Well, I'm still at 9 per day. I just hope I am able to get off Tramadol 100%. I want to real bad. I know I still have Hell to look forward to. And I have already done a bit of suffering just in my tapering down from taking upwards of 15-20 per day down to 9. And 9 is not doing a whole lot for me at the moment. But I hope by Saturday I feel level, I drop to 8! WoooHooo!!! 8 per day, I'm get excited more and more every time I drop a pill. And I save like $18 per month every time I drop 1 pill per day.
18 dollars.....sounds like a ball game or something fun that money could be spent on! good luck and keep moving forward
Thanks! I'm doing my best. And staying on track so far! Still going forward! I want to drop to 8 tomorrow.
I have written in this forum several times in the past few days about my horrible experience with tramadol. Where did you get your information, what source? My Nurses Drug guide (2007) was not nearly as complete as your information, but it sounded like you used a "source" rather than your own knowledge. I would like to use that source as it is much more concise than anything about the addiction-properties of this drug and withdrawal from it.
I don't know why anyone would need fake RX's personally. No credit card? Limited to where they can get it probably.
Exactly! So why, then, would anyone risk jail etc. to get a drug with a fake RX or obviously illicit way when they can get it overnight, legally,(?) and from a licenses pharmacy (I presume?). This makes NO sense to me. I am a nurse, but my most recent career has been in home health/geriatrics. I am very uniformed about this issue, but becuase of what I have just gone through, I am making it my business to learn more....
I don't know how to communicate to the forum site, but I am glad that my posted question was removed. Again, I apologize for any problems/ideas this may have caused, it was not my intent in any way.
Actually, it is not legal to order these drugs online without a valid prescription. I bought them online for the past year before I quit and I looked into it and found out it is indeed illegal. These online pharmancies often change their email addresses and are very shady but I have always found them very reliable. Just as PanSinoeis said.....order by 2:00 have them the next day. That was how I was able to fuel my addiction for so long.
Ugh....I used to spend $130 per week on those horrible little pills.
-Lynn