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A question for the experinced?!?!
I am not sure I spelled experince right?? I was wondering something though. 17 days off tramadol!!!! Praise God! I am doing it through Him. As I have said earlier,I had to switch from lexapro to celexa because of insurnace reasons. I am still having slight back pain, but I am stretching everyday a lot and doing 20 minutes of an eleptical machine. My mornings are still kinda of wierd, but that is getting better too. As ususal, I have freaked myself out and read up on everything. For the last 4 days I am eating so much. Its like my appetite is nuts. I can not quit eating. I was wondering what you pros think. Is it because I didn' eat at all the first week of wd's? Is it because the tramadol messed me up with eating, or is this some kind of rebound thing. What I am fearing is this. It is the celexa. I have read some people gain and some people loose. I was loosing weight with weight watchers when I was on Lexapro. Is this something I can control. Trust me, I would rather have anything physically wrong with me, than anything mental. To me mental health is far more important. I know this seems trival, but it is just me trying to remeber what normal was like before the tramadol. Thanks for the comments.
HI chad,
I don't know much about the meds and how they make people act but I know how I can be. I tend to be an emotional eater. I don't necessarily eat because I'm hungry. I'll eat when I'm bored or ticked off. Sometimes I'll come home from work and just snack to "wind down." These are things I've had to become aware of and take a serious look at. For me I try to maintain a balance between mental, physical and spiritual health. I'm a big guy to begin with and can carry around a lot more weight than I already do. I try to stick to regular eating habits that are healthy. I've found out I need to eat healthier than I used to. Fruits and veggies for snacks instead of chips and ice cream. If you need to take the meds then by all means take the meds but work on taking good care yourself while you do it. I've learned that just because I feel like doing something doesn't mean I have to. Weather it is eating, drinking, popping pills, yelling ... I think you get the idea.
I don't know much about the meds and how they make people act but I know how I can be. I tend to be an emotional eater. I don't necessarily eat because I'm hungry. I'll eat when I'm bored or ticked off. Sometimes I'll come home from work and just snack to "wind down." These are things I've had to become aware of and take a serious look at. For me I try to maintain a balance between mental, physical and spiritual health. I'm a big guy to begin with and can carry around a lot more weight than I already do. I try to stick to regular eating habits that are healthy. I've found out I need to eat healthier than I used to. Fruits and veggies for snacks instead of chips and ice cream. If you need to take the meds then by all means take the meds but work on taking good care yourself while you do it. I've learned that just because I feel like doing something doesn't mean I have to. Weather it is eating, drinking, popping pills, yelling ... I think you get the idea.
Hi chaddavis333,
First of all - congrats on the 17 days off the evil tram!!!! Nice job.
I'm 125 + days off the dreaded poison called tramadol. It was by far the WORST experience of my life and the BEST experience of my life, if you know what I mean.
I had all the typical physical withdrawal symptoms - but what really screwed me up was the emotional side of this roller coaster. Because tramadol has an anti-depressant in it (and I was NEVER told this by my Dr.'s so imagine my surprise during early withdrawal) the withdrawal becomes something quite different from standard opiate withdrawal. It took me longer to get past this aspect of it than it did for the physical side because of just this reason.
So hang tough you're getting there. And yes, the appetite thing. Mine too increased about 2 weeks after quitting. In my case I guess I should have accepted that since I never ate when taking that poison. In fact, I lost almost 35 lbs. taking this drug and have since gained back about 12 lbs. But it's okay because my appetite is finally back to normal. I no longer crave food all the time so I think my body is finally adjusting to all of these changes. At least that's what I believe.
I'm sorry I can't answer your ?'s related to the weight gain with the celexa as I've never taken it (finally, a drug I haven't tried!!! lol). But I'm sure if you google it, all kinds of info will come up on it's side effects, etc. But you've probably already done that. I know I researched EVERYTHING I could when I got off tram and let me tell you, knowledge IS power. I know if I had not found this forum I probably would have relapsed. But understanding all of this has helped me so much. So I continue on.
Not sure if you know this already, but there's a great thread on this site "EmilysPosts" re: her journey from he** when she quit the tram. If you haven't seen it yet, just google "tramadol withdrawal" and one of your options will read something like "Day 45 again Tramadol Withdrawal". Reading her personal journal and the entire thread was so good for me in the early days. It helped SO much. Plus it gave me something to do during the night since sleep was such a battle early on.
Good luck - hope you're hanging on because you are doing GREAT and should be very proud of yourself!!
:-)
First of all - congrats on the 17 days off the evil tram!!!! Nice job.
I'm 125 + days off the dreaded poison called tramadol. It was by far the WORST experience of my life and the BEST experience of my life, if you know what I mean.
I had all the typical physical withdrawal symptoms - but what really screwed me up was the emotional side of this roller coaster. Because tramadol has an anti-depressant in it (and I was NEVER told this by my Dr.'s so imagine my surprise during early withdrawal) the withdrawal becomes something quite different from standard opiate withdrawal. It took me longer to get past this aspect of it than it did for the physical side because of just this reason.
So hang tough you're getting there. And yes, the appetite thing. Mine too increased about 2 weeks after quitting. In my case I guess I should have accepted that since I never ate when taking that poison. In fact, I lost almost 35 lbs. taking this drug and have since gained back about 12 lbs. But it's okay because my appetite is finally back to normal. I no longer crave food all the time so I think my body is finally adjusting to all of these changes. At least that's what I believe.
I'm sorry I can't answer your ?'s related to the weight gain with the celexa as I've never taken it (finally, a drug I haven't tried!!! lol). But I'm sure if you google it, all kinds of info will come up on it's side effects, etc. But you've probably already done that. I know I researched EVERYTHING I could when I got off tram and let me tell you, knowledge IS power. I know if I had not found this forum I probably would have relapsed. But understanding all of this has helped me so much. So I continue on.
Not sure if you know this already, but there's a great thread on this site "EmilysPosts" re: her journey from he** when she quit the tram. If you haven't seen it yet, just google "tramadol withdrawal" and one of your options will read something like "Day 45 again Tramadol Withdrawal". Reading her personal journal and the entire thread was so good for me in the early days. It helped SO much. Plus it gave me something to do during the night since sleep was such a battle early on.
Good luck - hope you're hanging on because you are doing GREAT and should be very proud of yourself!!
:-)
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Without knowing your medical background and without tests, such as blood work, there is no way to tell you what is causing the weight gain.
I fear saying anything to you at this point because you are almost obsessive with the information you are reading about. But I'll tell you my experience anyway. I gained weight immediately when I stopped using. FOR ME----I craved sugar and salt, two things I do not customarily crave. I had also abused my body for so long by not eating properly, not resting properly and not exercising regularly so the weight change was no surprise. I first concentrated on getting some "time" together and then I worked on the other issues, and still do. As far as the Celexa causing the weight gain? I do not have personal experience with it and even if I did, everyone is different so while you may gain weight, I may not. I see you asked about this in the anxiety community as well, maybe you can get some responses there too. Bear in mind, just as with this community, there are no doctors there and all we are sharing here is our personal experience, not medical advise. I still feel that you should get a good check-up, no matter what, it never hurts.
I would love to see you relax and enjoy yourself for a bit. You have done a difficult but wonderful thing by stopping the pills. Give yourself time and give yourself a break!! Maybe you could relax with the family tonight and enjoy a movie.