My question is if tramadol will make withdrawals worse when trying to completely stop opiates? Can it possibly help with withdrawals? What I'm dealing with is below if anyone is interested.
I am trying to get off high dose oxycodone and dilaudid that I've been on for almost 10 years. I have been on it for pain but started defeating ER for IR effects and ROA to control pain as tolerance out paced Dr willingness to increase dosage.
I'm tired of constantly waiting to take the next dose and the way it makes me act. So I have tapered from around 400 mg oxycodone a day and tried to completely stop but couldn't handle some of the pain I still experience. So I've been taking 2-3 4mg dilaudid a day which is enough to keep rest of withdrawals away and knock out enough pain that it's tolerable. Going to try to taper this out to nothing even though it's much, much less than what I was on. It's still enough to keep my body somewhat dependant where I start to hurt pretty bad if I wait too long.
I found an old script of tramadol that didn't help at the time. My stomach was hurting pretty bad and took a 50mg tramadol and it seemed to knock out my stomach pain pretty good. But I don't want to take it if I will be undoing all the tapering I've done so far? If it will help with pain I will take it and stop dilaudid and get withdrawals over so I can start the healing process. But if tramadol is going to make opiate tolerance skyrocket then I never want to take it again.
Any input would be great!
I also got some Kratom and I haven't felt anything. Except made my junk not work and miss out on good sex. Maybe in the middle of being really sick it could help?
I am trying to get off high dose oxycodone and dilaudid that I've been on for almost 10 years. I have been on it for pain but started defeating ER for IR effects and ROA to control pain as tolerance out paced Dr willingness to increase dosage.
I'm tired of constantly waiting to take the next dose and the way it makes me act. So I have tapered from around 400 mg oxycodone a day and tried to completely stop but couldn't handle some of the pain I still experience. So I've been taking 2-3 4mg dilaudid a day which is enough to keep rest of withdrawals away and knock out enough pain that it's tolerable. Going to try to taper this out to nothing even though it's much, much less than what I was on. It's still enough to keep my body somewhat dependant where I start to hurt pretty bad if I wait too long.
I found an old script of tramadol that didn't help at the time. My stomach was hurting pretty bad and took a 50mg tramadol and it seemed to knock out my stomach pain pretty good. But I don't want to take it if I will be undoing all the tapering I've done so far? If it will help with pain I will take it and stop dilaudid and get withdrawals over so I can start the healing process. But if tramadol is going to make opiate tolerance skyrocket then I never want to take it again.
Any input would be great!
I also got some Kratom and I haven't felt anything. Except made my junk not work and miss out on good sex. Maybe in the middle of being really sick it could help?