Misc SSRI antidepressants and Tramadol.

[easy as]

-If you want, sure, go ahead and experiment with Tramadol, but do not take your SSRI at the same time/within the same day
-Do not experiment with Tramadol every day until you're used to it and have decided you don't want to be on your SSRI any more (this is your choice)
-On the days you do not take Tramadol (at least every other day) remember to continue taking you SSRI

Fucked ADVICE!

If you are taking an antidepressant reduce slowly. What the fuck has this thread become it is not harm reduction. This guy could really hurt himself/herself. Don't quit any benzo or anti depressant/anti-anxiety too quickly. The repercussions are dire.

 

[OEandricearoni]

hydrocodone is 6x as potent as codeine...hence VI (Roman Numeral 6)-codin...

......is that a joke? Yeah hydro is more potent than codeine, but the whole VI-codin thing. Very clever.

 

[sarcophagus.heels]

Huh, didn't know that SSRIs and Tram were a bad combination....last summer, I used Tramadol recreationally a number of times while on Lexapro. Knowing that it can be dangerous, though, I'd say that it's not worth it....it's really not a great drug. I could get a bit high off it, but it's only something I bothered with when I had nothing better to take.

 

[TheLostBoys]

I'm not sure...I know I'd take a T4 over it...but if they were going to Rx a T4, they'd probably just Rx norcos instead...i dunno though...some docs like to Rx the pro-drugs...

I've asked for something stronger and I get the response "The next step up is hydrocodone, and you're too young for that."

I think I'm going to ask why I can't get something stronger next time, and if they say that, I'll respond with, "I'm too young to be in this much pain. You can pee test me, you can count my pills, whatever, but I NEED something stronger...

I like the line.........thats exactly what you should tell the doctor.

 

[TheLostBoys]

I feel your pain.

I alternate daily between 600-1800mg ibuprofen, 500-2000mg Tylenol and 250-750mg aspirin and I can't get my doctor to prescribe me ANYTHING not even non narcotic pain relievers. The asshole just told me to go to physical therapy and left the room.

Hell I went through cancer in 2005 and it took 8 appointments of me complaining of daily abdominal pain before he even ordered x-rays/ultrasound of my abdomen. After they came back normal he wrote it off as IBS and gave me dicyclomine which did help but cost me $2000 just to get $15 meds that aren't even a controlled drug.

I tell people to switch doctors until you find a doctor that will treat you properly & its not against the law to switch as often as you like. Most doctors are pricks so you gotta find one that will treat you like a human being. Physical therapy is a joke when you dont have the right pain meds to go with it. I was in too much pain to finish physical therapy so after 6 weeks, my doctor told me to quit.

 

[Jabberwocky]

-If you want, sure, go ahead and experiment with Tramadol, but do not take your SSRI at the same time/within the same day
-Do not experiment with Tramadol every day until you're used to it and have decided you don't want to be on your SSRI any more (this is your choice)
-On the days you do not take Tramadol (at least every other day) remember to continue taking you SSRI

Fucked ADVICE!

If you are taking an antidepressant reduce slowly. What the fuck has this thread become it is not harm reduction. This guy could really hurt himself/herself. Don't quit any benzo or anti depressant/anti-anxiety too quickly. The repercussions are dire.

First off, lets try to be a bit more civil/a bit less inflammatory (the rules are the rules...). Why do you say this? I wouldn't recommend coming off a benzo in that way, but I never did, and that has nothing to do with the OP question as far as I made out.

Second, I used to take lexapro, @20mg, for almost three years. I have followed the advice I passed on to the OP more than once during that period, with absolutely no problems. I NEVER had a single problem skipping a dose or a day. Even coming off the medication when the time came, I did C/T and was fine. Not saying this is the ideal way to do it, because it isn't, but I don't see why you're so concerned about the OP missing ONE dose/day with his SSRI?

The repercussions can be dire, but even then lexapro is a pretty benign SSRI, as far as they come... Again, I never recommended he just stop taking his medication, but that, if he wants to experiment with tramadol, there is a safer than not way to do it, and that is not combining his SSRI with the tramadol.