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im trying to get off tramadols help me please
Im 27 years old and have been taking tramadols for 3 years now. Ive built up a tolerance to where i take anywhere from 8 to 10 a day. I just found out i might be pregnant and i want to be off them. I ran out this morning and wanted to know if i quit cold turkey could it cause me to have a miscarriage i dont want to lose my baby. Ive tried tapering myself down i just couldnt do it alone i have no one to help. I have a 3 year old child and i work 2 jobs, im not sure how im supposed to work going through the withdrawals. I physically cant move when i dont have them. I have sweats i cant sleep, vomitting and diaherra. Im not sure what to do someone please help me. I cant go to rehab although ive thought alot about it, my sons daddy is not a good man and if i go there he will try to take my son, and im not a bad mom i just starting taking. something and didnt know what i was getting into. I would appriciate any input please anyone who can help please do
Thank you all so much and good luck to you all... i started my tapering today i took away one pill from what i usually take and im doing great so hopefully the rest of the way down will be as easy. I know there are going to be difficulties but im very prepared for it i wan a healthy baby thats not addicted to anything when he/she is born. I know many parents have taken prescription drugs while pregnant and their babies are fine, i guess im just paranoid about it i didnt take anything with my 3 yr old i quit smoking i ate healthy i did everything i was supposed to and i want to do it with this child also. Im ready for this as hard as it might be i have the will power. I am so grateful for the responses i have gotten on here,may god bless you all and help you all as he is me. Thank you again!
I really don't know anything about tramadol, but im a single parent as well, who allowed the pressure of life to put in that place ur in. Im c/t. And it *****, but my kids need me clean, I do wish u the best
Lovely, non-addicting! When in reality it not only has narcotic components but antidepressant components as well, that many people have great difficulty withdrawing from. This is not a cold-Turkey medication. The lack of the antidepressant component leads most to experience vertigo---severe vertigo. There is an over the counter med called Bonine. It's completely safe for young children, it only comes in cherry chewable, which lends me to think it shouldn't cause concern for mama so early in a pregnancy. Bonine is actually the rx drug, antivert. Used to to be you could only get it with a rx but they OK'd it for otc about the same time claridin became available. Please look for it, take it up to a pharmacist if you would like more info. It is a lifesaver for the extreme vertigo and vomiting you might find yourself with. While you're there, ask the pharmacist about Imodium. Also other the counter, it is an anti-diarrhea medication made from a narcotic that does not illicit the opiate "high" we think of from narcotics but it does trick the brain and thus aids with withdrawal. Another consideration to ask the pharmacist about is tagamet. Also over the counter, it enters into blood chemistry, issues way out of my league! My very limited understanding is that it has something to do with the cytochrome p450 pathway, that taking it along with fresh grapefruit clears bad things from the liver and blood faster and helps to rush along, bind or trick the body into handling the other meds I mentioned, thus negating the withdrawal in someway.
Again, keep in mind I am not a doctor or chemist! I have had 4 difficult but successful and well worth it pregnancies! Many women take narcotics safely in pregnancy and many, many more are taking antidepressants when they learn of their pregnancies and all is beautiful and well through the end. Goodness, I'm sure you've heard of that program, "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant"! Some women don't realize they are pregnant until the 6th or even 8th month, baby always ends up fine. I myself, I was undergoing cancer surgery and treatment when I turned up pregnant with my first! I assumed I was maybe 10 minutes pregnant! Ok, realistically I thought I was likely 4 weeks, give or take a couple of days. Went to the ob and with ultrasound he moved the date up, I was just over 3 months! Already out of my first trimester! They said I must have had pregnancy bleeding and assumed it was my normal periods. So, I had undergone more treatment while pregnant than first thought. I refused to terminate, my first son is now a gorgeous 20 year-old, getting his degree in physics!
Drink plenty of water, hug your 3 year-old and know, you will get through this. And it will be well worth it, no matter how difficult. Years and years from now you'll be having one of "those" talks with your child about drugs, etc and you'll let him know what you went through in early pregnancy, that you did it for him and it'll bring you closer in a special way nothing else can.
Again, keep in mind I am not a doctor or chemist! I have had 4 difficult but successful and well worth it pregnancies! Many women take narcotics safely in pregnancy and many, many more are taking antidepressants when they learn of their pregnancies and all is beautiful and well through the end. Goodness, I'm sure you've heard of that program, "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant"! Some women don't realize they are pregnant until the 6th or even 8th month, baby always ends up fine. I myself, I was undergoing cancer surgery and treatment when I turned up pregnant with my first! I assumed I was maybe 10 minutes pregnant! Ok, realistically I thought I was likely 4 weeks, give or take a couple of days. Went to the ob and with ultrasound he moved the date up, I was just over 3 months! Already out of my first trimester! They said I must have had pregnancy bleeding and assumed it was my normal periods. So, I had undergone more treatment while pregnant than first thought. I refused to terminate, my first son is now a gorgeous 20 year-old, getting his degree in physics!
Drink plenty of water, hug your 3 year-old and know, you will get through this. And it will be well worth it, no matter how difficult. Years and years from now you'll be having one of "those" talks with your child about drugs, etc and you'll let him know what you went through in early pregnancy, that you did it for him and it'll bring you closer in a special way nothing else can.
Ive been reading more on it and the more i read the more scared i get. I dont want to lose my baby and i dont want to start having seizures either. I wish i had never staryed them, my doctor gave them to me for rhumatoid arthritis and now im regretting ever taking just one. I told him i refused to take a narcotic because i didnt want an addiction so he gave me these said it was a non narcodic and wasnt addicting, man was he lying. I would rather have the addiction from narcodics now it doesnt seem near as bad as far as the withdrawls. I will definately look up that recipe and im planning on talking to my doctor first thing tuesday morning. Thank you all i appriciate the help!
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Please get ahold of your doctor and tell him/ her what is going on. Tramadol are very evil and the wd's can be brutal. It isnt good to CT off these. By talking with your doctor they can help you get thru this the safe way especially if you are pregnant.
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