Oh! I forgot to mention I also took Imodium. That helped a lot.
How about from 800mg p/d for 4 yrs + 20mg of oxy p/d and 20mg patch of norspan and 75mg lyrica for 3 yrs all combined.....thinks this will be a fun come down??? Fml
....blocking shot and epidural to replace???? Day 2 I feel run down n sweaty
Been taking 1 1/2 pills to 2 pills 50mg each for about 4 months for back pain, started feeling crappy about a month ago beginning of january and finally realized it was the tramadol.
I decided to quit taking it and had withdrawals start within 20 hrs of the last pill. Mostly a zap feeling but also some mild flu symptoms. Went back to taking them at mainly 1 1/2 pills before bed and decided to drop to one pill a few weeks later. Started getting the flu symptoms again within a day or two.
Today I am just getting over the flu like symptoms after taking 1 1/2 pills yesterday and 1/2 this morning.
I want to quit these damn things, they make me feel like c**p but I don't know how. I hardly take any and the withdrawal seems so bad. Any advice? How long are withdrawals from such a low dose?
Hi Olyguy, The worst withdrawals will last five or six days, you should not get it too bad on only 100mg but it won't be a walk in the park either. Just see it out and you will come through the other side don't give in to it and take more Tramadol, if you want it enough you can do it. I have come off it cold turkey on 600 mg a day and others on even more than that so it can be done.
Just keep trimming if you can. Try to go 48 hrs and then use 1/2 of the pill etc etc and just keep trying.
The withdrawl is hard no matter what, but if you listen to peoples stories and follow advice, you can make it less painfull.
I was about 500-600mg (10-12 50's ) a day for 10 years. I'm clean 2 years now. It can be done
Thank you for the information, I appreciate the advice. I think the anticipation of withdrawals is what scares me the most.
It has been about 45 days since I quit cold turkey. I wont say I am completely clean, but I used to take 200-300mg daily. I am ashamed to admit that I have given into temptation, and have had 3 tablets over the past 20 days. Only low dose 50mg or a 150mg cut in half. I came off my horse 2 weeks ago while she was in sprint and hit the ground pretty hard and done some damage to my shoulder. I have only given in when the pain has been really bad. But I hate the feeling the next day, lethargic and headache whereas when I wasn't taking them i would wake up feeling good. The need to have them daily has gone Plus I have a new job and joined the gym so am keeping myself busy with other things to try not to think about it. I admit its still hard, esp on low days when you just want to get a wee buzz of happiness and energy, but I dont give in on those days. So it's hard to say if my dependence has gone? I think so! I dont feel the need to keep taking more. I guess time will tell. Oldguy, once you get past the first few days you will start feeling heaps better, and once u get so far you dont want to put yourself through that again, so you keep going by staying off them
I guess i dont quite understand all this.....I was given tramadol ....a couple of years ago...I had this one bottle..and never really finished it...I onlly took one...and then....much much later took another..but I didnt realy feel anything...then much later a few months..I took one when I had this headache...really bad and it helped that...I have that same old bottle....and I got another bottle of it...and I think it will be my last one...I dont want to have the problems I am hearing about...I dont get any buzz from any pain meds...the milograms on it were 50mgs...when I took them it was like one at night.....only.....then I wouldnt take one for awhile...there was one time I took 1 a night for maybe 3 days...on the bottle it says every 3 or 4 hrs.why if a person can get addicted does it have every 3 or 4 hrs....then you dont get anymore lets say.....doesnt the dr realize a person can get addicted .....so if you get 30pills..which is what I got...then when the 30 was done....bang your addicted...haha....I also get hydrocodone...but the 550mgs not the larger ones...on those I only take them as needed....like one at night as well....depending on the pain....i dont take them together...but only as needed and never more then 2 days in a row....the rest of the time I can only take tylenol....I have barretts metaplasia and cant take aspirin products of any kind ..meaning Nsaids as well....you have to know that all sorts of meds can cause drowsiness etc the next day....I dont get drowsy after taking anything...but I use a antihistamine nasal spray...and the next day Im wobbly all day long..I hate that....I also take a seizure drug....so when one takes a seizure drug....everything else pales in comparison believe me....same thing with antidepressants...the tricyclic ones are pain killers..i was on one for years....didnt know it was a pain killer...took it becuz I was allergic to premarin an estrogen after a hysterectomy...jerk drs back in the old days..decided that they would take care of you when you couldnt take the meds they prescribed...by sticking women on antidepressants....then when I tried to get off...it created another problem....siezures....so ...in my case i exchanged one pill for another...i was hoping to not be on any meds...oh well, life happens...right...
You poor girl! Ptay you make it. Been 4 days how do you feel now? You guys I have so much pain without anything I don't know what to do. I heard the patches are least likey to be abused. Anyone chim in??
