Tramadol

[jgirl1234]

Is Tramadol addictive I hear conflicting reports my friend is taking them everyday with out a prescription they get ehm off the internet and I am concerned should I be or is it just harmless? Please let me know because I am very worried and do not know what to do!

[hollyberry1990]

Listen, I want to tell you guys something...I've been taking tramadol for 8 years along with lortab and it helps with my back pain, but when my prescription runs out I suffer horrible withdrawal. Withdrawls from opiates, unlike ANY other drug are very real..the pain is not a mental thing...at all. Its physical and it causes fever, diarrhea, the shakes, I'm 26 years old and I know I'm young,but. Dr has prescribed them for years and take my word...this is not a habbit you want. I'm trying to warn as many of you as I can...this is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

[malenurse57]

Yes they are addictive and yes you should worry. I am a Nurse and am also addicted to tramadol/Ultram  I am only in my first 24 hrs and it is already hell. My wife is in detox for vicodin and valium w/d and I am home with my teens, there was only 1 bed available. But please try to find help for your friend, because he/she will not readily admit to the problem.

[jgirl1234]

He does not feel there is a problem you have to understand when he was drinking he was a stumbling idiot on the pills he gets high but can still function so in his mind he thinks there is nothing wrong with it!  I am just concerned because I believe he is laboring under the illusion that because it does not effect him like alcohol did it is safe ans there is no problem with taking them! So I don't know what I should do and
I could really use some advice.

[avisg]

GTMI , makes a very good point plz tell them not to try to CT off of it .tapering down to get off is important.

[GoingToMakeIt]

The expert here just answered you. avisg has been there done that. She is the one to help, if he chooses to get off them. It is best to taper off them due to seizures.

[avisg]

They are addicting and they can be h&ll to come off of.

[ladyboop]

I started taking them in 1993, the Dr gave them to me for my headaches, He told me they were not addicting, Boy was he wrong. I had bad headaches everyday.. So I thought this was great.. It was not long before I found out, If I didn't need them, I was in w/d's.. When I went back to see him, he didn't believe me... What a butt, anyways I tapered off them with the next rx, and that was the end of that...

  Wish I could have done that with the perc's..lol.. So yes you can get addicted to them. Maybe he is. Have you tried to talk to him?
Good luck..

[jgirl1234]

He was an alcoholic for years until the doctor told him to quit or die, that is when he started taking the pills he is not prescribed them from a doctor he takes them because he gets high from them!  He takes alot at one time and like I said he takes them everyday, What can I do? I have tried talking to him but he does not see it, he has been taking them along with other things ( When he can't get Tramadol) for about 2 months now is that enough time to become addicted or am I jumping to conculsions?  I would appreciate any insight.

[worried878]

They can be habitforming and I have heard they are difficult to withdraw from...tramadol is a synthetic narcotic taht affects the MU receptor just like any narcotic...your friend should be very careful and it probably wont be long before they re-schedule that drug so it is not so easy to get...I dont know your friends history but i do know that people can become addicted to those

[Crispy]

To each there own. We all search until we find our own drug of choice. Anything can become addictive and yes he is most likley addicted to him. Other wise he wouldnt take them everyday. I mean hes gettin them off the internet legally and i can walk down the to store and get a pack of cigarettes legally there both substances that dont belong in our bodies but yet i cant seem to stop smoking without my body trying to resist.