euc1000
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i was so hopeful. i really was. follow me & see if this makes sense. a week ago i was prescribed 37.5 mgs tramadol for pain. lovely. since tram is so tricky, i started with 1 pill. felt a bit speedy, a bit disoriented straight away. that faded. got a little pain relief & felt pretty good the rest of the day. mildly opiated, but i got the pinned eyes. it lasts all the way til bedtime. falling asleep is a little difficult, but i can do it. no reason to do more than the one dose. i go along like this for a few days. notice i'm starting to feel sort of depressed & lonely. unusual. i've never felt lonely in my life. ..
bang on through, since the little opiate buzz is okay. nothing changes. day 6: take the am dose, still 37.5, then about 6 hours later i feel a little sickly, similar to mild wd. so i take another. mild wd symptoms go away. still pretty speedy, still mild opiated feeling, pinned eyes & muscle jerks. nothing much. pain relief is just ok. pain is cut by about 25%. i try driving, but it's weird. i keep feeling like i'm ready to float up out of the car. not sure who's driving. but i bang on through. it goes away & i make it home. ... ...
now, day 7: i have some driving to do. it's important. i figure i'll take the tram, then go driving. no big deal. .. i take it. an hour later, things get weird. .. i get very sort of dizzy, very spacey, start getting disoriented, along with a noticeable opiate buzz. i have to put my head down. it's not pleasant. then the legs start seizing. really uncomfortable. well, i says to myself, i'm not driving today. it's impossible. ..
i start writing down symptoms as they occur:
dizzy, disoriented, headache. sadness, loneliness. brain fog. muscle jerks. muscle spasms. chills. sweats. light sensitivity. buzzing in my ears.
this goes on & on & on. it just doesn't go away. about three hours into it, i call the doctor's office. i can barely get a sentence out straight. can't think. i talk to a nurse. tell her what i'm feeling. well, she says, if you don't like it, don't take it. or just take it at night. i say, uh. ok. can't respond very well. can't explain. very spaced out. brain isn't working well at all. i manage to ask, if i keep on with it, will these symptoms go away? i need help with pain. she says, i dunno, maybe. .. ... so the symptoms just don't lift. it's endless.
i figure, i need to talk to the doctor who presciribed it. i make an appointment. 2 weeks from now is the soonest i can get.
8 hours later, it's passed. feel ok.
honestly, would you keep trying this shit?
i asked someone else what to do .. someone who's been on the stuff for a while .. she says, try half a dose. but that's not even the minimum dose effective! .. so, today it looks like kratom for my pain issues. at least it doesn't make me retarded. hopefully it won't bring up any of yesterday's weirdness. any thoughts? should i keep on & hope it can work? quit totally right now? my good sense, what's left of it, says don't go on with it. too weird. any thoughts? thanks.
food, no food, doesn't seem to matter.
(update: here i am, 26 hours after that last tram dose & i'm feeling spacey & weird again. causes me to wonder if the problem is really the tram. admitted, i haven't been eating very much. too speedy. maybe it's not the tram. maybe i'm starving. .. in any case, some advice from experienced tram users would be nice. i'm a bit intimidated now. former street junkie me .. nervous about a tiny bit of tramadol!)
bang on through, since the little opiate buzz is okay. nothing changes. day 6: take the am dose, still 37.5, then about 6 hours later i feel a little sickly, similar to mild wd. so i take another. mild wd symptoms go away. still pretty speedy, still mild opiated feeling, pinned eyes & muscle jerks. nothing much. pain relief is just ok. pain is cut by about 25%. i try driving, but it's weird. i keep feeling like i'm ready to float up out of the car. not sure who's driving. but i bang on through. it goes away & i make it home. ... ...
now, day 7: i have some driving to do. it's important. i figure i'll take the tram, then go driving. no big deal. .. i take it. an hour later, things get weird. .. i get very sort of dizzy, very spacey, start getting disoriented, along with a noticeable opiate buzz. i have to put my head down. it's not pleasant. then the legs start seizing. really uncomfortable. well, i says to myself, i'm not driving today. it's impossible. ..
i start writing down symptoms as they occur:
dizzy, disoriented, headache. sadness, loneliness. brain fog. muscle jerks. muscle spasms. chills. sweats. light sensitivity. buzzing in my ears.
this goes on & on & on. it just doesn't go away. about three hours into it, i call the doctor's office. i can barely get a sentence out straight. can't think. i talk to a nurse. tell her what i'm feeling. well, she says, if you don't like it, don't take it. or just take it at night. i say, uh. ok. can't respond very well. can't explain. very spaced out. brain isn't working well at all. i manage to ask, if i keep on with it, will these symptoms go away? i need help with pain. she says, i dunno, maybe. .. ... so the symptoms just don't lift. it's endless.
i figure, i need to talk to the doctor who presciribed it. i make an appointment. 2 weeks from now is the soonest i can get.
8 hours later, it's passed. feel ok.
honestly, would you keep trying this shit?
i asked someone else what to do .. someone who's been on the stuff for a while .. she says, try half a dose. but that's not even the minimum dose effective! .. so, today it looks like kratom for my pain issues. at least it doesn't make me retarded. hopefully it won't bring up any of yesterday's weirdness. any thoughts? should i keep on & hope it can work? quit totally right now? my good sense, what's left of it, says don't go on with it. too weird. any thoughts? thanks.
food, no food, doesn't seem to matter.
(update: here i am, 26 hours after that last tram dose & i'm feeling spacey & weird again. causes me to wonder if the problem is really the tram. admitted, i haven't been eating very much. too speedy. maybe it's not the tram. maybe i'm starving. .. in any case, some advice from experienced tram users would be nice. i'm a bit intimidated now. former street junkie me .. nervous about a tiny bit of tramadol!)
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