Tramadol experience

[Gamereign555]

I know what you mean about the video games. I stopped playing them because it’s kind of an imaginary land that pulls me into my dissociative tendencies too much. It also raises my overall anxiety level.

It really depends on how anxious I am and how well I am handling things. If I feel pretty good that I can handle maybe an hour video games and that I better quit because it starts to work too much on my nervous system.

 

[shatter eyes]

I went to dr and showed him that i am not alone having behavior changes.

We will taper off.
When i got home i found out i forgot to get a refill so i only have a days worth left..and he going away for a week.

Tramadol is not covered so i think its a sign to cold turkey. Since i cold turkd hydromorphone.

I drew a pic for my doc describing how i feel. He looked at pic and said...yea thats not good.

Restarting gabapentin and tapering off tramadol. Another trial error rollercoaster....

Thanks for letting me know i am not alone in this.

 

[Gamereign555]

Curious. Why did you come off of gabapentin? Was it too fatiguing?

 

[barefoot]

For me, tramadol is a great pain reliever - the best thing I’ve ever taken in terms of relieving back/hip pain.

But, yes, I got to the point where I had to weigh up whether it was worth taking it at night. Because it meant I’d be pretty much pain-free (great!) but that I’d feel totally wired and hardly sleep (not great!)

When I first starting taking it at night, I found that it would make me feel quite woozy and would knock me out. Quite quickly though, the window of wooziness shrunk and, if I wasn’t asleep within about 15 mins, I would then get totally wired. My mind would be racing, I’d get really excited about loads of ideas I’d be having (ideas that, the next day, I realised were rubbish!) I felt so wide awake. I also used to get uncomfortably hot and my skin would itch like crazy. So, for the sake of not having back pain, I was awake practically all night, stripped off and clawing at my skin! In the end, I decided it wasn’t worth it!

Thankfully, I had a surgery earlier this year, which has really sorted out the pain. If I needed to take that kind of strong pain killer again, I wouldn’t take tramadol. I’d ask for something codeine-based (though codeine-based drugs often trigger night time hallucinations for me so it’s a bit swings and roundabouts! But better that than being awake all night!)

My partner took tramadol last night for shoulder pain. She was still awake at 5.15am and then wide awake again at 8am. Not good!

Glad that you have another option to use. Hope it works for you!

 

[Gamereign555]

It dawned on me the other night that if you could deal with the side effects, then just take that medication during the day.

You could tell your doctor that it doesn’t work for you at night and maybe the doc could give you a separate one to take only at night but you would still have the tramadol for the day as well.

 

[MyWillow]

The other thing I noticed was it didn’t dull the pain but that I didn’t CARE about the pain. So I did everything that would aggravate it because I wasn’t listening to the warning signs. I took it in the morning. The up effects lasted until the evening.

 

[anonymous]

I was hooked on a combination of Tramadol and Soma. It worked for a long time but I was unsupervised. I was trying to 'switch meds' on my own but that kind of synthetic opiate, which is what tramadol is and the soma, which is muscle relaxer and known to produce 'euphoria', it became a 3 year train wreck. I'm better now and I don't feel like going back on any of that heavy pain medication or psych meds. I'm lucky I'm alive.

 

[Gamereign555]

The other thing I noticed was it didn’t dull the pain but that I didn’t CARE about the pain. So I...

I sort of observed that too with the panic attack I experienced while I was on it. Instead of attempting to ground myself I just sort of sat there and continued to play video games all the while I was hyperventilating but it didn’t get too out of control it was kept at a subtle level.

I was hooked on a combination of Tramadol and Soma. It worked for a long time but I was unsupervised...

Yes I question this medications efficiency. It has so many odd side effects that are disruptive. I think the only reason why it is prescribed so freely especially in place of opiates is that opiates are somewhat controversial especially right now. Where is tramadol really isn’t. So for them it is safe to prescribe I guess.

 

[user27357]

I can kind of understand the addiction, I was caught up in a cycle of taking one day a week and using enough to kill my pain and hopefully get some good rest in, way over the amount I was supposed to be taking. I got to where I was looking forward to that day and the days after when I felt rested and healed up, just a little.

But it wasn't a high at all, if anything it was a downer and possibly, as has been stated, too far down and close to death caused by lack of respiration. It was an appetite supressant, it killed my energy level, and it blocked my pain.

my doctor told me he has dealt with highly addicted individuals, people who would cry on the phone because their boyfriend or girlfriend had taken it away and flushed it and they just needed more to get by till the first of next month, things like that.

Not me, but I recognized that the only good it was doing me was by way of abuse and now I only use it when my sodium naproxin needs a boost and only as the label prescribes. No problem.

 

[Deanna]

Curious. Why did you come off of gabapentin? Was it too fatiguing?

I take it. Sometimes, I'll take one and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I take 2.. but I always know when its time to sleep too. It makes me more sensitive to people which is kind of foreign to me- so maybe the is the false high some are talking about. I have a bad neck and take gabapentin plus work a physical job. I'm getting ready to work another job in February and do both ( kind of blend together) Long story but I have a business and will probably merge with the lady I trained.. and we will go to realtor school and I'll do that part time. The medicine I take besides those, help me deal with people. Which is weird but I've been in the hospitality ( not really ) more service related, but along the same lines- for a LONG time.. Actually, I'm comfortable in my own skin, with my medications but I can sometimes still feel the pain in my neck, while taking tramadol. It wears out for me. I'm not addicted

 

[shatter eyes]

Curious. Why did you come off of gabapentin? Was it too fatiguing?

I stopped because it caused me to have tremors and noodle legs. It became a challenge to put toothpaste on to the brush because i kept wobbling.

 

[cntrymom08466]

Wow I can't believe all these bad reactions, but I guess there bad reactions to any medication. I have been taking 50 mg. of tramadol 3 times a day, now for several years and do not have any of those side effects. I take it for pain management. I have osteoarthritis for sure and my Primary thinks I could have rheumatoid without the actual blood test markers. Which I have read is possible, since my mother had it as well. I take tramadol and meloxicam. I've had the "high" feeling a little bit, gave me some energy, but not over the top or anything. I guess everyone has a different reaction.