tramadol withdrawel

[finallyfree1]

help, i have finally quit after 6 years. I tapered down then 1 week none but i havent slept at all in a week...at about 4am i finally stop moving then just as i think i might sleep at 5am i am wide awake and alert.. almost hyper like that all day ... i have tried everthing ... over the counter meds melitonin.. then even wine ... nothing works I am freaking out at night because i cant sleep ..How long does this last ? what can I do? help  I am ready to loose it




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[finallyfree1]

Hi, no havent slept the sleep of the dead yet ...a little afraid to.. scared I wont wake up. I have such strange muscle spasms and sometimes a feeling like someone just stuck a pin in me in random places.... is this normal? It is so weird how noone around me knows a thing and I sit and talk to myself with motavation.. just keep going ... dont turn back... never again.. dr gave me free edluar...the label says it is zolpidem... i wont take it.. I am too scared i will be an addict to it. I lost my DAD the only person i truly loved to addiction ..you think him dying at 65 would have stopped me.. now I am crying thinking i want my life back...and him... crying so hard now ...cant type ... bye

[dalatek]

Hi,  It's 1:20 am and here I am in Iowa wide awake and exhausted.  Just wondering if you were awake too.  We can beat this......together.  Hope that you are sleeping right now.  Maybe this was your night to "sleep the sleep of the dead".  You will feel so much better with just one good nights sleep.  You'll still be exhausted, but you will be able to think more clearly again.  Mind you I didn't say clearly,  I said more clearly.  Thinking about you a lot today.  Good luck!  You can do this.

[finallyfree1]

Last night was awful... i have done this all on my own. my family never even knew i was taking anything.. So it has been so hard to just lay there trying not to move .. i have a dr appt today. i am going to have everything checked, It is amazing that in 6 years of taking that demon pill.  I thought nothing was ever wrong I was so healthy... little did I know it was all in my mind.  I am going to try the 5htp because I was never on any other drugs,
I have to do something.. I cant go back because i believe the tram was actually  causing health problems i never had to begin with,,,scary good luck to all .... stay away from the demon pills...    

[newway]

you are certainly in a rough place - and not something I like to read because I am pretty sure I will be in the same situation shortly.
I am tapering off tram right now - and sleep is getting tough.  Right now it is a restless sleep - I get up and do my laundry, sorting out my junk drawer etc. whatever keeps me distracted but requires little thought.  If I am distracted the RLS lessens for me.
I just keep trying to see this as  recovery from a horrible thing - no different than a physical disease, car accident etc., - sometimes the rehab, the getting better is brutal - but the only way to walk again is to go through the pain, push yourself to get through each day doing the exercises - whatever it takes to make yourself better.  The other option is to stay in constant pain and never walk again, never get better.  Looking at it this way makes it easier for me to keep going - to be afraid of going back, realizing what pain awaits me it I quit.
Hang in there - you are just about at the other side.  Keep in mind - when our bodies or minds have experience a serious trauma it can take a long time to get through all of it.
Keep posting ...I need the sucess stories to keep me going!

[finallyfree1]

so now what is crazy is no matter what i do i cant find peace.. so then the depression of it all and i think i did this to myself... deal with it,, and i think ...yea for how long ... sleep deprivation makes you uneasy in your own skin,, and clumsy.. i hate the nights,,, the alone...quiet... hours ticking away at your resolve to beat the one thing that put you there,, dear god and all help me to make it through  and thank you because if i didnt sit and read this these posts,,, there would be nothing,,,,

[Juleev]

Hi when I was 30 I started having rls and insomnia yrs went by and nothing worked. Then for my bipolar a doctor gave me serequol. I slept and it helped with rls especially if I took a xanax at betime. That was during a time when I was sober just not sleeping . It helps relax me also. But I had never slept thru the night. Maybe your dr could give you some of that. It knocks a lot of people on there but, I am a very hyper person.
Worth a try helps with depression also.

[dalatek]

I went thru that 7 day with absolutely no sleep.  So exhausted but you can't hold still.  All you want to do is sleep but you can't hold still so you get up but you are so exhausted you can't walk so it up and down and up and down.  I still fear the night.  I psych myself out when night time comes.  I have never had hallucinations before, but the sleep deprivation got so bad I actually did and felt like I was having a break with reality.  But finally sleep came.  When it finally did I slept the sleep of the dead.  The hallucinations were gone and reality returned...albeit, for now and unhappy reality, but one that I'm pay the price for because of the choices I made.  Sleep is still a struggle, which adds to the depression and anxiety.  The insomnia kind of feeds on itself.  I know where you are.  I have really bad RLS (restless leg syndrome) and also have paradoxical reactions to most anti depressants and meds that treat anxiety.  They hype me up instead of calm me down and they make my RLS unbearable so right now I'm kind of between a rock and a hard place.  That's kind of how I got hooked on the vicoden to begin with.  My RLS is so bad that when I found Vicoden I finally found something that finally allowed me to relax and be still.  Everyone keeps telling me that things will improve.  I will be happy again, but just like every addict, I want to feel good and I want to feel good now!  Hang in there with me.  I'll be thinking of you while I'm tossing and turning in bed.  Hey, if you lived nearby we could meet at an IHOP at 3am for pancakes and commiserate in our misery.  LOL  For now I just have to keep reading the words of encouragement that everyone is giving and try to cling to that.  For tonight anyway, I will be drug free and when the sun rises in the morning I will once again hang on to the stay in the minute by minute mode.  Good luck to you.

[avisg]

its just like normal melation but you put it under your tounge I found it worked better for me .I know how you feel like if you dont get sleep you are either going to go crazy or die neither will happen but I have so been there it should let up very very soon have you gotten any sleep at all

[finallyfree1]

So do i take 5hpt sup. with magnuisim and what is sublingual melation? How long does it last?... I am going crazy..

[avisg]

Tram is very hard when it comes to sleep exersise REALLY helps anything you can handle and at first it is super hard . As long as you are not on anti depressants 5hpt suplments and a magnuisim /calusuim helped me I also use the sublingual melation .I tryed all sorts of script meds when i first started useing when I would run out of pills .Nothing ever worked. I actually found it made it worse not better .

[peaceinknowing]

Try and stay calm. Everyone here has been right where you are, so it's not like you're alone in this. There are many things that can help you through the WD - but if you feel like it's truly bad, I would suggest going to your doctor and speaking with them about what sort of assistance you're able to get into. This might be a good shot for you.