Tramacet or Tramadol

[FibroMissa]

Hi sorry for another post but I'm off to the doctors and wanted to post this before going.

I called the pharmacy to see if there was anything they could recommend asking my doctor for that's NON narcotic or addicting and she asked if I'd tried Tramacet or Tramadol? I've never heard of these but the cet in tramacet leads me to think of percocet? she said it's not a controlled substance and is non narcotic...but I'm hesitant to ask for anything that sounds so much like percocet (my doc as well as oxy) I want to control my pain but don't want to end up back in the same place I was...

any thoughts???

[nic9981]

Oh and tramadol is an opiod analgesic, chemically very similar to oxycodone.

:o)

[nic9981]

Hi there,

It's wierd we call it paracetamol instead of acetaminphen here in the UK... but that is where the "cet" bit comes from.

However, tamadol the "trama" part, is very addictive and highly narcotic, so much so that I won't allow it in my establishment.

I'm a pharmacy tech and I run the pharmacy department at a prison here in the UK and I'm very surprised at what your pharmacist said to you!!

Tramacet has 37.5mg of tramadaol HCl, whereas tramdol alone (brand name Zydol) is in multiples of 50mg.  Tramadol is much stronger than codeine or dihydrocodeine.  50mg of tramadol is pretty much the same as 10mg of oral morphine, so to say that it is not narcotic is stupid and ridiculous!

Hope this helps!

[busgirl24824]

I have a health background and wanted to explain to you the "cet" connection. Both percocet and tramacet contain acetaminphen, which is Tylenol. Percocet is a combination of Oxycodone/Acetaminophen. Tramacet is also another combo medication containing Tramadol/Acetaminophen. Mostly it is pain medications that you see the "cet" at the end of and all that means is that it contains acetaminphen. Both narcotic and non-narcotic pain medications can contain acetaminophen. They usually add tylenol to these types of meds hoping that the

Now for the subject of the tramadol, I took this for several years for chronic pain. I have really bad genetics on both sides of my family and it seems that everything we had running through both families I ended up with.....ADHD, bipolar disorder, narcolepsy, severe endometriosis which required my having a hysterectomy at the age of 26, recurrent viral meningitis, and some sort of autoimmune disorder - which has yet to be determined which kind - that causes severe joint and sometime muscular pain and stiffness. So anyway, I am no stranger to pain and to pain meds.

The tramadol is a non-narcotic painkiller. But they say it has the same tendency for abuse as narcotic pain meds. I came off this fairly quickly and didn't really experience any withdrawal symptoms at all. But I can tell you the whole time I took it I felt like I was in a fog of sorts, and it wasn't a "feeling high" kind of fog,  and I just felt plain icky and irritable all the time. Some people do fine with it and others don't. I was one who didn't. I have talked with people who have taken this and have done very well on it. So as with many other drugs, I guess it all depends on the way each individual person's chemistry reacts to it.  

[dominosarah]

Let us know how your appt goes..........

[FibroMissa]

thanks for the replies.  I'm just going to keep toughing it out.  I'm glad I checked it out before I asked him for some though.  thanks again :)

[avisg]

YEAH NO they lol to say it non narcotic and safe its a synthetic opiate it is very addicting it my DOC it was hell to come off of for me and many many others. If you put tramadol in search you we get all sorts of posts about the hell of coming off of it ...What have you tried non narctic ?

[dominosarah]

STAY AWAY from any of that stuff....It is very addictive.  ask avis about that.  WD's are brutal and lengthy........ultram is another name for it too.