Hi Veejane, You sound like you are struggling to stay off the Tramadol, You are obviously not still physically addicted to them because after 45 days they are out of your system and the 3 tablets you say you had over 20 days will not cause you physical addiction either. What you have in buckets full is a psychological addiction. This is much more problematic than the cold turkey bit. I had to have a little smile to myself over your shoulder injury and hence the urge to use again. This is the devil on your back playing tricks on you and that is what addiction is all about. It will give you excuses to use again so you have to be on your guard all the time. Of course there is no shame in giving in to temptation and it can be said relapse is all part of the recovery process but you have to give your addiction more respect or it will keep catching you out. It will strike you either when you are at your strongest or at your weakest because that is the nature of the beast. I am sure you are aware there is no in between when it comes to addiction the only cure is complete abstinence because before you know it will be one tablet, then two, then three and so on just the same as with an alcoholic with a drink or any other addict. I am not saying you are in complete denial but you have to take this more seriously if you want to get clean. I am not aiming this at just you; it took me a long time to except my addiction as being a very serious illness and had to be treated as such. You are obvioulsley keeping some Tramadol in the house this is not the actions of someone who is 100% commited.
I did one more day but the pain came back after starting to walk around and doing stuff again....only taking half the dose of tramal and oxy atm, but the pain is on the rise......FML.
I understand what you are saying, and yes it is psychological. The Tramadol is in the house because of my partners back injury, thats how I got to start using them. The shoulder injury wasnt an excuse to want to take them. I debated with myself for days, do I take something that is long lasting or do i pop 8-10 panadeine forte tablets a day. I feel guilty about it... YES... even after taking the first I felt so bad that I forced myself to vomit but it was too late by then. I am 100% committed, and obviously its a hard thing to come off. But I am proud of what I have achieved so far. I will go back to see my GP and tell him I am concerned that I will take 1, and then 2 and so on and get him to do something before that happens. Perhaps I need to be on anti depressants still because I had suppressed 3 years of post natal depression? who knows?? Trying to get in to see a counselor here is almost impossible with a 5 week waiting period. I feel embarrassed about having to go back to the dr... what do you suggest?
it doesn't matter what they call it. Tramadol withdrawal is much worse than other opiates. Anyone who has ever withdrawn fromis the truth and there are thousands out there. Google "Emily's post, tramadol recovery room" to see just how "weak" it is.
I couldn't pass this thread up without having the chance to reply to it.
--I was seventeen years old when a Doctor first introduced this medication to me--They could not directly diagnose what was wrong with me due to a variety of symptoms and "normal range" test results from non-Hodgkin to Fibromyalgia. I had always suffered severe depression and anxiety (no official clinical diagnosis) and had a very headstrong perception throughout the course of my life until this drug from Hell reared its ugly head. I'm sure my surroundings at that time did not help my urge to escape reality, but never before had I developed any dependency on such a substance. I began taking this medication--1 to 2 50mg tablets a day for the course of five days, and instantaneous relief that Zoloft, Cymbalta, Xanax, Klonopin, Wellbutrin, you name it, could provide.
Before I knew it five days into taking such a drug my menstrual cycle had evened out, the fatigue went away which I found rather odd--I felt more productive and the best of all I could function as the "social butterfly" and suddenly everyone was talking to me because I had this light that I never before experienced. That was the problem. I liked the fact I had control of something so miniscule that I allowed my mind to belief it needed this in order to function and maintain what I had "supposedly gained."
Due to my age the Primary Health Care Physician I was seeing had to justify writing such a script and abruptly cut me off when another series of test results revealed nothing. Of course someone who had a taste of what they thought a happy life was, compared to the pessimistic mindset I had been in previous, did not set well with me. So I began doctor shopping, what ever I could to obtain the medicine. I did not want Vicodin, Percocet, nothing but the Tramadol.
This was my miracle so I thought. It was to the point that I developed shame in between spurts of sobriety that I finally took myself off the medicine and changed the things around me that evoked the urge to take the medicine. I lost fifty pounds, but yet I felt sick. I was finally diagnosed with Hashimotos Disease and three tumors on the thyroid, one benign, the two yet to be biopsied and I am now twenty-two. In between this I developed a life threatening abscess and ruptured ovarian cyst that have caused permanent infertility, and lost a cousin to Vicodin addiction. Even that did not subdue the craving to want this medicine. It took over my life and withdrawal from this drug is like a demon from Hell. It will deceive you into thinking you're obtaining happiness until you run out. I was counting my pills, doing tapering schedules, and timing my refills at the Pharmacy. I took a look in the mirror and did not recognize who I had become. Like an animal, I relied on instinct to take this drug and self medicate. Worst decision I ever made in my life, but I am clean for a month now and have learned that despite this downfall, I am no less of a person without it. Anxiety will last for five days possibly 1.5 weeks depending on how long you've been on the medication. Suicidal thoughts and the "jumping out of your skin" feeling is so common that I hate to say this..there is no easy way around this. Some people can taper others cannot handle having the medicine in their possession. I found cold turkey and flushing the rest down the toilet provided with a sense of control in my life that I fought so hard to have in the first place. Control of my moods, the pain, and the regret. It is not worth the pain of coming off.
I fractured my wrist in 5 place's 6weeks ago and on the first night took one 50mg Tramadol that my wife had left over from an Op she had. Over the following week I took one 50mg Tramadol a night to get me through the nights. Then we went away for a few days break (NO TRAMADOL WITH ME) and I started having restless sleep and very restless legs while we where away! I put this down to the initial fall I had that broke my wrist and thought no more about it. I went to see my DR and he gave me Tramadol to deal with the sleepless nights and I took maybe one 50mg every other night to deal with the restless legs? Is it possible the Tramadol is to blame and the cold turkey even from a low dose is to blame?