Tramadol Dosage?

[Damitri the Greek]

I went to the doctor today because I slipped and hurt my back. I was disappointed when she gave me Tram instead of Hydrocodone.

I've never taken Tram before. I'm about 220 lbs. with a relatively high tolerance. I used to take Hydro 10s almost everyday, but stopped a few years ago and only take them now when they're "around". I usually need 2 or 3 Hydro 10s to feel "good".

I know it's all subjective, but what kind of dosage would you all suggest? Or am I just wasting my time thinking I'm going to feel "high" on them anyway?

 

[RobotRipping]

u can have a seizure with doses that high, codyyy you should be banned for that response or just educated.

400mg is the max dose u can take per day without risking seizure, if you're on a a bunch of benzos you can push higher. Highest ive gone was 600mg or so while on etizolam...it's not worth the high IMO to push it any more than 400mg.

i suggest 200mg dose to start, add 200mg more 1.5 hrs later if you arent feeling it and if that dosen't get you high call it a day cause you won't likely get high from them anyway. I can't ever get a buzz off trammies, i'll still eat a shit load of them but i usually end up blacking out or not remembering shit for some reason. If you can get poppy seed tea it's a hell of a lot stronger.

some people do find tramadol to work very well; likely due to metabolic differences between individuals so to each their own, if you like codeine a lot; you'll like tramadol. If you like morphine, well you probably will find tramadol to be disappointing.

 

[Codyyyy]

I guess I kinda forgot about the seizure risk my bad. When I first did it I had around the same tolerance as him. My bad I'm super educated on this subject, I was just super fucked up when I posted it. Definitely don't take that much. But it's really not the best opiate to get tweaked on, I would use it as prescribed, just cause the high is just barely worth it. Especially with the seizure risk.

 

[Siccness909]

I had a similar tolerance to hydrocodone as you when I did tramadol for a while. The seizure threshold scared the shit out of me, I'd do as said above no more than 400 MG's in 24 hours. Tramadols a weird drug, I mean I personally feel OK off 250-300mgs but I start twitching a little towards the end of my high. Even though 400 and below is the recommended dose to avoid seizure, I've heard some people have them at even lower doses shit even threshold doses, rare but still possible.

 

[Rybee]

I take 500mg w/o benzo's regularly.

 

[Gado]

It all depends. Personally I've taken waaay more than 400mgs of Tramadol at once before and never felt like I was going to have a seizure or anything. All it really did was barely take away my dopesickness. Most people get zero effect from Trams and are a complete waste (me being one of those people). However, some people love them and actually get pretty high from them.

Only way to really know if they work for you is to try them yourself. If the whole seizure thing scares the bejesus out of you, take some Tagamet and drink some tonic water (with quinine) and grapefruit juice anywhere from 30-60 minutes before dosing as these ingredients will all assist in potenating the opiates.

Good luck! Hope it works out for you, if not, find yourself some hydros!

 

[Siccness909]

OH after reading your post again, I also got trams over hydro the first I went for my pain situation then I told the doc I have seizures and trams lower the seizure threshold right n he switched me to hydro! Lol no refills for narcotic meds at least for my health insurance but that's what I did and it worked

 

[maybeimamazing]

Holy Shit, I took tramadol a few years ago, trying desperately to get high!
I had been taking a ton of hydro-codone, and oxies and opanas. I was suddenly out of everything, and searched desperately to find something...
a friend of mine took tram and told me it was considered an opiate, albeit a MINOR one!!
so, without knowing all the facts, and being in total, absolute fucking withdrawal HELL, I took a bunch of tram.
next thing I remember is waking up or coming to, rather, in the hospital!!!
so....with tubes stuck down my throat, I awake to find all these docs, ER staff, EMT people and a UNIFORMED cop or three.....
they're all asking me questions, REALLY TOUGH questions, like, "What is your NAME?"
and WHAT day, time, YEAR is it???
"WHO is the president of the U.S.?
what STATE do you live in???

All I could do was stare at them.
I had no idea who I was.
didn't know my name.
had no idea where I was.
I KNEW NOTHING!!!!!!!!
it was the scariest, most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me!!!
so, I'll cut to the chase here....
Don't do them to get high. You'll just die!!
not sure how much I took, compared to how many lortabs and percs I'd been taking for many, many years, it
really didn't seem to be that many.
They all thought I'd tried to kill myself!!
nope.
just tried to catch a buzz....
so, yeh, learn from my mistakes....
ok?
good, I'm glad we had this little "chat!"

 

[bronson]

I take 500mg w/o benzo's regularly.

That's the oddity with tramadol, people are often fine through many times of dosing above the commonly accepted amount safe for daily consumption, then get hit by a seizure out of seemingly nowhere. IMO if you have to push the limits to this extent, you're much safer off to switch to something else if you must proceed with it.

If you're still in genuine pain, explaining the medicine isn't working well enough for you is totally reasonable.

 

[maybeimamazing]

Oh yea, and my friend whose house I was visiting, (I made a GREAT house-guest back then!!!! what a NIGHTMARE that was for him!!!)
really thought I was dead. he is in a wheelchair, having lost a leg. he had a funeral-director over, planning his funeral so his kids wouldn't have
to worry about the expense of it later. anyway, I was sitting out on the deck, reading a newspaper. then, all of a sudden, he sees my left arm
go FLYING up and hitting the side of the house. Wheels out there, with the FUNERAL-DIRECTOR IN TOW, to see what the hell drama I was creating out on his front porch...
there was no response from me, as I was flailing around, seizing uncontrollably, then went limp.
they called 911, which took about 35 minutes to get there, as we were way out in the country....
after they couldn't get me to come around, they took me in the ambulance to the hospital, and I came to about an hour and a half later...
it still took hours for me to be able to speak at all, or remember who I was and where I was...
after this, you'd think I got sober, went to rehab, or at least eased-up, right???
OH HELL NO!!!
I soon found another stash of pills, and a new dealer, a new doctor, and continued doing what I had been doing....
I almost lost my life that year a couple of times.
I am now off of everything except suboxone.
I quit all pills and alcohol, and have been sober for 3 years now.
I take subs cause they have saved my life, and with the addiction to opiates that I had, it was impossible to get off of everything...
but i'll never do anything like that again.
be careful, ok!!

 

[Rybee]

That's the oddity with tramadol, people are often fine through many times of dosing above the commonly accepted amount safe for daily consumption, then get hit by a seizure out of seemingly nowhere. IMO if you have to push the limits to this extent, you're much safer off to switch to something else if you must proceed with it.

If you're still in genuine pain, explaining the medicine isn't working well enough for you is totally reasonable.

If I'm honest I didn't think there was anything wrong with 500mg. My prescription just comes in 4 packets of 10x50mg's so I just take one packet a weekend. I wouldn't even know the first signs of a seizure tbh, it's not something I've ever thought about.

Thanks for the heads up though... will read up a little more about Tramadol dosages